The Rev. Naim Ateek, founder and director of The Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem, will be the guest preacher:
Sunday, August 3, at the 9:00 am and 10:30 a.m. worship services
Westminster Presbyterian Church
1624 NE Hancock
Portland, Oregon
The Rev. Canon Naim Ateek will be in Portland for the Friends of Sabeel-North America leadership retreat, a planning meeting of volunteer leaders representing groups from major cities around the U.S. The volunteer leaders plan and organize regional Sabeel conferences and educational work in their area churches on issues affecting Palestinian Christians and efforts to promote an understanding of the political realities of the Holy Land.
Sabeel is an ecumenical grassroots liberation theology movement among Palestinian Christians that seeks to deepen their faith and promote unity among them toward social action. Sabeel strives to develop a spirituality based on love, justice, peace, nonviolence, liberation and reconciliation for the different national and faith communities.