Alan Walker (theologian)

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The Reverend Sir Alan Walker, O.B.E., M.A., D.D. (4 June 1911 - 29 January 2003) was an Australian theologian and evangelist. He was:

involved in the formation of the World Council of Churches
Superintendent of the Methodist (later Uniting Church in Australia) Wesley Mission, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1958–1978 and one of the founders of NCYC in 1955 and Lifeline in 1963
first world director of evangelism for the World Methodist Council, 1978 to 1988
involved in founding the World Methodist Evangelism Institute (located at the United Methodist-related Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, 1982.
Principal of the Pacific College of Evangelism, now the Alan Walker College of Evangelism, in Sydney, 1982–1995.

He was awarded the World Methodist Peace Award in 1986 and honoured as an Australian Living Treasure.

He was married to Lady Winifred Walker and they had four children; a daughter, Lynette Sue, and three sons, all of whom followed him into ministry: Bruce and Christopher as ministers of the Uniting Church in Australia and David as a social worker. All three sons earned M.Div. degrees at Garrett in Chicago (and Chris went on to earn a Ph.D. at Claremont).

(Among Alan Walker's ancestors was a convict couple whose drunken son became a Methodist minister after his conversion. Walker was the thirteenth minister of the family).

[edit] Biographies

Don Wright. Alan Walker: Conscience of the Nation. ISBN 0-85910-836-8.
Harold Henderson. Reach for the World: A Biography of Alan Walker, Discipleship Resources, Nashville Tennessee, 1981. No ISBN !.