Samuel Yonas Deressa (PhD, Luther Seminary) is associate professor of theology and the Global South, holds the Fiechtner Chair for Christian Outreach, and serves as director of the Christian outreach certificate program at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He previously taught at Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Deressa is the author of Leadership Formation in the African Context and the coeditor of A Church for the World, Forming Leaders for the Public Church, and The Other Lutherans: Lutheran Voices from the Global South.