Alumni News
VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6 OCTOBER 2007
The Bowery Mission Alumni Program
Staying Connected
Someone You Should Know
Alumni Pro- You may not know who
gram Goal: Paul Beyer is but if you’ve
eaten a meal at the Mission,
he’s affected your life.
• To devise a compre-
The Man in the Garden
hensive program
In 1960 there was a man
that meets the long- who would go into the City
from Pennsylvania to preach
term spiritual, social to men at the Mission. He
decided at some point that he
and career needs of needed help. One day as he
was traveling back to Lancas-
our graduates and ter County he saw a man
produces testimonies tending his garden. That man
was Paul Beyer. He went to
of continued recov- him and asked for help. Paul
went inside to ask his wife
ery, restoration and
about it and she said okay.
Paul had never heard of the
revival in their lives. Bowery Mission.
A Jack of All Trades
For the first twenty-five
Inside this issue: Words of Faith
Someone You 1
Should Know Now I become myself.
It’s taken time, many years and
Words of Faith 1 places.
Answered Prayers 2
I have been dissolved and
shaken,
and Requests
Alumni Fall Hap- 2 Worn other people’s faces...
penings
-May Sarton
Family Restoration 2
years Paul used his own van to
transport fruits, vegetables and
baked goods from Pennsylvania
to 227 Bowery.
Mr. Beyer had been making
good money selling furniture,
being a locksmith and doing
various other jobs when the call
finally came for him to come on
staff full-time in 1985.
When he turned 65 he
thought about retiring. After
much thought, he said to him-
self , “If the Lord put me in this,
I’m staying in it.” And stay in it
he has. Transporting such
goodies as two tons of apple
sauce that a church donated just
last month and two tons of
green beans that were donated a
week ago. In September of
2007 alone, Mr. Beyer hauled
68,000 pounds of food.
Darkness cannot drive out
darkness, only light can do
that. Hate cannot drive out
hate, only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Over the Years
When he first began solic-
iting for donations, Mr. Beyer
says he did so by word of
mouth. Then word got around
that he was on the up and up,
that he wasn’t reselling, that
every single item went to the
Mission and the donations
began to multiply.
Over the years he has
seen the Mission grow with
the times. The clients, he says,
are becoming more educated
and some of the men come
back to visit.
Here’s looking forward to
another fifty years.
Live simply. Love generously. Care
deeply. Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
A Christian is one who is on the
way, though not necessarily very far
along it, and who has at least some
dim and half-baked idea of whom
to thank.
- Frederick Buechner
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Answered Prayers and Requests
John Brudermann, a Mission alumnus and Director of Outreach at the Bowery
Mission underwent a liver transplant in early October. This is a tremendous an-
swer to prayer as John has been ill for some months. Please continue to pray for
John, his continued healing, and for his wife and daughter.
Alumni Program - Fall Happenings
Friday, October 26th, 7
p.m. at 41-51 Avenue D, Transitional
Center Graduation and Reunion All
Transitional Center graduates are in-
vited! Food and music!
Saturday and Sunday the 27th and
28th - 2nd Annual Alumni Retreat
at Paradise Lake Retreat Center
November, 2007
Saturday the 10th, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Marriage, Dating and Sex: What’s
the Big Deal?
Family Restoration Seminar Held
On Saturday, October 13, 2007
the alumni program held its family
restoration seminar for men with chil-
dren.
Facilitated by Dominic Lewis, asso-
ciate pastor of New Song Community
Church in Harlem, the day long semi-
nar dealt with such topics as consis-
tency in parenting, how to establish
and maintain relationships with ex-
John with Bowery Mission
President and CEO Ed Morgan
at an event held in John’s
honor in June 2007.
The Mission outreach truck
goes out to New York City’s
parks an average of five times a
week.
Come be a part of this fascinating
seminar on what it takes to have a
healthy relationship with the opposite
sex.
December, 2007
Thursday the 6th, 6 to 9 p.m.
Alumni Christmas Potluck
All alumni and their children are in-
vited to this potluck. Last year, we
sang carols, every child received a gift
and graduates had an opportunity to
reconnect during the holidays.
spouses and what it means to be a
good parent when one isn’t living with
their children.
Several attendees remarked that
talking through the issues were help-
ful. “I’m happily married”, an attendee
named Alexander said, “but it’s good
to be reminded that I can be better.”
The second part of this three ses-
sion seminar will be held on January
ALUMNI NEWS
Herb Carruthers, chef at the Mis-
sion, is at home recovering from ill-
ness. Pray for Herb that he fully recu-
perates.
Meghan Brennan, daughter of
Terry Brennan, vice-president of Op-
erations, is home recuperating from
open heart surgery.
Please pray as the Mission prepares
for its busiest day of the year, Thanks-
giving. During this week, we serve
hundreds of meals and organize more
than eight hundred volunteers. Please
pray for the staff at the Mission as
they prepare.
Mentoring Opportunities
If you have been out of the Mission
for two or more years and would like
to give back in some way, please con-
sider being a mentor!
Mentors commit to connecting to
their graduates once a month, attend-
ing a training session and attending
one alumni event per year.
For more information contact Alumni
Services at 212.684.2800 ext. 164.
19, 2008. For more information, log
on to bowery.org.
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