Recently, I shared some of the places I will be teaching. I am honored to teach at these different schools and enjoy the time to do so. However, I need to focus my teaching so that I can have more interaction with faculty colleagues, ongoing contact with students, and a more focused teaching schedule.

The folks at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School approached me a while back to talk about joining their faculty. The timing was not right as I was heading to LifeWay. However, since I have moved to LifeWay, we have talked again about how we might work together.

So, after recent faculty interviews and discussion with our LifeWay leadership, it was announced yesterday that I will be joining the faculty as Affiliate Professor of Research and Missional Ministry at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (and I have to learn to call it "TEDS" now that I am part of the team there).

I will not be leaving LifeWay, but this will help us at LifeWay Research by having access to students who are engaging in research and also help us connect to evangelicals in need of our research services. .

There are few schools who have assembled the scholars that the have at Trinity. I am currently in the process of co-editing a book with David Hesselgrave, Professor Emeritus of Missions that includes a chapter from Paul Hiebert, the recently deceased missions professor at Trinity. These men are some of the leading scholars in the world… and Trinity has a whole new generation of scholars as well.

Trinity has asked me specifically to help bring a “missional” emphasis and I look forward to doing so.

I look forward to working with my new friends at Trinity-- world class scholars with a passion for global evangelization.

Thanks for Craig Ott and Tite Tienou for the invitation and their partnership.