Continuing the Summer Speaker Series, Daoud Nassar and Todd Deatherage will be teaching during the 9:00am Adult Class and will participate in a brief interview during both worship services on Sunday, June 30. Daoud Nassar is a native of Bethlehem, Palestine. He manages the farm known as Daher’s Vineyard located in the West Bank of Palestine and directs the work of the programs and projects known as Tent of Nations. Annually, nearly 7,000 international tourists visit the Nassar family’s ancestral land – a 100-acre hilltop site situated between Bethlehem and Hebron in the West Bank. The attraction is the Tent of Nations, an open and free enclave that serves as an educational and cultural center for local Palestinians and Israelis, including the international visitors. Despite difficult circumstances and the continuing threat of loss of land, the Nassar family lives and works out of the conviction:  “we refuse to be enemies.” Through Tent of Nations, Daoud works each day to prepare the people on the land for the day when the walls come down.  To learn more, go to: tentofnations.org. Todd Deatherage spent sixteen years in senior positions in the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government before co-founding the Telos Group. From 2005 to 2009, he was Chief of Staff in the Secretary of State’s Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. He also spent two years as Senior Advisor in the Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom, where he specialized in religious freedom in the Middle East. Todd worked for a decade in the U.S. Congress, including six years as Chief of Staff to Senator Tim Hutchinson. He is a native Arkansan and a graduate of the University of Arkansas. He began his career as an educator. He and his family live in Fairfax County, Virginia.  To learn more about Telos, visit: telosgroup.org.