Martine Audéoud has served with Mennonite Mission Network in academic capacities since 2006. Her ministries include both the administration of programs and teaching post-graduate students around the world, with a focus on those from African countries. After having worked at the Christian Missionary Alliance University of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire for many years, Audéoud is now based in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France. She is also an ordained pastor, associate academic dean and Ph.D. program director for Bakke Graduate University, which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Audéoud is also a prolific writer. Her most recent book was published in French earlier this year. The English translation, Research as Worship in the Company of God, will soon be available. While waiting for the book to be published, Audéoud has made a draft available to interested readers.

"The purpose of this book is to guide the Christian doctoral researcher along a rigorous academic journey," Audéoud said. "I want to communicate that the outcome of research, a doctoral dissertation, for example, is in part a faith journey to discover more truth about God, God's creation and the communities of people Jesus left here on earth."

According to Audéoud, researchers can be God's messengers by directing readers to God's truth, in order to bring about God's shalom on earth.

"In this way, worship is an offering that Christian researchers are called to bring to God," Audéoud said. "The outcome of the research journey will culminate in a final act of worship in the presentation of the doctoral dissertation." 

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