Botros Ministry Update July 2023
Emad and Almess Botros2023-09-18T16:57:20-04:00Greetings from the Land of Cedar to our dear friends and families. We hope you are “flourishing like a palm tree and growing like the cedar of Lebanon.” (Psalm 92:12)
Greetings from the Land of Cedar to our dear friends and families. We hope you are “flourishing like a palm tree and growing like the cedar of Lebanon.” (Psalm 92:12)
I am Emad Botros. I serve as a Global Field Staff, teaching here at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut with Almess, my wife, who is serving as a Tutor in the Certificate Program in the same Seminary.
Our family is safe and sound after the earthquake we felt here in Lebanon. Of course, nothing compared to what the Syrians and Turkish people experienced. For us, it has been a hard week, trying to cope with another disaster across the border. Our hearts are heavy! The question we ask: How long must we take counsel in our soul and have sorrow in our heart all day? (Psalms 13:2).
CBM applauds one of its Global Field Staff to Lebanon, Emad Botros, who has recently completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in Christian Theology-Old Testament through McMaster Divinity College. His thesis, The Merciful and Compassionate God: A Biblical Theology of Jonah in the Context of Islam, focuses on developing a biblical theology