Eli Nupanga

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ALS Role

Just when we needed a consultant for the organization of the alternate language capacity of our website, Eli was available to join the team.  He brought technical experience, website development background, translation skills and the perspective of a Francophone African from the developing leader’s generation to the process.  We have been most thankful to have someone located in the area, with easy accessibility to translate and to review the website with an eye that is comparable to our target user audience viewpoint

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Robert J. Priest

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Robert J. Priest is G. W. Aldeen Professor of International Studies and Professor of Mission and Anthropology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and holds the Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is former President of the American Society of Missiology (2013-2014). His research and writing have included a focus on race and ethnicity, sexuality, short-term missions, religious conversion, and witchcraft accusations. Among his publications is the book This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith (OxfordUP) and the article “Missionary Positions: Christian, Modernist, Postmodernist” in Current Anthropology 42: 29-68.

ALS Role

Robert Priest provided overall leadership on the research, analysis, and writing of the Africa Leadership Study. He met regularly with Ed Elliott and Mary Kleine Yehline, as well as with the ALS leadership team, and also met periodically with country teams. He co-wrote a chapter “Reading and Leading: Challenges for African Christian Leaders” in our book. He served as co-editor of the book.

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Steven D. H. Rasmussen

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Steven D. H. Rasmussen is senior lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Africa International University in Nairobi, Kenya. Director of TEAM (Training East African Ministers). He received his PhD from Trinity International University in Intercultural Studies. He has taught and researched for 21 years in East Africa. Previous to his current position he served as principal of Lake Victoria Christian College in Mwanza, Tanzania. He has published a variety of journal articles and book chapters on Christian responses to witchcraft accusations, sickness, ethnicity, and short-term missions.

ALS Role

Steve Rasmussen served on the Africa Leadership Study senior leadership team, attended all major sessions, helped with leadership design, and supervised a team of doctoral student research assistants. He carried out interviews and wrote up ten-page reports on key Kenyan leaders and Christian organizations. The chapter he wrote, “Connected — The Role of Social Capital for Leaders with Impact,” appears in our book.

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Bob Reekie

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Robert B. Reekie, now retired, is co-founder of Media Associates International, Inc., and serves on its board. He has been involved in editorial and Christian publishing as well as management training and consultation for over 40 years with prior academic and business experience in South Africa and the USA.  He was born in South Africa; is a graduate of university and seminary and is an ordained clergyman.

ALS Role

Robert Reekie met regularly with Edward Elliott, Mary Kleine Yehling, and Robert Priest to discuss and plan the initial design of the ALS. Although he did not attend our international gatherings, he provided advice and wise counsel repeatedly as issues were raised.

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Alberto Salombongo

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Alberto Lucamba Salombongo is a pastor and lecturer at Undergraduate Program of Evangelical Theological Seminary at ISTEL in Lubango, Angola. He is also the Modular Theological Program Coordinator at ISTEL. He holds a post graduate diploma in Old Testament from the University of Stellenbosch and is a MTH Candidate at the University of Stellenbosch. He is married and has three children.

ALS Role

Alberto Lucamba Salombongo met regularly as part of the ALS leadership team, provided input on all phases of research and analysis, and helped supervise a team of student researchers administering surveys in Angola. Together with Elisabet le Roux, he helped coach the research teams at each seminary in Angola, and provided in-country leadership of all Angola research. He conducted interviews and wrote up ten-page reports on key Angolan Christian leaders and Christian organizations. He did additional research related to libraries and publishers in Angola, and contributed to the chapter “Reading and Leading: Challenges for African Christian Leaders.”

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Yolande Sandoua

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Yolande Sandoua is Assistant to the President of Faculté de Théologie Évangélique de Bangui (FATEB) and Communication Officer. She is currently a PhD Student in theology at FATEB. She holds three masters degrees, including an MA in English (American Civilization), an MA in Theology and Mission, and an MTh in African Christianity from the Akrofi-Christaller Institute in Ghana.

ALS Role

Yolande Sandoua met regularly as part of the ALS leadership team, provided input on all phases of research and analysis, and helped administer a team of student researchers administering surveys in the Central African Republic. She conducted interviews and wrote up reports on Christian leaders and Christian organizations in the Central African Republic. She carried out additional follow-up interviews looking at the consequences of violent conflict on Christian ministries. She co-wrote the chapter “Leadership Responses During Armed Conflict.”

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Ian Shaw

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Rev. Dr Ian J. Shaw is Associate International Director of the Langham Scholars Programme. He is also Honorary Fellow at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Ian holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK, in the field of Church History and Historical Theology. He is the author of six books. Before working with Langham Partnership he was for twelve years Dean of Postgraduate Studies in a theological college in Scotland. Through his work with Langham Partnership he engages extensively with theological education institutions across Africa, and helps support doctoral and postdoctoral students from Africa with their research. He is currently work with various institutions in Francophone Africa furthering the development of their doctoral and postdoctoral programs.

ALS Role

Ian Shaw met regularly with the ALS leadership team, and served as an external advisor and consultant on research design and implementation and on making sense of the results. He provided input into the analysis and writing up of results.

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Lynn Sidler

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Lynn Sidler bio coming.

ALS Role

Lynn joined the Foundation staff in late 2015.  In her responsibilities with the ALS Team she was faced with the tasks of getting to know a wide variety of people, understanding a complex process and facilitating the dissemination of the study to the widest possible audience.  This required considerable dedication and time.  Her focused energy, bringing a fresh eye to the process has paid off for the entire team.  She has facilitated overall communication and meetings, provided key support for both book and website development and paid the necessary attention to detail and follow up that is required to keep things moving forward. She has also been honing her French language skills.

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Truphosa Kwaka-Sumba

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Truphosa Kwaka-Sumba is the Principal of Nairobi Campus of St. Paul’s University in Kenya. She holds a M.A. (Economics) from the University of Manchester (UK). She is guest editor and columnist with Leadership Today in Africa and lead team advisor for her-leadership.com. She is a non-executive board member of International Leadership Foundation – Kenya and public listed Longhorn Publishers Ltd. She is also a facilitator and speaker on leadership, with passion for women in leadership and leadership development in Africa.

ALS Role

Truphosa Kwaka-Sumba joined the ALS team after most of the research was completed, and helped provide input on analysis of the results. She co-wrote a chapter “African Women’s Leadership — Realities & Opportunities” for our book.

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Wanjiru M. Gitau

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Wanjiru M. Gitau is a scholar of Christian History, World Christianity and Missiology. She was a visiting scholar at Asbury Theological Seminary (2015-2016). She has a PhD in Intercultural Studies and World Christianity from Africa International University and she has an MA in Missiology from Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology. She also has fifteen years of combined pastoral service in dynamic urban congregations and a variety of cross cultural missional engagements. As a researcher with the Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements, she is currently working on book titled, “Reframing the Megachurch Conversation.”

ALS Role

Wanjiru Wangui-Gitau began as a PhD student helping with both questionnaire research and with carrying out interviews and writing ten-page reports. Based on the quality of her work she was invited to play an expanded role, participating in our gatherings to discuss and analyze the research results.She contributed a chapter “Formation of African Christian Leaders — Patterns from the ALS Data” for our book.

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