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Chairman of the Board - Rev. Dr. Habib Badr

Address:               
National Evangelical Church of Beirut
P.O.Box 11-5224,
Beirut, LEBANON

Tel:        (961) 1-980051/52
Mobile:  (961) 3-690112
Fax:       (961) 1-980050
e-mail:    nec.beirut@t-net.com.lb

I- Personal:
Birth:                Beirut, 1950
Status:              Married to Wadi'a Jabara
Children:           Eva RenĂ©e

II- Academic:
1972                B.A., American University of Beirut (Philosophy).
1975                M.Div., Yale University Divinity School.
1976                S.T.M. student, Princeton Theological Seminary.
1992                Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary.

III- Professional:

1980-85          
Full-time lecturer in church history, Near East School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon. 
Part-time pastor, National Evangelical Church of Beirut.

 1985- 
Full-time pastor, National Evangelical Church of Beirut.
Part-time lecturer, Near East School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon.

1985-              
Presiding judge, Confessional Court of the Evangelical Community of Beirut.

1985-              
Member, Executive Committee, Middle East Council of Churches.

1985-              
Member, Exec. Comm., Supreme Council of Evangelical Churches in Syria and Lebanon.

1995-              
Member, Executive committee, Fellowship of the Middle East Evangelical Churches.

 1995-              
Board member, SAT 7 International Board (Chair since 1997)

Area of interest and research:

American Protestant Missionary Activity in the Near East (esp. Lebanon and Syria) 

Publications:  Mostly articles in journals on the general area of Protestantism in the Middle East. 

Co-editor: Christianity Through Its History In The East, 2001 (In Arabic).

Forthcoming publication: same in English. 
Schneller School Name in Arabic
Johann Ludwig Schneller Schule

Education for Peace since 1860