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Rodger Nishioka is an American preacher, Seminary professor, and Christian educator. He currently serves as director of Adult Educational Ministries at Village Church in Prairie Village, Kansas. He was previously the Benton Family Associate Professor of Christian Education at Columbia Theological Seminary. Nishioka is noted for his work with young people and his reputation as a popular "keynoter" at inter-denominational Christian youth conferences.
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- Career
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Rodger nishioka 21st century reformation
Career
Nishioka received a B.A. from Seattle Pacific University (1983), an M.A.T.S. from McCormick Theological Seminary (1998), and a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Foundations of Education (2008) from Georgia State University. The son of a retired Presbyterian pastor, he was ordained an elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 1978. He taught at English and Social Sciences at Curtis Junior High School in Tacoma, WA (1978-1986) before becoming the National Coordinator for Youth and Young Adult Ministries for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (1986-1999). Beginning in 2000, he served as the Associate professor of Christian Education at Columbia Theological Seminary (2000-2008). He was the Benton Family Associate Professor of Christian Education at Columbia Theological Seminary before moving to the Village Presbyterian Church.
Thought
Nishioka focuses on equipping pastors to be teachers and leaders in the church’s educational ministry, specializing in particular on youth and young adult ministry. He is a strong proponent of diversity in education and states “Good things happen when we gather in all of our diversity to work together on theological imagination and resilient leaders because imagination and resiliency are hindered by homogeneity (sameness), and enhanced by heterogeneity (differences).” He has published a number of books, and articles and has contributed many chapters to books.
His most recent research focuses on young adults, 20–30 years old, asking them “Why are so few of you sticking with us, especially, especially since we baptized and nurtured many of you?”. He discovered a trend of wanting “to see how God is at work in our world—and they want us to show them how to live a more faithful life in response to God’s overwhelming grace in Jesus Christ.”