Seva Kendra Calcutta organised a seminar on "Biblical World View - How Values Effect our Actions" on Friday 23 January 2015, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the organisation's Tangra Main Office.
Megacities missionary Mr. Richard Blake was the speaker. The seminar was mainly attended by the Seva Kendra staff, but a few others, including St. Xavier's Rector Father George Ponodath, were also present.
Richard touched upon the idea of our faith applied to our daily lives, and how this simple thing could be transformative and powerful. Christian values like repentance and reconciliation were lost in this dog eat dog world and resulted in greed and emptiness - the way to the psychiatrist or worse in Western countries. But because you (as Christians) know this, says Richard, "You have something valuable to teach to Microsoft... to teach Swissbank... and Vodafone!" Corporations spend millions of dollars and struggle to retain promising employees in a world that people find it difficult to get along together - the number one reason for losing companies "Talent."
Other biblical qualities were also woven into daily life at home, relationships with spouse, children and others; with the scriptural passages to reinforce these values. The audience were kept alert by the speakers simple language and wit which drove the points home to them.
Richard would be meeting a group IT professors, all non-Christian, later in the day. What would he be talking to these extremely intelligent people about? Why, "Jesus, of course," he says, "They want to be involved in this city and make it a better city - I will tell them, if you want to make it a better city, you need Jesus," he signs off.
Mr. Mukul Haldar felicitated the speaker on behalf of SKC and all participants were treated to a simple Bengali lunch, thereafter.
Megacities missionary Mr. Richard Blake was the speaker. The seminar was mainly attended by the Seva Kendra staff, but a few others, including St. Xavier's Rector Father George Ponodath, were also present.
Richard touched upon the idea of our faith applied to our daily lives, and how this simple thing could be transformative and powerful. Christian values like repentance and reconciliation were lost in this dog eat dog world and resulted in greed and emptiness - the way to the psychiatrist or worse in Western countries. But because you (as Christians) know this, says Richard, "You have something valuable to teach to Microsoft... to teach Swissbank... and Vodafone!" Corporations spend millions of dollars and struggle to retain promising employees in a world that people find it difficult to get along together - the number one reason for losing companies "Talent."
Other biblical qualities were also woven into daily life at home, relationships with spouse, children and others; with the scriptural passages to reinforce these values. The audience were kept alert by the speakers simple language and wit which drove the points home to them.
Richard would be meeting a group IT professors, all non-Christian, later in the day. What would he be talking to these extremely intelligent people about? Why, "Jesus, of course," he says, "They want to be involved in this city and make it a better city - I will tell them, if you want to make it a better city, you need Jesus," he signs off.
Mr. Mukul Haldar felicitated the speaker on behalf of SKC and all participants were treated to a simple Bengali lunch, thereafter.
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| Richard Blake at Seva Kendra Calcutta |
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