Joyful Christians Please join us at Joyful Christians on Thursday, March 10, starting at 11 AM, for a time of fellowship, fun, and food. The featured speaker Pastor Chris Anderson will give a presentation on events connected with the "HOLOCAUST". What follows is a resume written by Pastor Chris Anderson outlining his background, interest, and qualifications to speak on this subject. I was and raised in Brooklyn NY and a member of Salem Lutheran Church and then Good Shepherd. I attended college in Iowa and entered Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg PA. I served congregations in Central Pennsylvania Synod of the LCA and then came to Michigan Synod/LCA and served at Trinity in Grand Rapids, Hope in Marlette and then Samuel in Muskegon. After retiring in 2007 I began working as a part time chaplain at Mercy Hospital Muskegon. In 1995 Rabbi Alan Alpert and I began what has grown into the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. We have three programs a year and every other year a program for 7th and 8th Grade level. Realizing the complex nature of the Holocaust and the ill informed comparisons between present events and those in Nazi Germany, I began a formal study of the subject first at Yad Vashem at the International School for Holocaust Studies and then at the National Catholic Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Seton Hill and completing my Masters in that subject through Gratz College in Philadelphia. My reasons for studying the Holocaust are not complex. I was 11 years old when a neighbor told me his story when I saw the numbers tattooed on his arm and because I am a Lutheran and a Christian I understand the role of Lutherans and Christians in the Holocaust and Luther’s anti-Jewish tracts which are used down till this day. I feel there is much we can learn and help generations see the experiences suffered by Jews and others because of racism and nationalism.