Kroeker, Paul D.: - When you stand on a high mountain on a clear day, you can see far. Paul Kroeker's life and travel experiences have allowed him to see spiritual trends and issues others may have noticed, but not fully understood. Over a forty-year period of time, he has been involved in discipleship training and spiritual formation in a number of denominational settings. In the mid-1990s, he and his family spent three months traveling in Europe, exploring new models of spiritual formation and discipleship. This led to a number of international work assignments with intensive engagements in intercultural learning situations. As the Dean of International Programs at Canadian Mennonite University, he directed a gap year program that took students to South Africa, Guatemala, and Burkina Faso. His next assignment was with an international discipleship network called Global Disciples, where he developed new models for church planting and discipleship. Currently, he works with C2C Network, a church planting organization. His role is to encourage discipleship and church planting among new Canadians and ethnic minorities.
Paul and his wife, Arlene, live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, close to their two adult children. An avid traveler, Paul loves to meet new people, experience new cultures and to integrate mentoring and discipleship into a life of adventure. It's his prayer that this book will be an encouragement for many to become authentic disciples who love, live and serve in the way of Jesus.