SPEAKER: Marvin Rees
VENUE: St Stephen’s Church,Bristol City Centre
COST: FREE
From 9.30am till 1.30pm
Churches response to the Recession: a spiritual and practical guide: This morning will seek to look at wider issues around the Bristol churches response to the current financial crisis. There will be an opportunity to consider fully whether enough action is being taken and what more might be done as a corporate body
Marvin Rees is a Programme Manager for the NHS Delivering Race Equality in Mental Healthcare programme.
He is a longtime Christian with interest in understanding the call of church in the world. He has worked with Sojourners, a US campaign group magazine looking at intersection of Faith, culture, politics and their editor in Chief Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics as well as working and studing under Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo.
Marvin has also worked for Tearfund and spent 5 years as a BBC journalist; he has completed Masters degrees in Politics of Black America and another in Global Economic Development.
