How much would we know about our Lord were it not for the faithfully recorded account of the interruptions in his earthly life? It is remarkable enough that the One who came to save the world should have spent his entire adult life close to home.
To those of us with a penchant for predetermining what the rest of the world needs, and then exporting plans, personnel and money to accomplish our objectives, it is even more astonishing that the personal agendas of everyday folks should have consumed most of our Lord’s attention and time.
Jesus lived an interrupted life, and instructed his followers to do likewise. As followers of this “Three Mile An Hour God”, and as servants of The Servant, how can we do this in our time conscious, management obsessed modern contexts?
These are the questions we will explore at our Family Meal & Equipping Seminar on January 5.
Details:
- January 5 • 5:30 pm.
- Cost is only $5/person, $10/family.
- Childcare is provided for children 10 and under.
To signup:
- stop by the Information Center
- contact us at the church office.
This promises to be a great evening of fellowship and learning key spiritual truths.
Our guest speaker is Jon Bonk.
Note: Dr. Bonk will be also speaking in our worship services at 9 & 11 am.
Dr. Bonk was Executive Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut until his retirement in July 2013. He also served as Editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.
He is now Research Professor of Mission at Boston University, where he directs the Dictionary of African Christian Biography, an electronic, multilingual, non-proprietary reference tool. He was Professor of Global Christian Studies at Providence College and Theological Seminary in Manitoba, and Adjunct Professor of Evangelism and Mission at both Yale Divinity School in New Haven and Presbyterian College and Seminary in Seoul.
He was raised in Ethiopia by missionary parents, serving there with his wife in famine relief from 1974–1976. He holds a PhD from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity by Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. He has been President of the American Society of Missiology (ASM), the Association of Professors of Mission (APM), and the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS).
He is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and books. His best-known book is Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem. He edited the Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries, Volume 9 in Routledge’s Religion and Society Series (2007).
He travels and lectures extensively in Africa and Asia, and recently returned from five weeks of lecturing and preaching in China, Korea and Myanmar. He and his wife, Jean, attend the Fort Garry Mennonite Fellowship in Winnipeg.
