Covenant News: Seminary Names New Milton B. Engebretson Assistant Professor of CG&E

"Dr. Soong-Chan Rah has been named the Milton B. Engebretson Assistant Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary, it was announced today." How very exciting! What a great trend that is happening in the Covenant Church with non-caucasian persons are being appointed to strategic evangelism positions. While Dr. Rah is in the seminary, he becomes a leader in the Covenant Church along with CG&E Office staff Ed Delgado, Director of Prayer and Evangelism and Don Davenport, Associate Director of Church Planting and Congregational Development. These key appointments position the Covenant to minister cross culturally in a growing ethnically diverse society. I'm really excited about this. I also like how none of this feels like quota filling but just that God is really blessing us with great leaders. I've been part of other organizations where they seem to hire the token female or person of color. We intentionally want to see the leadership of our church more accurately reflect the ethnicity of the kingdom of God and I find it so encouraging that God is answering our prayers to make that happen. One of the strengths of our denomination is that we have great leaders who find more great leaders to work with them.