La direction académique dans la formation théologique, volume 3

GRAHAM CHEESMAN (PhD, Queen’s University, Belfast) has been a Baptist minister in England, a missionary lecturer in Nigeria for seven years, and then the principal of Belfast Bible College, a constituent college of Queen’s University, Belfast, for seventeen years. He was Director of the Centre for Theological Education in Belfast for the five years of its lifetime, and has been a staff member of the European Evangelical Accrediting Association. He is an honorary lecturer of Queen’s University, Belfast, teaches in undergraduate and graduate programs, and supervises doctoral students. He is also involved in administering and tutoring postgraduate courses in theological education at London School of Theology. He has traveled widely to teach and promote good theological education and is the author of three books and a number of articles.

STEVE HARDY has worked as a missionary educator since the mid-1970s and has lived in Ethiopia, Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa, the UK and the USA. His love is teaching, and he has served as an educational consultant with SIM, Overseas Council, Langham Partnership, and the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education. He is the author of a number of articles and an adult Sunday School curriculum on missions. He is married to LeAnne, a librarian, author of Christian fiction and editor of Christian books. Steve and LeAnne recently retired to northwest Wisconsin, USA. They have two grown daughters and three grandchildren.

LESLIE J. CRAWFORD (EdD, Columbia International University) has been serving as academic dean at Adelaide College of Ministries in Australia for over thirty years and is involved in theological education internationally through the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education (ICETE) as a representative of the South Pacific Association of Evangelical Colleges (SPAEC). He is married to Elizabeth and has three married children and one grandson.

RALPH ENLOW is President of the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE), a founding ICETE member network. Prior to assuming leadership of ABHE, Ralph served for twenty-eight years as an educational leader at Columbia International University, including six years as Senior Vice President and Provost.

ROBERT W. FERRIS is a Professor Emeritus at Columbia International University (CIU), South Carolina, USA. Before joining the CIU faculty, he and his wife, Sue, served for twenty-one years as missionaries in the Philippines in theological education. His specialization is in integration of theology and higher education curriculum and leadership.

PABLO SYWULKA was born in Guatemala, where his parents served as missionaries. He did undergraduate studies at Columbia Bible College (BA, 1961) and the University of Guatemala (history, 1962–1963). He received his ThM (1967) and PhD (2001) from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has served at SETECA (Seminario Teológico Centroamericano) in Guatemala as professor, academicdean, and president. He served as General Secretary of the Asociación Evangélica de Educación Teológica en América Latina (AETAL) from 2007 to 2016.

PIETER F. THERON is a South African. After twenty-six years of intercultural ministry in Zambia, the Philippines and Mongolia, he served for one year as professor of Missiology at Simpson University, Redding, USA. Currently he is serving as the lead pastor of South Umpqua Community Church in Tiller, Oregon, USA. Pieter is married to Haniki and they have two daughters, Anri and Sonja. Pieter is a graduate of North-West University and the Universityof Pretoria. His doctoral dissertation was in missiology, developing a model for program development for training missionaries based on the educational philosophy of Paulo Freire. He also completed studies in cultural anthropology with the University of South Africa, and in educational management with the University of Bath, UK.
He has served in various educational leadership capacities: faculty member, dean of students, academic dean, president, and board member. He has been involved in various aspects, settings, levels, and formats of education: teaching, administration, accreditation, governance, program/curriculum development, strategic planning, organizational development, recruitment, international schooling, undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate, formal and non- formal education.

RON WATTERS (PhD, Trinity International University) is on the President’s Team of the International Leadership Consortium (ILC), which is composed of affiliated educational institutions globally. For nearly four decades he has worked in Christian leadership development, mostly in Asia. Thirty of those years were with the International Graduate School of Leadership in the Philippines, wherehe served primarily as the Dean of Academic Affairs. Throughout his life, he has mentored believers with the goal of developing them into spiritual multipliers. He also works with organizations on the strategic alignment and development of their personnel and systems with their stated mission, vision, and core values.