Dr. Curt Watke is a North American missiologist with a passion for reaching the diverse people groups across North America. He has developed cutting edge contextual resources for helping churches connect with their culture. He has served churches in Georgia, Virginia and Pennsylvania and trained church planters who started postmodern Anglo, Mandarin, and Portuguese-language churches in Canada. He has trained pastors on three continents, holds two masters degrees and a doctorate (PhD) with a double major in both missiology and in evangelism, and has conducted sociocultural research in both the United States and Canada. He served as a professor of Evangelism & Church Planting at Prairie Bible College and Graduate School in Alberta, Canada and has taught at four other seminaries and graduates schools in the United States and Canada. He founded the Intercultural Institute for Contextual Ministry in 2003 after serving in the Church Planting Group at the North American Mission Board, SBC. He has been the principal researcher in the following research projects: SITESCAPE Location Typology (2007); MissionPoint: Active Evangelical Presence by Census Tract (2007); APEPT Missionality Questionnaire (2008); MissionCraft: Forecasting Rate of Church closures (2008). He has also developed the following online resources: MissionalZipcode.org (Missional Zipcode Catalogue, 2008); MissionalCorps.org (social networking for mission, 2008) and MissionalCyclopedia.org (online cyclopedia similar to Wikipedia). And he has co-authored the following books and materials: Ministry Context Exploration: Understanding North American Cultures (w/ Bruce Scott, 2002); and Starting Reproducing Congregations (w/Daniel Sanchez & Ebbie Smith, 2003).

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