{"id":4793,"date":"2023-09-01T22:28:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T03:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2023-09-01T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T03:33:07","slug":"what-is-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2023\/what-is-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Seek?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Seek<\/strong>\u00a0is a new cohort discipleship program<\/a> from Mennonite Central Committee that had it’s first pilot earlier this year in Israel\/Palestine. The second pilot is planned for next year in Cambodia. It is a 6 month discipleship program meant to engage Anabaptist youth (ages 18-20) with the core tenants of Anabaptist faith, MCC, and the global church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seek to grow in love. Seek to live and serve like Jesus.<\/strong>
The Seek program will help you discover the beauty and brokenness of the world while living in community and ministering to others. This six-month discipleship program will help you learn more deeply what it means to be an Anabaptist follower of Jesus.<\/p>\nmcc.org\/seek<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Historically, MCC engaged High School graduates with PAX and SALT, providing transformative cross-cultural service experiences, and there’s an acknowledgement that MCC has been missing this demographic as SALT<\/a> has shifted to largely being a post University experience for most participants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Israel\/Palestine Seek participants hold a contextual Bible study in the traditional location of Boaz’ fields and the angels appearing to the shepherds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Seek has the additional goal of engaging Anabaptist youth who currently have limited MCC involvement (low to no recent participation in SALT\/YAMEN\/IVEP). This will hopefully include participants from Anabaptist communities in Europe, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and elsewhere as well as North America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A large statue of the Buddha is carved into the mountainside at Phnom Sampov in Battambang province, Cambodia. What of the themes of the Cambodian Seek cohort will be “What is it like to belong to a Christian minority in a Buddhist context?”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cambodia is a very different context from Israel\/Palestine and we have context specific themes to focus on during the Seek <\/strong>pilot here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n