An Industrial Areas Foundation information session will be held on Sunday, Sept. 27 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Edgecomb Community Church, 15 Cross Point Road in Edgecomb. This session is open to the public.

The IAF approach is about building a multi-issue "organization of organizations" that is designed to create a vehicle for everyday people to build and wield power. In short, ordinary people have life challenges and values and ought to have a say in the future of their communities and society, but we largely don't have the say we should. Why? Because we lack the power to do it. Often the people with the most power lack the vision and values of ordinary people ... and ordinary people lack the power to make our vision and values a reality.

This effort aims to create a vehicle for us to get together, stay together, and have a say—not guided by a political party, not guided from people from outside, not directed by philanthropists, government, or people with a lot of money—but directed by Mainers of every stripe who are willing to do the work of relating to one another, building an organization we own together, and exercising power together. There is power in numbers, but for that to be real, we believe we need to be organized.

Refreshments will be offered at this gathering which will be held in Fellowship Hall of the Edgecomb Community Church.

For further information, please call 882-4060 and leave a message.