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DESCRIPTION:This Month’s Topic: Listening to Palestinian Christian Perspe
 ctives about Today’s Crisis and Building Peace\n.\nThis month’s Living
  Forward conversation explores the most recent uprising in the Israeli-Pal
 estinian conflict\, as heard from the particular perspective of two Palest
 inians\, and two others from our synod who have been engaging this convers
 ation for decades. (see bios below)\n.\nWe have come to know the power of 
 listening to one another’s stories. Each of us have a unique perspective
 \, with a history that speaks truth to power\, as well as truth to the tes
 timony of being a person faith in today’s world.\n.\nModerator: Rev. Car
 ol Jensen will be facilitating this timely conversation\, and has been ext
 ensively involved in these conversations over the last 40 years. Carol als
 o is co-chair of the Faith Action Network board.\n.\nGuest Panelists:\nAlb
 ert Asfour\, was born in Jerusalem\; a two-time refugee\, and a lifelong L
 utheran. His family was one of the first families to belong to Redeemer Lu
 theran Church in Jerusalem once it became a Lutheran Church in 1948. He im
 migrated to the US in 1958 to pursue studies in Mechanical Engineering at 
 Louisiana State University and has been in the US since. He has served on 
 his own church council\, and the Southeast Michigan Synod as Vice Presiden
 t for 12 years. Currently he serves as the Vice President of ALAMEH (Assoc
 iation of Arab Lutherans of Middle Eastern Heritage). He is active with Ka
 iros in West Michigan\, Middle East Task Force in Southeast Michigan\, PNW
  of the ELCA. He has organized and participated in youth trips to Palestin
 e/Israel and board member of Bright Stars of Bethlehem.\n.\nBorn and raise
 d in a conservative\, Palestinian society\, Tamar Haddad learned to think 
 critically and question the given norms. She was hugely impacted by her in
 volvement in many phenomenal leadership programs like MEPI - Student Leade
 rs Program\, International Women Leaders\, and CGI U. This led her to publ
 ish her first book\, “The Future of Palestine: How Discrimination Hinder
 s Change\,” and to start her non-profit\, Yalla - Palestinian Student Le
 aders\, that develops the leadership skills of up to twenty Palestinian un
 dergraduates every summer in American and Palestinian academic institution
 s. Yalla also helps the students design and implement their projects that 
 have a positive impact on the Palestinian community. Haddad raises awarene
 ss about Palestine through her participation in many events. In 2021\, she
  was a panelist at a parallel event of the United Nation’s Commission on
  the Status of Women.\n.\nDr. Rod Schofield is a former school district ad
 ministrator (Director of Special Education)\; past Vice President of the R
 ocky Mtn. Synod\, ELCA\; past Chair of the former ELCA Division of Higher 
 Education and Schools\; former adjunct professor and Coordinator of Contin
 uing Education at the University of Colorado\; served on the PLTS Board fo
 r 12 years. Rod currently serves as the ELCA representative to the School 
 Board of the educational institutions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church o
 f Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL)\; board member of Opportunity Palestin
 e\; member of ELCA Peace Not Walls\; organizes and leads groups to Israel/
 Palestine. Rod is a member of Christ Lutheran in Ferndale\, WA and serves 
 as a Life Coach.
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