Institutes for Christian Spirituality

Institutes for Christian Spirituality
SPEAKERS AND FACILITATORS

James L. Foster
James L. Foster is a former Baptist minister and Mennonite church planter who is currently President of Institutes for Christian Spirituality and Interim Director of Peacebuilding Institute of East Tennessee. He has a Masters Degree in Christology from Eastern Mennonite Seminary and has served for several years on the denominational Board of Directors for the Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions. He has worked as an advocate for the Caribbean poor, particularly those in Haiti, Jamaica, and Guyana. He has for many years served as spiritual director for numerous individuals and has conducted over a hundred prayer workshops and hunger workshops in churches from Florida to New York and from Virginia to North Dakota, including Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopal and Anabaptist churches and schools and has spoken from their pulpits.
Jim, as he prefers to be called, is available to facilitate workshops in prayer, centering prayer, and hunger sensitivity. His approach in each of these areas is both practical and theological. The workshops are generally about 3 hours long and are often scheduled in tandem with preaching engagements on the �Biblical Mandate to Feed the Poor,� a �Biblical Theology of Nonviolence and Forgiveness,� �The Peaceable Kingdom� or a round table discussion with church leadership on �Revisioning the Christian Faith.�