Rev. Dr. Ephraim Yakubu

Personal Data

Educational Institutions Attended

Academic Qualifications / Certificates Obtained

Working Experience

• Monitoring and Evaluation Officer; International Mission Board Southern Baptist Convention Jos Area Office (2003–2006)
• Pastor, Salama Baptist Church Jos, Jos Central Association, Plateau Baptist Conference, Nigerian Baptist Convention (2006 to Date)
• Secretary, Pastor’s Fellowship Plateau Baptist Conference (2007 to 2011)
• Chairman, Pastor’s Fellowship Plateau Baptist Conference (2011 to 2018)
• Coordinator, Community Development Election Monitoring group under CCN, 2015 General Election, Plateau State
• Secretary, CCN Plateau State (2012–2016)
• Moderator, Bethel Baptist Association (2013–2016)
• Secretary, 2016 CAN Electoral College Plateau State Chapter
• Project Coordinator, All African Baptist Fellowship IDPs Project in Jos (2016)
• Coordinator, CCN/UNICEF End Violence Against Children in Nigeria (END VAC) Plateau State (2016 to 2018)
• Executive Member, Case Management Technical Working Group (CMTWG) Plateau State. Responsible for the Child Protection System Strengthening Model (CPSS) (2016 to 2018)
• Member, Triple Nexus working group (Humanitarian, Development and Peace) Action of Churches Together (ACT Alliance) Global (2024 to date)
• Vice Chairman, Pastor’s Fellowship Nigerian Baptist Convention (2017–2018)
• Member, Ministerial Training Board Nigerian Baptist Convention (2017)
• Member, Pastor’s Representative Council (PRC) Nigerian Baptist Convention (2017 to 2019)
• Director, CCN Institute of Church and Society Peace Building and Trauma Healing Centre Jos (August 2018 to date)
• Adjunct Lecturer at Baptist College of Theology Jos, Nigeria (2020 to date)
• Representative of Co-Convener (CCN), ACT Alliance Nigerian Forum (2021 to date)
• Visiting Lecturer on Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation, Baptist Theological Seminary Kaduna (2022)
• Member, Technical Reference Group, Peace and Human Security ACT Alliance Global (2022 to date)
• Coordinator, Community of Practice (CoP) Peace and Human Security ACT Alliance African Region (2022 to date)
• Consultant to Ecumenism Development And Peace Initiative (EDAPI) Nigerian Baptist Convention (2024 to date)

Workshop / Programme Development

• Consultant to TEKAN Peace Desk on Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Project implemented in Gombe State (2024–2025)
• Participant and contributor to Action Plan statements for the Action of Churches Together (ACT Alliance) General Assembly in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (November 2024)
• Participant and Member of 6th Annual Theological Symposium of All African Conference of Churches (AACC), Nairobi, Kenya (October 2023)
• Speaker at International Forum on Interfaith and Transcultural Peacebuilding Workshop organised by Mission 21 (17th–18th August 2023)
• Speaker at the All-African Conference of Churches General Assembly Side Event on Peace and Human Security held at Ecumenical Centre Abuja (17th–22nd November 2023)
• Developed and implemented “Peacebuilding and Trauma healing project” where interfaith religious leaders were trained in peacebuilding and trauma healing
• Developed and implemented Strengthening Capacities for peacebuilding and conflict resolution in Nigeria’s Middle Belt (Conflict Mediation between Farmers and Herders in Plateau State)
• Developed and implemented “Strengthening Preparedness and Response Capacity of Disaster Management Institutions and Vulnerable Communities in Kogi, Benue and Plateau State”
• Developed a Child protection strengthening model for Plateau State with Plateau State Ministry of Women and Social Affairs in collaboration with UNICEF (November 2017)
• Strategy design and Media material Development on Ending Violence against Children in Nigeria with the Centre for Communication Programs Nigeria (CCP) with support from UNICEF (October 2017)
• Participated in developing Campaign messages, handbills, posters, banners, and tracks for CCN Churches in Ending Violence Against Children in Nigeria in collaboration with UNICEF (September 2017)
• Participated in developing a code of conduct for CCN Churches in Ending Violence Against Children in Nigeria with support from UNICEF (November 2017)
• Developed social and cultural norms in Northern Nigeria as tools in Ending Violence Against Children in Nigeria with C4D Network Global with support from UNICEF (February 2018)
• CCNICS Peace Building and Trauma Healing Center Basic Skills for Peace Agents (May 2018)
• Peace Training Institute Jos, Plateau State: Basic Skills in Peacebuilding and Trauma Transformation

Publications / Seminar Presentations

• “From Wounds to Wholeness: The Church's Role in Healing, Reconciliation, and Hope” — Guest Speaker at 2026 Annual Faith Actors’ Conference organised by Mission 21 coordination office Nigeria (16th–17th July 2026)
• “Deepening the Culture of Peace and Security in African Region: A Prophetic Role for the Church in Africa” — A paper presented at the All-African Conference of Churches General Assembly Side Event on Peace and Human Security Held at Ecumenical Centre Abuja (17th–22nd November 2023)
• “Pastoral Care Response to Victims of Post-Conflict Trauma” — International Forum on Interfaith and Transcultural Peacebuilding Workshop organised by Mission 21 (17th–18th August 2023)
• Christian Leadership and Ministerial Issues in a Changing African Context (2023) — A chapter contribution on “Healing the Wounds of Trauma: A Pastoral Care to Victim of Post Conflict Trauma” (A festschrift in Honour of Dr. Apollos Handan)
• Integration of Pastoral Care Approach and Restorative Justice as Response to Post Conflict Trauma — Doctoral Dissertation (2023)
• Moral and Social Issues in Leadership (2015) — A chapter contribution on Church and Politics (Edited by Dr Bauta D. Motty)
• A Congregational Autonomy of a Local Baptist Church and its Impact on the Cooperative Programme: A study of Plateau Baptist Conference — M.A Thesis (2016)
• Understanding the Plight of Widows and its Implication to the Body of Christ — B.A Thesis (2012)

Church Planting / Missions

• Planted Baptist Church Lugeri, Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi State as Student Pastor (June–July 2003)
• Planted Baptist Church Bintiri, Bassa LGA (2006)
• Planted Baptist Church Saya along Jingri Road, Bassa LGA (2009)
• Planted Baptist Church, Gabet Kwallak, Langtang North (2010)
• Built a Mission Primary School for Gabet Kwallak (2021)
• Visited NBC Home mission fields in Damaturu Yobe, Ganye, Adamawa
• Payments of salaries and allowances for less privileged pastors and missionaries in Plateau South, Gogola, Taraba Baptist Conferences
• Facilitated (through friends) support for survivors of conflict, especially Baptist members in Bassa, Bokkos and part of Barkin Ladi

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