Meet Munther Shahatit, the new Regional Coordinator for the AWF EMERALD Region

Rev. Munther Shahatit is the newly appointed Regional Coordinator for the EMERALD (Europe and Middle East) Region. Rev. Munther is an ordained pastor and a leader of the C&MA of Jordan and travels the whole region to provide professional trauma counselling and trainings. He is replacing Rev. Arie Verduijn who asked to step down due to his growing ministerial responsibilities in the local church.

Rev. Munther Shahatit is a hardworking, humble, compassionate, and motivated man. As a pastor and counselor, he combines “theories, techniques and biblical values to meet the needs of people who seek professional or spiritual help”.

He is native Jordanian and grew up in a nominal Christian home. He came to know the Lord personally when he was 19 years old, through one of his friends, now a pastor at a C&MA Church. He met his wife in the summer of 1990 and soon after got married, and together they pursued the Lord. Rev. Munther and his wife have four children, two daughters and two sons.

Rev. Munther graduated from the University of Jordan, Amman (B.Sc. Accounting, 1987) and is the first graduate from the Christian Alliance Institute of Theology (CAIT), Lebanon. In 2003, Rev. Munther and his family traveled to the United States to conduct graduate studies at Columbia International University (M.A. Counseling, 2006).

Rev. Munther has a vast work experience as a pastor, as an accountant, and as a counselor. As an accountant, he worked in the Jordanian army, in the Financial Department, and in the Housing Bank, Jordan, as a banker. As a counselor, he has worked in various organizations and entities, in Jordan and abroad, helping people recover from vices and addictions. He has also worked as a trauma counselor trainer in the SALT organization and is involved in Trauma Counselling Ministries in the whole Middle-East region, providing professional trauma counseling and training. Currently, he works as a professional trauma consultant with OD – Netherlands office since 2008, helping establish a trauma support ministry to the persecuted churches in the Middle East and North Africa region. He has also been working as a professional trauma consultant with the Jordan Bible Society since 2014.

Rev. Munther has been heavily involved in the ministry of the C&MA church in Jordan since 1990. In 2007, he began serving as the associate pastor at Second Circle C&MA church in Amman, being ordained in 2011. He has served as a national executive committee member, treasurer and vice president of the national C&MA church from 1994 to 2003, then from 2007 until now. He is also an adjunct professor at CAIT where he teaches pastoral and crisis counseling classes.

Let us pray for Rev. Munther and his family, asking for wisdom and strength as he continues to serve the global Alliance family.