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WORSHIP
Sundays 10:30a, 2:00p
BIBLE STUDY
Wednesdays 7:00p
PASTOR
Michael A. Rogers
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Dr. George M. Ella Lecture Series
Biography
Dr. George M. Ella holds four graduate and three post-graduate degrees from Duisburg, Essen, Hull, London and Uppsala Universities in subjects ranging from the Classics, Modern Languages and Theology to Psychology, Philosophy, Library Science, Linguistics and Communication Science. He also holds Government post-graduate qualifications as a State Senior Civil Servant (Land NRW) and has added further subjects to his list of qualifications through Hagen and Hamburg universities and the Teacher-Training Institutes at Bonn and Soest. He received a scholarship to do a post-graduate ‘Candidate Year’ at the Johann Gerhard Oncken Baptist Seminary in Hamburg (now moved to Berlin). He has taught in all kinds of educational establishments from Primary Schools to Universities and has written school curricula and co-authored educational works for the state Trade Schools and Further Education establishments in several subjects. For some twenty-five years he trained graduates for the teaching profession. He has also served, alongside his main teaching work, as pastor, itinerant preacher, army padre (NATO), Scout Leader, Chamber of Commerce examiner and Chairman of the examination board in the English Department of Duisburg University. He has set and marked examination papers in Scripture and English for the State Matriculation examination (Abitur) for almost thirty years.
Dr. Ella is a German citizen but was born in Yorkshire, England in February 1939 and lived ten years of his youth in Sweden and has been living in Germany for the past 38 years. He has written detailed works on William Cowper, William Huntington, James Hervey, John Gill, Augustus Montague Toplady, Andrew Fuller, Henry Bullinger, Isaac McCoy and the Marian Exiles and was nominated for the John Pollock Award by Prof. Timothy George. Dr. Ella has published shorter works on some ninety Christian leaders. On the theological side he has produced books on Justification, Common Grace, Baptism and the Free Offer of the Gospel and numerous essays on Church History, the Word of God, Atonement, Sin, Sanctification and Christian Education. Dr. Ella has lectured widely on the European Continent, England the USA, and Canada, and written for Swedish, German, English, American and Canadian magazines and newspapers. He has produced for private church distribution a history of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Enid, OK, who have hosted him numerous times on his USA visits and greatly encouraged his studies and lectures. Amongst his American and Canadian publications are works on the evangelisation of the Native Americans (Particular Baptist Publishing), Bullinger (Heritage Books) and Cowper (Joshua Press).
At present, Dr. Ella is enjoying his tenth year of retirement by preparing further books on theological subjects, John Durie and the Westminster Assembly, a History of the English Reformation and a History of the Swiss Reformation. He is also writing study material for the Martin Bucer Seminary, Bonn where he serves as Dozent. He occasionally helps out at several universities, marking papers and mediating between disputes. He has been a member of the Cambridge University Westminster Assembly Project and lectures occasionally for the Protestant Reformation Society at Regents Park College, Oxford. His favourite reading is concerned with Grosseteste, Bradwardine, Wycliffe, Tyndale, Jewel, Grindal, Bucer, Bullinger, Hooker, Durie, Comenius, Gill, Cowper, Carey, McCoy and Swedish Church History.
Dr. Ella has retired now from most of his smallholding and gardening hobbies but has still a passionate fondness for God’s nature, animal husbandry and angling, besides being a fisher of men.
Dr. Ella has been married to Erika, née Fleischmann, a former Civil Servant, for over forty years and has two sons, Mark (38), a Member of Parliament, and Robin (36), a Senior Physician. The Ellas are in membership at the local Reformed Church in Saarn, Mülheim.
Dr. Ella spent a number of years amongst the Scandinavian Lapps or 'Samefolket' as a teacher and preacher. At that time, the Lapps were treated with great suspicion by the Scandinavian settlers in their territories but their case is somewhat better nowadays. They have also become a strong tourist attraction. Dr. Ella has written about his work in Lapland in his two volumes of Mountain Movers.
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