Lighting a Million Candles: Choosing forgiveness, the best medicine!

Date: SUNDAY APRIL 18, 2010

Time: 1:00pm

Location: 8814 Kensington Parkway Chevy Chase, MD 20815

My friend, Dr. Jack Gaines, is one of several special guests speaking at a commemoration for the Rwandan genocide of 1994 this coming weekend, Sunday afternoon April 18.  If you are in the Washington DC area I encourage you to attend this important event hosted by Rwanda Restoration Ministries.  I endorsed Jack’s recent book, My Brother’s Keeper, Not My Brother’s Killer and his work, and am very glad to share this opportunity with you! More information available here.

We were glad to see that Lynn Green, the International Chairman for Youth With a Mission, recently recommended ADM on his website.  YWAM is a widespread network of ministries around the world, we hope our paths will continue to cross.  In his review Lynn references the Reconciliation Walk that YWAM began in 1996, which entailed teams of Christians walking the path of the crusades and offering apology and reconciliation as they went.  This effort resulted in overwhelmingly positive responses from the Muslims and Jews the teams encountered.  Read more here.

Brian McLaren, named one of Time Magazine’s “25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America”, recently commented on ADM to his blog audience:

“I’m heartbroken to watch politicians continue to overtly or covertly fan the flames of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice. I’m even more heartbroken to see Christian leaders doing the same. Mark Siljander courageously reverses this trend - promoting accurate understanding and intelligent engagement rather than prejudice and bigotry.”

Thank you Brian for the heads up to your audience and your continued endorsement and support!