NEW YORK—Women’s Ministries at the NCC will be sponsoring three screenings of the Emmy award winning film, “A Walk to Beautiful” this fall. Two screenings will be in Minneapolis, MN at the General Assembly of the NCC and Church World Service, and the third will take place in New York at the Interchurch Center. All screenings will be followed by discussions with the filmmakers from Engel Entertainment, and are free and open to the public.

With deeply personal dramas and breathtaking cinematography, A Walk to Beautiful follows five Ethiopian women on their journey from devastating childbirth injury to health and freedom. Shunned by their communities, these women and just a few of the millions who spend their lives in loneliness and shame, while a cure exists. The film follows them on their journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital where their lives—and our hearts—are transformed.

The screenings are part of Fistula Stories, a program in development by the NCC through a grant from the United Nations Foundation to work with young women exploring the connections between faith and advocacy through the issue of obstetric fistula. For more information please visit our website at www.fistulastories.org .

Minneapolis screenings:

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:30am-11:30am
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2pm-4pm
Both screenings in Terrace 3&4 at the Doubletree Hotel, 1500 Park Place Blvd. Minneapolis, MN 55416

New York City screening:

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:30pm-8:30pm
The Interchurch Center Chapel
475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115