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About the Speakers
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Gary Gunderson
Gary Gunderson is the senior vice president of health and welfare ministries at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis, TN. Author of Deeply Woven Roots, Boundary Leaders (Fortress Press, 1997 and 2004), and Strong Partners (The Carter Center, 1996), Gunderson has given hundreds of presentations on health and faith in Africa, Europe, and the United States.
An ordained minister of the American Baptist Convention and in the process of ordination as a United Methodist Deacon, Gunderson has a Master of Divinity from Emory University, a Doctor of Ministry from the Interdenominational Theological Center and an honorary Ph.D. from the Chicago Theological Seminary.
He is on the faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University where he served as director of the Interfaith Health Program for 15 years. Gunderson is also a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town, Wesley Theological Seminary, Chicago Theological Seminary and Memphis Theological Seminary. He has served as the lead faculty for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Public Health and Faith Collaboration. He has been married to Karen since 1974 and has two daughters, Lauren and Kathryn around whom the world revolves. |
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Larry Pray
Lawrence M. Pray is a pastor of the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In addition to giving talks, lectures, and sermons both in Montana and around the country, he currently serves the Christian Church in Joliet, Montana and consults with St. Vincent’s Hospital in Billings, Montana. He is the senior pastoral scholar for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis, TN. He has served churches in Minnesota and Montana.
For 13 years he and his wife, Connie, authored the Calendar of Prayer for the United Church of Christ, and Missionworks, a newsletter of the American Missionary Association. He is the author of Journey of a Diabetic (Simon and Schuster, 1982). He has consulted with the World Council of Churches, the Interfaith Health Program, and the Church World Service. His international work has taken him to a number of destinations including consulting in Romania and Russia and development of a street-children’s ministry in Paraguay.
A graduate of Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, he received his Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and a Master of Arts from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He and Connie have been married since 1970 and have four children, Tim, Ben, Andy and Emily Jane. |
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