Amnesty is launched at TCIS!

On Wednesday we had our first meeting of the new student chapter of Amnesty International here at TCIS. I am the staff sponsor and organizer of the chapter and I am so excited to have a dozen students on board who are deeply concerned about human rights and social justice. We spent our lunch break writing letters to government officials in Vietnam and Iran about citizens affected by human rights abuses in those countries, and after lunch I promptly mailed the letters off. They are pictured here with one of the great ladies in our office, Chi Hee, who looks after all the mail. In Isaiah 58 the prophet writes: "Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter..." I think our students, through their work with Amnesty, will have an opportunity to participate in loosing some chains and breaking some yokes! (for more information about Amnesty International go to www.amnesty.org)