Meet the Team
Canadian Team
Andy Bannister
Dr. Andy Bannister is the Canadian Director and Lead Apologist for RZIM Canada. He speaks and teaches regularly throughout Canada, the USA, Europe and the wider world. With a background in youth work before studying theology and philosophy (focussing especially on Islam), Andy was previously based in Oxford, from where he worked with churches and organisations across the denominational spectrum.
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Rick Manafo
Rick Manafo has been a member of the RZIM Canada team since 2006. He received an A.R.C.T. from the Royal Conservatory of music, graduated with a Master of Divinity from Tyndale Seminary, and is also an ordained minister within the Presbyterian Church in Canada (Knox College, University of Toronto).
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Nathan Betts
Nathan Betts is the Intern Apologist at RZIM Canada. He received his undergraduate degree from Tyndale University College after which, being a keen baseball fan, he worked on the Toronto Blue Jays Ground Crew for four years.
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USA Team
We work closely with our American colleagues and are developing a number of joint strategies to impact North American in terms of evangelism, apologetics and training.
Stuart McAllister
Stuart joined Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in 1998 as the International Director and today serves as North American Regional Director and Vice-President of Training. With a heavy travel schedule that takes him all over the globe, Stuart speaks in churches and other forums with the same passion for the Gospel that he found when he first became a believer.
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John Njoroge
John is a member of our speaking team based in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to serving on church staffs in both Kenya and in the U.S., he has organized and led leadership training conferences and raised funds for various relief projects. John is an ordained minister who speaks frequently in churches, conferences, and universities around the world.
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Global Team
Our work is also complemented by other members of our global speaking team.
Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of RZIM. He has spoken in over 50 countries and in many universities, such as Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford. He has addressed writers of the peace accord in South Africa, the presidential cabinet and parliament in Peru, and officers at the Lenin Military Academy in Moscow. He has written numerous books and his weekly radio program, Let My People Think, is aired on almost 1700 outlets worldwide..
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Michael Ramsden
Michael Ramsden has been European Director of RZIM Zacharias Trust since its foundation in 1997. He is also Director of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and Lecturer in Christian Apologetics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Michael has been invited to lecture to a variety of groups including the White House staff in Washington, D.C., leaders at NATO HQ in Brussels and Members of the European Parliament.
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Amy Orr-Ewing
Amy Orr-Ewing is the Training Director of the RZIM Zacharias Trust and Director of Programmes for the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. She speaks at many universities, churches, and conferences. Her book Why Trust the Bible? (published as Is the Bible Intolerant? in North America) was shortlisted for the 2006 UK Christian Book Awards, and But Is It Real? (published as Is Believing in God Irrational? in North America) was released in the summer of 2008.
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