Les Henson – Tabor College Victoria
Ringwood, Victoria
Ph: (03) 9844 8800, Fax ()3) 9844 8899
Email: LHenson@melbourne.tabor.edu.au

Dr. Les Henson is Senior Lecturer in Intercultural and Mission Studies at Tabor College Victoria.

He worked for 9 years as a Mechanical Engineer in the coal industry in the North of England and Scotland before attending the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow from 1073-76. Immediately after Bible College he married his Dutch wife, Wapke. Together the spent the 19 years in a church planting ministry in West Papua (formally Irian Jaya), Indonesia with World Team. They have two sons, Joel and Peter.

During their time in West Papua they worked among the Momina people and experience a people movement in which the majority of the tribal group turned to Christ and for several years he was the field leader. In July 1992 he completed a Master of Arts in Missiology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He then worked with World Team in the area of personnel and as a visiting lecturer in Missiology at various Bible and Theological Colleges around Australia from 1996 to 1997.

In January 1998 he started teaching at Tabor College Victoria in the area of Intercultural and Mission Studies and recently complete a PhD at Monash University in the area of Melanesian contextual theology. He hopes to spend the next ten years grappling with the issues of the gospel and culture in the Western context. His special interests and expertise are in the areas of contextual theologising and church planting. He spends a lot of time mentoring emerging leaders.