Popular Topics (PopTops) is an adult forum which meets 9-10am on Sunday mornings from September through May. Each week a different subject is presented and presenters in the field are brought in to cover the subjects from hear, near and afar.
April 22 ”Earth Day”
Members of Nativity will share their personal stories of how and why they made a decision to reduce chemical usage in their daily lives.
April 29 “CTI in Africa: Hope Starts with Peanuts!”
Compatible Technologies, Inc. (CTI) staff and volunteers have been helping farmers in Tanzania and Malawi with peanut harvesting and post harvest processing in some unique ways. Come and hear and see all about this exciting, innovative work that is literally turning the peanut operations upside down! You’ll also hear about CTI’s African crop growing project in which peanuts and other crops such as pearl millet, amaranth and teff will be grown (for the second straight year) right here in St. Paul.
May 6 “Avenues for Homeless Youth”
Presenter: Charles Tombarge, Vice President of the board for Avenues for Homeless Youth and Account Supervisor at Himle Horner
May 13 “Feed My Starving Children”
Presenter: David Odde
May 20 “Bullying”
Presenter: Dana Niklaus, LGSW, District Social Worker for the St. Anthony-New Brighton School Districts and Todd Niklaus, Dean of Students at St. Anthony Village High School.
Todd and Dana will be presenting on various aspects of bullying including: the different types of bullying (cyber-bullying is becoming an increasingly troublesome issue); what your son/daughter should do if they are being bullied; resources that parents can utilize if they fear their child is involved in a bullying situation (either as the victim or perpetrator).