Alan Walker
Alan Edgar Walker, OBE (4 June 1911 — 29 January 2003) was an Australian Methodist minister.Alan Walker was:involved in the formation of the World Council of ChurchesSuperintendent of the Methodist (later Uniting Church in Australia) Wesley Mission, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1958–1978 and one of the founders of the National Christian Youth Convention (NCYC) in 1955 and Lifeline in 1963first world director of evangelism for the World Methodist Council, 1978 to 1988involved in founding the World Methodist Evangelism Institute (located at the United Methodist-related Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, 1982.Principal of the Pacific College of Evangelism, now the Alan Walker College of Evangelism, in Sydney, 1982–1995.In 1986, Walker was awarded the World Methodist Peace Award and, in 1997, was one of the 100 people named as an Australian Living Treasure.
Personal facts
| Birth date | April 06, 1911 |
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| Birth name | Alan Walker |
| Date of death | January 29, 2003 |
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