NEW CML DIRECTOR

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 20, 2024

Contact: Rev. Dr. Ross Lockhart

Centre for Missional Leadership | St. Andrew’s Hall

604.822.9721

rlockhart@standrews.edu

New Director for the Centre for Missional Leadership at St. Andrew’s Hall

The Centre for Missional Leadership welcomes Rev. Dr. Mark Glanville

Vancouver, BC:  Center for Missional Leadership (CML) today announced that Mark Glanville will be joining the CML as Director, effective January 1, 2025

St. Andrew’s Hall is grateful for the gifted leadership and contribution of The Rev. Albert Chu as Director of the Centre for Missional Leadership (CML) over the past three years. Rev. Chu has discerned that he needs to return full time to his role as Senior Pastor of the Tapestry Church, a multi-site network of Christian communities that Albert founded two decades ago, at the end of December 2024. Under Albert’s leadership, CML has expanded its programs including the new Cultivate Church Planting network, published a book on Asian Christianity and hosted a major conference in May 2024.  Rev. Dr. Ross Lockhart, Dean of St. Andrew’s Hall said, “I am so grateful for Albert’s contribution to the life and ministry of St. Andrew’s Hall in his role as CML Director.  We are pleased that Albert will continue to support the work of CML from his position at Tapestry Church and pray for his ministry there.”

St. Andrew’s Hall is pleased to announce that Rev. Dr. Mark Glanville has accepted the appointment of Director of CML as of January 1, 2025.  Mark is currently the Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College where he has taught courses in missional theology.  Mark holds a PhD from Trinity College, Bristol and is ordained in The Presbyterian Church of Australia.  Mark is author of several books including: Preaching in a New Key: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities (IVP Academic, 2025);  Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul (IVP Academic, 2023); Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics (IVP Academic, 2020; co-written with Luke J. Glanville); Freed to Be God’s Family: The Book of Exodus (Lexham, 2020); Adopting the Stranger as Kindred in Deuteronomy (SBL, 2018). In addition to his many gifts in the church and academy, Mark is a passionate jazz pianist.  Dean Ross Lockhart said, “We are thrilled to have Mark join us at St. Andrew’s Hall and lead the CML team moving forward, as we seek to equip missional disciples across the ecumenical church for its witness in a post-Christendom context.  Mark has a passion for researching, teaching and writing in ways that nourish Christian leaders to creatively reimagine what the church can do and be, as they extend the tenderness of Jesus in their neighbourhood.”

About St. Andrew’s Hall

St. Andrew’s Hall is the Presbyterian Church in Canada college at the University of British Columbia, and is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.  St. Andrew’s Hall educates and equips missional leaders through teaching, hospitality and witness for Christ’s church of tomorrow, today. (www.standrews.edu)

About The Centre for Missional Leadership

The Centre for Mission Leadership was founded in 2015 as a ministry of St. Andrew’s Hall to help equip Christian leaders and their communities for missional engagement, and to help the college live into its vision of discerning and equipping the future church that God is bringing.   (www.equippingformission.ca)