Good News Partners And The Chaplain's Office at Northwestern University Welcome Rick Steves To Speak on Travel As A Spiritual Act
Travel Guru Rick Stevs will speak on Travel As a Spiritual Act December 5th, 2010 at Northwestern University. All proceeds benefit Good news partners to purchase affordable housing in Rogers park, IL.

CHICAGO, IL, October 13, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Travel guru Rick Steves -- author of more than 30 guidebooks, host of his popular PBS television series, and radio host -- will be in Evanston, Il on Sunday, December 5th 2010 for a fundraiser benefitting Good News Partners.

Chicago, Illinois-October 6, 2010- The Chaplain's Office of Northwestern University and Good News Partners welcome travel guru Rick Steves to Evanston for a feature presentation of "Travel as a Spiritual Act". On December 5th, 2010, Rick Steves--author of over 50 European travel guidebooks and host of the PBS-TV series Rick Steves' Europe will share his belief that thoughtful travel expands our world view and shapes how we address the challenges confronting our nation. During this presentation, Rick will speak about his decision "to buy a ratty duplex" adjacent to his church to house homeless moms and their kids. Rick will discuss how he heard God's call and developed an inspired community called Trinity Way in Seattle, Washington.

There will be an opportunity to meet Rick personally at a VIP Reception at Northwestern University's Cahn Auditorium's Guild Room and receive a signed copy of one of his books.

All event proceeds go to Good News Partners to purchase affordable housing in the North of Howard Community. Good News Partners' mission is to end hopelessness and homelessness with everyone that God brings to us and to foster justice and build bridges of reconciliation.

Rick Steves-Travel As A Spiritual Act
December 5, 2010
Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern University
600 Emerson Street
Evanston, IL 60201

2:30 VIP reception in the Cahn Auditorium Guild Room-$150.00
4:00pm Feature Presentation-$30.00 (doors open at 3:30 pm)

To purchase tickets click on: http://www.pickstaiger.org/concerts/non-som-events/details/556-rick-s ... ritual-act or call 847-467-4000.

When asked to comment on the event Steve's says "As a travel teacher and tour guide, my great challenge and a favorite goal is to inspire people to see how their travels can connect them more vividly with God's great creation" says Rick Steve's. "By traveling thoughtfully, we can understand that, whether we live across the street or across the seas, we are all neighbors and children of the same Father. And, for any person of faith, travel can be a spiritual experience. I've found that, for those packing the right attitude the best souvenir can be an empathy for desperate or struggling people".
" In Chicago, Good News Partners provides these same opportunities to travel between our own neighborhoods and those which are new and different, nurturing hope and empathy along the journey. The resulting affordable housing initiative shows how that inspiration and empathy can be played out to God's glory."

About Good News Partners
http://www.goodnewspartners.org

Good News Partners' mission has remained constant: to create safe, affordable and reliable housing and support building confidence and community simultaneously. Good News Partners (GNP) is a faith-based community organization that strives to bring about conditions in which hope, justice, responsibility, and reconciliation flourish in Chicago's East Rogers Park North of Howard neighborhood. GNP provides affordable housing for otherwise homeless families with a step-by-step transition from interim housing to independent living. Our housing options include
► New Life Interim Housing, a 32-bed shelter for otherwise homeless women and their children;
► a large single room occupancy (SRO), the Jonquil, accommodating 58 families;
► 2nd stage and GNP subsidized rental housing; and
► 60 units of co-operative housing affordable for families with low and very low income.
In addition Good News Partners has created programs to support our children and our youth to grow in their social, academic and personal capability. Together, the GNP community works to create an empowering nurturing environment so positive changes in education and family dynamics can take place in the lives of the children and their parents.

About Rick Steves
http://www.ricksteves.com
Rick Steve's is the host, writer and producer of the popular public television television series Rick Steves' Europe, with an eighth season in the works. Over the past 15 years, Steve's has hosted nearly 100 travel shows for public television (most still airing in rebroadcasts) and numerous pledge specials. He has also written twelve country guidebooks, nine city and regional guides, six phrase books, and Europe 101: History and Art for Travelers. His guidebook to Italy is the bestselling international guidebook in the U.S. He lives in Edmonds, Washington.

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Good News Partners
Michelle Ely
1600 West Jonquil Terrace
Chicago, Il 60626
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Michelle.ely@comcast.net

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