Instructor: Gary Vanderpol, PhD

Wouldn't it be encouraging to "meet" someone whose faith actually inspires you, who embodied the best of Christianity? We'd like to introduce you to just such a person! Can anyone guess who this is?

• He moved into the worst slum in his city as an act of radical solidarity with those who were poor and marginalized, and as a result contracted a lifelong eye disease that nearly blinded him.

• He started a nationwide movement of worker-owned businesses (co-ops) that enabled working-class people to participate with dignity in the rapacious capitalist expansion of his day.

• He was one of the boldest, most prolific evangelists of his generation. He preached with compassion to thousands in a country that was less than 2% Christian.

If you email us with the correct answer & attend this event, we'll buy you a boba (or boba-equivalent drink). But no Googling!

Format: Presentation plus Q&A, followed by information conversation. 

Light breakfast is provided.

Bio: Gary VanderPol holds a doctorate from Boston University and was most recently an assistant professor at Denver Seminary. He is the author, with Soong-Chan Rah, of Return to Justice, which tells stories of the last two generations of evangelical Christians who have recovered a biblical commitment to the oppressed and marginalized. He was the senior pastor at Church Without Walls, Berkeley from 2015 to 2021.

No fee

LOCATION

Berkeley, CA, 94704