E. Paul Balisky

Paul Balisky, together with his wife, Lila, served with SIM in Ethiopia, 1967–2005. During his missionary career he was involved in church planting, supervising various development projects in southwest Ethiopia during the 1974–1991 Marxist regime, instructing at various levels of the Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church’s theological schools, and most recently teaching at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Addis Ababa. His PhD thesis, supervised by Professor Andrew Walls at the University of Aberdeen, Wolaitta Evangelists: A Study of Religious Innovation in Southern Ethiopia, 1937–1975, was published by Pickwick Publications in the American Society of Missiology Monograph Series in 2009. Paul and Lila now make their home in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada.