Email: shivraj.mahendra01@gmail.com
SHIVRAJ K. MAHENDRA
Gospel Preaching, Theological Teaching, Hindi Translation, and more!
Rev. Dr. Shivraj Kumar Mahendra is Dean of Online Studies and Associate Professor of World Christianity (teaching History of Christianity and Missiology) at New Theological College (NTC) Dehradun; Professor of Indian Church History at North India College of Christian Studies (NICCS), Gurugram; and Adjunct Professor of Mission Studies at Kentucky Mountain Bible College (KMBC), USA.
Dr. Mahendra also serves as the General Secretary of Church History Association of India (CHAI) Bangalore; Member of Board of Studies (Missiology Branch), Senate of Serampore College (University); Board Member of the Bible Society of India (Allahabad Auxiliary); Editor of History, Asian American Theological Forum (AATF); Managing Editor at the E Stanley Jones Foundation (ESJF); Member, The 2023 Prize Committee, American Society of Church History (ASCH); Member of International Association of Mission Studies (IAMS), Ambassador at JC2033, and Member of the Curation Team, Lausanne Movement (L4).
A graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary, USA (PhD), Dr. Mahendra is also an alumnus of the United Theological College, Bengaluru (MTh), Union Biblical Seminary, Pune (BD), Luther W. New Jr. Theological College, Dehradun (BTh), Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar (MA [Sociology]), and Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi (BA [Sociology], MA [Hindi], Post Graduate Diploma in Translation [PGDT], and Post Graduate Diploma in Distance Education [PGDDE]).
Shivraj Mahendra’s research interests include biography as missiology, world Christianities, and world religions. His publications include the award-winning Lived Missiology (2021) and nine other books and twenty Hindi translations, including Timothy Tennent’s Christianity at the Religious Roundtable (2003), C. B. Firth’s Introduction to Indian Church History (2004), and M. M. Thomas’ The Acknowledged Christ of the Indian Renaissance (2010).
Dr. Mahendra comes from Chhattisgarh in central India and has been involved in Christian mission and ministries since 1996. An ex-President of the Ganesha festival, Shivraj's life was transformed by the vision of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is an Ordained Elder of the Free Methodist Church (FMC-USA) currently serving as Coordinator of Missions in the Himalayan Mission District of the FMC-India. He also organizes the annual Hindi Christian Poets Conference under the Hindi Christian Literary group Masihi Lekhak Aur Anuvadak Parishad. Dr. Mahendra is married to Anita Mahendra (MA [English], MDiv) and they are blessed with two daughters and two grandchildren. Mrs. Mahendra is a homemaker and a prayer warrior.
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