Borge Schantz, PhD, served for 47 years within the global Adventist church as a pastor, evangelist, field president, divisional departmental director, teacher, and head of the Theology Department at Newbold College. He worked in Denmark, Faroe Islands, Sierra Leone, Nigerian, Lebanon and Cyprus. He was the founding director of the Seventh-day Adventist Global Center for Islamic Studies and authored and edited several books and articles on Church Growth, Islamics, and Missiology. Dr. Schantz died suddenly on December 12, 2014 in his native Denmark. He was 83.