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Paul-Gordon Chandler
is a U.S. Episcopal priest working in the Middle East.
He
grew up in Muslim West Africa, and has lived and worked
extensively throughout the Islamic world with churches,
religious publishing and Christian relief and development
agencies.
 
Rev.
Paul-Gordon Chandler, affiliated with the U.S. Episcopal Church,
currently serves as the Rector of the Church of St. John the
Baptist/Maadi in Cairo, Egypt, within the Episcopal Diocese of
Egypt & North Africa. St. John’s Church/Maadi is the
international English-speaking Episcopal/Anglican church in
southern Cairo and its international congregation of over 20
nationalities welcomes people from many denominations and church
traditions, primarily from the diplomatic, aid and business
communities.
Immediately
prior to this role, he served as the President/CEO of Partners
International (PI), an international and ecumenical Christian
non-profit that exists to assist and empower indigenous
Christian holistic non-governmental organizations in over 70
countries in the Two Thirds World, in areas where Christians are
a minority, toward effectively meeting both physical and
spiritual needs. Before serving with PI, he was the U.S. Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of International Bible Society (IBS), a
non-profit involved in publishing, distributing and translating
the Scriptures in over 500 languages, and the sponsor of the New
International Version (NIV) of the Bible, the best-selling
English translation worldwide.
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Prior to that
he worked with the Anglican Church for five years. From
1995-1997, he worked with SPCK in London, England as the
Director of SPCK
Worldwide, an historic Anglican literature non-profit agency
involved in Christian publishing and communications in the U.K.
and throughout the Two-Thirds World.
Prior to SPCK,
from 1993-1995 he served in Tunisia, North Africa, as the Rector
of St. George's Episcopal/Anglican Church in Tunis/Carthage and
Chaplain to the British Embassy. St. George’s Church was the
only English-speaking church in this Muslim majority country,
and served as the international church congregation to
internationals from over 30 nationalities living and working in
Tunisia. Before taking up the role with the Anglican Church in
Tunisia, North Africa, he worked with the International Bible
Society as Director of International Programs and served for
several years directing translation, publishing and distribution
projects throughout the world, in over 100 countries.

Paul-Gordon,
an American, spent the first eighteen years of his life in
French-speaking West Africa, in Senegal, a Muslim majority
country. He studied at Wheaton College where he majored in
Biblical/Theological Studies and at Chichester Theological
Seminary (Church of England institution) in England and is an
ordained Episcopal priest. He is married and has two children. |

Paul-Gordon
is the author of
God’s Global Mosaic: What We Can Learn from
Christians Around the World, published by InterVarsity Press
(IVP) in January of 2000. His second book, titled
Pilgrims of
Christ on the Muslim Road: Exploring a New Path Between Two
Faiths, published by Cowley Publications (an
imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) in September 2007, is in the
field of Christian and Islamic relations and focuses on what we
can learn from the life and thought of Mazhar Mallouhi, the well
known Syrian Arab novelist and “Muslim follower of Christ”.
Additionally he has written numerous articles in various
publications.
A personal
passion of Paul-Gordon’s is to explore and encourage the
interplay between Faith and the Arts—and more
specifically within the context of interfaith, encouraging
Muslims and Christians to journey together through the Arts. In
this regard, he has started an initiative called Caravan
to serve as a catalyst toward building bridges of understanding
and respect between Christians and Muslims, West and East,
through the Arts—visual and literary. This entails developing
creative opportunities that highlight Faith and the Arts that
bring together Christians and Muslims---holding exhibitions,
seminars, lectures, exchanges, serving as a patron, etc.
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