+Grant LeMarquand
ThD, 2002
Prior to attending Wycliffe, I was deeply involved in InterVarsity, was ordained in the Diocese of Montreal and served a curacy, and became the Anglican chaplain at McGill University. Then, for two-and-a-half years, my wife Wendy (a medical doctor) and I lived in Limuru, Kenya, where we served as mission partners of the Anglican Church of Canada, teaching (mostly) New Testament studies at St Paul's United Theological College.
While teaching in Kenya, I discerned a need to study for a doctoral degree in New Testament studies. Wycliffe provided both academic rigor, the support of a believing Christian community, and a scholarship. My doctoral degree compared African and Western interpretations of the story of the woman with the flow of blood (Mark 5:25-34 and parallels). Most of my research and academic writing from that time on has focused on African biblical studies and how reading from an African context can help us to understand biblical texts. While at Wycliffe, I initiated a programme of cross-cultural immersion experiences that brought students and faculty to Kenya to experience Christian ministry in a radically different context from our Canadian one.
After leaving Wycliffe in 1998, I served on the faculty of Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania for fourteen years, teaching both biblical studies and mission, and continued to organize and lead cross-cultural immersions. In 2012, at the invitation of Archbishop Mouneer Anis of Egypt, I was consecrated bishop to serve as the area bishop for the Horn of Africa, an area of the (then) Diocese of Egypt which included Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and Ethiopia. Now I am once again teaching at TSM.
I have always found Wycliffe to be a supportive and welcoming community.
