Leadership for Missions

Dr. Lee Carter is the author of Leadership-in-Community: The Missiology, Community, & Ethics of Missional Leadership published by Kharis Publishing.

Carter currently serves as Executive Vice President of Scripture Engagement at Bible League International, overseeing field ministry programs, providing supervision and support, and driving long-term strategies for sustained growth for greater impact of the ministry. Carter began serving with Bible League International in 2004. He began his work at Bible League International serving as a Finance Manager for Africa Ministries but was eventually promoted to providing oversight and accountability as the International Finance Director covering all global field operations.

Previously, Carter served as a campus staff ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Montana where he mentored and coached student leaders. Carter was a student leader in his local InterVarsity chapter campus at the University of Montana. This was a spiritually and vocationally formative time in his life because InterVarsity challenged him to consider his life decisions through the frame of the Kingdom of God. When he graduated in 1997, he joined the InterVarsity Staff team in Montana where he served students at Montana State University – Bozeman, Montana State University – Billings, and Rocky Mountain College (Billings) for 5 years.

In his last year on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Carter participated on the staff team of a global project that accompanied 40 students to Kenya during the summer of 2001. During this first cross-cultural missional and leadership experience, Carter discovered the breadth and beauty of God’s heart for the nations. He witnessed firsthand how God’s Spirit was moving, equipping, and sending faithful followers of Jesus from every nation, culture, and tradition to participate in His great mission to redeem the world. During this summer, Carter committed to spending his life in the service of sisters and brothers around the world who God calls to share their faith in Jesus with others and plant churches.

Carter is gifted in cross-cultural leadership and collaboration and his passion is to equip missional leaders in the global Church with healthy leadership perspectives and effective models for serving their communities so that the goodness of Jesus is revealed through their leadership.

Carter received his Doctorate in Strategic Leadership from Regent University in May 2021. Also, he earned his Master of Arts in Nonprofit Administration from North Park University in Chicago, Illinois in 2009 and his Bachelor of Science in Business Management with an emphasis in accounting and a minor in communications studies from the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana in 1997.

Carter is originally from Billings, Montana. He currently lives in the south suburbs of Chicago. He loves reading (mostly theology and Christian living, but occasionally a good story he can get lost in), writing, golfing, bike riding, walking, traveling, and amateur photography.