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Taped Speech to BPFNA Summer Conference • Discurso grabado en la Conferencia de Verano de BPFNA
Taped Speech to BPFNA Summer Conference • Discurso grabado en la Conferencia de Verano de BPFNA

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Founding BPFNA board member, Olive Tiller, will celebrate her 100th birthday on December 13, 2020! A life-long peace activist, she has supported BPFNA since its inception, and even before as she was active in the Baptist Pacifist Fellowship, which later transformed into the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. Olive and her late husband Carl Tiller were also the co-recipients of ABCUSA’s Dahlberg Peace Award in 1991, which recognizes those for their significant efforts in working for peace and justice over a period of time. As we celebrate this significant milestone in the life of Olive Tiller, we also remember how she helped BPFNA celebrate a historic birthday of our own almost 27 years ago. On July 5, 1994, when BPFNA celebrated 10 years as an organization, Olive gave a recorded speech to those present in Granville, OH at that year's Summer Conference. In it, Olive shares some history of BPFNA as well as her future vision for what she hopes the organization will become.

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¡La miembro fundadora de la junta de BPFNA, Olive Tiller, celebrará su centésimo cumpleaños el 13 de diciembre! Activista por la paz de toda la vida, ha apoyado a BPFNA desde sus inicios, e incluso antes, ya que participó activamente en la Baptist Pacifist Fellowship, que luego se transformó en Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. Olive y su difunto esposo Carl Tiller también fueron los co-receptores del Premio Dahlberg de la Paz de ABCUSA en 1991, que reconoce q quienes han hecho importantes esfuerzos en el trabajo por la paz y la justicia durante un período de tiempo. Al celebrar este importante hito en la vida de Olive Tiller, también recordamos cómo ayudó a BPFNA a celebrar nuestro cumpleaños histórico hace casi 27 años. El 5 de julio de 1994, cuando BPFNA celebró 10 años como organización, Olive pronunció un discurso grabado a las y los presentes en Granville, OH en la Conferencia de Verano de ese año. En él, Olive comparte algo de la historia de BPFNA, así como su visión futura de lo que ella espera llegue a ser la organización.

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BPFNAHistory, Summer Conference, Peace Camp, Board, Founders, American Baptist Churches, United States
A Few Words
A Few Words

I’m tempted, especially now that you’ve spent the last several days being washed over by words, to do something similar and simply literally say “a few words”. If the rabbis are right (and they usually are), “words make worlds.” Which leaves me wondering – Which words created the world in which we find ourselves? And which words might remake the world?

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BPFNAABC, American Baptist Churches, Biennial, Peace Breakfast, Mission Summit, Staff, Dahlberg Peace Award
....The Gospel Call to Cross Borders..El llamado evangélico a cruzar las fronteras....
....The Gospel Call to Cross Borders..El llamado evangélico a cruzar las fronteras....

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During my childhood and adolescence I never imagined I could cross a border. This does not mean that I never dreamed of crossing borders. On the contrary, I spent many hours reading the Encyclopedia and the Atlas; learning the names of the nations of the world, the colors of their flags; leaning about their location and their capitals. I enjoyed dreaming that, someday, I will visit as many countries as it was possible.

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En mi niñez y temprana juventud, nunca se me ocurrió que podría cruzar una frontera. Esto no quiere decir que nunca soñé con hacerlo. Por el contrario, pasaba horas leyendo la enciclopedia y el atlas; aprendiendo los nombres de las naciones del mundo y el color de sus banderas; aprendiendo su localización y sus capitales. 

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BPFNABorders I Cross, Puerto Rico, American Baptist Churches, Partners