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Born in Scotland, Stuart McAllister saw his life changed by Christ at the early age of twenty. Filled with a hunger to learn more about and preach the Gospel, he took every opportunity to witness and give his testimony. This desire to serve the Lord and deepen his understanding of the faith led him to join Operation Mobilisation in 1978. His service with OM took him to Yugoslavia, where he was imprisoned for 40 days for distributing Christian literature. Upon his release, he continued his mission to preach the Gospel in communist countries, resulting in more imprisonments.

With a rich history of service, Stuart has served as general secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance, and been involved with the European Lausanne Committee. He also developed an evangelistic mobilization called “Love Europe,” sending several thousand team members across Europe with the message of the Gospel. Stuart also founded the European Roundtable, bringing together a diverse group of ministries and interests that collaborated to foster “Hope for Europe.”

Stuart joined Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in 1998 as the International Director and today serves as the Vice-President for Training and Special Projects. With a heavy travel schedule that takes him all over the globe, Stuart speaks in churches and other forums with the same passion for the Gospel that he found when he first became a believer. While currently an Associate Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University (Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics) Stuart has also been a lecturer at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York, in addition to being a featured speaker at this year’s European Leadership Forum.

Stuart is a frequent contributor to A Slice of Infinity, RZIM’s daily reading on issues of apologetics and philosophy, as well as Just Thinking, the ministry’s tri-annual journal. He has also published articles in the books Beyond Opinion (2007, Thomas Nelson Publishing) and Global Missiology for the 21st Century (2000, World Evangelical Fellowship).