 GRANT McCLUNG |
Dr. Grant McClung is President/CEO of Missions Resource Group, a world missions resourcing ministry that provides training, consulting, and mentoring to the global Great Commission community (www.MissionsResourceGroup.org). McClung is an Advisory Editor for Christianity Today magazine and is a member of the Editorial/Advisory Committee of EMIS, the Evangelism and Missions Information Service, a ministry extension of the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, Illinois. He serves on the Executive Board of The Mission Exchange (formerly EFMA) and the World Missions Commission of the Pentecostal World Fellowship. A veteran field missionary and missions leader, McClung is currently serving in an at-large capacity for global missionary education through Church of God World Missions. He is an elected member of the International Executive Council of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee U.S.A.). |
A trained missiologist, McClung is a graduate of the Fuller Theological Seminary School of Intercultural Studies (Doctor of Missiology) where he served as Teaching Assistant to C. Peter Wagner and was awarded the Paul Yonggi Cho Church Growth Award for his research on Pentecostal missions. He is a regular contributor to missions and Pentecostal/Charismatic publications, including chapters on Pentecostal missiology in The Globalization of Pentecostalism: A Religion Made to Travel (Regnum Books 1999) and the International Dictionary of The Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (Zondervan Publishing 2001). Upon the occasion of the centennial observance of the Azusa Street Revival (1906 – 2006), McClung’s article, “Pentecostals: The Sequel,” was featured as the cover story for the April 2006 issue of Christianity Today magazine (www.christianitytoday.com). His classic analysis of Pentecostal/Charismatic missions, Azusa Street and Beyond: 100 Years of Commentary on the Global Pentecostal/Charismatic Movement (Bridge-Logos Publishing 2006), was highlighted at the Azusa Street Centennial. |
McClung began his ministry as a pastor in his native California. As an advocate for the primary role of the local church in world evangelization, he wrote a special resource for pastors, laity, and local church missions leaders: Globalbeliever.com: Connecting to God’s Work in Your World (Pathway Press Revised 2009). McClung and his wife, Janice, (a musician, composer, and speaker), have led a weekly global intercessory prayer ministry in their local church for twenty uninterrupted years. |
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