Pastors’ and Leaders’ Breakfast
Reminder: The March 17 Pastors’ and Leaders’ Breakfast (8:00 – 10:00 a.m. at the Mennonite Conference Center) is “The Why, What & How of Social Media: Engaging Your Community in the Context that is Revolutionizing the Way the World Connects.” Resource persons, Todd Hiestand and Scott Hackman, will lead in presentation and conversation about how social media has impacted the way people engage in relationships and how to use it well in your ministry, which is so relationally based. $6 donation for breakfast requested.
Looking Ahead: Two dates to save in your calendar
1. Thursday evening, April 14, 7:00 p.m., Nate Stucky will lead Part 2 of presentation and conversation on the topic, “Is your Teen Almost Christian?” based on a recent book by Kenda Creasy Dean. This evening event will take place at Zion Mennonite Church in Souderton. More details to follow.
2. Thursday, May 5, 8-10 a.m. Pastors’ & Leaders’ Breakfast at Methacton Mennonite Church. Andrew Bush, a member of the Methacton congregation, will present and lead a conversation on “Building or Burning Bridges: Searching for a Way Forward in Christian and Muslim Relations.”
The presentation will highlight the Bush’s experience of working in the Palestinian Muslim community on the West Bank for the last 12 years, and the effectiveness of coming as servants to Muslims neighbors rather than as antagonists. Is the Christian community willing to turn away from its historic animosity towards the Muslims and make the prophetic decision to serve in the character of Christ?
Prior to their ministry in the Middle East, Andrew and his wife, Karen, planted a church in Taos, New Mexico, and spent twelve years in Manila, the Philippines where they planted Harvesters Christian Fellowship which has established a notable ministry in the deepest slums of the city.
Andrew has been an ordained minister since 1984. He received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Princeton Theological Society. He holds graduate degrees in theology from the Ecole Biblique Français in Jerusalem, Israel and the Alliance Graduate Seminary in Manila, the Philippines. Andrew earned his B.A. in architecture at Princeton University.
Andrew teaches missiology at Eastern University, St. David’s, Pennsylvania, and speaks widely in churches throughout the United States, helping them to develop missional congregations and providing specific information concerning mission to the Islamic community. Andrew says, “The greatest challenge the church is facing today is the rapid rise of Islam around the world. As representatives of Christ we stand at a historic hour in which we have the opportunity to show the true love of Jesus to the Muslim world.”
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