Alan Walker (theologian)

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Reverend Dr Sir Alan Walker, O.B.E., M.A., D.D. (4 June 1911 - 29 January 2003) was an Australian theologian and evangelist. He was:

involved in the formation of the World Council of Churches
Superintendent of the Methodist (later Uniting Church in Australia) Wesley Mission, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1958–1978 and one of the founders of Lifeline, (in 1963)
first world director of evangelism for the World Methodist Council, 1978 to 1988
involved in founding the World Methodist Evangelism Institute (located at the United Methodist-related Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, 1982.
Principal of the Pacific College of Evangelism, now the Alan Walker College of Evangelism, in Sydney, 1982–1995.

He was awarded the World Methodist Peace Award in 1986 and honoured as an Australian Living Treasure.

He was married to Lady Winifred Walker; they had a daughter, Lynette Sue, and three sons, all of whom followed him into ministry. Bruce, Christopher and David with the Uniting Church in Australia, among his ancestors was a convict couple whose drunken son became a Methodist minister after his conversion. Walker was the thirteenth minister of the family.