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AGTS
News: Professor Calls
for Renewed Focus on Frontier Missions
During the second
Hogan Lecture of the semester, given on November 1, 2006,
Dr. Johnson called on the church to reprioritize its
missions efforts around frontier evangelism—among
people groups who have no Christian witness within their
own socio-cultural setting. Listen to this lecture, "Insights
from Frontier Mission Missiology," below.
Dr. Johnson is the first J. Philip Hogan professor
of world missions.
The first Hogan Lecture, "Apostolic
Function and Mission," was delivered on October
11, 2006. |
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Next Hogan Lecture
- Wednesday, November 29, 2-3:45 p.m.
About Dr. Johnson
Dr. Johnson was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He and
his wife of 28 years, Lynette, have lived primarily in Thailand
for the past two decades. They have worked in church planting
and various forms of formal and informal training with the Thailand
Assemblies of God. In recent years they have begun pioneer work
among the urban poor, developing a house church network and ministries
to children in a series of slum communities in Bangkok.
In addition to his work with the urban poor, Dr. Johnson has been involved
in several functions at a broader level that coalesce around
least-reached peoples. These ministries include the Strategic
Church Planting Initiative in the Asia Pacific region which focuses
on developing new church planting teams among least reached groups,
the Institute for Buddhist Studies that trains people working
among people groups influenced by Buddhist worldviews, and the
Acts 1:8 Project which is an international committee focusing
on emerging missions movements and unreached people groups in
the Assemblies of God worldwide fellowship.
Dr. Johnson is a graduate of Northwest University (B.A. in Pastoral
Ministry), AGTS (M.A. in Biblical Studies), and Azusa Pacific
University M.A. in Social Sciences). He has recently defended
his PhD dissertation at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies/University
of Wales and will officially receive his degree soon. His
dissertation is an ethnographic work on social influence processes
in a slum community in Bangkok.
Dr. Johnson and Lynette have two grown daughters, Laura and Becki,
who are both alumni of Northwest University. Laura, and her husband,
Mark Snider, whose parents are also missionaries, live in Memphis,
TN, where he is doing a pediatric residency while she works on
a M.F.A. in creative writing. Becki is currently in Seattle developing
a ministry to share the vision for working among the least reached
in Northern Asia.
The Johnson's look forward to returning to Bangkok and their
work with slum dwellers next summer.
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The J. Philip Hogan Chair of World Missions at
AGTS is an endowed professorship which honors the missionary
leadership of this distinguished former executive director
of AGWM. As a partnership between AGTS and
AGWM, it calls on today’s missionaries and scholars to
continue in the heritage of thoughtful, incisive and Spirit-led
missiology that Brother Hogan’s ministry left us. Beginning
in 2006-2007, a leading missiologist will be invited annually
to fill the chair in order to explore new dimensions in missiology
through teaching, research and writing. Special thanks
are due to AGWM, the Hyllberg Memorial Fund, Philip and Virginia
Hogan and others who have contributed to the endowment of the
Chair.
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