[Announce] THE FORUM

[lance a schmitz]

*THE FORUM*

*Greetings from OKC 1st Church of the Nazarene*

YOU ARE INVITED.

On March* the 30th at 6:00 p.m*. OKC 1st Nazarene will host a panel
discussion entitled: "Social Justice:  A Deeper Investigation"

* Here is a bit more information:*

Oklahoma City First Church of the Nazarene holds monthly forum discussion to
discuss pressing issues.  Our topics have included: "Pacifism and Just War",
"The Sanctity of Life: Is it ever right to take a human life?",
"Immigration", "Poverty" Whose fault is it? What do we do now?" and, "Race
Relations: Why are we still so divided?".

These are not debates but rather conversations about a topic from a
Christian perspective as such there are no winners and there are no losers
but just an exchange of information about important social issues.  Each of
these forums works to bring together a wide spectrum of people from the
Christian faith community to dialogue with each other so that we can build
bridges to work together towards peace and justice in the world.


The panel will consist of the following:

*Reverend Stan Basler**-Methodist Clergy and director of the Criminal
Justice and Mercy Ministry of the United Methodist Church***

*Dan Short**-Executive Director of Mustard Seed Development Corporation*

*Reverend Lance A Schmitz**-Minister of Social Justice Oklahoma City First
Nazarene*

Reverend Jeremy Basset-Director of Volunteers in Mission OK Conference of
the United Methodist Church*
*

*Again the date for this forum is March the 30th*
The event starts at *6:00* and will last until about *7:30 *with
refreshments following.  OKC 1st Church of the Nazarene is located at 4400
NW Expressway (Between Portland and Meridian on the south side of NW
Expressway.)

-- 
rev lance a schmitz
minister of social justice
okc 1st church of the nazarene
405.843.9588 (office)
405.476.2633 (mobile)
www.okcfirstnaz.org

-- 
rev lance a schmitz
minister of social justice
okc 1st church of the nazarene
405.843.9588 (office)
405.476.2633 (mobile)
www.okcfirstnaz.org


"And through our silence, the church has developed a spirituality of war
which says that violence saves us, might makes right, God blesses war,
nuclear weapons are our true security, and the good news is not love of
enemies but the elimination of enemies. The empire always tries to instruct
the church on sin and morality, saying such and such personal behavior is
immoral, and saying nothing about the killing of 100,000 Iraqis last year,
as if that were perfectly moral."
-John Dear, November 6, 2004

"Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists
and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive
witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down." -
Oscar Romero

"Make a loan, Make a difference - kiva.org"
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