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Dr. Billy Wilson is president of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and global
co-chair for Empowered21, a network helping shape the future of the Spirit-empowered
movement. He also chairs the Pentecostal World Fellowship, is a board member of the
National Association of Evangelicals, and served as the executive officer for the
2006 Azusa Street Centennial. A global influencer and dynamic speaker, Wilson authored
several books and hosts the television program World Impact with Billy Wilson. Billy
and his wife, Lisa, reside in Tulsa, where they enjoy time with their family.
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Dr. Wonsuk Ma a Korean Pentecostal, serves as Executive Director of ORU's Center for
Spirit-Empowered Research, and is a Distinguished Professor of Global Christianity
at Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He previously served as Executive Director
of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, UK. He serves as Co-chair of Scholars
Consultation, Empowered21.
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Dr. Kathaleen Reid-Martinez holds a Ph.D. in Speech Communication, an M.A. in Mass
Communication, and a B.A. in English. She has served in higher education working
as a faculty member, administrator, and consultant in both the public and private
sector. Currently, she is Provost at Oral Roberts University where she is charged
to expand online learning initiatives and globalization. As a professor, she teaches
in leadership and communication while serving on national and international committees
to advance leadership and contemporary means of developing and implementing transformative
education.
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Dr. Daniel Isgrigg (Bangor University, Wales) is Assistant Professor and Director
of the Holy Spirit Research Center and Archives at Oral Roberts University. He is
an Assemblies of God ordained minister with over 20 years pastoral experience. His
research and publishing interests are in the areas of Pentecostal history and Oral
Roberts studies.
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Opoku Oniyah is president of the Bible Society of Ghana, and the immediate past chairman
of the Church of Pentecost, Ghana. He also serves as Co-chair of the Scholars Consultation
of Empowered21.
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Todd M. Johnson is the Paul E. and Eva B. Toms Distinguished Professor of Mission
and Global Christianity and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity
at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Johnson is visiting Research Fellow at Boston
University’s Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs leading a research
project on international religious demography. He is co-editor of the Atlas of Global
Christianity (Edinburgh University Press) and co-author of the World Christian Encyclopedia
(Oxford University Press, 2nd ed.) and World Christian Trends (William Carey Library).
He is co-editor of the World Christian Database (Brill) and World Religion Database
(Brill).
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Dr. Gina A. Zurlo is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity
and received her Ph.D. from Boston University in 2017. Her research focuses on the
intersection between international religious demography, world Christianity, and the
history of the social scientific study of religion. She is also a Visiting Research
Fellow at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, where
she is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Religion and Demography and works on the
World Religion Database (Brill).
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Emmanuel Kwesi Anim serves as the Director of the School of Theology, Mission, and
Leadership at Pentecost University College in Accra, Ghana and is an Associate Minister
of the Pentecost International Worship Center. He was formerly Principal of the Pentecost
Theological Seminary at Gomoa Fetteh in Ghana. He is a visiting lecturer at the Akrofi-Christaller
Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture in Ghana, and the All Nations Christian
College in the United Kingdom.
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Dr. Jeffrey Lamp was born in South Dakota, but lived in Tulsa from age 10. He completed
his B.S. at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, undertook seminary at ORU and received
his Ph.D. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago. He was ordained in
the United Methodist Church as a Deacon in 1991 and an elder in 1999. Dr. Lamp pastored
in the United Methodist Church for eight years. Having always wanted to teach, for
three years he led classes at ORU part-time before becoming a full-time professor
in fall 2000. Dr. Lamp is married to wife Monica and enjoys spending time with his
two grandsons and granddaughter.
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The late Dr. Vinson Synan was a leading scholar, historian, author, and alliance leader
within the Pentecostal movement, having held leadership roles in the Holy Spirit Research
Center at Oral Roberts University, the International Pentecostal Holiness Church,
the North American Renewal Service Committee, and at the School of Divinity at Regent
University, where he was Dean. More recently, Synan returned to ORU as Interim Dean
of the College of Theology and Ministry, was an ORU Scholar in Residence, and was
inaugurated into Virginia’s Historical Hall of Fame. His passing in 2020 left behind
his wife, Carol, their four children, and their families.
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