KOINOS SEMINARS

Christian Missions Faculty

FACULTY FOR KOINOS 401 SERIES ON GLOBAL MISSIONS

Joanne Pepper (MA, PhD) is Dean of Canadian Pentecostal Seminary and Associate
Professor and Coordinator of the Intercultural Studies Program at Trinity Western University.  She has studied in Portugal, Brazil, and the UK (where she received her doctorate from the University of Warwick), as well as in Canada and the USA. She has been a missionary in Latin America and the former Soviet Union. [The Missionary Message of the Bible, Sept 10]

Irving Hexham (BA, MA, PhD) is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary and adjunct professor of World Christianity at Liverpool Hope University (UK). He has published nearly 30 books, including The Concise Dictionary of Religion, Understanding Cults and New Religions, and Understanding World Religions, plus numerous articles, and book reviews. In 2008, he was honored at the historic Humboldt University in Berlin with a collection of essays written in his honor. [Christian Faith and Other Faiths, Oct 15]

Dwayne Buhler (BTh, MCS) is the Executive Director of Missions Fest Vancouver. He served as a missionary to Brazil and Mexico for 15 years before returning to Vancouver. He is a regular contributor to Faith Today and has a passion for mentoring the next generation of missional leaders. He is the author of No Ordinary Joe: Changing the World One Life at a Time. [Missions and Money, Nov 12; How to Relate Cross-Culturally, Dec 10]

Bill Armerding (BA, Wheaton, Dip. Urban Land Economics, UBC) leads Outreach Canada’s partnership in leadership development with Evangelical Theological Faculty in Belgium.  He served on the board of InterVarsity Canada (Chair of Finance Committee) for seventeen years and four years in the USA. After a career in financial management and banking, Bill gave leadership to two organizations providing theological education and leadership development in Eastern Europe and the “majority” world.  His expertise in strategic planning, financial management, governance and funding of mission enterprise has been utilized by scores of young leaders and theological schools around the world. [Missions and Money, Nov 12]

Sam Owusu (MCS, PhD) is the founder and senior pastor of Calvary Worship Center in New Westminster, a congregation representing 65 nationalities.  He is an adjunct professor at Trinity Western University and also serves on the board of SIM Canada.  A recognized authority on multicultural churches he leads intercultural symposiums for the Billy Graham Association across Canada. [The Multicultural Church, Jan 14]

Paul Stevens (BA, BD, DMin) has been a pastor, a student counselor, a businessman and a professor. His mission is to empower ordinary people to integrate their faith and life from Monday to Sunday. He does this through teaching, coaching, advocating and writing.  He is the author of more than 30 books. He was the David J. Brown Family Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership at Regent College. He has taught and spoken at institutions all over the world, including Tyndale Seminary in Toronto, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Brazil, Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, and several schools in Asia and in Kenya. [Tent Making Ministries, Feb 18]

Paul and Lila Balisky served as missionaries in Ethiopia for 38 years. They have written extensively on the  history of the church in Ethiopia in the 20th Century, including many articles in the on-line Dictionary of African Christian Biography.  They have graduate degrees from the universities of Aberdeen (Paul, PhD) and Edinburgh (Lila, MTh). [Significant Events in the History of Missions, Mar 10]

Miriam
Adeney (BA,
MA,
PhD) recently 
served
 as 
president
 of
 the
 American 
Society
 of 
Missiology. 
She 
is 
a 
professor
 (Seattle
 Pacific
 University), 
 author, 
 missionary 
and
 mother. 
  She
 is 
also 
a 
contributing 
editor
 and 
member 
of
 the
 board 
of
 Christianity
 Today.
 Her
 books 
include
 Daughters
 of
 Islam: 
 Building 
Bridges 
with 
Muslim
 Women
; 
God’s 
Foreign
 Policy:
 How 
to
 Help 
the
 World’s
 Poor; and Kingdom Without Borders.  She has produced handbooks and run workshops for indigenous Christian writers in Asia and Africa. [Bible Translation and the Spread of Christianity, Apr 14]

Anne Kwantes (BA, MA, PhD) and her husband Dick were missionaries to Japan and to the Philippines for more than thirty years, then retired to Victoria, BC. She has taught courses in missions and church history, focusing on the Asian Church. While a faculty member of the Asian Theological Seminary in Manila she produced several books and articles in the field of mission history, including She has done a beautiful thing for me: Portraits of Christian women in Asia. [Asian Christian Women inMission [May 12]

W. Ward Gasque (BA, BD, MTh, PhD) is one of the founders of Regent College.  His passion is to empower lay men and women with good theology.  An authority on the Acts of the Apostles and the life and letters of Paul, he has written two books, edited two Bible commentary series and five collections of essays, and published more than a hundred articles.  His lecture on Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has been one of the most widely viewed guest lectures in the University of California video system (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s37yJ_nB7Nc).  He is currently the English Pastor ofRichmondChineseAllianceChurch.  [The Missionary Strategy of Paul, June 9]