LifeWay’s Stetzer to join staff at Wheaton College

WHEATON, Ill. — Ed Stetzer, executive director of LifeWay Research and executive editor of The Gospel Project curriculum published by LifeWay, has been named to the faculty of Wheaton College in Illinois and as executive director of Wheaton’s Billy Graham Center for Evangelism.

Stetzer, 49, will begin his new roles at Wheaton on July 1, which also will include publisher of Evangelical Missions Quarterly, founded nearly 50 years ago, and chair of the Wheaton College Graduate School’s evangelism and leadership program.

In the newly endowed academic post named The Billy Graham Distinguished Endowed Chair for Church, Mission and Evangelism, and through Wheaton’s Billy Graham Center, Stetzer said he looks forward to “a unique opportunity to serve the Church, helping Christians know and engage their culture in the name of Christ.”

(BP)