Coordinating Committee Members

Chris Kiesling - Dr. Kiesling is Associate Professor of Christian Education and Human Development. His areas of expertise include campus ministry, development and discipleship in young and middle-aged adults, development and discipleship in marriage and the family, identity and faith formation across the lifespan, moral development, and the ministry of teaching.

Art McPhee - Dr. McPhee is the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism on the Kentucky campus, and his expertise is in evangelization, church planting and growth, history of missions and South Asian Christianity.

Lalsangkima Pachuau - Dr. Pachuau is the Director for Postgraduate Studies and Associate Professor of History and Theology of Mission. His expertise is in World Christianity, History and Theology of Mission, Social and Religious Movements in South Asia, Hinduism and Hindu-Christian Dialogue, Missiology and Contextualization, Inculturation, and Intercultural Theology.

Howard Snyder - Dr. Snyder is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Wesley Studies at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto, Canada. In addition to having served as the editor of Revitalization, the biannual newsletter of our Center, until 2009, Dr. Snyder has published several books and articles on revitalization in Christianity, including Signs of the Spirit.

David R. Thomas- Mr. Thomas is pursuing a PhD in Church History at the University of Bristol, England. His research focuses on “travailing prayer” as a pattern of preparedness for revival in the theology and practice of Jonathan Edwards and Charles Finney. He is married to Karen, and they live with their three children in Lexington, Kentucky.

Eunice Irwin- Dr. Irwin is Associate Professor of Mission and Contextual Theology. Her areas of expertise include primal religions, cults & new religious movements, the occult, missiology, and New Age spirituality.

Jeff Hiatt- Rev. Hiatt is the secretary for the Center and is an adjunct professor for Asbury Theological Seminary and Lindsey Wilson College teaching World Religions, Missions, and Wesley Studies courses. He is a staff preaching pastor for the Lexington Japanese Church.

Steve Ybarrola - Dr. Ybarrola is Professor of Cultural Anthropology, and his expertise is in Ethnicity and Inter-Ethnic Relations, Oral History, Ethnographic Research, and Culture Theory.

Meesaeng Lee Choi- Dr. Choi is Associate Professor of Church History and Historical Theology, and her expertise is in Church History, Historical Theology, Early Christianity, Wesleyan Holiness Studies and World Revitalization Movements.

Beverly Johnson-Miller - Dr. Johnson-Miller is Associate Professor of Christian Discipleship. Her areas of expertise within this field are in Christian Formation and Older Adult Ministry.

Ex-Officio Members

Bill Faupel - Dr. Faupel is Director of the Library and Professor of the History of Christianity at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. His areas of expertise within Church History include the history and theology of Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Holiness movements as well as Anglican theology.

Steven O’Malley -Dr. O’Malley is the John T. Seamands Professor of Methodist Holiness History and the former Chairperson for the area of Theological Studies. His expertise is in Historical Theology, Church History, Pietism, Christian Renewal and Discipleship.

Michael Rynkiewich - Dr. Rynkiewich is the director of Postgraduate Studies and Professor of Anthropology, and his expertise is in Anthropology Theory and Research, Missionary Context and Training, Values and Ethics in Cross-Cultural Perspectives, and Colonial and Post-Colonial Paradigm.

Jane Langat, Office Associate - Jane is a student at Asbury Theological Seminary E. Stanley Jones School of World Missions and Evangelization. She is excited to help with the center's office work.