Chehalem Valley Presbyterian Church

On Sunday, April 27 at 10:30 a.m. Allen Pritzlaff will present a lecture on Islam, helping Christians to understand and to interact with Muslims. Through study and years of experience, Allen is an expert voice in helping anyone who wishes to find appropriate and effective ways of sharing the gospel with Muslims. Following his lecture, Allen will field questions. The event will be held at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Newberg at College and Edgewood, in the fellowship hall, directly following our morning worship service (which begins at 9:00 a.m.) The Coffee Cottage is providing two blends: The Coffee Cottage Blend and the darker, Prospero. Pastor Nathan Lewis says, “Not that any of us will need Prospero to keep us alert as Allen presents this cutting edge topic, lending his many years of experience to the further dispensing of the gospel.”

Allen and Rosalee Priztlaff

Allen has been working with Muslims since 1978 when he was involved in a campus ministry and started witnessing to international students from Iran, Saudi Arabia and other countries. After getting married in 1984, Allen and Rosalie visited several mission fields to determine which Islamic people God would send them to, and through which agency. They joined Mission to the World, our church’s mission agency, and People International in 1990, and moved to Kazakhstan in 1992. There Allen helped to plant churches, worked with college students, and with a colleague started a project to create a new version of the Scriptures in Russian specifically for Muslims. Allen and Rosalie moved back to the U.S. to care for elderly mothers in 2000, but he continues to be involved with evangelism and discipleship of Kazakh young people and with the translation project. He usually makes several trips a year to Kazakhstan for one to two months.