The Contemporary Missio Dei Paradigm and its Expression in the Global South

Rev. Richard Otiso is currently working as a church minister at the international Lutheran congregation of Luther in Helsinki, Finland under the Lutheran Evangelical Association of Finland. He is also pursuing a doctorate degree in theology at the South African Theological Seminary. He completed his master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Eastern Finland and a bachelor’s degree in Divinity from Tumaini University in Tanzania. He has worked in Finland as a missionary to immigrants for almost a decade. Additionally, he has planted three international congregations in Finland. Otiso has authored four peer-reviewed papers on the subject of migration, religion, and social integration in Kenya and Finland. He is married with children and his family lives together with him in Helsinki, Finland.