Date: March 17, 2010

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Location:

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
2065 Half Day Road
Deerfield, IL 60015

Topics:                                

• Impact of Christians in Culture
• The Future of the Global Church

Moderator: 

Skye Jethani
Managing Editor, Leadership Journal

Skye Jethani is a teaching pastor at Blanchard Alliance Church in Wheaton, Illinois and is ordained in the Christian & Missionary Alliance. Since 2004, Skye has been the managing editor for Leadership, an award-winning journal for church leaders published by Christianity Today International. Skye helped Leadership expand its readership by managing the launch of the journal’s blog–Out of Ur. Skye brings to his ministry the diverse perspective of his own heritage. His father is from India and much of Skye’s family still adheres to their Hindu faith, while his mother is an Anglo-American.

Panelists:

Dr. Tite Tienou
Senior Vice President, Dean of Trinity Evengelical Divinity School

In addition to his roles as Senior Vice President and Dean, Tite Tiénou is also a professor of theology of mission at Trinity, where he has served since 1997. Prior to coming to Trinity, Dr. Tiénou was president and dean of the Faculté de Théologie Evangélique de l'Alliance in Abidjan, Côte 'Ivoire West Africa, and taught for nine years at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York. He was also the founding director and professor of the Maranatha Institute in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, in addition to being a pastor in the Central Church of the Christian Alliance Church.

Dr. Tiénou earned his­­ Doctor of Philosophy in intercultural studies and the Master of Arts in missiology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He earned the Maîtrise en Théologie at Faculté Libre de Théologie Evangélique in Vaux-sur-Seine, France, and the Bachelor of Science in theology at Nyack College in New York where he graduated cum laude.  Dr. Tiénou's areas of expertise include missions, theology, and the church in Africa. He has authored numerous books and articles, including The Theological Task of the Church in Africa (African Christian Press, 1990) and Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology. Dr. Tiénou resides in the Chicagoland area with his wife, Marie, and their four children

Andy Crouch
Author and Senior Editor, Christianity Today

Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (IVP, 2008)—winner of Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and named one of the best books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, Relevant Magazine, Outreach, and Leadership.

A senior editor at Christianity Today International, Crouch has served as executive producer of the documentary films Where Faith and Culture Meet and Round Trip. He was also the editorial director of the Christian Vision Project from 2005 to 2008. He is a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture, and a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute.

Bethany Hoang
Director, IJM Institute

Bethany received a bachelor’s in religion and history from Miami University of Ohio, and she received a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, where she graduated with the honor of receiving the distinguished Fellowship in Theology. She joined IJM in 2004 and travels globally, speaking, and teaching to thousands on behalf of IJM at churches, conferences, and universities. As Director of the IJM Institute, she is responsible for equipping leaders of the global church and academic communities with tools and resources for bringing others into a deeper level of understanding, passion, and commitment to seeking justice on behalf of those who suffer abuse and oppression in our world.

Bethany was recently featured in The Relevant Nation: 50 Activist, Artists And Innovators Who Are Changing Their World Through Faith. She was also featured in the September/October edition of Relevant Magazine.

Peter Cha
Associate Professor, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Peter T. Cha is associate professor of pastoral theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he has served since 1997. Dr. Cha earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, the Master of Divinity and the Master of Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and his Doctor of Philosophy from Northwestern University.

Between 1985 and 1999, Dr. Cha was involved in a number of different ministries, including youth and young adult ministry in Korean immigrant churches, campus ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and church planting. He is currently a board member for Catalyst Leadership Center (an Asian North American Christian Leadership organization) and has served as a board member of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, USA.

Dr. Cha is coauthor of Following Jesus without Dishonoring Your Parents: Asian American Discipleship (IVP, 1998) and Growing Healthy Asian American Churches (IVP, 2006). He has also contributed chapters to Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns (Zondervan, 2000), Korean Americans and Their Religions (Penn State University Press, 2001), and This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Doug Birdsall
Executive Chairman, Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization

Doug Birdsall was installed as the Lausanne Chairman in 2004 at the Forum on World Evangelization in Pattaya, Thailand. Doug and his wife Jeanie have been missionaries with Asian Access since 1980, where Doug was president of the mission from 1991 to 2007.  He is a graduate of Wheaton College, Gordon-Conwell Seminary and Harvard University and is currently involved in doctoral research at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Birdsall’s involvement with Lausanne began in 1987 when he participated in the first Lausanne Younger Leaders conference in Singapore. Two years later, he served as the assistant to the Director for Lausanne II in Manila. “Those early experiences with Lausanne,” says Birdsall, “served to broaden my horizons and deepen my understanding of the challenges and opportunities before the Church. My deep commitment to the revitalization of the Lausanne Movement springs from my sense of indebtedness to Lausanne for connecting me to a global network of men and women who share a passion for the vision of ‘the whole church taking the whole gospel to the whole world.’”