Benjamin Bull
Curt Zimmerman
The next meeting of the Men’s Christian Fellowship of PebbleCreek (MCFPC) will be Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 a.m., in the Tuscany Falls Chianti Room. The special guest speaker will be Benjamin Bull, general counsel and senior vice president of the National Center of Sexual Exploitation. He leads the National Center’s Law Center, fighting sex trafficking, child sexual abuse, illegal pornography, and other forms of sexual exploitation.
Bull was the chief counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom for many years and is the recipient of the prestigious William Bentley Ball Award, from Christian Legal Society, for outstanding contribution to religious freedom. He is a former prosecutor and has had great success preventing the spread of illegal pornography, winning more than 14 jury trials against pornographers without a loss. He has also won numerous obscenity and child pornography appellate cases, including at the Supreme Court.
He has trained prosecutors at the U.S. Department of Justice and has lectured to over two dozen state bar associations, and has testified before Congress. He has co-authored two books that serve as teaching manuals on winning obscenity cases and stopping the urban blight of sexually oriented businesses. Mr. Bull also has a long and distinguished career defending religious freedom. At Alliance Defending Freedom he launched and built its litigation and advocacy components, as well as opening and supervising its offices in Washington, D.C., New York City, London, Brussels, Geneva, Vienna, New Delhi, and around the world.
He was the founder and executive director of ADF International, a leading global religious freedom organization. Mr. Bull also served as the founding executive director of the European Center for Law and Justice in Strasbourg, France, where he practiced religious human rights law. He also founded and supervised the Slavic Center for Law and Justice in Moscow, Russia. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Christian Legal Society and several other prominent non-profit organizations. Mr. Bull lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Branch Lake, Maine, and is married with three children and six grandchildren.
At the MCFPC January meeting, Ben Joseph, missionary to students at Arizona State University provided an insight to Fellowship members and guests of his work with students, a generation spiritually challenged and lost.
The MCFPC is a group of over 140 Christian men that meets the first Wednesday of each month, October through April. In addition to monthly meetings the MCFPC features outreach activities including traveling to St. Mary’s Food Bank in Surprise. The next volunteer opportunity is Thursday, Feb. 16. For more information, contact Jim Sykes at 614-395-4907. Weekly Bible studies are also available and more information can be obtained from Neil Smith at [email protected].
All men of PebbleCreek are welcome and invited to attend. The Tuscany Falls Chianti Room is located between the Ballroom and the library. For more information, contact President Igor Shpudejko at [email protected] or 602-384-6496.