Contributors

After years of teaching New Testament on undergraduate and graduate levels, Wallace Alcorn now focuses his thinking, research, and writing on a theology of the Christian experience, which he terms teleological realism.

Judy Blumhofer is a pediatrician and a foster parent, living in Honduras. Serving through Christian Health Service Corps and has been living there since 2012. Currently on a sabbatical year, Judy is exploring how to better serve the foster community going forward from both the medical standpoint and the developmental standpoint.

Anita Deyneka serves with Mission Eurasia, an organization she and her husband, Peter, founded. She works with A Home For Every Orphan to help promote in-country Christian adoptions around the world. She has authored several books including A Song in Siberia and Christians in the Shadow of the Kremlin.

Liita Forsyth is an artist, designer and owner of The Little Bits Workshop, a very popular makerspace for kids of all ages based in River Forest. She and her husband, Paul, daughter Miika and son Nathan recently moved back to Wheaton after living in Chicago and River Forest for the past 20 years.

Virginia Hughes serves as a Helping Hands volunteer. She gardens as much as possible and assists her husband, Roger, in his software company. They relish visits with their three lovely daughters in Chicago, Brooklyn and Ann Arbor; and delight in their year-old grandson.

John Maust is president of Media Associates International, a ministry that helps encourage and develop Christians to communicate for effectively through print and electronic media.

Yousaf Sadiq serves as a member of the Board of Missions at College Church. He teaches at Wheaton College and is passionate to be a voice for the persecuted church. Yousaf give voice to his passion as he writes about the global church.

Our Pastors, Directors and Residents: Eric Channing, pastor of congregational care and family ministries | Cheryce Berg, director of children’s ministries | Julie Clemens, director of disability ministries | Erik Dewar, pastor of worship and music | Baxter Helm, high school pastor | Dan Hiben, middle school pastor | Tim Hollinger, technology director | Howard Kern, facilities director | Bruce Main, interim pastor of visitation and care | Josh Maurer, pastoral resident | Curt Miller, missions pastor | Josh Moody, senior pastor | Ben Panner, college pastor | Mindy Rynbrandt, director of women’s ministries | John Seward, executive pastor | Nancy Singer, director of administration and finance | Wil Triggs, director of communications | Michael Walker, pastoral resident

Our Council of Elders: David Bea | Mark Berg | Howard Costley, chair | Dave Gieser, vice chair | Randy Jahns| Heinrich Johnsen | Dan Lindquist | Josh Moody, senior pastor | Tom Nussbaum | Jeff Oslund | Roger Sandberg | Jeremy Taylor, secretary| Tad Williams