Girón is Installed as Executive Director of IIbET
The General Assembly of the Ibero American Institute of Cross Cultural Studies (IIbET) took place November 21-23 in Torrox Costa, province of Malaga, Spain. Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Girón was formally installed as its new executive director and charged with the responsibility of IIbET’s training ministry of Ibero-American missionaries working in the Muslim world.
Another exciting highlight of the assembly was the appointment of Pedro Jones as IIbET’s new academic director. Pedro, an experienced missionary and anthropologist with an M. Div. in Biblical languages, accepted the call to join this new team. IIbET was created a decade ago through the collaboration of some twenty missionary organizations working among Muslims. The hallmark of IIbET’s training programs is its integral approach oriented towards academic and practical formation, which directly contributes to lessen the impact of one of the most harmful elements of cross-cultural missions, i.e. the early attrition from the field due to inadequate training.
The president of IIbET’s board of directors, Miguel Juez, concluded that, “The spirit that permeated our consciences and hearts during the assembly was to give the Lord the liberty and the opportunity to surprise us with all that He wants to do through IIbET, and also through those of us who believe He will show us greater things in IIbET’s future.”
Dr. Girón comes to IIbET with a wealth of experience in the missionary field. His formal education has concentrated in the areas of missions and education. As part of his fieldwork he has been the president of COMIBAM International, and as a missionary educator in Russia he founded the Eurasian Theological Seminary, as well as being the director of Hispanic education for the Church of God in the U.S.
At the end of the assembly the new executive director concluded, “As a group, we have redefined our vision and mission statements for the next five years. This refocuses our attention to the main objectives for the new plan; namely, the revision of the institute’s curriculum, the sharpening of an integral methodology along with the starting of a process of accreditation and course recognition with other educational institutions, and giving special attention to the strengthening of our cooperative relationships with IIbET’s partner organizations.”
Rudy Girón, Missionary to Spain
Project Number 0600065
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