The Rev. Dr. Casely B. Essamuah serves as Secretary to the Global Christian Forum which creates space for encountering between, among, and beyond the World Council of Churches, the World Evangelical Alliance, the Pentecostal World Fellowship, and the Roman Catholic Church through the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Previously, Dr. Essamuah served as Global Missions Pastor for Park Street Church in Boston, MA. and Bay Area Community Church in Annapolis, MD. He facilitated those churches’ global engagements, which included million-dollar partnerships, and involving thousands of short-term and vocational missionaries. The projects included church planting, leadership development, youth evangelism and discipleship, HIV/AIDS prevention, and medical ministries.

Originally from Ghana, West Africa, and an ordained minister of the Methodist Church Ghana, since 1990, Dr. Essamuah holds an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate from Boston University School of Theology. He also serves as Secretary to the World Relief board and was Synod Secretary to the North America Mission Diocese of the Methodist Church Ghana, which has 50 churches in Canada and the United States. A reflective practitioner of his faith, he is a bi-cultural bridge-builder, straddling the spheres of the global South and North, while working in missions, ecumenism, the church, and the academy.

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