Mack McCarter to receive Sacred Heart Humanitarian Award For release: June 18, 2008 Sacred Heart Catholic Church will present the 2008 Sacred Heart Growth Humanitarian Award to Community Renewal Founder and Coordinator Mack McCarter. McCarter will receive the award at a Dinner Gala and Silent Auction, where he will also serve as guest speaker. The event begins at 7 p.m. June 20th at the Shreveport Country Club. The church is recognizing McCarter for his contribution to the Shreveport/Bossier community and for making a life-changing impact on families in the community. A Shreveport native who pastored churches in West Texas for 18 years, McCarter returned home in 1991 to begin implementing his vision for developing strong, safe, healthy communities through caring relationships. Today, Community Renewal has 39,000 Renewal Team members around the world and more than 900 Haven House leaders who are building a sense of community in their own neighborhoods. The Center for Community Renewal is in development in downtown Shreveport and will serve as a training and resource center to replicate the Community Renewal model worldwide. Community Renewal International is a nonprofit effort to restore safe and healthy communities through caring relationships. Founded in 1994, Community Renewal reaches at-risk youth through Friendship Houses built in impoverished neighborhoods, strengthens education through the Adult Renewal Academy, partners with The Fuller Center for Housing and connects caring partners who turn their neighborhoods into safe havens of friendship and support. Contact: David Westerfield, director of communications
(318) 425-3222
davidwesterfield@sbcr.us |
