(The document above contains the links referenced during the presentation.)
https://www.standing-together.org/en
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"Before we can talk about peace, we have to talk about justice." -- Rev. Dr. Meghan Aelabouni, bishop-elect for the Rocky Mountain Synod, pastor of Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem, and theologian in residence with the ELCA Middle East and North Africa Desk
Join us as we welcome back Raed AbuJries, Program Manager for the ELCA's AMMPARO US Network, and Dennis Frado, Volunteer Consultant for Witnessing in Society with the ELCA's Service and Justice Unit.
If you missed when we hosted them in November, we highly recommend you watch this recording first: Conflict in the Holy Land... and Coaching Skills?
Raed AbuJries is the Program Manager for AMMPARO’s US Network (education and communication). He was born and raised in Beit Jala (Bethlehem) in the West Bank (Palestine). After high school, Raed immigrated to the US and studied communication at the University of Nebraska. After 10 years of living in the US, he returned to Palestine. He worked with a few Christian non-profits in the Middle East in the field of communication and advocacy. Raed worked with the East Jerusalem YMCA as Media & Communications Coordinator for the rehabilitation program (2012 – 2014), then joined World Vision as an Advocacy & Communications Officer (until 2016). He then joined Care4you to advocate for the persecuted church as a social media officer until April of this year. Raed joined the AMMPARO team while living in Bethlehem, then moved back to the US in September and is currently living with his wife and two children in Houston, Texas.
Dennis Frado served as Director of the Lutheran Office for World Community (LOWC), an office of the Service and Justice Home Area (unit) of the ELCA from 1991-2022. He was responsible for the public policy advocacy of the church to international organizations on issues such as human rights, world order, and economic justice. As LOWC Director he also served as Main Representative of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) at United Nations Headquarters and has assisted the LWF at most of its annual meetings and assemblies since 1984. Dennis served in Geneva, Switzerland, with the LWF’s Department of World Service for nine years between 1980 and 1989. He also served twice on the staff of the Washington DC Office of ELCA, most recently from 1989-91. He has also been representing the ELCA on the board of the Washington-based Churches for Middle East Peace and the steering committee of the Faith Forum on the Middle East. He is currently a consultant on Middle East matters to the Witness in Society section of the ELCA Service and Justice unit. Dennis also represented the ELCA on the Board of Directors of Church World Service and the Governing Board of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. for several terms in the first two decades of the 2000s. He has also been representing the ELCA on the board of the Washington-based Churches for Middle East Peace and the steering committee of the Faith Forum on the Middle East.
