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| Lon Allison
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Director
of the Billy Graham Center
On faculty since
2000
Billy Graham Center
500 College Avenue
Wheaton, IL 60187
Campus Phone: (630) 752-5918
Email: Lon.Allison@wheaton.edu
Denominational Affliation: Evangelical Covenant
Church
Ordained: Evangelical Covenant Church
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| Doctor of Ministry in Homiletics (Preaching), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston, 1996
Master of Divinity Studies (equivalency), North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, 1990
Studies, Jean Shelton School of Acting, as well as numerous theatrical, television, and improvisational workshops, San Francisco, 1982-1989
Master of Arts in Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, 1980
Bachelor of Science in Recreation Science, California
State University at Hayward, 1974
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Professional and Personal Interests
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Lon
Allison is a Christian communicator, evangelist, educator, pastor,
and performing artist who has served as a youth minister, as
pastor of three churches, as a denominational and parachurch
leader, and as a guest speaker at churches and conferences the
world over for the last 25 years. He has published two books
and numerous articles on topics of evangelism, spiritual formation,
preaching, church growth and leadership.
Lon and his family (wife - Marie, daughters – Tara and
Courtney, son – Eric) reside in West Chicago, Illinois.
His aspiration is to be faithful to his family as lover, provider,
spiritual guide, and fun-loving friend.
Lon enjoys many fitness ventures. He is an amateur tri-athlete,
mountain climber and marathon runner and has fun with his family
skiing on water and snow.
He serves as Director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton
College. There he directs a comprehensive team that seeks to
“Stimulate Global Evangelism.” He is also Associate
Professor of Evangelism at Wheaton College Graduate School and
has taught doctoral evangelism courses at North Park, Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School and Northern Baptist Seminary.
Lon also has a professional background in music and theater.
He is a published songwriter, gospel recording artist, and professional
actor with credits on stage and television. His presentations
to churches and conferences often combine speaking, music, and
drama in an informative and compelling way.
Lon has a heart for the unchurched person. Converted at age
17 and not involved in a church until age 20, he remembers what
it is to be outside of Christ and the Church. His pastorates
were new churches whose philosophy of ministry was first and
foremost to reach unchurched people with the message of new
birth. Today, he brings a history of those experiments: the
successes and sorrows, the achievements and the mistakes, and
most of all an increasing confidence that God wants lost people
found and will use every Christian to do it.
| Courses
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Membership in Professional Societies |
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- Executive Committee, USA Lausanne Committee for World
Evangelization (also known as Mission America)
- Executive Committee, Operation Starting Line (reaching
and discipling the prison communities of America)
- Chairman, Proclamation Evangelism Network Executive Committee,
Internet Evangelism Coalition
- Team Member of Leighton Ford Arrow Group. The group consists
of 12 leaders of evangelism, mission and church growth from
around the world.
- National Senior Advisors, National Prayer Committee
- Board of Visitors, North Park Seminary Trainer in Prayer
and Evangelism, Evangelical Covenant Denomination
- Advisory Committee, Reformation and Revival Ministries
- Executive Committee, Internet Evangelism Coalition, 2000
to present
- Team Member, Leighton Ford Arrow Group, 1991 to present
- Board of Trustees, Belhaven College, 2006 to present
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Research |
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- Emergent Church
- Contextualization of Evangelism
- Diverse areas of Leadership
- Homiletics and Evangelism
- Evangelism Effectiveness in the Local Church
- Homiletics and Theatre Arts
- Spiritual Formation
| Publications
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“The Finish Line is Not the Finish,” Lausanne
World Pulse, April 2007.
“Witness as a Way of Life,” Decision Magazine,
March 2007
John R. Mott, That the World May Believe, EMIS Publications,
2002.
Going Public with the Gospel, InterVarsity Press, 2003
(co-author)
"Rethinking Mass Evangelism" presented at Evangelism
Roundtable III, 2004 (co-author)
"Strategic Cooperation with God in Evangelism" presented
at Evangelism Roundtable I, 2001
Lectio Divina, Rediscovering the Word, Covenant
Companion, January 1998
Let the Man Speak, Equipping Evangelists Newsletter,
September, 1997
Urban Mission, Explored and Expanded, Consultation
on the Cities Syllabus, September, 1992
Tools for the Task, Learning to be a Personal Evangelist,
Covenant Companion, June 1992
Why Evangelize, Covenant Companion, March 1991
Acts 29, Continuing The Story, Covenant Companion,
February, 1991
Bringing My World To Christ, Bible Study Series Forty-One,
Covenant Companion, March-May, 1990
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