International Wholistic
Roundtables 2020
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Bryant Myers
Professor of Transformational Development, Fuller Seminary
Bryant Myers joined the faculty of Fuller as professor of transformational development in 2006. A lifelong activist dedicated to Christian relief and development work around the world, Myers brings over 30 years’ experience with World Vision International (WVI) to the Fuller community. He served primarily in senior management roles for WVI, most recently as vice president for development and food resources.
A published author on poverty and transformational development, humanitarian aid, and world mission, Myers’s most recent works include Health, Healing, and Shalom: Frontiers and Challenges for Christian Healthcare Missions (coedited), Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practice of Transformational Development, Working with the Poor: Insights and Learnings from Development Practitioners, and Exploring World Mission: Context and Challenges. He has also published numerous journal articles and fulfilled speaking engagements in numerous locations around the world.
Myers has served in various leadership roles within the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and has served on a variety of nonprofit boards. The courses he teaches at Fuller include Poverty and Development; Globalization, the Poor and Christian Mission; Relief, Refugees, and Conflict; Development Tools and Practice; Theology of Poverty and Development; and Advocacy for Social Justice.
Download Dr. Myer’s CV, which includes a list of his current publications, here.
Dr. Gil Odendaal
Managing Principal of Gil Odendaal Consultancy, LLC
Gil Odendaal is a missional entrepreneur with more than thirty years of ministry experience as missionary, pastor, educator, leader, author and public speaker. He is passionate about leading, supporting, and creating initiatives for missional organizations seeking integral solutions for effective work within the emerging paradigms of Global South – Global North collaborations to serve the least, the lost and the last.
From serving as Senior Vice President for World Relief and directing global initiatives for Saddleback Church to building innovative programs for other reputable global ministries, and serving as pastor at churches with membership of 100 to 23,000, he has invested his life to equip and serve the church and its pastors around the world to seamlessly integrate word and deed ministries that transform communities, especially through initiatives focused on women and children. His passion for seeing Christ proclaimed where there is no church and strengthening the church where it barely exists, has resulted in ministry on four continents and more than a hundred countries. He completed his PhD in Intercultural Studies at Trinity International University under Paul Hiebert and a D.Min at Westminster Theological Seminary.
Gil and his wife, Elmarie, were born and raised in South Africa. They have three adult children and six grandchildren.
Keith Holloway
Senior Director of Missions Development, World Challenge
Keith Holloway is the senior director of Missions Development at World Challenge, Inc. and has served in multiple leadership positions over the last 24 years. As a young man, he was encouraged into ministry by David Wilkerson, and in 2007, he and his wife, Maureen, began working with Community Health Evangelism (CHE) to revolutionize World Challenge’s approach to missions.
Today, Keith and Maureen travel the world, meeting with local church pastors and organizational leaders to encourage them toward a transformative worldview.
Dr. Bruce Wydick
Professor of Economics at the University of San Francisco and Director of Westmont College in San Francisco
Dr. Bruce Wydick is Professor of Economics at the University of San Francisco and the director of Westmont College in San Francisco. His research uses of econometric, experimental, and game-theoretic tools to analyze the effectiveness of poverty and development programs. Professor Wydick‘s recent work examines the impacts of microfinance, child sponsorship, and in-kind donation of children’s shoes, wheelchairs for the disabled, and cleft-palate surgeries. Other recent work studies the role of hope and aspirations in escaping poverty traps.
Professor Wydick is a regular writer on poverty and development issues for Christianity Today. His most recent book, Shrewd Samaritan: Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving our Global Neighbor, tries to bring together the most recent research in development economics to help people of faith into meaningful and effective engagement with global and domestic poverty.
Professor Wydick holds research affiliations with the Kellogg Institute of International Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the founder and co-director of Mayan Partners, a small non-profit organization working in the western highlands of Guatemala in the areas of education and community development.
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