Welcome Home VETS film 7:00 pm Tuesday May 31st

A Welcome Home Vets  

Special Film Screening:

"The Welcome" offers a fiercely intimate view of life after war: the fear, anger and isolation of post-traumatic stress that affects vets and family members alike.  As we join them in a small room for an unusual five day healing retreat, we witness how the ruins of war can be transformed into the beauty of poetry. Here our perceptions are changed, our psyches strained, and our hearts broken.  And at the end, when this poetry is shared with a large civilian audience, we begin to understand that all of us are a vital piece of The Welcome as Veterans try to find the way back home.  Their examples of unflinching honesty, courage and love lift us up, inspiring all of us once again to feel our common humanity, always the first casualty of war.

Date: 7:00pm Tuesday, May 31^st, 2011
at Trinity Lutheran Church, 6215  196^th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036  ROOM 203
Price: Suggested donation $5 (no one will be refused)

Presented by

MIDDLE EAST   

PEACE BUILDERS

A Life Group of Trinity  Lutheran Church

ALL ARE WELCOME -- BRING YOUR QUESTIONS!

For further information, contact:  JohnTBerg@msn.com  / (425) 218-3682 http://middleeastpeacebuilders.blogspot.com

http://www.soldiersheart.net/        http://www.middleeastvets.org/       http://www.thewelcomehomeproject.org/

Introducing: Middle East Peace Builders

MIDDLE EAST PEACE BUILDERS

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF MIDDLE EASTERN PEOPLE

P.O. Box 359, Lynnwood, WA 98046-0359

"So let us do all we can to live in peace with all people. And let us work hard to build each other up in all we do"  (Romans14:19)

                          Mission, Vision and Strategy

Middle East Peace Builders is a LifeGroup of the Mustard Seed ministry hosted by Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood, Washington. Middle East Peace Builders exists to build strategic connections between the Christians of the West and the Middle East for the glory of God. We do this first by supporting churches and Christian organizations in the Middle East in their effort to be faithful witnesses in their context; second, through our own domestic initiatives of education, advocacy and building relationships.  MEP also considers issues of cultural and multi-faith diversity impacting our lives in the Northwest; Veterans concerns; and much more. 

We gather at 7pm on the last Tuesday of each month in Room 203 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood, WA. We also host other periodic special events, co-sponsor regional conferences, lead an annual holy land delegation (e.g. October 2011), etc. 

For further information contact: John Berg: Email:JohnTBerg@msn.com  Tel (425) 218-3682             Web: http://middleeastpeacebuilders.blogspot.com

An Overview Of Middle East Peace Builders

Mission – With the goal of serving as reconcilers, MEPB enables Christian community and witness by building stronger relationships between the peoples of North America and the Middle East, facilitating witness and service that embody Christ’s kingdom values. 

Vision  – Jesus taught us to pray “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” The Bible makes it clear that it is God’s will that the biblical vision of Peace (Shalom/Salaam) be realized on earth through Jesus Christ. To that end we work with God’s help so that the North American, the Arab (both Christian and Muslim) and the Israeli can reconcile and work together for the common good of not just the Holy Land, but the whole world.  This ‘dream’ inspires our prayers and guides our work.

Strategy – MEPB is engaged in domestic and international ministry through a variety of initiatives that bring together the people of North America and the Middle East.  By initiating opportunities for education, travel and service, we facilitate partnerships that bear witness to the Kingdom of God in the Middle East and USA.  Over the next decade, MEPB will use these means to help recruit and train members of the American Christian community to work as servants of the peoples of the Middle East and to encourage Arab Christians in peacebuilding witness within their own society. 

Middle East Peace Builders - Trinity Lutheran Church, 6215 196^th Street SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036-5982