355 Curriculum Vitae C Peter Christiaan van Olst (Zwolle, 1976) studied political science at Leiden University (1994-1999) and worked as a political journalist for the Reformatorisch Dagblad in The Hague (1997-2005). In 2002 he started a bachelor in Theology (CGO-E) in Gouda, which he completed after being prepared and sent in 2005 by Zending Gereformeerde Gemeenten (ZGG) as a missionary church worker/ evangelist to Portoviejo— Ecuador. In Ecuador he continued with a theological master that belonged to Miami International Seminary (Florida, USA), which he completed after returning to the Netherlands in April 2016. During his first year back in the Netherlands, he edited together with JanKees Kooiman a bundle of missiological articles for ZGG. In 2017 he joined the department for religious education at Driestar Christian University (DCU) as a VELON-registered teacher trainer, from where he was committed to the personhood education of trainee teachers for primary education, subject didactics for prospective religion teachers for secondary education and the coordination of the international experiences and internships of junior and senior students. From 2020 until 2024, part of his job was to lead DCU’s participation in the whole child development research project. In 2024, he started teaching in the master Learning and Innovation (track Christian Education) and was appointed as director (regisseur) of identity, formation and citizenship education. Peter is married since 1998 to Sofieke Vogelaar. The couple got four sons (Theo, Thomas, Thijs and Thimo), the oldest two of whom married in 2023. With their youngest sons they live in Waddinxveen. Since April 2017, Peter is active as an elder in their church, the Gereformeerde Gemeente Moerkapelle.
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