Israel Oluwole Olofinjana

Rev Israel Oluwole Olofinjana is Director of the Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World. He is an accredited Baptist minister and the pastor of Woolwich Central Baptist Church in south-east London. He is the author of Reverse in Ministry and Missions: Africans in the Dark Continent of Europe (2010), 20 Pentecostal Pioneers in Nigeria: Their Lives, Their Legacies (2011) and Partnership in Mission: A Black Majority Church Perspective on Mission and Church Unity (2015). He is editor of Turning the Tables on Mission: Stories of Global South Christians in the UK (2013) and co-editor of Encountering London: London Baptists in the 21st Century (2015). Israel has a BA (Hons) in Religious Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and an MTh in Christian Apologetics from Carolina University of Theology, and has been working on a Professional Doctorate in Practical Theology at Cambridge Theological Federation/Anglia Ruskin University.