TPF 2009-2010 - The Pastor as... Evangelist

Rev. Joe Boot is an apologist, educator, author and pastor. His undergraduate work was in theology at Birmingham Christian College in England and his post-graduate research is in Missiology with the University of Manchester. He served with Ravi Zacharias for seven years as an apologist in the U.K and Canada working for five years as Canadian director of RZIM and continues to serve as an adjunct apologist.

He has spoken all over the world in over 20 countries in numerous universities, seminaries, churches, colleges and conferences, including Eton College Windsor, Oxford University, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, London School of theology, Virginia Tech, Forman University in Lahore, Pakistan and has publicay debated leading atheists in North American universities.

His apologetic works include Searching for Truth, Why I Still Believe and How Then Shall We Answer, which have been published in Europe and North America. He is visiting lecturer at the Oxford Centre for Christian apologetics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, England and is a contributing author to the major apologetics volume Beyond Opinion.

He lives in Toronto with his wife Jenny and three children Naomi, Hannah and Isaac where he is pastoring Westminster Chapel and launching the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity.

Joe will be addressing us on our need to evangelize the lost as part of fulfilling our charge as ministers of the gospel.