The Board of Directors of the World Reformed Fellowship
Special advisors to the Executive Committee:
- Mr. Ross Kenny, Chief Financial Officer of the World Reformed Fellowship
- Mr. Alan White, Chairman of the Advancement Advisory Board of the World Reformed Fellowship
Professor Pierre Berthoud is Professor of Old Testament and of Apologetics at the Faculté Libre de Théologie Réformée in Aix en Provence, France. Professor Berthoud studied at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Covenant Theological Seminary, StLouis, USA (M.A., B.D., MTh.). He taught biblical languages at the Faculté Libre de Théologie Evangélique de Vaux sur Seine, France (1969-1971). He then served as a worker with Francis Schaeffer at l'Abri Fellowship, Huémoz, Switzerland before joining the Faculty of the Reformed Seminary in Aix en Provence in 1975. He is the Doyen (president) of the Seminary and continues his teaching ministry. He is a member of the executive committee of FEET (Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians). He is the chairman of the board of Scripture Union, France, the Parvis des Arts (a Christian cultural center in Marseilles, France), as well as of ARocha France (a Christian environmental organization). He has written a number of articles on different aspects of Old Testament studies and Apologetics. Forthcoming a textbook on Genesis 1-11 and the first stages of the history of revelation.
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Dr. P. J. (Flip) Buys was born in South Africa in 1947 and he holds the degrees B.A., Th.B., Th.M., and Ph.D. His doctoral dissertation was completed in 1989 was was entitled “The Relationship Between Evangelism and Church Nurturing: A New testament Exegetical Study.”
Dr. Buys has served in the following pastoral situations in South Africa - Pastor Gereformeerde Kerk Odendaalsrus 1973 - 1976; Pastor Gereformeerde Kerk Vereeniging 1976 - 1984; Missionary Sharpeville 1985 - 1989; and Pastor Gereformeerde Kerk Potchefstroom-North 1989 - 1993.
He founded (1993) and now serves as the President of Mukhanyo Theological College. He was the co-founder (1993) and now serves on the Board of Directors of the Masibambisane Community Development Corporation.
Dr. Buys has published numerous academic and popular books, pamphlets, and articles about ministry and church growth in Africa and he is a member of the International Steering Committee of TOPIC (Training of Pastors International Coalition).
He is married with two children.
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Dr. Robert C. (Ric) Cannada, Jr. is Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of Reformed Theological Seminary. As Chancellor & CEO, Dr. Cannada provides leadership to five residential campuses in Jackson, MS; Orlando, FL; Charlotte, NC; Washington, D.C.; and Atlanta, GA; and one degree-granting extension campuses in Boca Raton, FL; a degree-granting Virtual Campus (distance education) based in Charlotte, NC; and three international Doctor of Ministry degree programs in Korea, Scotland, and Brazil.
Known personally as Ric, Dr. Cannada is a native of Jackson, MS, and a graduate of Vanderbilt University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy. He completed his post-graduate studies at RTS receiving the degrees of Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry.
Ric’s service to the Lord also includes twenty years of experience as a Presbyterian pastor in Clinton, SC; Little Rock, AR; and Macon, GA. In 1993, Dr. Cannada accepted the position of Senior Vice President to provide leadership for the development and establishment of the RTS—Charlotte campus in NC. He was named Executive Vice President of RTS in 1998 and President of RTS in 2002. He became RTS Chancellor and CEO in 2004 when the seminary restructured to establish presidents on each campus under Ric’s overall leadership.
Ric and his wife, Rachel, have two children and six grandchildren.
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Rev. Dr. Wilson W. Chow is currently President Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at China Graduate School of Theology (CGST) in Hong Kong, China. He also serves as the Advisory Pastor of the C & M A Causeway Bay Church.
A graduate of the University of Hong Kong in the Faculty of Science, Dr. Chow completed his B. D. study at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and later earned his M. A. and Ph. D. from Brandeis University in Mediterranean Studies. He returned to Hong Kong in 1973 and was one of the founding faculty members of CGST.
Dr. Chow is known internationally in theological education through his long years of service with the Theological Commission of World Evangelical Fellowship and the Asia Theological Association. He has been a Visiting Professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, Westminster in California and Regent College. Dr. Chow has taught in seminaries across Asia and in recent years teaches and gives lectures in seminaries in mainland China. He serves on the Board of Chinese Bible International, the Executive Committee of World Reformed Fellowship, and is an advisor to several Christian organizations in Hong Kong. Among his several books, Dr. Chow latest writing is a Chinese commentary on Ruth.
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Dr. Sam Ji Chung was born in Haenam, Korea. He and his wife, Hyun Sook, have one son, Jae-In, and one daughter, Ji-In, who were born in Korea and live in Korea. Dr. Chung is an ordained minister of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapdong), Presbytery of Hanseo. Dr. Chung graduated from Chongshin University (B.A.), received his M.Div. and Th.M. from the same school, and earned his D.Min. from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
Dr. Chung planted The Disciple Church in Seoul which he has served as Senior Pastor since 1988. The church, with the vision of healing nations and changing the world through disciple-making, planting and strengthening churches in all nations, has successfully shifted to a cell church and is presenting a new standard of focusing on God and God-given mission through different styles of worship services and small-group actions.
Dr. Chung is now serving as Distinguished Professor of Chongshin University in Seoul, Korea and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mongolia International University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He is Chairman of the Alliance of the Korean Church for Hope, Chairman of the Sports Committee of the Christian Council of Korea, Chairman of Korea Cell Church Missions Network, and Chairman of the Korean Alumni Association of Fuller Theological Seminary.
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Matthew Ebenezer is an ordained teaching elder of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of India (RPCI). He was associated with Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Dehra Dun, India for over twenty years and taught pastoral theology and church history; he also served as Vice-/Acting Principal of the seminary. He is presently Professor of Church History at New Theological College, Dehra Dun. Matthew holds a Ph. D. in Historical Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. He served as Country Director of Mission to the World (MTW) in Sri Lanka (2006-2007). He uses his gifts of teaching and preaching in various Reformed contexts in Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal. He is the author of ‘What the Apostles Believed: A Devotional Commentary’ (2007). He and his wife Annamma have two children, Roshini and Deepak.
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Dr. Paul R. Gilchrist, Executive Secretary Emeritus and current Secretary of the Executive Committee of World Reformed Fellowship, was born in Santiago, Chile. He received his B.A. degree from Columbia International University in Columbia, South Carolina, his M. Div. degree from Faith Theological Seminary in Elkins Park, PA, and his Ph.D. from Dropsie University in Philadelphia, PA. He did Post Doctoral research in Edinburgh, Scotland and Cambridge, England.
Over the years Dr. Gilchrist taught at John Knox Junior College, Covenant College, Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, RTS in Jackson, and Knox Seminary in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He served as Chaplain at the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem, and was the Consultant and Seminar Teacher for World Fellowship of Reformed Churches. He spent ten years as fulltime Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the PCA.
In addition to pastoring two churches, Dr. Gilchrist served his denominations with distinction in many leadership roles. He was an active member of a variety of professional societies. A substantial number of his articles and lectures were published, and he made significant contributions to published books, journals, and the New King James Version of the Bible.
Dr. Gilchrist and his wife Barbara celebrated fifty years of marriage in 2006. They have been blessed with four children and thirteen grandchildren.
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Dr. Allan Harman is currently Research Professor at the Presbyterian Theological College, Melbourne. He is an Australian who after graduation at the University of Sydney (B.A.), studied in Scotland (B.D., M.Litt., University of Edinburgh). He also did graduate study at Westminster Theological Seminary (Th.M., Th.D.), and holds an honorary doctorate (Th.D.) from the Australian College of Theology.
He has been Professor of Old Testament at the Free Church College, Edinburgh, the Reformed Theological College, Geelong, and the Presbyterian Theological College, Melbourne, where he also served as Principal for twenty years. His writing has been mainly in Old Testament (commentaries on Deuteronomy, Psalms, Isaiah, and Daniel) and in Church History (with A. M. Renwick, The Story of the Church and with Robert Miller, Thomas Dove and the Tasmanian Aborigines). He has contributed widely to many theological journals, and himself is the senior editor of the Reformed Theological Review, the oldest theological journal in Australia.
He has been Moderator-General of his denomination, the Presbyterian Church of Australia (1994-1997), and serves as convener of its committees on Relations with Other Churches and Defence Force Chaplaincy. The latter convenership gives him a seat on the Religious Advisory Committee to the Services that controls all Australian defence force chaplaincy, and he is currently chairman of that committee. He has also served as chairman of Tyndale Fellowship (Australia) and the Australian Institute of Årchaeology.
He is married to Mairi, and they have five adult children.
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Dr. Craig Higgins is the founding and senior pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Rye, NY, a Westchester County suburb of New York City. Craig and his family moved to Rye in 1994 to work with the six couples who began the congregation. Trinity Church was, along with the Village Church in Greenwich Village, one of the first two daughter churches of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. Craig is a graduate of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, (1983, B.A. in philosophy), Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia (1989, Master of Divinity), and of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry near Pittsburgh (2005, Doctor of Ministry; thesis on baptismal theology and mission).
Active in the broader church, Craig has served as a moderator and clerk of Presbytery, as a member of the Board of Trustees of Westminster Seminary, and as vice chairman of the Interchurch Relations Committee of the Presbyterian Church in America.
Craig grew up in the mountains of northeast Georgia. He and his wife, Ann, have three children, Caroline, Andrew, and Abigail.
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Benyamin F. Intan was born in Ambon in May 1966, married to Jani Hermawan, blessed with a son. He is an ordained pastor of the Reformed Evangelical Church of Indonesia (GRII) and has been General Secretary of the Synod of the GRII since 2004. On April 15, 2006, he (Co-Founder) and the Rev. Dr. Stephen Tong (Founder) establish a Reformed think-thank, Pusat Pengkajian Reformed bagi Agama dan Masyarakat (the Reformed Center for Religion and Society, RCRS), and has been its Executive Director since then. RCRS functions as a think-tank that seeks to address from the Reformed perspective contemporary issues affecting religious and social life in Indonesia. Since 2006 he has served on the Executive Committee of the World Reformed Fellowship. Dr. Intan has been teaching social and political ethics at the Reformed Institute Jakarta since 1998 and has written several chapters in books and numerous popular articles on social ethics in various magazines and newspapers in the country. His book, “Public Religion” and the Pancasila-Based State of Indonesia: An Ethical and Sociological Analysis, which was originally a doctoral dissertation, was published by Peter Lang, New York, in 2006. Dr. Intan received his M.A. in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary, his M.A. in Religion from the Divinity School of Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Social Ethics from Boston College.
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Karen V.C. Jansson, of Racine, Wisconsin, is a homemaker who is active in Christian and charitable endeavors. She is Treasurer and a trustee of the Russian Orphan Opportunity Fund (ROOF), a unique organization dedicated to delivering Christian-oriented education in Russian orphanages, as well as through its own Post-Orphanage Education Center in the heart of Moscow.
Karen is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a degree in sociology. She served as Director of a United Way agency in Charlottesville, Virginia, and later started and was the Director of the Moody Church Early Childhood Center in Chicago, Illinois. In recent years Karen led a church-wide women’s Bible study at Calvary Memorial Church in Racine, and has written materials for that purpose. She has served on various other non-profit boards involving the arts and education.
Karen grew up in a small town just north of Pittsburgh. She and her husband, Peter, have traveled widely, including frequently to Moscow. They have two children and four grandchildren.
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Dr. Peter Jones, Scholar at Large for WRF, is the Director of Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet (www.cwipp.org) and adjunct Professor of New Testament at Westminster Seminary California. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, he served as a professor/missionary in France for seventeen years and as a professor at WTS California for eleven years. He is the author of several books, including the Gnostic Empire Strikes Back, Spirit Wars, and Cracking Da Vinci’s Code. Peter and his wife Rebecca have seven children and seven grandchildren.
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Dr. In Whan Kim was born in Undae, Korea. He and his wife, Chung Sook, RN, have two sons, H. Jashin and Jayoung Ezra, and one daughter, Youmie Janice. They were born in Philadelphia and educated in the Unites States. Dr. Kim is an ordained minister of Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapdong), Presbytery of Nam Seoul.
Dr. Kim graduated from Chongshin University (B.A.), finished its Theological Seminary, received his M.Div. and Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary, Phila., and his Ph.D. from University of Wales, Lampeter, Great Britain.
Author and translators of many articles in Korean and in English and books, Dr. Kim has been a full-time faculty since 1982 and now serves as a professor of the Old Testament and President of Chongshin University and Seminary. He has served for the local churches as a collaborate pastor to the senior pastor at the various churches in Seoul, Korea, and he planted a church in Philadelphia. He is now serving as the Chairman of the Society of the Reformed Theology, the Chairman of Association of the Presidents of Theological Universities in Korea, board members of the Korean Council for University Education and Association of the Board of Trustees of the Private Schools in Korea. He had served as the Chairman of the Board of Dongjak Social Welfare Foundation and its Executive President.
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Originally from Puerto Rico, Dr. Cecilio (Woody) Lajara, has been involved in the Presbyterian Church all his life, serving as key leader in his local congregation and Presbytery. After graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, he came to Atlanta, Georgia, where he studied for the ministry at Columbia Theological Seminary and the Candler School of Theology (Emory).
Woody was ordained in the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in July of 1969. He served as the Organizing Pastor of the first Hispanic Presbyterian Church in Atlanta for six years and was then involved, with Aiken Taylor, Don Patterson, and other church leaders, in the formation of the Presbyterian Church in America.
Woody served as a missionary in Mexico under the auspices of Mission to the World if the PCA, working as Professor of Theology at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary there. He was a missionary in Guatemala for six years and served as the organizer and Director of the School of Theology at the Mariano Galvez University. He has served as Vice President for Latin America of Evangelism Explosion International for the past thirteen years.
As Vice President for Evangelism Explosion in Latin America, Woody leads a Team of 14 members laboring in the EE Ministry as “Regional Directors”. He also leads and extended team of 250 Clinic Teachers and 67 Field Workers in the Latin American countries and in the Iberian Peninsula.
Woody, Dr. Paul Gilchrist, and Dr. Rick Perrin were the organizers of the first meeting of a group of Reformed Leaders attending the WEF meeting in Manila Philippines interested in the possible organization of what today is the World Reformed Fellowship. Woody currently serves as Treasurer of the World Reformed Fellowship.
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Dr. Samuel Logan has served as the International Director of the World Reformed Fellowship since July 1, 2005.
Dr. Logan was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1943. He attended Princeton University (B.A., 1965), Westminster Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1968), and Emory University (Ph.D., 1972). He taught at Barrington College in Rhode Island from 1970 to 1979 and worked at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) from 1979 to 2007. During his years at Westminster, Dr. Logan served in numerous capacities, including Vice President for Academic Affairs (1986 - 1991), President (1991 - 2005), and Chancellor (2005 - 2007). He currently holds from Westminster the titles of President Emeritus and Professor of Church History Emeritus.
Dr. Logan was a Visiting Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1988 - 1989.
As of February 1, 2008, Dr. Logan will be assisting and teaching at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, as Special Counsel to the President and Professor of Church History.
Dr. Logan has worked extensively with the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and with the Association of Theological Schools, serving the latter organization on its Executive Committee, as Chair of its Research Grants Selection Panel, and as Chair of its Nominating Committee. He has Chaired accreditation teams for both Middle States and ATS. He has also served on the Board of the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem and currently serves on the Board of the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation.
Dr. Logan was ordained in 1968 as a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (now the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America). He currently is a minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, presbytery of New York and New England.
Dr. Logan’s publications include The Preacher and Preaching (editor and contributor), Sermons That Shaped America (co-editor and contributor), “Academic Freedom at Christian Institutions,” “Where Have All the Tulips Gone,” “Bible Authority: When Christians Don’t Agree,” “The Origins of Modern Attacks on Biblical Authority,” “Jonathan Edwards and the Northampton Awakening,” “The Doctrine of Justification in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards,” “Jonathan Edwards and Presbyterianism,” and “Is America Christian?” Dr. Logan also edited the papers of the 2006 General Assembly of the World Reformed Fellowship and these were published in August of 2007 by Crossway Publishers under the title, Confronting Kingdom Challenges: A Call to Global Christians to Carry the Burden Together.
Dr. Logan and his wife Susan live in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and have two sons and one grandson.
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Augustus Nicodemus Lopes is a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil (IPB). He holds degrees in theology from Potchefstroom University , South Africa (Th.M), Westminster Theological Seminary (Ph.D) and courses in New Testament at Kampen Theological School , Netherlands . Author of many articles and books on theological and practical themes, Dr. Lopes is professor of New Testament at Andrew Jumper Graduate Center at São Paulo , Brazil and Chancellor of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, also in São Paulo , where he ministers as assistant pastor of a Presbyterian local church. He is married to Hendrika Schalkwijk and they have four children.
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The Rev. Francisco Magana Castellano has served as a pastor in the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico and as a member of The Presbytery of the Gulf of Mexico, living in the Southeast of the nation in the State of Tabasco. Rev.Magana graduated from the Theological Seminary of Mexico, was licensed in Sacred Theology in 1985, and received a Master in Theological Education from the same institution in 1994.
Rev. Magana served has as president and secretary of the Presbytery of the Gulf of Mexico. In both 1998 and 2000, he served as Secretary of the General Assembly of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico, and then from 2002 to 2002, we was the Moderator of the General Assembly. Currently, Rev, Magana is President of Confraternidad Latinoamericano de Iglesias Reformadas, the Latin America Regional Ministry Advisory Board of the WRF, a position he has held since 2002. Currently he works with two other pastors in ministering to the Divino Salvador church in Cumalcalco, Tabasco, a congregation with a membership of some 1200 individuals.
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Professor Andrew McGowan, a Minister of the Church of Scotland, is Principal of the Highland Theological College. He is the Professor of Theology at the University of the Highlands and Islands and also holds an Honorary Professorship in Reformed Doctrine at the University of Aberdeen. He is an Adjunct Professor of Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary and a Visiting Professor of Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. He is also Vice-President of the World Reformed Fellowship.
He has contributed to a number of books, journals and theological dictionaries and is the author of: The New Birth (Christian Focus, 1996), The Federal Theology of Thomas Boston (Paternoster, 1997) and The Divine Spiration of Scripture (Nottingham: IVP, 2007). He edited: Always Reforming (Leicester: IVP, 2006).
He is married to June and they have three sons.
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Dr. John Nicholls was born in London in 1949 and grew up in a church with close links to the east African revival. He studied at Bradford University (mathematics), the Free Church of Scotland college in Edinburgh, and Westminster Theological Seminary (D.Min., 1989). He was ordained in 1975 and ministered in Ardnamurchan Free Church of Scotland (Argyllshire) and in Cole Abbey Free Church, London , before joining the London City Mission (LCM) in 1993 as Director of Training and Recruitment. He became the Chief Executive in 2004. The LCM was founded in 1835 and employs 200 staff. It is engaged in a wide range of evangelistic and diaconal ministries throughout the city.
Dr. Nicholls has also served on the boards of missionary organizations including Christian Witness to Israel and Unevangelized Fields Mission. He is also coauthor of Streets Paved with Gold, a history of the LCM. He is married to Sarah and they have two children.
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Dr. Robert Norris has been Senior Pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, Maryland since 1984. He and his wife Caren have 5 children – two daughters and three sons. Born in Ebbw Vale, South Wales, United Kingdom, Dr. Norris began to preach in small churches in Wales as a teenager. He holds degrees from Kings College, (BA) London, and St. Andrews, Scotland (M.Th., Ph.D) Ordained jointly by the Presbyterian Church of Wales and United Reformed Church of England and Wales, Dr. Norris served as Assistant Minister at The City Temple, London, Chaplain to the City of London University, and also as Chaplain to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. While in London Dr. Norris served as the Theological Traveling Secretary of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students and edited the journal, “Themelios”. From 1981-84 he served as Executive Pastor of Program at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, California. Dr. Norris has served as an adjunct professor at the Reformed Theological Seminary, teaching courses in Theology and Church History. He has traveled and taught history and doctrine in seminaries in Ukraine, Malta, Japan, and Sudan. He has served on the founding board of The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.that today and get back to you later this week to confirm our willingness. Under Rob's leadership at Fourth, efforts are underway to build the Seminary in Southern Sudan while Fourth also maintains a partnership with Living Water’s in two orphanages in Juba. Fourth is also building a school in Boma and Pibor – remote areas of Sudan which once were Presbyterian and is paying the salary of a teacher there.
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Dr. Sung-Il Steve Park, born in Korea, raised in Canada, and living in the US, an ordained minister of the Korean-American Presbyterian Church, is the senior pastor of Jubilee Presbyterian Church, a Korean-American church in the suburb of Philadelphia. He also teaches at Westminster Theological Seminary as an adjunct in the Apologetics Department. His systematic theology doctoral dissertation at Westminster focused on the works of C. S. Lewis, and he lectures on Lewis often at and outside the seminary. Also he serves as the executive director of the SaRang Center at Westminster, a study center dedicated to the research of the Korean church history and ministry. His deep passion is to cultivate a pastoral ministry with confessional integrity, and to provide academic instructions with pastoral and missional implications. He is a board member of several strategic missions agencies both in the United States and abroad, and he preaches and lectures regularly in the missions context. He has been married to Eunmi for 20 years and with her enjoys raising three sons.
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Dr. Rick Perrin has been Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church near Irmo, South Carolina since 1991. He previously served congregations in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Since 1994 he has been Chairman of the World Reformed Fellowship, an international network of churches, ministry organizations, institutions, and Christian leaders committed to building partnerships that empower local and regional groups. He previously served for ten years on the Interchurch Relations Committee of the Presbyterian Church in America, most of the time as Chairman. He is co-Chair of the Community Roundtable of Irmo, Dutch Fork and Chapin, which is a coalition of leaders promoting positive solutions to youth risk behavior. Dr. Perrin holds degrees from Westminster College (BA), Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (MDiv, ThM) and Reformed Theological Seminary (DMin). He and his wife, Barbara, have three adult sons and three grandchildren.
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Pastor Peterson Sozi was born on April 23, 1953, in Mulago, Kampala, Uganda, a member of the.Ganda Tribe of Uganda.
Rev. Sozi received most of his formal education in Uganda and pastored an underground church there during the persecution of Christians under Idi Amin's regime. He attended Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia for one year and was Founding Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Uganda. He also founded and now serves as Executive Director of the Back to God Evangelistic Association in Uganda.
Rev. Sozi is an active church planter in Uganda and has worked to deal with the problem of HIV/AIDS in his country. He has established several schools and medical clinics and trains rural church leaders for ministry among the people of Uganda.
Rev. Sozi is married to Sarah Justine and they have a daughter, Dorothy Nasozi, born in 1978, and a son, Joel, born in 1980.
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Dr. L. Roy Taylor is a native of Birmingham, Alabama. His ministry has been as a PCA pastor for sixteen years, a professor at Reformed Theological Seminary for ten years, and Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the PCA since 1998. He is also a published author. He and his wife Donna have two children and five grandchildren.
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Dr. Luder Whitlock is the executive director of The Trinity Forum, an organization that serves thousands of business and professional leaders in North America, Europe, and Asia. In addition, he is president of Teleios which has established a new standard for elearning and distance learning materials
Dr. Whitlock joined the faculty of Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) in 1975 and, at the age of 37, was appointed president, a position he held for 23 years. At the time of his retirement, he had the longest tenure of any active seminary president in the United States. Under his leadership, RTS grew from a small regional school to one of the most innovative as well as one of the ten largest seminaries in North America with multiple campuses in the US as well as gateway extension programs in Asia, South America, and Europe. He was recently cited in Christianity Today as one of five seminary presidents most influential on theological education during the last half of the Twentieth Century.
His interest in research about the church and its future led him to become a member of the Barna Institute board and his pro-life commitments resulted in a board term with CareNet, the largest pregnancy resource center in the U.S. He has made his experience and insights available to many similar organizations through participation on advisory boards and assisting informally in other ways.
Dr. Whitlock is well known for his role as executive director of The New Geneva Study Bible and a major revision, published as The Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible. He is the author of The Spiritual Quest and has contributed to more than 10 other volumes and more than 20 different periodicals. He served on the editorial council of Eternity magazine and the advisory board for the English Standard Version of the Bible. He also serves on the editorial advisory board of Leadership.
Dr. Whitlock is a graduate of the University of Florida, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Vanderbilt University. He and his wife, Mary Lou, have been married for 48 years and have 3 children and 11 grandchildren.
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Ross E. Kenny, Chief Financial Officer of the World Reformed Fellowship, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and he and his wife Renee have 2 daughters, Lynn and Meg and 5 grandchildren. Ross graduated from Shepherd College with a BS in Business Administration and, after serving 2 years in Germany with the US Armed Forces, attended Johns Hopkins University in preparation for his Certified Public Accounting examination. His first employment was with a public accounting firm and later in the printing field as controller, executive vice president, president and owner. In addition to being a Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church of America, he served as treasurer with 3 churches in the Baltimore area for 30 years. After retirement, he and Renee moved to the York, Pennsylvania area to be closer to their daughters and grandchildren and volunteers with WRF, York General Hospital and the expansion committee of a PCA start-up church.
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Alan White is Chairman of the Advancement Advisory Board of the World Reformed Fellowship and, in that capacity, functions as an advisor to the Board of Directors in all of its deliberations. Alan is Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas. From 2002 to 2009, Alan held a similar position at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Before 2002, he worked for British Telecom for more than 20 years. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
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