Alan Walker (theologian)

Alan Walker (theologian)

The Reverend Sir Alan Walker, O.B.E., M.A., D.D. (4 June 1911 - 29 January 2003) was an Australian theologian and evangelist. He was:
*involved in the formation of the World Council of Churches
*Superintendent of the Methodist (later Uniting Church in Australia) Wesley Mission, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1958–1978 and one of the founders of NCYC in 1955 and Lifeline in 1963
*first world director of evangelism for the World Methodist Council, 1978 to 1988
*involved in founding the World Methodist Evangelism Institute (located at the United Methodist-related Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, 1982.
*Principal of the Pacific College of Evangelism, now the Alan Walker College of Evangelism, in Sydney, 1982–1995.

He was awarded the World Methodist Peace Award in 1986 and honoured as an Australian Living Treasure.

He was married to Lady Winifred Walker and they had four children; a daughter, Lynette Sue, and three sons, all of whom followed him into ministry: Bruce and Christopher as ministers of the Uniting Church in Australia and David as a social worker. All three sons earned M.Div. degrees at Garrett in Chicago (and Chris went on to earn a Ph.D. at Claremont).

(Among Alan Walker's ancestors was a convict couple whose drunken son became a Methodist minister after his conversion. Walker was the thirteenth minister of the family).

Biographies

*citebook|author=Don Wright|title=Alan Walker: Conscience of the Nation|id=ISBN 0-85910-836-8
*citebook|author=Harold Henderson|title=Reach for the World: A Biography of Alan Walker, Discipleship Resources, Nashville Tennessee, 1981|id= No ISBN !

External links

* [http://www.awce.org Alan Walker College of Evangelism]
* [http://www.wfn.org/2003/01/msg00245.html "Sir Alan Walker, World Methodist evangelist, dies at 91", World Faith Network]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s1013622.htm "Alan Walker Remembered", ABC Radio International's "The Religion Report"]
* [http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/4756.htm "Alan Walker: A Many-Faceted Man Of God", John Mark Ministries]
* [http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/19608.htm 'A Study in Word and Deed' (Harold Henderson's eulogy for the Reverend Sir Alan Walker, Wesley Centre, Sydney, February 11, 2003)]


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