The Board of Directors of the World Reformed Fellowship
Special advisors to the Board of Directors:
- 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 taught biblical languages at the Free Evangelical Seminary of Vaux-sur-Seine (1969-1971). From 1971 to 1975, he worked with Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer, head of the study centre, l’Abri Fellowship in Huémoz (Switzerland). He participated in the French translation of several of F. Schaeffer’s books. In 1975, he became professor of Old Testament at the Free Reformed Seminary of Aix-en-Provence. He taught Old Testament and Apologetics there until August 2009 when he retired. He still teaches Old Testament at the Seminary. Professor Berthoud was Doyen (Dean) of the Seminary for 19 years, from 1984 to 2001 and from 2007 to 2009. Concerned by the various practical and cultural implications of the Christian faith, he has been actively involved in Scripture Union, Le Parvis des Arts, the National Council of the French Evangelical Alliance. He is president of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians (since 2008) and has written many articles on different themes related to the Old Testament and to Apologetics. His book, En quête des origines. Les premières étapes de l’histoire de la Révélation : Genèse 1 à 11, Cléon d’Andran: Excelsis/Aix-en-Provence: Kerygma, was published at the end of 2008.
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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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Dr. Victor Cole received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and is the Chairman of the Department of Christian Education and Professor of Education at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (NEGST) which itself functions as a part of Africa International University. Dr. Cole is a Consulting Editor for the African Journal of Theology and he is a member of the Executive Board of the International Council for Higher Education. At the 2006 WRF General Assembly, he gave a paper on spiritual formation in pastoral training (that was also placed on the WRF website) and he has served on the WRF Theological Commission. He has published numerous articles on educational philosophy and curricular reform and is an individual member of the WRF.
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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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Rev. Andres Garza is a ruling elder in the National Presbyterian Church in Mexico and is an Architect with a master’s degree in Urban Planning. He grew up in Monterrey, Mexico being a Catholic by tradition. During the last year of college, he was invited by Ruth, who now is his wife, to an evangelistic campaign where he met the Lord. He worked for the governments of several cities as a city planner for more than a decade until God called him to work full time as the coordinator of the Church Planting Movement in Northern Mexico. For 7 years he served the Lord in Northern Mexico in partnership with MTW helping and encouraging established churches and Presbyteries to start more churches. After completing his M.Div. at Reformed Theological Seminary, Andres now lives in Monterrey, Mexico, serving as the team leader for MTW in the Church Planting Movement and the establishment of a new Theological and Church Planting Institute. He is leading the efforts of nationals and MTW missionaries to plant churches in the 27 largest cities in Northern Mexico.
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E. R. (Bob) Geehan has, since 1998, been the pastor of the very first church in Dutchess County, NY: The Reformed Dutch Church of Poughkeepsie, a congregation of the Reformed Church in America (RCA), founded in 1716. Bob is not an RCA pastor; he is "on loan" from the United Church of Christ, "A Formula of Agreement" (1998) partner of the RCA, along with The Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Presbyterian Church USA. The four denominations share each other's clergy. Bob came to the RCA Poughkeepsie Church in 1998 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he had been a Cadet Chapel Chaplain and Associate Professor of History (teaching History of Western and Asian Religions) since 1984. Before that Bob had been the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Farmington, New Hampshire (1979-1984) and an Assistant Professor at Barrington College in the Department of Biblical Studies (1973-1978).
Bob was born September 14, 1942 to a Lutheran mother (Alyce) and a Roman Catholic father (Martin) who, through God's strange providence, became pastor and wife of a new church start in Malverne, Long Island, in 1950: Franklin Avenue Baptist Church. In 1960, Bob was graduated from the Hampden DuBose Academy in Zellwood, FL, and in 1963 from Chicago's Moody Bible Institute. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois (1965) and his M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, in 1968. During his Westminster days, Bob was Cornelius Van Til's research and publication assistant. Bob and his wife Cherrill (Duchardt) went to the Netherlands in 1968 and Bob received his Drs. Fil, from the University of Utrecht in 1971. Also in 1971 he published Jerusalem and Athens: Festschrift for Cornelius Van Til, Presbyterian and Reformed, Nutley, NJ. Bob and Cherrill have three children, Kiera, Daniel, and Brenna. Cherrill is a graduate of Gordon College, B.A. in Education; the University of New Hampshire, M.A. in Educational Administration, and Long Island University, M.A. in Counseling. The three children are all graduates of Calvin College.
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Dr. Paul R. Gilchrist currently is the Executive Secretary Emeritus and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the World Reformed Fellowship. He served as Chaplain at the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem, Israel, and was one of the founders of and Seminar Teacher for World Fellowship of Reformed Churches (now the World Reformed Fellowship). He served as Stated Clerk of the Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Synod for eleven years and then served for ten years as full-time Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the PCA. Currently, Dr. Gilchrist is teaching at Metro Atlanta Seminary as well as Professor of OT with the Advanced Studies on the Great Commission with Evangelism Explosion International. In addition to pastoring two churches, Dr. Gilchrist has published numerous articles and given lectures in countries throughout Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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Dr. Davi Gomes is President of the Andrew Jumper Presbyterian |Graduate School of Theology of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil. He holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Boston (B.A.), The Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church (M.Div.), Westminster Theological Seminary (Ph.D.) and courses at the Philadelphia Lutheran Theological Seminary and the University of Geneva. Dr. Gomes was ordained and spent the first ten years of his ministry in the PCA, serving in the Boston area, where he was also the Operations Manager and later a member of the Board of Directors of the Emmanuel Gospel Center, as well as a founding board member of the Boston Chirstian Economic Coalition. He is presently the secretary of the COmmission on Inter-Ecclesiatical Relations of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil (CRIE-IPB) and a representative of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil at WRF, being also an individual member of WRF. Dr. Gomes is on the Edwards Project Committee, serves as Co-Chairman of the Theological Education Commission and is on the Executive Committee of the WRF.
He has pastored and planted churches in the USA (Boston and Philadelphia) and in Brazil, and is presently planting a church in downtown Sao Paulo. He has published several articles and contributions to books in English as well as Portuguese. Besides having taught at institutions in the USA (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Reformed Theological Seminary) and Brazil, Dr. Gomes has also lectured in countries throughout Latin America, Africa and Europe. He lives in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, with his wife, Adriana Heringer Gomes and their twin boys.
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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 and on various denominational and parachurch boards and committees, including as chairman of the Interchurch Relations Committee of the Presbyterian Church in America. He is a founding member of the La Jolla Group (an annual mission-oriented pastors' conference) and is a member of the T.F. Torrance Theological Fellowship and the Society of Biblical Literature.
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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. 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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Rev. Dr. Benjamin Argak Kwashi is Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Jos and Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Jos in the Church of Nigeria. He and his wife, Gloria, live in Jos, Plateau State, in Northern Nigeria. They have six children, three of whom are away from home studying at University or Polytechnic.
Plateau State is Bishop Kwashi’s home: he was born in the village of Amper in 1955. He grew up in a Christian home, and his father was a noted teacher and educationalist. He attended the Nigerian Military School, but when he received a clear call to go into the church’s ministry in 1976, he turned his back on a military career. He trained for the ministry at the Theological College of Northern Nigeria, and it was there that he met Gloria. After ordination and marriage they served in a variety of rural and urban parishes and settings in Kaduna Diocese (northern Nigeria) until in 1990 he was appointed Rector of St. Francis of Assisi Theological College. From there he was called to be Bishop of Jos, where he was consecrated and enthroned in 1992.
Both the Bishop and his wife hold a Bachelor of Divinity degree; the Bishop also is also a Doctor of Ministry and a Doctor of Divinity. The Bishop has held many positions on Boards and Trusts both within Nigeria and internationally. He is currently the International Chairman of SOMA (Sharing of Ministries Abroad). In 2003 he was conferred with the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).
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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. Diane Langberg is a member of Calvary Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Willow Grove, PA. She was a plenary speaker at the WRF General Assembly in Johannesburg. She is a world-recognized authority on sex-trafficking and violence against women and delivered a plenary address on this subject to the 7,000 people attending the World Conference of the American Association of Christian Counselors in Nashville, Tennessee, in November of 2009. Dr. Langberg has made several trips to Rwanda where she is setting up training programs to assist Rwandans in working with victims of trauma. Among Dr. Langberg’s many books are the following: Counsel for Pastors’ Wives (1988), On the Threshold of Hope (1999), Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse (2003). She owns her own Christian counseling practice and employs about 15 other counselors.
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Jong Yun Lee was born in Korea in 1940. He holds the degrees B.Th., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. His doctoral dissertation was completed at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in 1975, entitled “The Problem of Paul’s Understanding of the Historical Jesus in Critical Study.” He holds two honorary doctorates: Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia and Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary, Seoul.
Currently he is the Director of Academia Christiana of Korea; Emeritus Pastor of Seoul Presbyterian Church; Chair Professor at Seoul Presbyterian Theological Seminary; General Editor of the General Assembly Standard Bible Commentary; President, the Council of Reformation 500th Anniversary; Member of Studiorum Novi Testamentum Societas; Chairman of Asia Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization; Chairman of Save N. Korea;
He served as President of the Council of Presbyterian Churches of Korea; was founder & president of Christian Prison in Korea; was founder & president of KIMCHI (Korea Institute for Mission & CHurch renewal International); Chairman of John Calvin’s Quincentenary Anniversary Committee, Korea; Chairman of Vision 2020 Movement; President of Jeon Ju University; Committee Chairman of the new translation of the Lord’s prayer & Apostles’ creed in Korean.
Dr. Lee’s wife Dr. Soonbok H. Lee is a microbiologist. They have 3 daughters (Miriam, Gloria, Paula) and 4 grandchildren.
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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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Dr. Kin Yip Louie is assistant professor in theological studies at China Graduate School of Theology. He came to know the Lord while pursuing undergraduate studies at Queen's University, Canada. Then he pursued doctoral studies in economics at Princeton University. When the Lord called him into full time ministry, he entered Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. He pastored in New York City after graduation. He began teaching at CGST from 2001. From 2003 to 2006, he went to Edinburgh for doctoral studies and wrote a dissertation on the theological aesthetics of Jonathan Edwards. His interest includes historical theology, with special interest in spiritual theology and the interaction between theology and philosophy. He also teaches courses relating faith to contemporary culture. He was ordained by the First Baptist Church of Flushing, New York. He has also taught at Macau Bible Institute and the Seminary of the East of the Conservative Baptists Convention. He is advisory pastor at St. Mark's Church of the United Brethrens in Christ in Hong Kong.
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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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Dr. Fergus MacDonald is a retired minister and former Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland. He served as the General Secretary of the National Bible Society of Scotland and then of the United Bible Societies. A Fellow of the Spencer Center for Global Engagement, Taylor University, IN, he serves as chair of the Scottish Evangelical Theology Society, and as Chair Emeritus of the Forum of Bible Agencies International. From 1994-98 he was the Executive Chair of the Lausanne Movement and continues as one of the Honorary Chairmen. He is a regular contributer to Scripture Union Bible reading notes and is the author of Word Evangelism, Yours Very Sincerely, “The Challenge of Nominality” in They Call Themselves Christian, and various journal articles..
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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. While the regular ministry at 4th Church keeps Rob busy, he will also also speaking at The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals in October of 2011 on the doctrine of the Church in America, and also on "One Church Worldwide." In addition, in November of 2011, he will be joining WRF Board member Flip Buys and invited Sudanese and African pastors in Johannesburg for a week long consultation designed to help write a curriculum for the distance training of future generations of pastors.
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Jung-Hyun (John) Oh is Senior Pastor of Sarang Community Church in Seoul, South Korea. Sarang is more of a movement than a congregation with more than 80,000 individuals identifying themselves with that church. Before moving to Seoul, Dr. Oh pastored one of the (many) daughter congregations of Sarang, the one located in Anaheim, California. Sarang is widely recognized around the world as a center of church planting and missions and has recently inaugurated a strong program in international theological education. Dr. Oh was a plenary speaker at the Third General Assembly of the WRF in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi provides leadership and service to the 10-million member Anglican Church of Uganda. He was a plenary speaker at the Third General Assembly of the WRF and he was one of the leaders of the global Anglican communion who organized and directed the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) held in Jerusalem in June of 2008. He currently serves on the Primate’s Council of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and as the Chairman of the Africa Host Committee of Lausanne III, held in Cape Town, South Africa, in October of 2010.
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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 four 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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Mr. Phil Petronis is a member and Elder of Trinity Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Rye, New York. Mr. Petronis was raised in the Roman Catholic Church and, after marriage, was received into the Episcopal Church to share worship in his wife's denomination. During this period, he became an active supporter of Ligonier Ministries and grew in his understand of Reformed theology. This led to his joining the PCA in 1995 as the Episcopal Church drifted away from its creeds and biblical foundations. Mr. Petronis is retired from a business career in the insurance and reinsurance business with Marsh and McLennan and from several years of work in private equity investing in the insurance indistry. He is a personal member of the WRF and his church is a congregational member of the WRF.
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Dr. Ron Scates is the Senior Pastor of Highland Park Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Dallas, Texas. Highland Park was founded as a congregation in 1926 and has been a leader among evangelical Presbyterians ever since. Both Ron and HPPC have been very supportive of the WRF. Dr. Scates was a plenary speaker at the 2006 WRF General Assembly in Johannesburg. In January of 2010, HPPC hosted the meeting of U.S. delegates to the Lausanne Congress in Cape Town and was himself a delegate to that Congress. Dr. Scates has held diverse leadership positions in such organizations as Youth for Christ of Metro Maryland, The Spiritual Advisory Board of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas Board of Governors, and Evangelicals for Renewal.
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John Wilson is a long-standing Presbyterian minister
and is Clerk of the Assembly for the Presbyterian
Church of Victoria. Though he handles the
administrative side of church business for the PCV,
he has been and remains a pastor at heart.
John has served as pastor in three different parishes
(Numurkah, Reservoir and Kangaroo Ground) for a
total of 18 years. John has also given over ten years
to training candidates for ministry in the disciplines of
church history and practical theology. John is also active within the federal body - the
Presbyterian Church of Australia - and he serves as the Convenor of the Relations with
other churches Committee.
During John's time as State Moderator in 2003, he visited Malawi (Africa) where he was
instrumental in forming a sister-church partner relationship between the PCV and the CCAP
Blantyre Synod. John followed up this initiative with a number of short-term missions trips
for six successive years, and the partner church relationship has now extended to CCAP
Zambia Synod as well as PCOS (Sudan). He enjoys the annual Zambian crusade where he
preaches evangelistically in market places in rural villages.
John and Paula have been married for nearly 40 years and have three adult chiildren: Emily,
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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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