Paul-Gordon Chandler - Life

Life

He is currently the Rector of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist/Maadi in Cairo, Egypt, within the Anglican / Episcopal Diocese of Egypt & North Africa. St. John’s Church/Maadi is the international English-speaking Episcopal/Anglican church in southern Cairo with an international congregation of over 25 nationalities from many denominations and church traditions.

Immediately prior to this role, he served as the President/CEO of Partners International (PI), an international and ecumenical development organization that exists to assist and empower indigenous faith-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in over 70 countries. Before serving with PI, he was the U.S. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of IBS Publishing (now Biblica), a publishing and distribution non-profit that works in over 500 languages, and the sponsor of the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible.

Prior to that he worked with the Anglican Church for five years. From 1995-1997, he worked with SPCK in London, England as the Director of SPCK Worldwide, an international publishing agency of the Church of England involved in publishing and communications in the UK and throughout the Two-Thirds World. Before this he served in Tunisia, North Africa, as the Rector of St. George's Episcopal/Anglican Church in Tunis/Carthage and Chaplain to the British Embassy. St. George’s Church was the only English-speaking church in Tunisia, a Muslim majority country, and served as the international church congregation to internationals from over 30 nationalities living and working in Tunisia. Prior to that, he worked with IBS Publishing as Director of International Programs and served for several years directing translation, publishing and distribution projects throughout the world, in over 100 countries.

He is actively engaged in exploring and encouraging the interplay between “Faith and the Arts” within the context of interfaith, encouraging Muslims and Christians to journey together through the Arts. He started an international interfaith arts initiative called Caravan that serves as a catalyst toward building bridges of understanding and respect between Christians and Muslims, West and East, through the Arts. He is also the founder of Nisibis Arts LLC, that exists to develop commercially successful creative initiatives (i.e. films) that both entertain and have as their deeper purpose the building of bridges across creeds and cultures.

He studied at Wheaton College where he majored in Biblical/Theological Studies (B.A. 1986) and also at Chichester Theological College (Church of England institution) in England.