Special TI Meeting Monday, July 10th...
[received via email...]
"Greetings... I know this is short notice, but we have a rare privilege to hear from an ardent servant of God, ministering in the field of prison ministry.
Lacides Hernandez is currently the president of Prison Fellowship, Colombia, and he serves as regional coordinator of the Every Community for Christ church planting teams in a variety of prisons in Colombia. See [below] for more info.
We will meet with him at OMS International, 941 Fry Rd Greenwood (map) Monday, July 10, 12noon - 2:00pm. As is our practice, it will be BYOL (Bring your own Lunch).
Hope to see you there!
Blessings,
Eldon
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"Recently, Lácides Hernandez, board chairperson of PF Colombia, participated in a meeting between representatives of the Colombian government and the guerrilla group Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) in Havana, Cuba. The purpose of this meeting was to develop an agenda for a peace process..."
Read: "Working for Peace in Columbia"
***** per bio received via email *****
Lacides Hernandez is currently the president of Prison Fellowship, Colombia, and he serves as regional coordinator of the Every Community for Christ church planting teams in a variety of prisons in Colombia. He is a graduate in Theology from the Biblical Seminary of Colombia, and has currently completed all residency requirements for a Masters of Business Administration at the Bolivarian Pontificial University in Medellin. His thesis for the Masters is “Restorative Justice: Its Systematization, Theorization, Implementation, and Application in the Colombian Context.”
Lacides is married to Libia, and together they have three children. He is a member and elder of the Villaflora Christian Fellowship Church of Colombia. He has received training in leadership from Prison Fellowship, and has studied and taught both the Sycamore Project and Restorative Justice modules in several countries in Latin America. He frequently travels for Prison Fellowship to both teach and motivate other Prison Fellowships in Latin America.
The vision that Lacides has for Prison Fellowship, Colombia is to plant a church in every cell block in every prison in Colombia. These 2,800 “cell churches” will have an average of 30 persons each. He further envisions each cell church planting one other “house church” outside of prison each year. The serious study of God’s word, leadership training, worship, fellowship, celebration of the Lord’s Supper, evangelism, discipleship, baptism, pastoral care, and multiplication of other house churches will characterize all of these churches. Already, churches are multiplying in some 20 of Colombia’s 149 prisons.
Lacides has been involved in leading seminars on Restorative Justice for several years. In this capacity, he directs small groups consisting of victims and perpetrators of non-related crimes. The perpetrators share those elements that drove them to commit the crimes. The victims share the results and impact of the crimes. The group is lead through Bible studies and interactive discussions on forgiveness, restitution, and reconciliation. God has used these small groups to break the cycle of violence among its participants.
"Greetings... I know this is short notice, but we have a rare privilege to hear from an ardent servant of God, ministering in the field of prison ministry.
Lacides Hernandez is currently the president of Prison Fellowship, Colombia, and he serves as regional coordinator of the Every Community for Christ church planting teams in a variety of prisons in Colombia. See [below] for more info.
We will meet with him at OMS International, 941 Fry Rd Greenwood (map) Monday, July 10, 12noon - 2:00pm. As is our practice, it will be BYOL (Bring your own Lunch).
Hope to see you there!
Blessings,
Eldon
*********************************
"Recently, Lácides Hernandez, board chairperson of PF Colombia, participated in a meeting between representatives of the Colombian government and the guerrilla group Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) in Havana, Cuba. The purpose of this meeting was to develop an agenda for a peace process..."
Read: "Working for Peace in Columbia"
***** per bio received via email *****
Lacides Hernandez is currently the president of Prison Fellowship, Colombia, and he serves as regional coordinator of the Every Community for Christ church planting teams in a variety of prisons in Colombia. He is a graduate in Theology from the Biblical Seminary of Colombia, and has currently completed all residency requirements for a Masters of Business Administration at the Bolivarian Pontificial University in Medellin. His thesis for the Masters is “Restorative Justice: Its Systematization, Theorization, Implementation, and Application in the Colombian Context.”
Lacides is married to Libia, and together they have three children. He is a member and elder of the Villaflora Christian Fellowship Church of Colombia. He has received training in leadership from Prison Fellowship, and has studied and taught both the Sycamore Project and Restorative Justice modules in several countries in Latin America. He frequently travels for Prison Fellowship to both teach and motivate other Prison Fellowships in Latin America.
The vision that Lacides has for Prison Fellowship, Colombia is to plant a church in every cell block in every prison in Colombia. These 2,800 “cell churches” will have an average of 30 persons each. He further envisions each cell church planting one other “house church” outside of prison each year. The serious study of God’s word, leadership training, worship, fellowship, celebration of the Lord’s Supper, evangelism, discipleship, baptism, pastoral care, and multiplication of other house churches will characterize all of these churches. Already, churches are multiplying in some 20 of Colombia’s 149 prisons.
Lacides has been involved in leading seminars on Restorative Justice for several years. In this capacity, he directs small groups consisting of victims and perpetrators of non-related crimes. The perpetrators share those elements that drove them to commit the crimes. The victims share the results and impact of the crimes. The group is lead through Bible studies and interactive discussions on forgiveness, restitution, and reconciliation. God has used these small groups to break the cycle of violence among its participants.
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