Seminar Overview:

Through this seminar we are creating a context for safe dialogue in which we deepen our understanding of the complexity and depth of bridging racial and cultural barriers within our communities. We also hope to provide practical, do-able steps for each person to take to make reconciliation a reality through teaching, panel and small group discussions.

Seminar Participants:

Pastor Pete Scazzero: Pastor Pete is the Senior Pastor of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens. New Life Fellowship is one of the most racially and culturally diverse churches in the world. Pete has been involved in reconciliation for over 30 years through his work with Intervarsity and New Life. He is the author of The Emotionally Healthy Church and Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.

Dr. Soong Chan Rah: Dr. Soong-Chan Rah is Milton B. Engebretson Associate Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL and the author of The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity (IVP Books, 2009). Rah is formerly the founding Senior Pastor of the Cambridge Community Fellowship Church (CCFC), a multi-ethnic, urban ministry-focused church committed to living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context.

Pastor Gabriel Salguero: Pastor Salguero is the Senior Pastor of The Lamb’s Church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Lamb’s is a multicultural, multi-class, multi-generational urban congregation committed to reconciliation. Pastor Salguero is also the director of the Hispanic/Latino Leadership Program at Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D candidate of Christian social ethics at Union Theological Seminary.

Pastor Linda Johnson: Linda Johnson has well over 20 years serving in Children’s Ministry with over 11 as New Life’s Children’s Pastor. She also has been a training consultant presenting seminars on race relations, cultural diversity, and other human relations topics for non-profits and corporations for over 25 years. Her passion for reconciliation comes from her own diverse family background (several nationalities in one Queens household) plus her own confusion, then anger as a young person confronting racism outside her home. She met her husband Ken as radical student activist and “movement� activist in the 70s and 80s. She is a mom and grandmom!

Cost: $10 per person. You can register online through www.newlifefellowship.org or follow this link directly.

Day/Time: February 27th, 10am-1pm

Place: New Life Fellowship Church (82-10 Queens Blvd, Elmhurst NY 11373)

For more info, email Rich at rich@newlifefellowship.org