| Prior to his time in Yogyakarta,
Bernie spent six years serving in mission in Salatiga, Indonesia,
as a professor of ethics at Satya Wacana Christian University
where he helped to develop a graduate program and taught ethics
and cross-cultural studies. From 1982 to 1991 Bernie was associate
professor of ethics and cross-cultural studies at New College
of Berkeley (NCB) and the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in
Berkeley, California. During this time he was the director of
the cross-cultural ministry program, and for a year was the interim
dean of NCB. Bernie also taught courses at Pacific School of Religion,
American Baptist Seminary of the West, and Fuller Theological
Seminary.
While Bernie was a Ph.D. student in a cooperative program between
religion and society areas at GTU and the political science department
at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked as a researcher
in the Center for Ethics and Social Policy and as a teaching assistant
at GTU. For four years prior to his Ph.D. studies, Bernie helped
guide a variety of creative ministries to the "counter-culture."
At the Crucible Center for Radical Christian Studies he taught
at and directed a Christian "free university." He also
served as an ordained pastor in a house church informally connected
with First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley.
On May 18, 2005, Farsijana received her Ph.D. in anthropology
and Indonesian studies from Nijmegen University in the Netherlands.
Her dissertation was titled, "Politics, Ritual and Identity
in Indonesia: A Moluccan History of Religion and social Conflict."
Farsijana also holds a master of arts degree in religion and society
from Satya Wacana University in Salatiga, Indonesia, and a bachelor's
degree in theology from the Theological Seminary, Jakarta.
She has worked as a field researcher on social change in the
Moluccas for the University of Amsterdam (1999-2000). She was
a lecturer for the Institute for Integrated Village ministry (1995)
and assistant director of the Center for Analysis and Training
in Rural Development in Tobelo, North Moluccas, Indonesia (1990-1993).
During that same period she worked with GMIH Theological College
training pastors in rural development in the North Moluccas. She
taught high school in Jakarta (1988-1989) and was a teaching assistant
in ethics at the Theological Seminary, Jakarta.
Bernie earned a B.A. in English and Asian studies from the University
of Wisconsin in Madison. He spent a year at Huemoz sur Ollon in
Switzerland on a L'Abri Fellowship. Bernie then received a diploma
from the Discipleship Training Center in Singapore and a B.D.
in theology from the University of London in England. He received
his Ph.D. in theology and ethics from the Graduate Theological
Union/University of California in Berkeley. Bernie was a Visiting
Fellow at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University (1990) and
at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Amsterdam
(2001-2002), where he did research on religion, power, and violence
in Indonesia.
Bernie and Fasijana are members of First Presbyterian Church
of Berkeley as well as of the Christian Church of Java (GKJ) in
Yogyakarta, Java. they have three adult children, Jennifer Marion,
Rina, and Peter.
Birthdays:
Bernie - September 28
Farsijana - February 11
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