Building Relationships with Local Friends
Led by Emil Shehadeh and Mark Pickering
Discover how you can better understand the culture and customs of the place where you live. It's possible to build meaningful and lasting friendships with in your community.
Emil Shehadeh was born in Israel and educated mainly in the UK, achieving BSc Hons (Medical Biology), MSc (Biochemistry), MB ChB (Medicine), and a Diploma in Dermatology and MRCGP. In the early 1990s, he co-founded an Arabic Church in Cardiff, S Wales. He practiced as a GP (Family Physician and a trainer) until 2016. Emil has a PhD in Islamic Studies from Logos University and is engaged in another piece of research at LST, Northwood. He believes that the expansion of the Kingdom of God must be the chief concern of the people of God.
Dr Mark Pickering is the Chief Executive of CMF (UK/Ireland). He is based in London where he also works as a secure environment GP (in prisons and similar institutions). He previously led student ministry for CMF UK and for ICMDA. In these roles he has developed many partnerships with organizations in student ministry, bioethics and advocacy, global mission and evangelism/apologetics. He has a long-term interest in apologetics, particularly around biblical reliability, Islam and science/faith issues.
