Reimagining the Role of the Pastor as a Teaching Elder in the Twenty-First-Century Church of Central Africa Presbyterian Nkhoma Synod Context: A Situational Audit of Lilongwe City Congregations

Rev. Maxwell Banda Chiwoko was born on the 18th of January 1992. He was ordained as a pastor in the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Nkhoma Synod in 2016. From 2016 to date, he has been teaching Biblical Hebrew language, Old Testament Studies, and Research Methods at Nkhoma University, Malawi. He has a Licentiate in Theology from Zomba Theological College, Malawi (2014); a Bachelor of Divinity Degree from the University of Malawi (2016), Postgraduate Certificate in the Translation of the Hebrew Bible from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2018); Master of Theology majoring in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics from South African Theological Seminary (2021). He is currently completing his Ph.D. at SATS. From 2013–2017 he served as Biblical Languages Reviewer and Editor of the Mau a Mulungu mu Chichewa cha Lero Bible translation project with the Biblica International. He is married to Alice and has two children: Hillel Theophilus and La’el Maralise.