Westminster College to Host International Peacemaker

Westminster College will host International Peacemaker the Rev. Yousif Matar Kodi from the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) at vespers on World Communion Sunday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. and at Chapel worship Monday, Oct. 6, at 11:40 a.m. Both services in Wallace Memorial Chapel are open to the public. 

Kodi will be speaking about peace and justice issues from the perspective of the Presbyterian Church in the Sudan.

Kodi grew up in a Christian family in the Nuba Mountains region of the Sudan and studied at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Egypt, after college. Ordained to the ministry in 1993, he pastors a church in North Khartoum, serves as general secretary of the SPEC, and teaches at the SPEC Bible school.

Arranged through the denominational offices of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in Louisville, Ky., the International Peacemakers Program has been in existence over 20 years. International Peacemakers are leaders who are engaged in peacemaking in their own areas of the world and are invited by the PCUSA to visit in the United States to help understand the peace and justice concerns of others around the world.

Contact the Rev. James Mohr II, Westminster College chaplain, at (724) 946-7116 or e-mail mohrjr@westminster.edu for more information.

Rev. Yousif Matar Kodi