Israel to champion ethnic diversity

Israel Oluwole Olofinjana has been announced as the Evangelical Alliance’s new One People Commission (OPC) director.

The OPC seeks to ‘reflect, celebrate and serve the ethnic diversity of the church in the UK by helping to reshape the focus and the feel of the Evangelical Alliance and its membership’.

The Revd Olofinjana will work with the Evangelical Alliance’s OPC network of key national church leaders across ethnic backgrounds to support and equip the UK church as it seeks to become more integrated, effective and unified.

Olofinjana said: ‘We have a window of opportunity to speak prophetically with one voice as a church, to address racial inequality in both church and society. The OPC is positioned as one of the best models of inter-cultural church unity movements in the UK.’