Wheaton College hosts Plowshares Lecture April 19

Lynne Hybels will deliver a lecture titled "An American Evangelical in Palestine" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19. Mrs. Hybels will be speaking on her experiences in Israel and Palestine and recommending ways to approach the conflict in a way that promotes reconciliation and peace.

Lynne and Bill Hybels started Willow Creek Community Church in 1975. For the last fifteen years she has engaged in ministry partnerships in under-resourced communities in Latin America and Africa. She recently established a personal fundraising initiative, Ten For Congo, to support the thousands of women and girls brutally raped during the last decade of civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is the author of Nice Girls Don't Change the World and Joy of Personal Worship. She also co-authored Rediscovering Church and Fit to be Tied with her husband Bill.

Plowshares, a student peace and justice organization at Wheaton College, is sponsoring this lecture. Free and open to the public, this event takes place in the Science Center Lecture Hall, located at 430 Howard Street in Wheaton. For more information, call 630.752.5932.