Stefan Paas

Prof Stefan Paas worked as a high school teacher and as a staffworker for the IFES in the Netherlands until 1999.  After he finished his PhD in Old Testament Studies (1998), he became a consultant for evangelism in the Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.  He became involved in several church plants.  In 2005 he and his family moved to Amsterdam, where they assisted in the planting of Via Nova, a new church in the city centre.  Being a professional theologian and committed to education, Stefan became a lecturer in missiology for the Theological University of the Free Reformed Churches in the Netherlands in 2009.  In 2010 he took the J.H. Bavinck Chair for Church Planting and Church Renewal at the VU University Amsterdam.  Currently he divides his time between these two jobs.  Stefan is also involved in the City to City Europe network of Redeemer Presbyterian Church (NYC), and he takes part in several national networks of evangelism and church planting.  He has written some books on these subjects as well, and is preparing a publication in English on church planting in Europe.  Stefan is married to Dorret, who is a school teacher, and they have a son and two daughters.