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Alliance Graduate School of Mission Faculty
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Stephen K. Bailey
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stephen.bailey@nyack.edu
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Associate Professor of Missiology, Director of Alliance Graduate School of Mission
2001-.
B.A., Wheaton College; M.Div., Alliance Theological Seminary; M.Th., Ph.D Fuller Theological Seminary. Senior Assoc. for the Institute for Global Engagement;
active in holistic relief and development missions with CAMA Services Thailand and Laos for 17 years.
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Chuck Davis
Chuck experienced a call to the ministry of the Word as a young child. This calling was nurtured and supported by his parents and local church. To develop gifts and skills to apply this calling, Chuck studied at Nyack College, where he earned a BA in Bible. He also studied at Alliance Theological Seminary, earning a Masters of Divinity as general ministry preparation to serve as pastor. He later earned a Masters in Intercultural Communications for preparation as a missionary. Chuck is at the dissertation stage to earn a PhD in Sociology at Fordham University.
Chuck has served as a senior pastor in New Jersey (1985-1990), Muslim outreach (1990-1995) in Bamako, Mali and in the leadership role of Field Director in Mali (1996-2000), Professor of Intercultural Studies at Alliance Theological Seminary (2000-2007). Chuck is presently serving as Senior Pastor of the Stanwich Congregational Church, in Greenwich, Connecticut (2007-present). He teaches courses as an Adjunct Professor at Alliance Theological Seminary.
Chuck is married to Ingrid, who has been his partner in ministry for almost 27 years. As Chuck, Ingrid keeps an active itinerate speaking schedule, and when possible, they attempt to work their schedules to speak together in seminars and conferences. Ingrid is also actively involved in leadership development through mentoring and as a certified life coach. She has a special passion to help people work through life stress issues and past wounds, and to then move on to discover life purpose and a plan for ongoing life development.
God has given them three adult children who are setting out to discover their life vocation and purpose: Linnea (22), Christian (22) and Jordan (20).
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Ellenbergers, an International Family
 John was born in Guinea, West Africa to C&MA missionary parents. (Father founded a Bible School and Mother translated the New Testament into the Maninka language.) Meanwhile, half a world away, Helen was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Cambodia where her parents were pioneer C&MA missionaries. John and Helen met at Nyack College.
John and Helen worked among the Damal people, one of a dozen tribal groups living in the highest mountain valleys in Irian Jaya, now called Papua, Indonesia. Thousands of these tribal people were accepting the “Eternal Words” about Jesus as Savior in a wide-ranging People Movement to Christ. John helped translate the New Testament into the Damal language and Helen, a nurse, among people with no other medical help, opened 15 clinics in the remote valleys of the Damals. Prayer for each patient was part of the therapy. Three daughters, born in Papua, blessed their home.
Twenty-seven years later, after completing the New Testament in Damal, John and Helen accepted a call from the Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, NY to come and teach on the missiology faculty.
John and Helen retired from ATS after 16 years and answered a call to return to Indonesia with C&MA to teach in Simpson Theological College in Central Java and do contextual ministry among the North Coast Javanese people—a people group of some 21 million people, among a population of 150 million on the whole island of Java.
After six years in Java, John and Helen have returned to Alliance Theological Seminary for a year as "Missionaries-in-Residence."
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Nina Balmaceda
 Born and raised in Lima, Peru, Dr. Vilma “Nina” Balmaceda got her Law degree at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (1994); and her Master degrees in International Peace Studies (1996), and Government and International Studies (1997), as well as her Ph.D. in Political Science (2008) at the University of Notre Dame.
Nina’s calling is to educate and motivate Christians to integrate their faith into their academic disciplines and careers, in order to promote overarching values of God’s kingdom, such as personal integrity and solidarity, justice and human rights, and peace and reconciliation in their respective communities, countries, and the international arena. Nina is the founder of the Christian Legal Society of Peru (2000) and the Latin American Christian Lawyers Network (2001), which currently links Christian lawyers in 19 countries of Latin America. Besides her teaching responsibilities, Nina serves as global coordinator for the Advocates International Task Force on Human Rights and Justice for the Poor, and as international advisor to Peacemaker Ministries. Nina is married to Roberto W. Chia and Roberto Alfredo is their son.
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