Faculty & Staff
Lead mentor: Jason Clark
Bio
Dr. Jason Clark serves as the lead mentor for the Leadership and Global Perspectives DMin track. As lead mentor, Clark teaches six of the courses, leads each of the three F2F experiences, and facilitates online experiences.
Jason Clark serves as a full-time pastor of Vineyard Church Sutton in Sutton, London (UK), which he and his wife planted in 1997 while he was an investment broker in London. That church has grown to around 300 adults and 120 children, in an area of London where 1 percent of the population are connected to a church.
Dr. Clark also coordinates the Emergent UK online resource network. This network serves alongside Emergent in the United States and several other countries. He also directs the deepchurch.org.uk project and writes a blog that has a 2,500-member mailing list and has over 250,000 visits per year, that arises from his research area, teaching, and church experience.
He is a council member of the Evangelical Alliance UK.
Dr. Clark is an adjunct professor at George Fox Evangelical Seminary for the MA/MDiv modules on “Missional Ecclesiology.” He also lectures and teaches in other countries on a regular basis in the areas of church and culture. He is currently working on several book- writing projects and articles. These include two chapters in a book titled, “Christ and Postmodern Culture” for Baker Academic’s Church and Post-Modern Culture Series and a book coauthored with Dr. Andrew Walker on ‘Deep Church’ for Paternoster UK’s Faith in an Emerging Culture Series.
Jason completed his DMin at George Fox, and is now a PhD candidate at Kings College London, researching theological assessments of consumerism and secularism and the implications for ecclesiology.
Details
- Position: LGP DMin Lead Mentor; Senior/Founding Pastor, Vineyard Church Sutton; Evangelical Alliance UK Council Member; Emergent UK co-ordinator
- Academic and Professional Background: BA Honours degree in theology, London School of Theology, DMin, Leadership and Theology in the Emerging Culture, George Fox University; PhD (in process), Ecclesiological Realism: The challenge of Capitalism and the Market to Concrete Missional Ecclesiologies, Kings College London
- Expertise and Research Interests: Consumerism/Capitalism and Ecclesiology (Church & Culture)
- E-mail: jason@jasonclark.ws
- Office: 011-44-020-8642-4455
- jasonclark.ws
- deepchurch.org.uk
- twitter.com/jasonclark
- facebook.com/jasonpaulclark
- flickr.com/photos/drjasonclark
Director
Loren Kerns
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Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program
lkerns@georgefox.edu
1-541-747-6176
Associate Director
Clifford Berger
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Position: Associate Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program, Faculty Advisor and Dissertation Advisor
Academic and Professional Background: BA, Northwest Christian University; MDiv, Emmanuel Christian Seminary; DMin, Emmanuel Christian Seminary
Expertise and Research Interests: Religion and popular culture, theology of childhood, adult education and pastoral ministry
E-mail: cberger@georgefox.edu
Phone: 1-503-554-6163
Faculty
See George Fox Evangelical Seminary faculty page for details. All of the GFES faculty variously serve as instructors and advisors to the Leadership and Global Perspectives Doctor of Minstry students.
Visiting faculty and advisors
Peter Aschoff
Position: Faculty and Dissertation Advisor, Guest lecturer
Academic and Professional Background: Theological Studies, Universities of Erlangen and Tübingen, DTh, Erlangen; Peter works with the ELIA (Lutheran) Church in Erlangen and serves as the National Director of Alpha Germany
Expertise and Research Interests: Celtic spirituality and mission, faith in the workplace, and postmodernity and emerging/missional church
E-mail: peter@aschoff-net.de
Phone: +49-9131-203018
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Antony Billington
Position: Guest lecturer; Head of faculty, The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC)
Academic and Professional Background: BA Honours Degree in Theology, London School of Theology; MA in Aspects of Biblical Interpretation, London School of Theology
Expertise and Research Interests: Hermeneutics and biblical theology
E-mail: antony.billington@licc.org.uk
Phone: +44-020-7399-9573
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facebook.com/antony.billington
Amy Doherty
Position: Expert Advisor; Faculty, University of Phoenix in composition, creative and technical writing courses
Academic and Professional Background: BA, English Literature and Creative Writing, University of Evansville; Teaching Certification in Secondary Education/English as a Second Language, Indiana University; MA English/Irish Drama, Indiana University
Expertise and Research Interests: Creative writing, theater, Irish history and drama, adult education, French language, spirituality
E-mail: ajdoherty@live.com
Phone: NA
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Krish Kandiah
Position: Faculty and Dissertation Advisor, Regents Park College, Oxford University; Associate Research Fellow, London School of Theology
Academic and Professional Background: BSc (hons) Chemistry with medicinal Chemistry; MA (Distinction) Missiology, Birmingham University; PhD, King College London. Executive Director Churches in Mission: Evangelical Alliance; External Examiner, Oak Hill Theological College, 2009 - present; Visiting Lecturer Regents College, Vancouver; Director, Oxford Centre for Christian Apologies, 2005-2007; Tutor in Mission and Evangelism, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University 2005-2007; Senior Leader Elmfiled Church, Harrow 2000-2005.
Expertise and Research Interests: 'Towards a Theology of Evangelism for Late-modern Cultures: a critical dialogue with Lesslie Newbigin's doctrine of revelation', King's College London, supervisor, Professor Andrew Walker;Theology of evangelism, contextualisation, apologetics, missional Ecclesiology, homiletics, social media and social change.
E-mail: krishkandiah@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: +44-207-207-2100
http://krishk.com/
Byoungchul Joseph Jun
Position: Faculty and Dissertation Advisor; Assistant Professor of Education and Leadership at ACTS (Asian Center for Theological Studies)
Academic and Professional Background: BA, Psychology, East Asain Studies, University of Colorado; MDiv, Fulller Theological Seminary; PhD, Intercultural Education, Biola University; Dr. Jun has been actively involved with Korean Immigrant Church Ministries for last 15 years, serving as a lead pastor of the largest Korean Young Adult Ministry in the North America region with about 800 attending members; he now serves as a lead pastor for young adults at a church located in the down town Los Angeles; he also serves as an English-Korean translator; projects includes tranlating Rev. Joshua Kang's Korean books Deep-Rooted in Christ and Scripture by Heart into English; he has also translated and published English books into Korean language, including Dr. James Bryan Smith's The Good and Beautiful God, The Good and Beautiful Life, and The Good and Beautiful Community.
Research Interests: Dr. Jun is a bridge builder between Western and East Asian culture; research interests include Inter-cultural education, spiritual formation in cross-cultural context, family life education, andragogy, and experiential learning.
E-mail: bjun@georgefox.edu
Office: 1-213-361-1969; Korea: 02-6433-9128
twitter.com/bj1202
facebook.com/bjjun
Steve Lewis
Position: Faculty and Dissertation Advisor
BA in Communication, University of California, San Diego; MA in Professional Counseling, Liberty University; DMin in Leadership in the Emerging Culture, George Fox Evangelical Seminary
Contemporary missiology, Ecclesiology and Popular Culture, Global missional movements, Globalization, Collegiate ministry.
E-mail: spiritfarmer@gmail.com
Phone: 1-425-466-5077
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twitter.com/spiritfarmer
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David Male
Position: Guest lecturer
Academic and Professional Background: Tutor in Pioneer Mission Training, Ridley Hall, Cambridge; Works with Westcott House, Cambridge. Associate Missioner for the Fresh Expressions Network
Expertise and Research Interests: The development and training of church pioneers, spiritual entrepreneurship.His most recent work is Church Unplugged, which tells how he planted one of Britain's first 'fresh expressions' of church.
E-mail: dm432@cam.ac.uk
Phone: +44-7878-099890
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Matt Payne
Position: Expert Advisor; Owner/Consultant, Social Bridge Media, Board Member, Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce; Board Member, Domestic Violence Resource Center of Washington County.
Academic and Professional Background: BA, Christian Ministry, Lincoln Christian University
Expertise and Research Interests: Social Networking, Small Business, Local and Global Missions
E-mail:matt@socialbridgemedia.com
Phone: 1-503-810-2556
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Facebook.com/socialbridgemedia
twitter.com/mlpayne
LinkedIn.com/in/mlpayne
Martyn Percy
Position: Guest lecturer
Academic and Professional Background: Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon and the Oxford Ministry Course; Professor of Theological Education at King’s College London; Honorary Canon of Salisbury Cathedral and Canon Theologian of Sheffield Cathedral; he has served as a Director the Advertising Standards Authority and currently serves as Independent Adjudicator for the Portman Group and as a Commissioner for the Direct Marketing Authority. His recent books include Clergy: The Origin of Species (2006), Engaging Contemporary Culture: Christianity and the Concrete Church (2005), and Shaping the Church (2010)
Expertise and Research Interests:
E-mail: Martyn.Percy@ripon-cuddesdon.ac.uk
Phone: +44-1865-877404
Kimberly Shumate
Position: Expert Advisor; owner/operator of Living Word Literary Agency with 12 years of publishing experience. Her ability to identify and polish talent provides first-time authors with the guidance and encouragement needed to fit easily within quality standards of the publishing industry.
Academic and Professional Background: Discovering numerous new authors for Harvest House Publishers with sales topping 750,000 copies, several of them have gone on to find success with various book deals, Christy nominations and awards, and PW star ratings. As a member of the ECPA (Evangelical Christian Publishers Association), the CMA (Christian Media Association), and the Willamette Writers, Kimberly teaches proposal writing at various west coast writers’ conference.
Expertise and Research Interests: Book proposal construction; fiction—character development, plot pace, storyline, and overall manuscript coherency; non-fiction—theme, organization, markets, and platform building guidance.
E-mail: livingwordliterary@gmail.com
Phone: 1-541-683-6567
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Staff
Dee Small
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Administrative assistant for the DMin program
E-mail: dsmall@georgefox.edu
Office: 1-503-554-6162