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Dr. Todd M. Johnson is director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity and co-author of World Christian
Encyclopedia (WCE), Second Edition, released in 2001 by Oxford University Press,
one of the world’s leading publishers of reference books.
Since 1989, Dr. Todd M. Johnson has been a full-time researcher on the empirical status of global Christianity, most recently as Director of the World Evangelization Research Center (WERC) in Richmond, Virginia. He has also been with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) since 1978 and has performed various ministry tasks in over 30 countries, including relief work among Cambodian refugees in Thailand, inner city work in San Francisco, evangelism in villages in Guatemala, and field-based research in Asia. He is co-founder of the Christian Futures Network, a professional member of the World Future Society and a member of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year and the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.
Dr. David B. Barrett works for the Center offsite and was editor of the World Christian Encyclopedia’s first edition and co-author of the second edition. Dr. Barrett has been an ordained foreign missionary of the Church of England since 1951, serving mainly in Africa. Since 1969, he has been Anglican Communion Research Secretary. His research has appeared in 70 books and 200 articles. At present he works as Research Professor of Missiometrics at Regent University. He founded the World Evangelization Research Centre in East Africa in 1965, relocating to Richmond, Virginia in 1985.
Peter Frank Crossing works for the Center offsite and is an Australian missiologist, a database programmer, and the associate editor for the WCE second edition. A native of Australia, Peter Crossing has served as Missions Information Coordinator at the Sydney Centre for World Mission, where he interpreted and disseminated the results of missiological research to churches and missions agencies and consulted with church mission committees and agencies on the status of the spread of the gospel. He also provided database consulting for the National Church Life Survey, and data analysis with MapInfo Australia.
Johnson, Barrett and Crossing are also editors of World Christian Trends, (William Carey Library, 2001), a 952-page companion volume that includes a first-ever empirical survey of Christian martyrdom, historical trends, future projections and finance.
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