Meet Reverend Calisto Odede

Our evenings at Pagdiriwang will open with a challenge to experience and extend the kingdom of heaven on earth from a Southeast Asian perspective; through the Holy Spirit leading Reverend Calisto Odede, we will end the week from an African perspective.

Reverend Odede became a follower of Jesus in 1980 while a high school student. He proceeded to study Education at Kenyatta University (Kenya) and read Biblical Studies at Trinity International University (SA) and Intercultural Education from Bethany International University (Singapore).

His professional and ministry career has included many university-focused organizations and churches, including FOCUS (Fellowship of Christian Unions), IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students), CITAM (Christ is the Answer Ministries), and currently Senior Pastor at Nairobi Baptist Church (Kenya). While working with FOCUS, he pioneered and directed the Commission Conference, a major students' mission conference in Africa.

Reverend Odede has had many doors opened to conduct Bible exposition and leadership training. He has been a featured speaker and Bible expositor at the Lausanne III Congress (South Africa), Urbana (USA), NIFES (Nigeria), Keswick Convention (UK), and Mission Korea (South Korea). He has contributed chapters in Going the Distance (Keswick, 2012) and Christ Our Reconciler (IVP, 2010).

Reverend Odede is married to Elizabeth and they have three sons.

Meet Dr. David S. Lim

Our evenings at Pagdiriwang will be blessed with excellent communicators challenging us from God's Word to experience and extend more of the kingdom of heaven to earth.

Our week will open with Dr. David S. Lim encouraging us from a Southeast Asian perspective. Dr. Lim may be best known within CCT circles as one of the CCT co-founders, but God has since led him to extend the kingdom in many capacities.  He serves as the President of the Asian School for Development and Cross-cultural Studies (ASDECS), which provides doctoral, masteral, and certificate level training programs for transformational development and missions. He is also the President of China Ministries International-Philippines (CMI) that recruits Filipino missionaries for China. He had previously served as Academic Dean at Asian Theological Seminary (Philippines) and Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (U.K.). He earned his Th.M. (New Testament) from the Asian Centre for Theological Studies in Seoul, Korea, and his Ph.D. Theology (New Testament) from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (USA).

Dr. Lim has authored four books, including Transforming Communities (OMF Publishers) and has co-edited four additional books relating to extending the kingdom to the Buddhist World. He is married to Marie Lim and they have two adult children.