Ephesiology Master Classes

Dr. Cooper earned a PhD in Intercultural Studies with a focus on religious movements and a minor in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He currently serves as a missiologist for a missions agency where he focuses on missiological research and equipping missionaries for effective cultural engagement. He has thirty years of missions experience, including ten years as a pioneer church planter in Romania after the fall of communism and has equipped church planters and leaders in Africa, Europe, North America, South America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. He is a guest faculty at Torch Trinity Graduate University, adjunct faculty at Mission India Theological Seminary, Asia Graduate School of Theology Nepal, and Ebenezer Bible College in Katmandu, and affiliate faculty at Kairos University. He has written and contributed to more than 30 books and academic articles and has presented conference lectures at the London School of Economics, University of Bordeaux, Loyola University, Baylor University, and many others. His recent book, Ephesiology: A Study of the Ephesian Movement is a best seller at William Carey Publishing.

Loré graduated from Towson State University with a BA in International Relations, and joined the staff of Cru at the University of New Hampshire as preparation for ministry in Eastern Europe. After the Berlin Wall fell and Romania executed their communist leader on Christmas day in 1989, she joined a small church planting team to help build up a local body of new believers in Craiova, Romania. She married Michael after her first year there and stayed on for 9 years working on church plants in Slatina, Pitesti, and Bucuresti. Loré loved being a stay home mom and working part time as Michael continued his degrees and ministry efforts. She has spent the last 25 years working with children in various contexts such as substitute teaching, children’s ministry worker, and tutor which inspired her to focus her Master of Arts degree at Kairos University on the effects of trauma and neglect.