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Copyright 2004 World Vision Inc. |  | Steve Haas is World Vision’s vice president of church relations. In this role since December 2001, Haas works to encourage and empower American churches to become engaged in serving the poor internationally.
In 1978, while pursuing his education, Haas worked for a youth ministry in the Philippines and, in 1982, as a relief worker to Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees along the border of Thailand.
Ordained by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Haas began his pastoral career at Forest Hill Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1988. In 1991, he joined the staff at Willow Creek Community Church in Barrington, Illinois – one of the largest churches in the United States. There, Haas assisted in developing the church’s small groups ministry and later oversaw the development of the church’s Extension Ministries, overseeing a $1.5 million outreach program and 1,700 volunteers in seven countries.
In 1997, Haas founded Prayer for the Persecuted Church (PPC) and became the U.S. coordinator for the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. In 1999, PPC facilitated more than 100,000 US congregations in joining with 200,000 international congregations from 130 countries in prayer for persecuted Christians worldwide in the largest one-day prayer event in the world.
Haas holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas and a master’s of divinity from Fuller Seminary. In addition he has completed postgraduate work at Edinburgh University in Scotland.
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