NE Global Issues Institute Public Lecture Series~ May 29-June 2.
St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 266 Shelton St. New Haven, CT
Emmanuel Katongole
Saturday, May 29, 4 PM, and 7 PM
“ “Mission through the Lens of Bethany”
Emmanuel Katongole was born and grew up in the village of Malube in Uganda. He attended the Catholic seminary in Uganda, where he was ordained a Catholic priest of Kampala Archdiocese. After his ordination, Emmanuel taught philosophy and ethics at the Uganda National Seminary, training future priests. In 1991, he was sent to the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium where he spent six years earning a doctorate in philosophy.
Emmanuel joined the faculty at Duke Divinity School where he brought his experience of growing up in Africa under the brutal regime of Idi Amin, of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda, and of his involvement in the dynamic and rich traditions of the African church. He is the co-director of the Center for Reconciliation and serves as Associate Professor of Theology & World Christianity at Duke Divinity School. He teaches courses on The Face of Jesus in Africa, the Rwanda genocide, politics, violence and theology, and on AIDS and other social challenges.
Emmanuel has published widely in various journals. His latest book is Reconciling All Things (IVP 2008 casts a comprehensive vision for reconciliation that is biblical, transformative, holistic and global. In his teaching and writing, Emmanuel is concerned not only with the difference Christianity can make in Africa but also with ways of bridging the distance between the West (America) and Africa. He led the Pilgrimage of Pain and Hope to Uganda and Rwanda in 2005 and 2007.
Jim Tebbe
Sunday, May 30, 7 PM
“Current trends in Global Missions
Jim Tebbe was born in Pakistan, son of missionary parents and has continued in a life of missions with a special interest in the Muslim world. He has a BA in Psychology, an M.Div from Gordon Conwell Seminary, an MA in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton, and a PhD in Religious Studies focusing on Scriptures in Muslim Culture from St. John’s Nottingham/Open University in England. Jim worked for 25 years with the international/non-denominational mission of Interserve. With his family he served in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Jordan and Cyprus. For the last 10 years of his time with Interserve he was their International Director. Currently he is seconded by Interserve to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA where he is the Vice President for Missions and the Director of the 20,000 student Missions Convention, Urbana. He has published articles on a variety of subjects including Islam, Bible Translation, Tentmaking, Missions, Partnerships and Business as Mission. He now lives with his wife, Beth, in Madison, Wisconsin. Their four grown children are scattered around the world.
Rodney & Cortina Orr
Monday, May 29h, 7 PM
“ The next chapter of Missions: Africa as a ‘sending’ nations”
Dr. Orr is currently on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ in New Haven at the Rivendell Institute,. He and his wife have been on staff with CC for the last 32 years. Rodney received a degree in Industrial management at Purdue, and later a ThM at Dallas Theological Seminary and a PhD in East African Missions History, where he wrote his thesis on the contribution of African Americans to African missions. He taught at Nairobi International School of Theology, in Kenya for 3 years, followed by his PhD in Scotland. For the last 10 years in Rodney and Cortina have lived in Zimbabwe – where they helped found a graduate school of leadership called ALMA – Africa Leadership & Management Academy. ALMA is a business school that is acredited through University of Zimbabwe with 300 students from 13 African nations. Its founders have recently turned over all leadership of the school to Africans. Dr. Orr will teaches classes on organizational development., writing dissertation proposals, and research methodology. The Orrs have thought long about new paradigms of missions and mission partnership between Africa and Western nations. They celebrate 27 years of marriage and two lovely children, Ariel (a sophomore at Smith College), and Bradley (16).
Jim Ehrman
Saturday, May 23 , 4 PM
“Foundational principles in thinking about global Christianity”
7 PM: “An Age of International Calling and Communities”
Jim Ehrman serves as the Executive Director of the World Christianity Initiative at Yale University. That initiative is dedicated to exploring the world’s Christian movements and their encounter with the various religious and social landscapes in which they are found. It puts particular emphasis on the issues surrounding the growth of the majority-world church.
Jim previously served as Director of Global Ministries for the Evangelical Congregational Church and twelve years as a missionary with Youth With A Mission. He is an associate professor at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Myerstown, PA where he lectures in the area of Global and Contextual Studies. Jim lives in New Haven, Connecticut with his two young children and his entrepreneurial wife Aiyana, who directs a Christian relief and development agency working in Cambodia to provide micro-enterprise opportunities for at-risk woman and families.
