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NYACK COMMENCEMENT
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Nyack DC Commencement
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Honorary Degree Recipients
Dr. Joel C. Hunter
Commencement Speaker & Honorary Degree RecipientDoctor of Divinity, ATS
Dr. Joel C. Hunter will be the 2011 commencement speaker at the Saturday, May 7 graduation ceremony for Nyack College and Alliance Theological Seminary, which will be held at 2 p.m. in the 4,400 seat-auditorium of the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY.
Dr. Hunter is the senior pastor of Northland, A Church Distributed in Longwood, FL. He is an internationally known spokesperson for "compassion issues" outlined in Scripture: sanctity of life, creation care, justice, poverty, and marriage and the family, and has been featured in national publications including Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and The Washington Post. He is frequently interviewed on NPR, CNN, and PBS.
During Dr. Hunter's tenure at Northland, which began in 1985, the church has grown from 200 faithful souls to a congregation of 15,000 that worships at three sites around Metro Orlando and around the world via interactive Webcast. Congregants take leadership of nearly every ministry effort inside the church, out in the community and around the world as Dr. Hunter encourages Northlanders: "Do what you can, where you are, with what you've got."
Before bringing his family to Northland, Dr. Hunter served as a United Methodist pastor for 15 years in Indiana. He and his wife, Becky, have been partners in the ministry since their marriage in 1972. Becky is the former president of the Global Pastors Wives Network and the author of two books on marriage and family. The Hunters are parents to three married sons: Joshua, CEO of Hunter Vision; Isaac, senior pastor of Summit Church's multi-site congregation of more than 4,000 in Orlando; and Joel, an ophthalmic surgeon. The Hunters have six grandchildren: Noah, Jada, Ella, Lincoln, Luke, and Ava, who moved to heaven on September 4, 2010, at the age of 5.
Cooperation and partnership are hallmarks of Dr. Hunter's ministry. Together, he believes, we can accomplish more because of our differences than we would on our own-without giving up our unique identities. A respected leader in the Evangelical community, he serves on the board of the World Evangelical Alliance (420 million constituents) and the National Association of Evangelicals (30 million members).
Dr. Hunter served in the inaugural year on the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which advises President Barack Obama on substantive policy issues, including interfaith relations, strengthening the role of fathers in society and reducing the number of abortions. He continues as a spiritual advisor to the President.
Dr. Hunter is the author of several books, including A New Kind of Conservative (Regal Books), which outlines a non-partisan approach to political involvement.
Dr. Stuart McAllister
Doctor of Divinity, ATSBorn in Scotland, Stuart McAllister saw his life changed by Christ at the early age of twenty. Filled with a hunger to learn more about and preach the Gospel, he took every opportunity to witness and give his testimony. This desire to serve the Lord and deepen his understanding of the faith led him to join Operation Mobilization (OM) in 1978. His service with OM took him to Yugoslavia, where he was imprisoned for forty days for distributing Christian literature. Upon his release, he continued his mission to preach the Gospel in communist countries, resulting in more imprisonments. With a rich history of service, Stuart has served as general secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance (1992-1998) and been involved with the European Lausanne Committee. He developed an evangelistic mobilization called “Love Europe,” sending several thousand team members across Europe with the message of the Gospel. Stuart also founded the European Roundtable, bringing together a diverse group of ministries and interests that collaborated to foster “Hope for Europe.” Stuart joined Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in 1998 as the International Director and today serves as North American Regional Director and Vice-President of Training. With a heavy travel schedule that takes him all over the globe, Stuart speaks in churches and other forums with the same passion for the Gospel that he found when he first became a believer. While currently an Associate Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University (Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics), Stuart has also been a lecturer at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York (2001-2007). Additionally, he has been a featured speaker several times at the European Leadership Forum. Stuart is a frequent contributor to A Slice of Infinity, RZIM’s daily reading on issues of apologetics and philosophy, Just Thinking, the ministry’s tri-annual journal, as well as Engage, a magazine published quarterly by RZIM Educational Trust. He has also contributed chapters in the books Beyond Opinion(Thomas Nelson, 2007) and Global Missiology for the 21st Century(World Evangelical Fellowship, 2000).
Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
Doctor of Divinity, ATS Theodore Roosevelt Malloch is chairman and chief executive officer of The Roosevelt Group, a leading strategic advisory conference management and thought leadership company. He is also the founder and chairman of the not-for-profit, Spiritual Enterprise Institute (SEI) established in 2005 and will become chairman and chief executive officer of the Carmel Club and Institute. In 1994 he co-founded and has since directed the CEO Learning Partnership SM for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Ted has been a senior fellow and vice president of The Aspen Institute, where he previously directed all of its national seminars and ran the Wye River Conference Centers. He was also president of the World Economic Development Congress sponsored by CNN, "The common frame of reference for the world's power elite." That Congress focused on "Building the Integrated Global Economy" and offered some 2500 Chief Executive Officers, Ministers of Government, investment, and economic leaders from around the world a forum where new business relationships were established. At that meeting Margaret Thatcher, the Congress Chairperson, called him, “a global Sherpa.” Dr. Malloch has served on the executive board of the World Economic Forum, which hosts the renowned Davos annual meeting in Switzerland. He held an ambassadorial level position as Deputy Executive Secretary in the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (1988-91) where EDI was founded; he headed consulting at Wharton-Chase Econometrics; has worked in international capital markets at the investment bank, Salomon Brothers, Inc.; and has served in senior policy positions at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and in the U.S. State Department. He has taught and lectured at a number of universities in the United States, Canada, and abroad. Ted earned his Ph.D. in international political economy from the University of Toronto where he held the Hart House Open University Fellowship. He took an M.Litt. degree (Honors) from Aberdeen University in Scotland on a St. Andrews Fellowship and earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Gordon College. He was awarded an honorary L.LD. degree from the University of Aberdeen in 2008. He is a research professor at the Claremont Graduate School and the Drucker School of Management. He has authored seven books, (Trade and Development Policy, Praeger, 1989, and along with Don Norris, Unleashing the Power of Perpetual Learning, 1998, The Global Century, NDU, 2001, Renewing American Culture: The Pursuit of Happiness, with Scott Massey, M&M Scrivener, 2006, Virtuous Companies: Conscious Capitalism, and Thrift: The Forgotten Virtue, numerous journal articles, corporate and governmental reports and has appeared frequently on television and web casts and as a keynote speaker. He serves on numerous corporate and mutual fund and not-for-profit/educational boards, including Yale Divinity School and The University of Toronto International Governing Council. He advises numerous international and US governmental advisory bodies.
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