Pastors, Chiefs, and Warlords: The Ministry of Being with - Hardcover

by Bob Walters (Author), Kate Koppy (Author), Taylor Walters Denyer (Foreword by)

Written as a series of reflections, this book is a conversation-shifting exploration of how the church understands the role of missionaries and their work. On bicycle and riverboat journeys totaling more than 2000 kilometers, Bob's team visits Pastors, Chiefs, and Warlords in remote towns, including Rev. Jacky Mwayuma (pictured at left with a parishoner), who was appointed to serve a community that had been ravaged by the recent war. As readers are pulled deeper into this voyage, they are invited to wrestle with increasingly challenging questions about the mission of the church, the global economy, neocolonialism, savior complexes, racism, war, and justice. This book follows The Last Missionary, but it also stands on its own as a complete work.

Author Biography

Bob Walters, a Marine Corps helicopter pilot turned United Methodist pastor, regularly journeyed to DR Congo for deep listening tours from 1991 to 2017. Bob served as the Director of Connectional Ministries for the North Katanga Episcopal Area and cofounded Friendly Planet Missiology. His first book, The Last Missionary, has become a core text in a number of university mission courses.



Kate Koppy is an Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) in the Department of Humanities and Languages at the New Economic School in Moscow where she teaches students to meet the world in its stories and to shape the world with their writing. She studies the interaction of narrative and community and has published on fairy tales, textiles, and medieval manuscripts.