Voting Faithfully: How Evangelicals Shape U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East

A Webinar hosted by the Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East (NEME)

Wednesday, October 28, 2020
11:00 AM Eastern

Join our panelists in a webinar conversation about how the U.S. November elections are affecting Christians – and others – in the Middle East. The conversation will discuss the role North American Evangelicals play in the policies affecting daily realities for those living in the Middle East and what you should know before you vote in November's election.

Check out our panelists bios below, and click the ink to register.

Botrus Mansour

As a lawyer, Botrus represented clients all around the country and from different backgrounds and nationalities. Today he leads the only K-12 Evangelical school recognized in Israel while co-founding and serving as an elder with pastoral roles in a Baptist Church in Nazareth. Botrus has been involved in Christian ministries including heading the Convention for Evangelical Churches in Israel, co-founding Nazareth village, and membership in the Executive Committee of the Secretariat Christian schools in Israel, to name a few. Botrus has also been writing and giving lectures in Arabic, Hebrew, and English all around the world on matters of faith and life in the Middle East including in Christianity Today, Haaretz, and others. He has published a few books including “When Your Neighbor is the Savior” (Hope Publishing house 2011). His second book in English “Seeing the World from the Precipice”, is scheduled to published by Paraclete Press in February 2021.

Rev. Najla Kassab

Rev. Najla Kassab is President of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) and Director of the Christian Education Department for the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon (NESSL). She obtained her B.A. in Christian education from the Near East School of Theology (NEST) in 1987 and her Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1990. In 1993 Rev. Kassab received the first preaching license offered to a woman by NESSL. In March 2017, she became the second woman to be ordained as a minister in NESSL. For the past two-and-a-half decades Rev. Kassab has worked with NESSL’s women and children’s ministries, including as Director of Christian Education. She was elected to the WCRC Executive Committee at the 2010 Uniting General Council. She lives with her husband, Joseph Kassab, and three children in Beirut, but her work takes her frequently to Syria.

Jeff Anderson

Jeff Anderson works with Serve Globally as the Co-Regional Coordinator (RC) with his wife Darlene. Prior to his current work he served as the President/ Superintendent of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada for 19 years. His connection with the MENA region started when he and a small group of Canadian denominational leaders joined key World Vision Canada leadership to spend a week listening to residents of Palestine/ West Bank and Arab Christians in the Galilee area. Jeff has led multiple groups of leaders to the region with an emphasis on listening to the people who live in the region along with enjoying the typical tour sites. A key part of the role of RC is to help the church in Canada and the United States understand and appreciate the part of the world that gave rise to our Christian faith. Jeff and Darlene, (a Registered Nurse), have five adult children and nineteen grandchildren; his grey hair is well earned.

Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon

Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon is the executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). Cannon formerly served as the senior director of Advocacy and Outreach for World Vision U.S. on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC; as consultant to the Middle East for child advocacy issues for Compassion International in Jerusalem; as the executive pastor of Hillside Covenant Church located in Walnut Creek, California; and as director of development and transformation for extension ministries at Willow Creek Community Church in Barrington, Illinois.

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