Beth Elness-Hanson
Professor & Chair of Biblical Studies
Intercultural Studies Program Director
Contact: 425.249.4768, beth.elnesshanson@tlc.edu

With a passion for inductive biblical study and global perspectives on biblical interpretation, Professor Elness-Hanson’s specialty is the Hebrew Bible. She has a special love for the work of the church in Tanzania, where she lived and served for five years. Read full biography.

Diana Keuss
Affiliate Faculty in Intercultural Studies

Kathi Williams
Missionary-in-Residence
Affiliate Faculty in Intercultural Studies

With a B.A. from Concordia University (Irvine, CA), and a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (T.E.S.O.L.) from the University of the Nations (Hawaii), Kathi is passionate about motivating herself and others to bring the Gospel to those who have not heard. Her life and service with the World Mission Prayer League (WMPL) in the southern Philippines for the last twenty years was in outreach to Muslims.

Dr. Mark S. Williams
Missionary-in-Residence
Affiliate Faculty in Intercultural Studies

With a Ph.D. in Development Studies from Ateneo de Davao University (Philippines), Dr. Williams has served in ministry to Muslims for the last 20 years. He specializes in issues related to peace-and-development, globalization, and concern for appropriate cultural and theological contextualization in presenting the Gospel to those who have not heard. Teaching at seminaries and various mission conferences in many different places in the Philippines, Dr. Williams has enjoyed stimulating the thinking of students and practitioners for engaging in the missionary enterprise from Southeast Asia “…to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8).