Speaker: Peter Wohler
What if understanding poverty more deeply could reveal your power to help rebuild lives and transform entire neighborhoods? Uncover hidden truths about poverty that can reveal paths to life change—yours and others. This Lunch & Learn will challenge what you think you know and inspire you to act. Come ready to uncover answers and perhaps even leave with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.
About the presenter: Peter Wohler has worked with at-risk youth since the mid-80s, serving as a volunteer and staff with Family Hope Services from 1985 to 1992 and working with homeless youth and brothels in red-light districts of Amsterdam, Europe and India in 1992 and 1993. Peter returned to his backyard—his Jerusalem—Minneapolis, to work with homeless youth, teens in prostitution, young addicts and the at-risk and unreached. In 1995, he became the director of Source MN. Soon after, he founded the first Joshua House, a sober transitional home with no budget and a couple of Christian peers who wanted to be mentors and were willing to pay rent. Since 1995, Peter and his wife, Jessica, have led Source MN through many seasons of reaching out to the marginalized and the city.
He is passionate about discipling the marginalized, creative outreach, Minneapolis (his Jerusalem), the unchurched and over-churched, coaching soccer and fantasy football.