Conspectus

Mr. José de Carvalho was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and grew up in Mozambique and South Africa. He currently lives in Johannesburg. José has a diploma in management from Wits Technikon (1992) and has considerable corporate experience, including working as a General Manager at Sulzer SA, a Swiss engineering company. In addition, he acquired a diploma in international executive management at IMD in Geneva, Switzerland (1999–2000) and he also holds an M.Th. in Theology from SATS, where he now serves as an academic. José is an active member of the New Testament Society of Southern Africa (NTSSA) with a specific research interest in Pauline Studies.

Ms. Roseline Luka Vandi is a Lecturer and Theologian. She holds a Bachelor of Divinity Degree (B.D.D. 2005) and a Master of Theology (M.Th. 2008) from the Theological College of Northern Nigeria (TCNN), and a PGDE (2016) from the National Teachers’ Institute in Kaduna, Nigeria. Prior to her doctoral studies at Saint Paul’s University in Kenya, Roseline was a Lecturer at TCNN. Roseline recently defended her Ph.D. thesis and will graduate in November 2023. Her area of expertise is Practical Theology, specializing in counselling.

Dr. Jiofack Kana C. Jésus is an ordained minister of the Cameroon Baptist Convention. He is a missionary and linguist. He holds a Ph.D. in Missiology from the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary. He also earned a Maîtrise in Linguistics and African Language and a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from the University of Dschang, in Cameroon. His areas of research include African missiology, contextual theologies, African philosophy and ethics, and applied linguistics. He has written articles for theological conferences and completed major research works including “Ethical and Missiological Thoughts on African Single Women’s Longing for Children through Sperm Banks,” “Descartes’ Teleological Argument and African Eschatology: A Comparative Analysis for Contextual Apologetics,” and “A Critical Analysis of the Discourse of Femininity among the Yémba Christian Women in the West Region of Cameroon (M.A. dissertation). Jiofack Kana is married to Jacqueline and they have four children. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of World Missions and Intercultural Studies of the Cameroon Baptist Theological Seminary.

Dr. Kevin Muriithi Ndereba holds a Ph.D. in Practical Theology from the University of South Africa. He initially worked as a power systems Engineer before pursuing theological education. After serving in pastoral ministry in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa, he now serves as a Lecturer and Head of Department, Practical Theology at Saint Paul’s University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and leads a ministry called Apologetics Kenya. Kevin’s research interests are in apologetics, youth ministry, and Practical Theology. 

Dr. Samson Tadelle Demo has earned an MD from Gondar University in medicine, a BA from Addis Ababa University in Developmental Economics, a Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) and Master’s in Biblical and Theological Studies (MABTS) from the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology (EGST). Currently, he works as a consultant General Practitioner at Mercy Care Ethiopia Health Care and engages in research activities in collaboration with EGST. He is the author of a book chapter entitled “After-Self Assertion: On a Paraclesis of a Political Theology of Kenosis” in the book Ethnic Diversity, National Unity: Moral Pedagogies of Togetherness for Ethiopians (2021). His interest lies in conducting interdisciplinary research that involves issues in theology, medicine, and economics.

Dr. Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh (Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer and the Rector of Perez University College, Ghana. His research interests include New Testament studies, the gospels, biblical hermeneutics, church administration, gender studies, and Christian prophetism.

Dr. Max Swart serves as the Association Director of the Luis Palau Association in the UK and Europe.  He graduated in 2022 with a Ph.D. from the North-West University. During the last fourteen years of working in the field of evangelism, he has obtained extensive and in-depth knowledge in this field. He has been involved with organizing some of the largest evangelistic outreaches in the United Kingdom in recent history. His work with churches inspired his interest in researching the discipleship of evangelical churches in the United Kingdom as part of his doctoral thesis. The synopsis of his research has been published in an accredited academic journal.

Ms. Katharine Norton is originally from the Republic of Ireland but has spent most of her adult life in Africa. She works with SIL Nigeria, specializing in Scripture use, helping people to apply the Bible in their language to all aspects of their daily lives. In 2017 she and her colleague Yunana Malgwi co-founded Faith and Farming, a Scripture use program that helps farmers, herders, and other land users to engage with the Bible in the language that they use as they work on the land or with their animals. The program has been well received and has been taught in communities and Bible colleges in Nigeria, to participants from seventeen African countries, and it is also branching out into Asia. When Katharine is not writing or teaching, she enjoys working on the two acres around her house where she experiments with small-scale, environmentally friendly agricultural projects that can bless local farmers, students, and pastors.

Dr. June F. Dickie (Ph.D., UKZN) is a Bible translator and researcher with particular interests in the Psalms, Performance, and Psychological Hermeneutics. She has worked in various communities since 1994, mainly in Africa. Currently, she is part of a team developing a new methodology for translating Psalms, using orality and performance. One of the pilot studies is with the colored community (RSA), helping them to translate the Bible into their language, Kaaps.

Rev. Megan Braithwaite has an M.Th. in Bible Translation from the University of the Free State and is currently completing her Ph.D. in Hebrew and other ancient translations. A lecturer of Biblical Hebrew and Greek since 2010, she is currently the Head of Languages at BTC. Married with three adult children, she and her husband serve on the eldership of their local church.