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The 2010 Mayors' Prayer Breakfast
Faith in Action...Working Together We Build Hope
Tuesday, Sept 28, 2010
Reading Crowne Hotel, Wyomissing
Breakfast: 7:15 a.m.
Program: 7:30–9:00 a.m.
Post-Breakfast Panel Discussion: 9:30-10:15 a.m.
The Reading Berks Conference of Churches is honored to host the Annual Mayors' Prayer Breakfast, bringing business, government, and faith-community leaders together. The theme this year is "Faith in Action...Working Together We Build Hope" and our keynote speaker is Bishop John Barres, Bishop of the Allentown Diocese. Bishop Barres brings his personal faith story and a unique understanding of church and business working together in our community (he is a graduate of the New York University School of Business Administration with an MBA in Management). He will challenge all to use their abilities to be a positive influence and contributor to our community.
New this year: guests will also be invited to stay for a post-breakfast panel discussion with the goal of providing deeper insight into unified faith/community action. This panel will include Bishop Barres, Bishop Samuel Zeiser, NE PA Lutheran Synod, Mayor McMahon, Dr. Thomas Flynn, Alvernia University and Ellen Horan, Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce.
Sponsorship and reservation information are available by contacting the RBCC office at 610-375-6108 or cyoung@readingberkschurches.org or click here for a downloadable flyer.
The Most Reverand John O. Barres, S.T.D., J.C.L., D.D. – Fourth Bishop of Allentown
Bishop Barres, a native of Larchmont, New York, was ordained to the priesthood October 21, 1989. In addition to serving on various diocesan boards and committees in Wilmington, Bishop Barres has served on the Administrative Board of the Maryland Catholic Conference (Annapolis, MD), the Board of St. Francis Hospital (Wilmington, DE), and the Board of the Cathedral Foundation (Baltimore, MD). He was ordained a Bishop and installed as the fourth Bishop of Allentown on July 30, 2009. He was the first priest to be ordained a Bishop in the Diocese of Allentown.
The Bishop is the son of Protestant ministers who met at the Yale Divinity School and entered the Catholic Church in 1955. His father wrote a book about the experience.
This summer, Bishop Barres spent a month in Lima, Peru living and working in a parish as part of an effort to immerse himself in the Spanish language and culture. Berks County and the other four counties of the Diocese of Allentown have growing Latino populations.
Watch the entire 2009 Mayors' Prayer Breakfast online
With special guest Ed Herr, President of Herr Foods, Inc.
Ed Herr – President, Herr
Foods Inc.
Ed Herr grew up in the snack
food business and today serves
as President of Herr Foods Inc.
Ed is active in the community as Board Member
to the Oxford Chamber of Commerce, the Lighthouse
Youth Center, the Oxford Senior Center,
and is quite involved at Mt. Vernon Church. He
also serves on the Council of The Navigators
Church Discipleship Ministry, headquartered in
Colorado Springs, Colorado and is on the board
of New York City Relief, headquartered in NYC.
A life-long resident of Nottingham, PA, Ed is
blessed with seven children and seven grandchildren.
He is an outdoor person and enjoys exercise,
yard work, golf and travel.
Watch the entire 2008 Mayors' Prayer Breakfast online
With special guest Anne Beiler, founder of Auntie Anne's Pretzels
To order a DVD of the event, e-mail the Conference of Churches. Donations of $15 cover the cost of production.
HD video production provided by re:freshed Media.
Photos from 2008's Mayor's Prayer Breakfast:
