PATH Week 2011

TYLER — PATH Week is underway in Tyler, running through Sept. 18. The week’s activities are designed to raise awareness of the interfaith human needs organization and encourage support for it. This year’s honorees are the women of the Windsor family. According to press materials, “It was their commitment to helping those in need and their vision of an end to poverty in Smith County that led to the creation of the PATH organization.” At a media conference Monday, ETMC and First Presbyterian Church were given this year’s PATH Week awards. That was followed by the PATH Week Prayer Luncheon at Rose Heights Church of God, with Rabbi Neal Katz delivering the keynote address.

Wednesday, it’s the PATH Week Philanthropy Dinner at 6:30 pm at Villa di Felicita, 7891 Hwy. 110 N., Tyler. Barbara J. Elliott will deliver the keynote address for that event. She’s president of the Center for Renewal, a resource center for faith-based organizations seeking to renew America’s inner cities. Saturday brings Faith In Action Day at 9 a.m. That’s set for PATH Community Homes at 1412, 1429, 1501 and 1506 Pegues St. in Tyler, with area youth groups working to clean and repair the homes. You can go to http://www.pathhelps.org for more information on PATH and PATH Week.