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Darrell W Pack Jr. May 10, 1965

high school: Putnam County high school graduated 1983

I graduated high school in the bottom 25% of my class having hated every day of school from kindergarten until the day of my graduation. As neither of my parents or grandparents had graduated high school, no one in my family found this to be particularly alarming or problematic. I grew up two hours southwest of Chicago where the men worked in steel mills or factories. By the time I was 16 years old I had only read one book: a biography of Cochise the Apache chief and freedom fighter. He had opposed The US government incursions into what is now the Southwest of the United States in the 1860s.

University: William Carey

In 1989 Professor Richard Smith was running a pilot program teaching cultural anthropology in a program between William Carey University and Wycliff Bible translators. I was living in southern Spain and developing increasing interest in the Moroccan Muslim community that lived or travelled through there. I made regular trips into Morocco and began studying Darija, Morocco’s spoken Arabic. Professor Smith invited me to be in the first class of this experimental study abroad program in cultural anthropology. I explained to him that I had been a poor student, I hated sitting in a classroom and had no interest in returning to formal education. He convinced me that with the field study that would be required in his course I would not find the program to be boring. He further explained that I would gain the tools to better understand The Muslim culture of North Africa. That was a primary motivation for me, so I joined the class. I finished first in the Arabic classes and near the top of the cultural anthology classes. Unfortunately, the next year they did not have enough students to maintain the program and so it stopped. I did no more formal education for years and did not finish my bachelor’s degree. But I stayed in Morocco. Being immersed as a participant observer Of the Arab Muslim culture of Morocco Algeria and Tunisia over the following 14 years Was a very valuable and enlightening non formal education that allowed me to see Islam as it was practiced and believed by Practicing Muslims of all various socioeconomic levels and degrees of devotion. This 15-year period living inside an Arab Muslim community I continued studying as a participant observer in the community and became fluent in Moroccan Arabic as well as learning to Read Standard Arabic (fosha) to a functional level. It was my plan to remain in North Africa indefinitely, but that was not to be. Near the end of my years in Morocco, I wrote a well-received and somewhat novel evaluation of the cultural and emotional impulses that influenced the prophet of Islam. It was published in two parts in the Journal of Asian Mission Sep. 2001 and March 2002. I have continued to write on subjects connected to Islam, Muslims and the Muslim – West competition-cum-conflict as time and opportunities allowed. These few published writing have been in an inhouse organ for the AGTS Global Initiative, Jihad Watch, American Thinker and a German magazine Lydia.

Masters Program: ASSEMBLIES OF GOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. Springfield,

At the urging of my friend Dr. Mark Hausfeld, then president of the AGTS, I enrolled in classes to gain my master’s degree. As I had no academic ambitions of any sort, I found the expense and the tedium to be more than I was willing to endure. So, I left without a master’s degree and returned to my twin habits of reading extensively In English and Arabic and being a participant observer with the Muslim community. But now In Chicago Illinois instead of North Africa.

Throughout this entire time, I have continually been engaged and/or employed in my vocation as a protestant clergyman. I have served 3 congregations in the United States and one in Casablanca, Morocco.

Personal

Married 36 years to my outstanding wife Kathy L. Pack (Paralegal). two adult Children: Chapin Elias Pack and Hannah L Pack. Two grandchildren Elias Pack and Liora Pack

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