Al Roxburgh

Alan Roxburgh is a pastor, teacher, writer and consultant with more than 30 years experience in church leadership, consulting and seminary education. Alan has pastored congregations in a small town, the suburbs, the re-development of a downtown urban church and the planting other congregations. He has directed an urban training center and served as a seminary professor and the director of a center for mission and evangelism. Alan teaches as an adjunct professor in seminaries in the USA, Australia and Europe. His books include: Reaching a New Generation , Leadership, Liminality and the Missionary Congregation , Crossing the Bridge: Leadership in a Time of Change , The Sky is Falling – Leaders Lost in Transition and The Missional Leader. He was also a member of the writing team that authored Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America.

Alan is working with the Allelon in the formation of leaders for the missional/emergent church. His Roxburgh Journal is a regular feature that offers commentary and perspective on the global missional church movement. Through Allelon, Alan manages an international project, the Mission in Western Culture Project, a multi-year project to address the question of mission in Western culture from the perspective of the local church and its context, and the implications for leadership development. He also manages the Missional Schools Project. This project involves some twenty diverse schools and seminaries from across North America addressing how it is we train a new generation of leaders for the contexts in which we now find ourselves.

Alan also leads conferences and seminars with denominations, congregations and seminaries across North America, Australia and the UK as well as consulting with these groups in the areas of leadership for missional transformation. Alan has been a leader in the Gospel and Our Culture Network where he was involved in the Lilly Endowment funded research project Innovating Missional Systems.

When not traveling or writing Alan enjoys mountain biking, hiking, cooking and hanging out with Jane and their five grandchildren as well as drinking great coffee in the Pacific North West.

E-mail:alanjroxburgh@gmail.com