The gospel invitation to be difference-makers

Courtesy of Khader El-Yateem

On March 18, Khader El-Yateem began his role as executive director of the Service and Justice home area in the ELCA churchwide organization.

Khader El-Yateem is practiced in bridge-building. As pastor of Salam Arabic Lutheran Church in New York City—a congregation he started as a mission developer in 1995 and at which he preached in both Arabic and English—he served as a clergy liaison to the New York Police Department and co-founded the Bay Ridge Unity Task Force, […]

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