Greetings and Report from Asian Rural Institute

Greetings and Report from Asian Rural Institute

Asian Rural Institute (ARI) is a training center for rural community leaders set on a 6 hectare farm in Northern Japan. The focus of the training program is to create an educational environment in which these leaders can discover within themselves and within their people a more desirable image of community. They learn how to observe situations, identify local resources, and discover ways to use and enhance those resources. At the heart of the program is the concept of ‘foodlife’ – holding significant value in human life and the food that sustains life. ——————————————————————————– Greetings from ARI. This morning I woke up to snow all across the grounds of ARI – the first snow we’ve had this year. In a few weeks we will begin planting our seedlings in the greenhouses. The weather is still too cold for this, but we will keep them warm by planting them in beds on top of composting leaves. The natural heat of the rotting leaves makes a perfect environment for them to germinate. We are also busily preparing for our class of 2008. We have invited 28 women and men from 14 countries and are working and praying that all will be granted visas have safe and eventless travel. Attached is a report of our 2007 Training Program. Just a reminder that in addition to the OGHS donation of $4,000 that was put toward the scholarship of Gede Suarna of the Protestant Church in Bali, Global Ministries also provided ARI with an institutional grant of $5,000. We are very grateful for this steady support for ARI that you have been providing on a yearly basis. This report is response to the Institutional Grant that was put toward the 2007 ARI Rural Leaders Training Program. We thank you greatly and hope that you find this report satisfactory. 2007 ARI Training Report Steven Cutting Ecumenical Relations The Asian Rural Institute Japan Email: ecu@ari-edu.orgThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Web: www.ari-edu.org

 

Asian Rural Institute (ARI) is a training center for rural community leaders set on a 6 hectare farm in Northern Japan. The focus of the training program is to create an educational environment in which these leaders can discover within themselves and within their people a more desirable image of community. They learn how to observe situations, identify local resources, and discover ways to use and enhance those resources. At the heart of the program is the concept of ‘foodlife’ – holding significant value in human life and the food that sustains life.


Greetings from ARI.  This morning I woke up to snow all across the grounds of ARI – the first snow we’ve had this year.  In a few weeks we will begin planting our seedlings in the greenhouses.  The weather is still too cold for this, but we will keep them warm by planting them in beds on top of composting leaves.  The natural heat of the rotting leaves makes a perfect environment for them to germinate.

We are also busily preparing for our class of 2008.  We have invited 28 women and men from 14 countries and are working and praying that all will be granted visas have safe and eventless travel.

Attached is a report of our 2007 Training Program.  Just a reminder that in addition to the OGHS donation of $4,000 that was put toward the scholarship of Gede Suarna of the Protestant Church in Bali, Global Ministries also provided ARI with an institutional grant of $5,000.  We are very grateful for this steady support for ARI that you have been providing on a yearly basis.  This report is response to the Institutional Grant that was put toward the 2007 ARI Rural Leaders Training Program.  We thank you greatly and hope that you find this report satisfactory. 

 2007 ARI Training Report

Steven Cutting
Ecumenical Relations
The Asian Rural Institute
Japan
Email:

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