‘Purpose Driven Life’ Seminar in Kuwait

The Bible Society in the Gulf - Kuwait office - is preparing training seminars to lead the church community to a better understanding of the Bible. The first seminar for the year 2004, and as part of the Year of the Bible activities, was conducted on Monday and Tuesday, February 9-10, 2004. The theme of the seminar was “Purpose Driven Life”, and it was led by Yousef Sabri, the Arabic program coordinator of the Bible Society Center in Kuwait. The seminar was led in Arabic and was primarily for the Arabic speaking churches.

The training seminar concentrated on five important purposes:

1. Please Him through Worship

2. Belong to His body through the Church

3. Grow like Him through Discipleship

4. Serve Him through Ministry

5. Witness Him through Mission.

All these purposes were associated with the importance and use of the Bible as an important tool for a purpose driven life. A Bible display was organized during the two day seminars.

More than 140 people attended the training seminars. Church leaders, including clergy and lay leaders from the Evangelical churches, Catholic churches, Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, Coptic Church and the Brethren churches were among the attendees. All were very thankful and appreciative of the Bible Society for conducting training seminars, where the life of the church and the importance of the Bible were highlighted.