Erich
Baumgartner
is Professor of Leadership and Intercultural Communication
in the Leadership Department at Andrews University in Berrien
Springs, Michigan. He coordinates the Peru Initiative, a
partnership with the Universidad
Peruana Union. He has a Doctor of Philosophy in Intercultural
Studies from Fuller, in Pasadena, California.
Courses:
- LEAD630:
Leadership Seminar (Summer Semester)
- LEAD638:
Issues in Leadership Theory (Fall Semester)
- BSAD450:
Multicultural Business Relations
- PhD &
MA courses
Erich
is the bookmaster of the Leadership Program at Andrews University.
If you have any suggestions for an important book on leadership
or leadership competencies, feel free to drop him a note
at baumgart@andrews.edu.
Erich
is the 16th President of the American
Society for Church Growth (ASCG), an interdenominational
organization founded in 1986 by C. Peter Wagner, Fuller
Seminary. This international organization seeks to provide
a networking and learning system for leaders or organizations
associated with church growth. This responsibility was carried
in the past by such well-known church growth leaders as
C. Peter Wagner, George Hunter III, Kent R. Hunter, Elmer
Towns, Eddie Gibbs, Carl F. George, Gary L. McIntosh, Charles
VanEngen, Charles Arn, and Alan McMahan.
Prior to coming to Andrews University, Erich served as a
pastor in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria and in Los Angeles,
California, and as director of the Leadership Development
Institute in Portland, Oregon, and Moscow, Russia. In the
early 1990's he was responsible for developing leadership
training programs in Russia as Christian churches multiplied
after the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union.
Erich has been involved in preparing professionals and their
families for cross-cultural assignments. He also directed
the Global Research Center that
keeps track of the growth of the Seventh-day Adventist church
worldwide.
He
also was involved in developing English resources to implement
the insights based on the global research of the Institute
of Church Development in Germany, directed by Christian
Schwarz, the author of Natural Church Development. Erich
translated The Impementation Guide to Natural Church
Development and The ABCs of Natural Church
Development.
Education:
1990
Ph.D. Intercultural Studies
Fuller Theological Seminary, School of World Mission
Dissertation: “Towards a Model of Pastoral Leadership
for Church Growth in German-Speaking Europe”
1987
M.A. Missiology
School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary
1978
Master of Divinity
SDA Theological Seminary, Andrews University
1975
Diplôme d’Evangéliste Licencé
(B.A.)
Seminaire Adventiste Collonges, France
1974
Diplom für Pastoraltheologie
Seminar Schloss Bogenhofen, Austria |
