Gerhard Robbers, 34th President of the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag

As President of the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag (German Protestant Church), Professor Gerhard Robbers presided over the 34th Annual Protestant Church Conference held May 1-5, 2013 in Hamburg, Germany.  Some 160,000 people — including a number of high-profile politicians — met to pray, celebrate, and discuss together in the event, whose theme was “Soviel du brauchst” (“As much as you need”).

The 650-page program of the Congress listed 2500 events, from the opening service on Wednesday afternoon to the “vast closing Eurcharist” on Wednesday evening. The text for the closing eucharist was from Micah: “They shall all sit under their own vines, and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid.” The Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Revd…

Marshall Morrise

Formerly, Website Development Manager

Beginning in Januaary 2010 and until his call to serve beginning June 2013 as President of the Korea Seoul South Mission of The Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), Marshall Morrise was the manager of website development for the Center. Marshall entered Brigham Young University as a student in 1974, and after serving an LDS mission to Pusan, Korea, graduated from BYU with a B.S. in computer science and a minor in Asian languages. Marshall began working at the BYU Law School as a student in January 1979. Upon graduation in 1980, he began working at the law school full time as a research associate…