Rev. Dr. Wayne Lavender, a United Methodist pastor, Virginia Wesleyan
adjunct faculty member, and executive director of Foundation4Orphans,
talks about his "Trek Across America for Orphans" at a lunch sponsored
by the VWC Center for the Study of Religious Freedom. Dr. Lavender lived
in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah in Northern Iraq from 2011 to 2013
before returning to the U.S. to work with several non-profit
organizations in the area. He taught at the University of Human
Development
and was a consultant to the Kurdistan regional government. He had
authored several books including "Counting Ants While the Elephants
March By," "Evelyn and Damon: A Story of Love and Peace" and "The Sweet
Smell of Apples." Mostly recently, he published: "The Worldwide View of
Redemptive Violence in the U.S."
