Metaphors the Church Lives By

ANTONIO CARLOS BARRO (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is the co-founderof South American Theological Seminary in Londrina, Brazil, where he servesas Professor of Missiology and Pastoral Theology.

JORGE HENRIQUE BARRO (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is the co-founder and CEO at South American Theo-logical Seminary, Londrina, Brazil, a former president of the Latin AmericanTheological Fellowship (FTL), and an Evaluator for the Ministry Educationof Brazil for Theology Degrees.

JOHN JUSU (PhD) is a missionary of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa, seconded to the Africa International University in Nairobi, Kenya. He is an ordained minister of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Sierra Leone. He is currently on an extended leave of absence from the university and is serving with the Overseas Council International as Africa Regional Director. He works extensively on transformational curriculum issues in response to the context in which formal and non-formal education happens in Africa. His expertise is in understanding the epistemological frameworks of Africans striving to go into pastoral and teaching ministries of the church in Africa, and how that understanding may influence educational practices. In light of this expertise, John serves as Curriculum Consultant for the More Than a Mile Deep – Global Curriculum, Supervising Editor for the Africa Study Bible, Senior Researcher for the Africa Leadership Study, and member of the Global Associates for Transformational Education. John is also involved in faculty development for many educational initiatives in Africa. John is married to Tity. They have three children.

MARK LABBERTON is Lloyd John Ogilvie chair for preaching and director of the Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute for Preaching at Fuller Theological Seminary, California, USA. He previously served as senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California, for sixteen years, and received his doctorate in theology from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is also a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission, and has published articles in Leadership Journal and Radix magazines.

OSCAR JIMÉNEZ (PhD, London School of Theology) serves as pastor in a Hispanic church in London and is an associate lecturer at Fundación Universitaria SeminarioBíblico de Colombia.

SERGIY TYMCHENKO (PhD, London School of Theology) founded and directs the Research Education and Light Center, known as REALIS, an interdisciplinary centre that trains Christian leaders and specialists and develops projects for strengthening the Christian witness to contemporary society.

WOJCIECH SZCZERBA (PhD, University of Wrocław, Poland) is Rector of the Evangelical School of Theology, Poland. He is Editor-in-Chief of Theologica Wratislaviensia and is a research associate at the Van Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.