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Display Name: Max
Joined: 4/15/2008 5:07:40 PM
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Location: New York City, NY
Interests: theology, human rights, justice and peace, Mozart, Photography, Travel
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Max Surjadinata is a semi-retired clergy person in the United Church of Christ. He does occasional pulpit supply and interim ministry. He participated in the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) of the World Council of Churches from January - May, 2005. He was stationed in Ramallah where he worked with the Christian communities in the area. He is an Indonesian-American retired pastor of the United Church of Christ. He served as pastor and also as hospital chaplain in the United States and Canada. Growing up in Indonesia, the son of a pastor who was jailed and executed by Japanese soldiers during the Second World War, he developed a life long devotion to peace and justice issues and became a life-long peace and justice activist. While pursuing his theological education, he worked for Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. He also directed an adult education and voter registration program in Mississippi in the late 1960's. In addition to serving parishes, he also served as Social Ministry Coordinator for Calgary Presbytery, The United Church of Canada in 1980's. He co-founded the East Timor Action Network (ETAN) and was part of the election monitoring team during the UN sponsored Referendum in August 1999, where he served eight months in East Timor as a Volunteer of the Board for Global Ministries of the United Church of Christ. In 1998 he co-founded the Indonesia Emergency Project in New York City which organizes public forums on Indonesia and provided humanitarian assistance to torture victims of the former dictator, President Suharto. He was also the interpreter for Pramoedya Ananta Tour, a noted Indonesian writer who made his first tour through the United States and Europe. Max Surjadinata lives in New York City with his wife, the Rev. Elice Higginbotham, who is presently the Interim Minister of Pastoral Care in The Riverside Church, and Labrador Retriever, Jacques. His personal hobbies include, among others, playing classical music on the piano, photography, cooking and camping.

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