LTC core faculty
Dr. Don Little
dlittle @ liliastrottercenter.org
Don is a co-founder and the Director of the Lilias Trotter Center. Don served for 13 years as a church planter in North Africa, and 8+ years in executive leadership of Arab World Ministries, Canada. He has served as a Missiologist-at-Large for Pioneers for 18 years. He is also the producer and co-host of The Reflexio Podcast.
Don has taught courses on ministry to Muslims in five colleges and seminaries and has taught seminars on discipling believers of Muslim background and on ministry among Muslims in some 20 countries in the Europe, North America, the Arab world, Africa, and Southeast Asia. His book Effective Discipling in Muslim Communities: Scripture, History and Seasoned Practices (IV Press Academic, 2015) is being widely used across the Muslim world.
His life focus is to disciple people to be all that they can be in God and to mobilize, train and mentor men and women to a life of loving Muslims. He enjoys investing deeply in people so as to help them be fruitful and healthy in God.
Dr. Benjamin Hegeman
bhegeman @ liliastrottercenter.org
Rev. Dr. Benjamin is a co-founder of the Lilias Trotter Center.
He has been blessed to visit 48 nations, be married 44, a clergyman 40, a SIM missionary 37, a professor in Benin spanning 35 years, and a PhD-doctor for 25 years.
In addition to teaching Islam annually, he is committed to discipling and leading Bible studies for young men in order to help them grow in faith and expand their Christian worldview.
He has a burning vision for promoting bush pastors-in-training up to doctoral students in Islamic studies and Muslim ministries.
Christine and Benjamin work in collaboration with Houghton University in NY. Their 3 married children live in 3 continents and with friendship worldwide, they daily engage in communications in up to 4-languages.
LTC Adjunct Faculty
Dr. V. Phillips
vphillips @ wbs.edu
Dr. Phillips joined the Lilias Trotter Center as adjunct faculty in 2021. Her heart is to engage with those with little access to personal resources and/or the gospel message, in particular Muslim women. She enjoys encouraging others who desire to grow in their understanding of the Islamic worldview and who are eager to learn more about their part in welcoming Muslims into God’s kingdom.
Dr. Mark Durie
mark @ markdurie.com
Mark is a Senior Research Fellow at the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at Melbourne School of Theology. An Anglican pastor, linguist, researcher and church planter, Mark has a passion to equip people to live in this spiritual world that God has made. He loves to see people find freedom in Christ. Mark's passion is to equip the global church to help build healthy fellowships of believers from Muslim backgrounds.
Rev. Dr. Mark Durie has taught the very popular LTC course “Deliverance in BMB Discipleship Contexts” for four years so far. He is a frequent LTC guest lecturer and also does seminars in Africa and elsewhere at the invitation of the LTC.
Mark has written several important books, both at popular level an important study of the Qur’an. To access his resources, visit: https://markdurie.com/books/
Dr. Fred Farrokh
FredFarrokh @ gmail.com
Rev. Dr. Fred Farrokh is a Muslim-background Christian who serves as an International Trainer with Global Initiative: Reaching Muslim Peoples. Fred is an Ordained Missionary with Elim Fellowship.
Before joining Global Initiative, Fred served as Executive Director of Jesus For Muslims Network in Metro New York, and Special Projects Officer with SAT-7 in Cyprus.
A Christian of Muslim-background, he completed his PhD in Intercultural Studies through Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in 2014, with a dissertation on how Muslims understand their identity as Muslims.
Recently, Fred has launched a YouTube site called “Wasla,” meaning “Connection,” to serve Muslim-background Christians: https://www.youtube.com/@WaslaMedia
You can find out more about Fred and his resources by visiting his webpage: https://www.whateverhappenedtochristianity.com/
Dr. Dejan Aždajić
azdajic @ hotmail.com
Dejan serves as a lecturer in Practical Theology at the Freie Theologische Hochschule Gießen (Giessen School of Theology), Germany. His doctoral research was a long-term ethnographic study of several Sufi communities in the Balkans, published as The Shaping Shaikh: The Role of the Shaikh in Lived Islam among Sufis in Bosnia and Herzegovina (De Gruyter, 2020). Trained in both Christian and Islamic theology, he has been deeply involved in interreligious engagement for many years.
His academic and ministry interests center on lived religion, Islam and Sufi orders, liturgical studies, embodiment and religious practice, and Christian–Muslim relations in today’s society. He is committed to helping students and ministry workers deepen their understanding of Muslim contexts, grow in Christlike love, and cultivate faithful witness in cross-cultural settings.
Several other scholar-practitioners have also taught LTC courses.
