THEME: Approaching God: Praying as God’s Children
“For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba’ Father. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.” Romans 8:15-16
Our speakers will lead us in multiple messages about how we approach God, what Jesus meant by “the kingdom” and how that affects our prayer, and how prayer for the Kingdom has led Pastor and Dr. Klaus to starting the Esperanza Health Center in Philadelphia. How do we approach God in prayer to foster and strengthen our relationship with Him? How do we pray in a balanced way? How do we intercede? How do we pray for our own needs? Why do we need to pray not to be led into temptation?
GUEST SPEAKERS: We’re really lucky to have Pastor Ron Klaus and Dr. Carolyn Klaus all the way from South Bend, Indiana (on their way to Ethiopia!). Among other endeavors, they started Hope In View ministries (http://www.hopeinview.org/who-we-are.html) to help mobilize churches and pastors to address the AIDS crisis in a biblical and compassionate way. Their bios are at the end of this email.
There will also be other physicians and healthcare workers to share their experiences in small group workshop sessions. This is just a sampling of topics and people that will be there:
- Missions workshop- Our speakers will share some of their perspectives on what is going on in missions, the challenges that developing countries face, some of their thoughts on bridge-building outreach, and both the importance of vocational missionaries (those that come with a skill) and how we think they can have maximum impact. He will also share on the relationship between or trade-offs between short-term and career missions, and what they think is the place for each.
- Dr. Camille Clare (currently an ob/gyn at Metropolitan Hospital, assistant professor at New York Medical College in the Dept of Ob/Gyn, and a masters in public health student at NYMC)
- Dr. David Kim will be doing a workshop on his work with the Beacon clinic
DETAILS:
Where: New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY.
Date: Friday, February 27 – Saturday, February 28.
Cost: About $25 (pay when you get there)
Why: To commune intimately with God and His Children
REGISTRATION:
To register email retreat.intermed.cmda@gmail.com by February 15.
Please include the following information:
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Transportation (Choose one): Train (we can pick you up at the Metronorth station) OR Car (Can you give rides? Will you ride with someone else?)
Miscellaneous notes, if necessary:
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Ron Klaus, PhD
Ron began his career in engineering and worked in the U.S. space program and also taught chemical engineering and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Later, he served as a pastor in Philadelphia for thirteen years and was involved in two church plants. He taught at two seminaires and a Bible school in the Philadelphia area and also at a seminary in the Philippines. For the past nine years he has pastored in Elkhart County in Indiana. He has also taught overseas in Peru, Kenya and Ethiopia. The main focus of his ministry has been the kingdom of God in both its theological foundations and its practical implications for church life. The Klauses also have two grown children and three grandchildren.
Carolyn Klaus, MD
Carolyn, a board certified internist, became skilled in the care of AIDS patients at Esperanza Health Center, a clinic she founded in Latino North Philadelphia. With mentoring from an international agency, she also learned how to do community development in this context. In recent years she has applied these experiences internationally through founding Hope in View ministries to help mobilize churches and pastors to address the AIDS crisis in a biblical and compassionate way. She has initiated a community health development project in Peru, taught Ethiopian physicians and Mozambican community leaders on AIDS care, organized a network of AIDS ministries in Ukraine, and designed a conference on AIDS in Kenya. She continues to work part-time as a staff physician at Memorial Health System in South Bend, IN.