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Dr. Curt Watke is a North American missiologist with a passion for reaching the diverse people groups across North America. He has developed cutting edge contextual resources for helping churches connect with their culture.
He has served churches in pastoral ministry in Georgia, Virginia and Pennsylvania and trained church planters who started postmodern Anglo-phone, Chinese, and Portuguese-language churches in Canada. He has trained pastors on three continents, holds two masters degrees from Biblical Theological Seminary and a doctorate (PhD) with a double major in both missiology and in evangelism. His major doctoral professors were Drs. Roy Fish, Malcolm McDow, Daniel Sanchez, and Ebbie Smith at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
He has conducted sociocultural research in both the United States and Canada; served as a professor of Evangelism & Church Planting at Prairie Bible College and Graduate School in Alberta, Canada and has taught at four other seminaries and graduates schools in the United States and Canada including Southeastern Seminary, Southwestern Seminary, Golden Gate Seminary and Heritage Baptist Seminary (Canada). He founded the Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry in 2003 after serving in the Church Planting Group at the North American Mission Board, SBC.
He has been the principal researcher in the following research projects:
- SITESCAPE Location Typology (2007)
- APEPT Missionality Questionnaire (2008)
- MissionCraft: Forecasting Rate of Church Closures (2008)
- MissionPoint: Active Evangelical Presence by Census Tract (2009)
- MissionSite: Location Exploration for Top Church Planting Locations (2010)
He has also developed the following online resources: MissionalZipcode.org (Missional Zipcode Catalogue, 2008); MissionalCorps.org (social networking for mission, 2008) and MissionalCyclopedia.org (online cyclopedia similar to Wikipedia).
Research Interests
Neotribal segments & groups, nonmetropolitan and metropolitan environments, issues relating self-identity & social cohesion to faith transmission & congregational development, contextualization processes in neotribal cultures; development of evangelization processes with tracking capabilities.
