International Visiting Professors

We believe strong Christian leaders are the most qualified instructors to teach others to lead. Therefore, our faculty members have proven track records in leading successful churches and Christian organizations, as well as excellent academic credentials.

Lorisa "Corrie" Acorda- De Boer

Global/Urban Transformation

• MS, Ateneo de Manila University
• MDiv, Asian Theological Seminary
• DMin, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
• PhD, Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Development Institute

Professional Experience: Corrie De Boer received her PhD in Organizational Development and her DMin in the Renewal of the Church for Mission. Currently she is the President of Maharlikang Pinoy Manpower Agency. She is co-founder and founding General Secretary of the National Coalition for Urban Transformation, an ecumenical coalition of urban mission organizations. She serves as Chairperson of the Board of Mission Ministries Philippines, a grassroots faith-based organization training local churches how to establish holistic transformational ministries among the poorest of the poor. She and her husband, Stewart, are city networkers and entrepreneurs, creating employment opportunities for hundreds of urban poor families. She serves as Chairperson of the Training Commission of the Encarnacao Alliance, an international network of urban mission leaders advocating for equipping urban leaders to have transformational paradigms. She is Associate Professor at Asian Theological Seminary and Regent Emeritus at Bakke Graduate University and serves as coach and mentor with Reliv Company and Success Motivation International.

John Kim

Church Growth & Missiology

• BA, Kwandong University, South Korea
• MDiv, Studies, Chongshin University, Seoul, Korea
• Dip. Miss., WEC Missionary Training College, Glasgow, Scotland
• MA, School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
• MDiv, International Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
• MDiv, ThM, Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI
• PhD, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Professional Experience: Dr. John Kim served as a missionary with OM Logos Ship in over 16 different countries in Asia and Europe, and has been involved in evangelism, church planting and pastoral ministry in California and Korea for more than 30 years. He had been a director of the Korean ThM program at Calvin Theological Seminary in Michigan, and served as the First President of Korean Presbyterian College and Seminary in Seoul, Korea. Dr. Kim is president of Calvin Institute of World Mission (CIWM) in Chicago, president of Graduate School of Missionary Training Institute in Presbyterian Church in Seoul, Korea, serves as a church consultant and trains pastors, church leaders and missionaries around the world. He is a senior pastor of Ilsym Presbyterian Church (www.ilsym.com), Incheon, Korea. Dr. Kim is the author of more than 20 books in the field of pastoral ministry, leadership, and church growth, along with “Church Growth and Religious Culture in Korea.”

Joseph Shu Kin Mok

Professor of Greater China Ministry

• BA, University of Toronto
• Certificate of Biblical Studies, Ontario Theological Seminary, Toronto
• MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois
• DMin, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, California

Professional Experience: Joseph Su Kin Mok pastors an Evangelical Free Church in Hong Kong and serves as the Visiting Professor of Greater China Ministry mentoring master’s and doctoral students in Hong Kong for Bakke Graduate University. Joseph served as the General Secretary for the Evangelical Free Church denomination in Hong Kong and as a pastor in Canada and in the United States. Joseph is also adjunct faculty at several seminaries.

David Ngai

Professor of Greater China Studies/Board of Regents

• BA, University of Toronto
• MDiv, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
• DMin, Bakke Graduate University, Seattle

Professional Experience: David Ngai holds a Diploma from the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education, BA from the University of Toronto, MSW from Sir George William College, MDiv from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a DMin in Transformational Leadership for the Global City from Bakke Graduate University of Ministry, as an RJB Scholar. David’s past ministry experience includes being the Chief Executive of World Vision Hong Kong and China. Currently he is the President of BGU Hong Kong. He is also the founder and the present Chief Executive Officer of International Ren-Ai Foundation founded in 1994 to serve the ministry in Mainland China, the Honorary Professor of Institute of Rural Economic Development of Chinese Academy of Social Science of PRC, and the Principal Consultant of the World Bank Project Office of Southwest Poverty Alleviation Office of PRC.

Martin Robinson

Missiological Studies

• BA, Birmingham University, England
• MLitt, Birmingham University, England
• STM, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana
• PhD, Birmingham University, England

Professional Experience: Dr. Robinson has served as senior pastor of two congregations, while assisting with a number of other church plants. Martin served with the British and Foreign Bible Society since 1987, initially as church growth consultant and then as Director for Mission and theology. Currently Martin serves as the Executive Director for Churches Together in the United Kingdom. Robinson has authored over twelve books on mission and related themes and lectures in numerous countries on a regular basis.

Philip Tang

Professor of Global/Urban Transformation

• BSc, Chinese University, Hong Kong
• MA, China Graduate School of Theology, Hong Kong
• MDiv, China Graduate School of Theology
• DMin, Bakke Graduate University, Seattle, WA

Professional Experience: Philip Tang has worked in full-time and part-time ministry in China since 1968. He is currently an ordained pastor for the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China. He has served on numerous boards and has taught as a guest lecturer for the China Graduate School of Theology where he also was the Director of Theological Education. He is currently a board member of Christian Concern for the Homeless Association, Chairman of Urban Compassion, and Chaplain of Ying Wa College.

Thom Wolf

Global Evangelism

• Diploma, Moody Institute of Chicago
• BA, Baylor University
• MA, Fuller Seminary
• Honorary D Litt, Grand Canyon University
• PhD, in process, Andrews University

Professional Experience: Wolf is Director of the Global Spectrum University Institute in New Delhi, with offices also in San Francisco USA, Chiang Mai Thailand, and Prague Czech Republic. An entrepreneurial educator, he has designed four Master of Arts programs in the United States. His lectures/ speaking includes New York University, UC Berkeley, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, National University of Singapore, Kunming University, Stanford University and Harvard University. 30 years of leadership in Los Angeles as a street-level socio-spiritual activist undergirds a keen interest in the ethical dimensions of comparative worldviews. See also his thoughts in The Most High God: An Anthropological Reader; Universal Disciple Pattern (15+ languages, including Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Hindi); Far Eastern Economic Review.

Carver Yu

Professor of Theology

• MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary
• ThM, Fuller Theological Seminary
• DPhil, Oxford University

Professional Experience: Dr. Yu is a theologian widely known at home and abroad, actively engaged in discussions on the Christian critique of both the modern and post-modern culture. His book, Being and Relation—A Theological Critique of Dualism and Individualism in the West, is an attempt to get to the ontological roots of the spiritual predicament of our present age. He is also deeply interested in the dialogue between the Gospel and the Chinese culture.