Speaker Bio:

Bruce Koch

 

Bruce Koch, as a member of the Frontier Mission Fellowship, has been serving at the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena, CA since 1987.  He developed a keen interest in mission in his college years and received a degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Utah in hopes of becoming a church planter among Muslims.  The U.S. Center has given he and his wife, Linda, the opportunity to work strategically for the sake of the unreached peoples, even though they have not been able to leave the country because of caring for a handicapped foster son.  Of the many roles he has filled at the USCWM, he has particularly enjoyed his contributions to the Perspectives movement as a coordinator, a lecturer, and in 1998 serving as the associate editor of the Perspectives Reader as a member of the curriculum revision team.  His cross-cultural experiences include evangelistic outreach training in Muslim communities in New York City, three months of ethnographic research and a two week follow-up prayer journey in Turkey.  He recently returned from a rewarding short term project distributing the “Jesus” film to unreached peoples in southern Thailand with his 15 yr. old daughter.