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'''Soong-Chan Rah''' is on the Board of Directors at [[Sojourners]].<ref>[http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=about_us.staff Staff]</ref> | '''Soong-Chan Rah''' is on the Board of Directors at [[Sojourners]].<ref>[http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=about_us.staff Staff]</ref> | ||
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| + | [[Soong-Chan Rah]] is the Milton B. Engebretson associate professor of church growth and evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago. He is also the author of The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity (IVP Books, 2009), and Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church (Moody, 2010). You can read more about him at his website, www.profrah.com. | ||
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| + | Soong-Chan is formerly the founding senior pastor of the [[Cambridge Community Fellowship Church]] (CCFC)—a multiethnic, urban ministry-focused church committed to living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context. Soong-Chan has previously been part of a church planting team in the Washington, D.C. area, worked for a number of years with I[[nterVarsity Christian Fellowship]] in Boston (specifically at MIT), and mobilized CCFC to plant two additional churches. He currently serves on the boards of [[World Vision]], [[Sojourners]], the [[Christian Community Development Association]] (CCDA), and the [[Catalyst Leadership Center]]. | ||
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| + | He has extensive experience in cross-cultural preaching, especially on numerous college campuses. Soong-Chan was a plenary speaker at several conferences and gatherings, including: the 2003 Urbana Student Missions Conference, 2005 Summer Institute for Asian American Ministry and Theology, 2006 Congress on Urban Ministry, the 2007 Evangelical Covenant Church Midwinter Conference, 2007 Urban Youth Workers Institute Conference, 2008 CCDA National Conference, 2009 Cornerstone Festival, 2010 Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) National Preaching Conference, and 2011 Disciples of Christ General Assembly. | ||
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| + | Soong-Chan received his bachelor’s in political science and history/sociology from Columbia University; his Master of Divinity degree from GCTS; his Master of Theology degree from Harvard University; and his Doctor of Ministry degree from GCTS. He’s currently in the doctor of theology program at Duke University. | ||
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| + | Soong-Chan and his wife Sue, who teaches special education, live in Chicago.<ref>[https://freedomroad.us/who-we-are/rev-dr-soong-chan-rah/]</ref> | ||
==Mobilization to End Poverty== | ==Mobilization to End Poverty== | ||
Revision as of 17:27, 24 July 2018
Soong-Chan Rah is on the Board of Directors at Sojourners.[1]
Activism
Soong-Chan Rah is the Milton B. Engebretson associate professor of church growth and evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago. He is also the author of The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity (IVP Books, 2009), and Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church (Moody, 2010). You can read more about him at his website, www.profrah.com.
Soong-Chan is formerly the founding senior pastor of the Cambridge Community Fellowship Church (CCFC)—a multiethnic, urban ministry-focused church committed to living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context. Soong-Chan has previously been part of a church planting team in the Washington, D.C. area, worked for a number of years with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Boston (specifically at MIT), and mobilized CCFC to plant two additional churches. He currently serves on the boards of World Vision, Sojourners, the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA), and the Catalyst Leadership Center.
He has extensive experience in cross-cultural preaching, especially on numerous college campuses. Soong-Chan was a plenary speaker at several conferences and gatherings, including: the 2003 Urbana Student Missions Conference, 2005 Summer Institute for Asian American Ministry and Theology, 2006 Congress on Urban Ministry, the 2007 Evangelical Covenant Church Midwinter Conference, 2007 Urban Youth Workers Institute Conference, 2008 CCDA National Conference, 2009 Cornerstone Festival, 2010 Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) National Preaching Conference, and 2011 Disciples of Christ General Assembly.
Soong-Chan received his bachelor’s in political science and history/sociology from Columbia University; his Master of Divinity degree from GCTS; his Master of Theology degree from Harvard University; and his Doctor of Ministry degree from GCTS. He’s currently in the doctor of theology program at Duke University.
Soong-Chan and his wife Sue, who teaches special education, live in Chicago.[2]
Mobilization to End Poverty
The Mobilization to End Poverty Conference was held in Washington, D.C. from April 26 - 29, 2009, and was hosted by Sojourners and sponsored by World Vision.
The following were training session leaders at the conference:[3]
Voice & Vocation: Discerning and Living Your Call:
- Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah, North Park University
- Drew & Claire Clark, McLean Bible Church