Peace Messenger

Spencer Chiimbwe - Adventist Peacemaker

Ryan Bell interviews the founder of the New York Center for Conflict Dialogue in his second report from a recent gathering of Religious Peace Fellowships:

I sat down for breakfast at the Stony Point Retreat Center for the first full day of meetings of the Religious Peace Fellowships and as I spoke to a Mennonite leader about the Seventh-day Adventist peace work, the man to my right leaned over and said, I'm a Seventh-day Adventist. I was shocked. There were only about thirty of us and we were intentionally chosen a representatives of different denominations and religious groups. What follows is a brief introduction to Spencer Chiimbwe and an interview focused on the way his faith has shaped him in the work he does today.

 
Spencer Chiimbwe is a Zambian national residing in the United States since 2006. Throughout his life he has been involved in conflict transformation at a national and international level including being a Peace Fellow, Action Researcher and Coordinator for both the Coalition for Peace in Africa in Southern Africa Region and for the ACTION Support Center. He is also a member of the Global Partnership

Religious Peace Fellowship Representatives Gather

The first in a series of reports by Ryan Bell.

For the past day and a half, representatives of the Religious Peace Fellowships have met together at Stony Point Conference Center in Stony Point, New York to collaborate together about our peacemaking work and to think strategically about the future. I have met remarkable peace activists from the Presbyterian, Episcopal, American Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, Orthodox, Mennonite, and Brethren Churches as well as Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist communities...and one other Adventist, Spencer Chiimbwe, Founder and Coordinating Chairman of the New York Center for Conflict Dialogue (more on Spencer in a separate piece).