Join Churches for Middle East Peace for their Advocacy Summit

Churches for Middle East Peace, an Office of Public Witness partner presents: Churches for Middle East Peace 2023 Advocacy Summit Seeking Comprehensive Peace: Advocating for Human Rights in Israel and Palestine Summit: April 20 Lobby Day: April 21 In person at the United Methodist Building in Washington, D.C.!

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OPW partner Churches for Middle East Peace is hosting their first in-person advocacy summit since 2019! Participants will hear from speakers from Israel/Palestine and the United States, and then take what they've learned to Capitol Hill to advocate for human rights rights in Israel and Palestine. Join CMEP on April 20 and 21  for learning, fellowship, and advocacy.

Featured Speakers: Munther Isaac (Ph.D., Oxford Centre for Mission Studies) is the academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College in Palestine and director of the Christ at the Checkpoint conference. He is also pastor of Christmas Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem. He is the author of The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope and From Land to Lands, from Eden to the Renewed Earth: A Christ-Centered Biblical Theology of the Promised Land." Mitri Raheb (Ph.D., Philipps  University  at  Marburg, Germany) is the founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem and the co-founder of Bright Stars of Bethlehem, a not for profit 501c3 in the USA. The most widely published Palestinian theologian to date, Dr. Raheb is the author and editor of 40 books including: The Cross in Contexts: Suffering and Redemption in Palestine; Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Eyes; I am a Palestinian Christian; Bethlehem Besieged. Jack Sara (Ph.D., Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary) is the President of Bethlehem Bible College and an ordained minster in the Evangelical Alliance Church in the Holy Land, where he maintains a role overseeing church leadership. Jack has worked extensively in the area of peace and reconciliation and has played a pioneering role in several ministries in the Bethlehem area and internationally.