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Holocaust speaker also among special guests
MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. (Feb. 18, 2010) – Student advocates for Invisible Children Inc., a non-profit organization that documents the raging war in northern Uganda, will visit Milligan College to share their gripping stories and to host a screening of “GO: The Schools for Schools Film” on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. in Milligan’s Gregory Center for the Liberal Arts.
The Invisible Children event is one of several special activities planned during the college’s annual Justice Week, hosted by Milligan’s Cross Cultural Missions Committee (CCMC). All of the Justice Week events are free and open to the public.
Invisible Children’s visit to Milligan is part of the 2010 Legacy Tour. Over the last four years, the organization has held presentations at more than 7,000 institutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and all over Eastern Europe.
“For the first time, Invisible Children is sending a team of student advocates on the tour, allowing us to bring this compelling story closer to our audience than ever before,” said Margie Dillenburg, C.O.O./movement director at Invisible Children Inc. “We are confident that the amazing stories these advocates have to share will make this the most powerful tour we’ve ever embarked on.”
The students featured on the tour include Callum Fraser, of Scotland; Lauren Bailey, of Chicago; Marshall Bang, of Los Angeles; and Amanda Mitchell, of Collegedale, Tenn.
“Go” documents Mitchell’s relationship with Gloria, a Ugandan student she met during her Schools for Schools trip to Uganda. Through her involvement with Invisible Children, Mitchell learned how she could make a difference, lobbying with senators before she was even old enough to vote. Now 19 years old, Mitchell is taking a semester off from attending Lee University (Cleveland, Tenn.) for the Legacy Tour in order to inspire her peers to leave their own mark on the world.
Invisible Children Inc. was founded by three film makers who were inspired to ignite a movement to end the use of child soldiers. The organization’s mission is to educate individuals in the Western world and encourage them to participate in this movement for change.
Other Justice Week events include special guest Alfred (Freddie) Traum, a Holocaust survivor who will share his story on Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. in the Gregory Center for the Liberal Arts.
Traum was born into a traditional Jewish family in Vienna, Austria in 1929. When Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the increasing violence forced Traum to flee the country on a Kindertransport to England. He and his sister were two of the 10,000 children who survived the Holocaust due to the willingness of families in England to open their homes to Jewish children.
After his family’s murder in Vienna, Traum and his sister began a new life in Manchester, England, where they eventually gained English citizenship. Traum married another Holocaust survivor, Josiane. In 1963, the couple moved to the United States, where Traum recently retired from The Boeing Company.
Other special guests include Bart Campolo, an urban activist and minister who will speak on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 11 a.m. in Milligan’s Seeger Memorial Chapel. He will also be speaking at Emmanuel School of Religion on Feb. 23, at 9:30 a.m. and in the Milligan’s McMahan Student Center on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m.
Campolo is the leader of Walnut Hills Fellowship, a local ministry in Cincinnati’s inner city. He is also the founder of Mission Year, a Christian ministry that recruits committed young adults to live and work among the poor in inner-city neighborhoods throughout the nation.
He has also authored multiple books including “Kingdom Works: True Stories of God and His People in Inner City America” and “Things We Wish We Had Said,” which he co-wrote with his father, Tony Campolo.
Milligan students will also host several displays on campus throughout the week, including a showcase of students who have been involved with mission and justice throughout the world. Each day of the week, a different student will be featured at this display, located in the lobby of Milligan’s Sutton Hall.
For more information, contact Nathan Flora, campus minister, at 423.461.8748.