For a variety of reasons, the ordained leadership of the ACNA lacks ethnic diversity. This lack of diversity hinders our province’s evangelistic imperative. Remedying this situation will require prayer and intentional plans for expanding our clerical leadership so that it includes diverse voices with unique insight on what it means to reach a changing world. This workshop will discus an initiative to increase the diversity of ACNA clergy for the sake of evangelism to all authentic gospel witness. 

The Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley, Assistant Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, and Director of the ACNA’s Next Generation Leadership Initiative. He is working on a book tentatively titled, The New Testament and the Hopes of Black Folk for IVP Academic on the relevance of New Testament texts to the present hopes and concerns of Black Christians in America. He’s also editing a book for InterVarsity Press titled, The New Testament in Color, which he describes as a “multi-ethnic commentary on the New Testament.”