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140 Alemayehu Mekonnen Dr. Alemayehu Mekonnen joined the faculty in 2008 and is associate professor of missions. He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies, an MA in Missions, and an MA in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary; an MA in Cross-Cultural Communication from Assemblies of God Graduate School of Theology, and a BTh from East Africa School of Theology. For the last several years, Dr. Mekonnen has worked with the Evangelical Free Church of America International Mission (now called Reach Global). He has also taught at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology. As associate professor of missiology and chair of the missions department, he provided the leadership to develop a missions emphasis within the MA, MDiv, and MTh degrees, as well as developing an MA program in Islamic Studies. Dr. Mekonnen has published Culture Change in Ethiopia: An Evangelical Perspective, as well as three theological books in the Amharic language, the national language of Ethiopia. For the last three decades, he has served as an evangelist, pastor, teacher, and missionary. Email: alex.mekonnen@denverseminary.edu Phone: 303-357-5810 Reggie Moore Mr. Reggie Moore joined the faculty in 2008 as an instructor in counseling. He is a member of the American Counseling Association and the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision. Mr. Moore is a PhD student at the University of Northern Colorado. He earned an MA from Colorado Christian University, and a BA from the University of Kansas. He has served as an adjunct professor of psychology and counseling at Colorado Christian University. Mr. Moore has served as assistant director of Hope Communities, Inc., a nonprofit affordable housing provider, for seven years. He was also a therapist and trainer at the National Institute for Change in Denver, and a counselor at the University of Northern Colorado's Psychological Services Clinic. Research interests include the treatment of historical trauma within the African-American community using an integration of narrative, medical, and psychosocial approaches, and the treatment of adolescents and family systems from existential and systemic perspectives and modalities. Email: reggie.moore@denverseminary.edu Phone: 303-762-6892