Allan Karr

Allan Karr is a full-time Professor of Leadership Formation at Gateway Seminary.  He is pastor of Ethne Church Network, a network of churches that plants churches in America and globally. He is also a community developer and social entrepreneur, and earned his Ph.D. in Humanities from Florida State University. For the past twenty years Allan and his family have been designing and experimenting with new concepts of community and training others to do so; the last twenty years as a professor and a mentor. Allan is the founder and chairman of Ethne Global Services, a non-profit organization that assists refugees in the United States and displaced and at risk people in several international venues. Allan is passionate about his family, international travel, construction projects, and community transformation by helping refugees and people at risk. He lives in the mountain foothills outside of Larkspur, Colorado with his wife, Kathy, and a refugee “daughter” going to school. Allan has seven grown children, four by birth and three who were former refugees from Burma, and many others who regularly visit and consider themselves family. They use their home as an informal community transformational training center.