Saturday, November 2, 2019 10am – Torah Study at 9am
10am – Praise & Testimony – Ted Pearce
10:50am – Break
11am – Jack Poirier – “Hanukkah in the Narrative Chronology”
11:45am – Break
12pm – Church of the Messiah Worship, Dance, Banner teams, Communion
1pm – Break for carry-in lunch in Fellowship hall
1:20pm – Q&A with Jack Poirier in Cafe
Ted Pearce is known for writing and performing a sub-genre of Christian music known as “messianic”; a folk-musical style based on ancient middle eastern themes. Though Ted is not Jewish, he began his faith journey in a messianic Jewish congregation (Jewish people who believe Jesus redeems man from sin and death) under Rabbi Martin Waldman and Cantor Jeff Seif in the 1990s. It was here where Ted began writing a new kind of song with an ancient language for a community of people who enjoyed acoustic folk music and dancing and food together at least once a week.
“Hanukkah in the Narrative Chronology”
John (“Jack”) Poirier has earned Master’s degrees from Oral Roberts University and Duke University, and a doctorate (in Ancient Judaism) from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He has published two books and more than seventy articles, mostly in the area of New Testament, but also in Old Testament, ancient Judaism, church history, and philosophical hermeneutics. He is currently working on a sustained critique of the Theological Interpretation movement. He has a son and a daughter, and lives in Germantown, Ohio.