Guest Speaker from Jerusalem Director Dr. Susanna Kokkonen
Sunday, Feb. 12th 10:30 AM at The Dwelling Place 2550 Redstone Road SW Huntsville, AL 35803
Sunday, Feb. 12th 6PM at The Oasis Christian Center 4942 Memorial Parkway NW Huntsville, AL 35803
Dr. Susanna Kokkonen, originally from Finland, is the Director of the Christian Friends of Yad Vashem and the Country Director for Italy and Scandinavia at the International Relations Division of Yad Vashem. Dr. Kokkonen is responsible for Yad Vashem’s many activities that include enrollment of new Friends and Partners for Yad Vashem’s many projects as well as responsibility for an annual International Christian Leadership Seminar.
Dr. Kokkonen travels around the world to speak about Israel, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. She has been a featured guest speaker at the official Holocaust Memorial Day of Northern Ireland hosted by the First Minister’s office and spoken at the Parliament Hill in Ottawa. She has been an official speaker of the Canadian Holocaust Educational Week in 2010 and 2011. Fluent in six languages, she also writes regularly on Jewish and Israeli issues, and her articles have been published in various publications.
Prior to Yad Vashem, Dr. Kokkonen worked at the European Parliament in Brussels and at the Embassy of Finland in Tel Aviv. She received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004 in Holocaust studies. Her dissertation topic was “Jewish Refugees in Post-War Italy, 1945-1951”.
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For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has
overcome the world—our faith. 1 John 2:4 (NKJV)
The beginning of a new year often times brings fresh hope. Hope of a fresh start, hope of a new beginning, hope of change. Too many times that hope is short lived and we find ourselves in the same old trap of discouragement and despair not long into the new year. How many times have we made new year’s resolutions with much enthusiasm only to see it wane after a few weeks. Hope deferred makes the heart sick and causes us to loose faith. If 2012 is indeed a year of overcoming then we are going to have to lay hold of it by faith as the above scripture declares. We overcome by our faith. Many have been in such intense battles that they are struggling in their faith. The enemy would like nothing better than to defeat us on the verge of victory. Perhaps, that is the reason the battle has been so intense for many. Jesus said that if we only had faith of a mustard seed we could see a mountain move and that nothing would be impossible. Jesus used this analogy to demonstrate that something seemingly so small and insignificant as a mustard seed could produce something great. How about you? Has your faith waned to a tiny speck? Do you see yourself as having too little faith? Let me encourage you that even if your faith is as small as tiny mustard seed it can grow into something great. Let’s lay hold of 2012 by faith and make it the “Year of the Overcomer.”
Patrick Penn
