Dr. Gift Mtukwa is an ordained minister with the Church of the Nazarene and is currently the lead pastor at University Church of the Nazarene in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the department chair and lecturer in the school of Religion and Christian Ministry at Africa Nazarene University, where he teaches New Testament Greek, Christian Ethics, and Pauline studies.
He holds a PhD in Biblical Studies from the University of Manchester through Nazarene Theological College. His research topic was published as Work and Community in the Thessalonian Correspondence: An African Communal Reading of Paul’s Work Exhortations. He looked at ways in which work and community intersect in Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians using African Biblical Hermeneutics.