James Ehrman
Research Fellow
Jim Ehrman previously served as the Executive Director of the World Christianity Initiative at Yale. In that role he aided both Yale University and the Western Church at-large in its engagement with the explosive growth of the worldwide Christianity. Inspiration for that focus stemmed from his years spent as a commissioned service worker and later as Director of Global Ministries for the Evangelical Congregational Church, a role in which he facilitated a world-wide service workforce, relationships with several hundred international churches, as well as relief and development works in five nations.
He is currently the Chief Operating Officer for the anti-human trafficking organization Love146 and serves as the Affiliate Professor of Global and Contextual Studies at Evangelical Seminary where his courses include: Culture, Context and Mission, World Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, and Theology of Mission and other Religions.
Jim has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from The Pennsylvania State University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University with a Masters of Arts in World Christianity and Mission and is currently pursuing his PhD.
Jim has two children and is married to Aiyana — director of a non-profit, Imagine Goods, which works in Cambodia offering micro-business opportunities to marginalized families.
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