Revd Dr Israel Olofinjana

Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana (PhD) is the Director of the One People Commission of the Evangelical Alliance. He is an ordained and accredited Baptist minister and has led two multi-ethnic Baptist churches and an independent charismatic church. He is the founding director of Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World, a mission network initiative that provides cross-cultural training to reverse missionaries in Britain. Israel is an Honorary Research Fellow at Queens Foundation for Theological Ecumenical Education in Birmingham and on the Advisory Group on Race and Theology of Society for the Study of Theology (SST). He is on the Christian Aid Working Group of Black Majority Church leaders exploring the intersection of climate justice and racial justice.

He is a Yoruba Nigerian coming from a Pentecostal background. He holds a BA (Hons) in Religious Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and MTh from Carolina University of Theology (CUT). Israel has a PhD in Practical Theology from the University of Roehampton. His PhD thesis which is interdisciplinary drawing from Church history, African theology and Missiology explored through his publications the development of African British Theology as an Intercultural Missiology and Public Theology. He has written several books including editing “World Christianity in Western Europe: Diasporic Identity, Narratives and Missiology” (2020), “African Voices: Towards African British Theologies” (2017), “Turning the Tables on Mission: Stories of Christians from the Global South in the UK” (2013), and co-editor of “Encountering London: London Baptists in the 21^st Century” (2015). He is the  author of  “Discipleship, Suffering and Racial Justice: Mission in a Pandemic World” (2021), “Reverse in Ministry and Missions: Africans in the Dark Continent of Europe” (2010),  “20 Pentecostal Pioneers in Nigeria” (2011) and “Partnership in Mission: A Black Majority Church Perspective on Mission and Church Unity (2015). He is happily married to Lucy Olofinjana who is the Senior Media and Communications Officer for Churches Together in England (CTE). They are blessed with Iyanuoluwa (meaning God’s miracle) and Ireti (meaning hope).