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He has been the Executive Director of Christian Direction in Montreal since 1983 - a multi-faceted ministry committed to the spiritual transformation by Jesus Christ of all of life in the cities of the Francophone world. He is a professor of urban theology and missiology at the École de théologie évangelique de Montréal at the Université de Montréal and at the Université chrétienne du Nord d’Haïti. He is a sessional lecturer at McGill University He also is professor at Bakke Graduate University. He and his family were involved in pastoral ministry with an Anabaptist Francophone congregation in Montreal, Quebec for 20 years. While directing the ministry of Christian Direction, Glenn Smith was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council of Christian Charities from 1986 to 1990 and its President from 1990-1992. He was a member of the Protestant Committee of le Conseil superieur de l’éducation (Superior Council of Education) from 1986-1991 and its President during the two school years of 1992 and 1993. He was the President of the Protestant Partnership on Education from 1993 to 2004. From 1991-2005, he was a member of the Board of Directors of World Vision Canada. He is on the Board of IVCF: Canada. He chairs, Urbanus, an international partnership committed to providing reflective, practical and contextual education for urban practitioners in large French speaking cities. He is the senior associate for urban mission for the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelisation. He is co-author of three books: Espoir pour la ville; Dieu dans la cité, Éduquer les enfants: une vision protestante de l’éducation and L’histoire du protestantisme au Québec depuis 1960 and the editor of The Gospel and Urbanization, a 250 page reader that is into its 5th edition in French and English on urban ministry. He also wrote the book, Following Jesus: God invites us to transformative discipleship, which was published in English, French and Spanish. He edited, Towards the transformation of our city/regions in the LCWE Occasional papers series. His forth-coming book is entitled, City Air Makes You Free: Transforming the city through a fresh,To transform the city through a fresh, biblical hermeneutic. biblical hermeneutic He is the author of numerous articles on urban mission. |
Dr. Glenn Smith is married to Sandra (1976)
and together they have three daughters, Jenna (né 1981), Julia (né 1984) and
Christa (né 1986). Glenn did his
graduate studies in Patristics at the Université d’Ottawa and his doctoral
thesis in contextual theology at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Chicago. He received an honorary
doctorate from the Union des universitées privées d’Haïti for his contribution
to urban theological practice in that country.
