CBM Team: Rupen Das

Rev. Dr. Rupen Das, CBM Global Field Staff
and senior advisor to CBM's International programs.

We are deeply grateful for the international team that composes Canadian Baptist Ministries in Canada and around the world. Having the opportunity to collaborate and support one another is what team is all about!

Earlier this month, our friend and colleague Rupen Das joined us for two weeks as the principle lecturer in the certificate of integral mission program for our second module in Rwanda and Kenya. Rupen's expertise and breadth of experience in relief and sustainable community development shone as he led our training on project design and logic.

Rupen teaching leaders from our church partners

 serving in Kenya and South Sudan

Rupen and Erica at tea break in Thika, Kenya

Rupen and his wife Mamta live and work in Amsterdam where Rupen serves with the the European Baptist Federation on behalf of CBM. Among his responsibilities, Rupen is assisting in relief efforts in Ukraine.

Prior to this assignment, Rupen directed the relief response of the Lebanese Baptist Churches in Syria and among the refugees population in Lebanon. Rupen is passionate about helping local churches to live their faith through ministries that bring about transformation for the most vulnerable in society.

Aaron and Rupen

Through training programs like CIM, Rupen assists in capacity building and organizational assessments among CBM's field staff and church partners around the world. Through Ruben's insightful leadership and disarming sense of humour, he is helping Christian leaders enrich their way of thinking about missions and poverty.  "It is not about activities," the class echoes Rupen, "It is about change!"

Over the past ten years, the CBM African partners have greatly benefitted from Rupen's encouragement. We personally owe Rupen's teaching and mentorship great credit for the projects and programs that we have been able to design and launch with our partners and Muslim ministry team. 

Rupen's career has been an eclectic journey from Navigators ministry in India to directing International Relief efforts with World Vision Canada, to being the dean of Humber College's International Development program. We appreciate the way that Rupen has been able to bring theological reflection into the fields of relief and community development: Through the books he has authored, the courses he teaches, the programs he leads and most of all in the relationships he builds with his students.

Rupen with his students!