Utilize lunch time to meet, network and dialogue with other leaders and conference participants.

Dialogue:

Samuel Rodriguez

Description:

An informal dialogue with Samuel Rodriguez in Spanish. Bring questions, thoughts and ideas to the table while you converse over lunch.

Un diálogo informal con Samuel Rodríguez en español. Traer preguntas, pensamientos e ideas a la mesa mientras conversan durante el almuerzo.

Peter Sjoblom, Russ Knight

Description:

Join Russ Knight and Peter Sjoblom as they model principles for reclaiming the Kingdom in our discourse with one another.

This forum is associated with the morning workshop Let God be Free, but attendance at that workshop is not necessary for this lunch forum.

Jose Anleu, Mt. Sinai Church of God

Herman Colon, Maranatha Asamble de Dios

Sergio Choy, Maranatha Evangelistic World Ministries

Description:

3 Hispanic pastors give insight into the Hispanic population in Minnesota, the Christian community among them, and how other evangelical churches can better partner with these church communities.

As president of CURE, with roots in youth ministry and leadership development, he also is an avid churchman.  This has resulted in his commitment to “The kingdom of God” as expressed through local churches. Russ and the CURE team serve as consultants, trainers, and facilitators for local churches, pastors, denominational leaders, Christian colleges, and para-church organizations.

Russ trains and advises pastors and leaders in the areas of youth ministry, racial reconciliation, urban outreach, and church redevelopment.

As a past instructor at the Moody Bible Institute and a past president of the National Black Evangelical Association, he was honored as “Alumnus of the Year” at Moody in 2003 and was honored by both NAE and NBEA with their joint “Racial Reconciliation” award in 1999.

Russ has been married to Bethany since 1972.  They have three grown children and  four beautiful grandchildren.

Peter is also Director of Congregational Life for the Central Conference of the Covenant Church. Peter’s vision in working with the conference is to aid in creating a climate for growing health in Covenant Churches, enabling them to fulfill their unique calling.

Peter began his full time ministry with Youth For Christ in 1976 and became the central city coordinator in Chicago, supervising 25 high school clubs.  He has been involved in city and cross cultural ministry since that time, including Circle Church, a pioneering cross cultural work in Chicago and Oak Park IL.

Peter has developed workshops and seminars relating to the significance of racial and ethnic diversity and facilitates the Covenant based Invitation to Racial Righteousness as well as “Veritas” a congregational revitalization workshop widely used in the Covenant Church.  He has been actively involved with the National Black Evangelical Association, The NAE / NBEA joint council on race relations and continues consulting work in the area of cultural diversity.

Peter is married to Joanna (Westberg) and has four adult children and 6 grandchildren.

Jon currently serves as the Director of Mission Development for the Northwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church.

In addition he serves on three nonprofit boards- the Zedakah Foundation, the Sanctuary Community Development Corporation and MetroKids Christian Child Care.

Originally from Guatemala but raised in the US, mostly in California, Hawaii and Minnesota. He is happily married to Keren and they have two boys, Jacob (11) and Samuel (9).

Peter Sjoblom, Russ Knight

Description:

How can people of faith be the counter cultural voice in a polarized public discussion? How do we capture the high ground of biblical sanity in the midst of clashing world views? Join Russ Knight and Peter Sjoblom as they continue a conversation which began 40 years ago and will continue till Jesus comes… maybe even beyond then.

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