He also was pastor of three international congregations in the Arabian Gulf states of Oman and Bahrain. From 2001-2006 he was the supervisor of the Global Mission program of the RCA in the Middle East and South Asia. For the past six years he has been teaching Christian Missions at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa after obtaining his PhD from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in the area of Global Mission and World Christianity. For the past two years he has also been serving as director of NWC’s global education program. [1] Gerald McDermott, Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 92