Rev. Dr. Elmo Familiaran is a pastor, writer, denominational executive, and ministry practitioner of over 45 years. An ardent pupil of religion, politics, and culture, he is now adjunct faculty at Palmer Theological Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry in Contextual Leadership program, and a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. He is ordained in the American Baptist Churches, USA, and worked intensively in pastoral ministry, ecumenical and cross-cultural engagement, and executive leadership in both national and regional denominational settings, serving his final 14 years before retiring from full time ministry as Area Minister, and then as Interim Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of New Jersey. A graduate of Northern Seminary (MDiv) and the New York Theological Seminary (DMin), he is the co-author of No Greater Love: Triumph and Sacrifice of American Baptist Missionaries During WW II Philippines, and the Martyrdom in Hopevale. He lives in Florence, New Jersey with his wife, Maria Fe. Together they have two adult children, and three grandchildren.
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