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Presenters and Panelists
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Rachel Afeaki-Taumoepeau
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Graham Aylett
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Don Barger
Don Barger serves as the Global Consultant for Scripture Engagement with the International Mission Board. He has more than 20 years of experience in orality, church planting, and leadership training. For the past two years, Don has studied how information and influence spreads in large cities around the world. His ongoing research explores avenues for effectively sharing the gospel in these urban settings using these same communication models. Most recently, Don has pivoted his focus to include the intersection of artificial intelligence and missions.
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Chris Beard
Chris and Jan Beard have led Peoples Church Cincinnati since 2001, serving on staff since 1992. They share a burden for making the church like heaven on earth. Captivated by Matthew 24:14 and Ephesians 2:15, the church has united to become a “racially reconciling, generational rich, life-giving church, flourishing in the heart of Cincinnati.” Peoples Church and Network yearns to see this gospel of the Kingdom heal historical fractures between Black and White believers and to intentionally include the nations, so the world will experience Jesus as Redeemer, Reconciler and Restorer. Peoples enjoys over 42 nations serving the King together as a “one new humanity” body.
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Matthias Boehning
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Rev. Esme Bowers
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Emerson L. Boyce
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Darrell L. Bock
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Bruce Bruinsma
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Janet E. Buckingham
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Ovidiu Bulzan
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Henry Cappello
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Samuel Chiang
Born in Taiwan and educated in Canada, Samuel Chiang first worked with Ernst & Young before graduating from Dallas Theological Seminary, where he currently serves on the board. Samuel lived with his family in Hong Kong for 25 years, where he served the church in China and later the global church, travelling to over 90 countries, teaching, coaching, and consulting in 40 of them. He is published extensively on orality and other disciplines. Certified in Systemic Team Coaching, Samuel tends to executives and their teams. He has co-founded 16 companies and previously served as CEO of Seed Company. He is presently Deputy Secretary General for the World Evangelical Alliance.
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Rei Lemuel Crizaldo
Rei Lemuel Crizaldo concurrently serves as the Theological Commission Coordinator of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) and the theological education network coordinator of Tearfund UK in East and Southeast Asia. He is on the faculty of the seminary of the Iglesia Evangelica Metodista en las islas Filipinas (Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippine Islands) and is also a published author with several books, including Boring Ba Ang Bible Mo? (Is Your Bible Boring?), which won the ‘Filipino Reader’s Choice Award.’ He is a licensed professional teacher with an MA from the College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines – Diliman.
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Alan Cross
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Juan Cruz
Pastor Juan Cruz was born on December 17, 1982. He is Argentinean, but today he is living in Paraguay with his family. He’s been married to Carolina for 20 years, and they have three children: Abigail, Juan Cruz Jr. and Tatiana. He is a President of the Vuelve a Soñar Association and the Funda Joven Foundation, NGOs working to prevent problems and carry out social projects in such areas as suicide, bullying, and sexual abuse. He is also president of the Latin Evangelical Alliance, which encompasses 22 nations, working to advance the gospel in unity with national alliances.
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Martin Deacon
Martin Deacon is president of Teach Every Nation (TEN), a ministry using video-based training called the Bible School on Wheels. TEN is training pastors and leaders in over 80 Global South countries and in 10 major languages. The TEN campus in South Africa has trained 7,000 leaders who have launched over 5,000 church-based Bible schools. Martin is married to Anneli, graduated from Dallas Seminary and has lectured at the Baptist Theological College, University of Johannesburg, Haggai, Equip and Walk Thru the Bible.
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Martin Dieckmann
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Ylli Doçi
Dr. Ylli Doçi has served in Christian ministry since graduating from university in 1995 and has held multiple leadership roles in Albania and abroad. In 2003 he graduated from Denver Seminary with a Master of Arts degree in philosophy of religion. He completed doctoral studies in 2018 in social anthropology, focusing on inter-religious dynamics. Ylli is one of the founders of the Cornerstone Church of Albania and has served as chairman of the Inter-Religious Council of Albania, which is composed of top representatives of the five recognized religions in Albania. Dr. Doçi is currently the European director of the International Leadership Foundation.
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Connie Duarte
Connie Main Duarte works in Global Ministries for BGC Canada and lives in Portugal. She is the General Secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance; a pastor at the Meeting Point, a Baptist church in Estoril, Portugal; a board member of the World Evangelical Alliance; and the chair of Crescer com Amigos, an association that works with vulnerable children in the Portuguese school system who need care and extra attention to be successful in school. She is involved in staff training for the GBU Portugal. She speaks at conferences around Europe.
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Olivier Fleury
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Aiah Foday-Khabenje
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Dwight Gibson
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Ricki Gidoomal
Ricki Gidoomal serves as EVP, Academic & Partner Services for Whole Word Institute. He also serves the Lausanne Movement as catalyst for orality, and he co-authored Master Storyteller: God’s Oral Communication in the Bible and Hebrew Tradition (COS/Lausanne). He graduated from the University of Oxford with an MA (Oxon) in Russian and linguistics and has extensive experience in business and non-profit leadership, communications and marketing. Ricki has lived, worked, and ministered in English, Russian, Spanish and Hebrew contexts. Currently Ricki and his wife live in Oxfordshire, UK with their three teenage children.
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Mark Greene
Mark Greene has been a pioneer in workplace ministry and whole-life discipleship for over 30 years. His books on work and everyday discipleship include Thank God’s It’s Monday, Transforming Work, Making Disciples for the Workplace and Fruitfulness on the Frontline. A former New York adman, Mark became vice-principal of the London School of Theology, and then served for 21 years as executive director at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, founded by John Stott. He is now their mission champion, focused on writing, speaking and resource development. He is married to Katriina, a Finn, and they have three adult children.
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Dalen Harrison
Dalen Harrison is the co-founder of Ole Holdings, Inc., a strategic holding company providing sustainable innovations to address challenges of individual nations so as to enable technology independence, a pathway toward graduation from IGO assistance and economic empowerment for each person in the country.
Dalen has been at the cutting edge of television technologies for the last twenty-eight years. He was responsible for the first social media-enabled TV network, the first interactive advertising campaigns across cable and satellite operators, and many other innovations. These innovations have demonstrated huge audience participation rates and 300% growth in advertising dollars over standard advertising rates when customers engage directly with the advertising.
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Desmond Henry
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Gary G. Hoag
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Victor Hou
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Ben Jack
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Todd M. Johnson
Todd M. Johnson, PhD, is the Eva B. and Paul E. Toms Distinguished Professor of Mission and Global Christianity and co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Johnson is research associate at Boston University’s Institute for Culture, Religion and World Affairs, leading a research project on international religious demography. He is co-author of the World Christian Encyclopedia (2nd and 3 rd editions), co-editor of the Atlas of Global Christianity, and series editor (with Ken Ross) of the 10-volume Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity series. He is co-editor of the World Christian Database and the World Religion Database (Brill).
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Ali Kalkandelen
Ali Kalkandelen is pastor and the present chairman of the Protestant Churches Association in Turkey and head pastor of the Avrasya Church Network. Born and raised in Turkey, he has an undergraduate and a master’s degree in psychology from Istanbul University and Denver Seminary, Colorado, USA. He has been married for 29 years to his wife Pervin. They have two children, İlayca (24) and Birce (22). Ali and his wife, along with pastoring, are active in both local and international ministries, Christian TV programs, and ministry training schools. He is also author of the book God’s Message of Love.
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Edwin Keh, MH
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Sam D. Kim
Rev. Dr. Sam D. Kim is a Harvard-Trained ethicist and the co-founder of 180 Church. He was appointed as a research fellow in global health and social medicine at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and was part of Harvard Catalyst, where he explored the inequities surrounding health, immigration, and social policies. He lives in NYC with his wife Lydia and his two sons, Nathan and Josh. His first book, A Holy Haunting, won the ’23 International Book Award for best book in Religion: Christianity. He has written for Christianity Today, EMO, Seminary-Now and the YouVersion on the Bible App.
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Manfred W. Kohl
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David Kornfield
Born and raised in Bolivia, Dave served in Brazil with OCI/Sepal for 20 years. He has worked in disciple-making since 1974, and in training and mentoring pastors and leaders since 1984. He wrote over twenty books for small groups and co-authored the Discipleship Bible in Portuguese and Spanish. His vision is “healthy disciple-making pastors; healthy disciple-making churches.” David mentors leaders of these movements in ten Latin American countries. He leads Discipling and Pastoring of Pastors (DPP) and works with Evangelical Alliance leaders in the Decade of Disciple-Making (DoDM) in Latin America. He is married to Debbie and has four grown children.
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James Kramer
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Peter Markovich Kremeruk
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Jurie Kriel
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John Langlois
John Langlois joined the WEA staff full-time upon graduation from seminary, working with the Theological Commission. Two years later WEA had a major financial crisis when all staff lost their positions, as a result of which John went back home in the island of Guernsey, Channel Islands, to start a new law practice (now the largest offshore law practice in the world) to finance his continuing WEA work, which he has continued ever since. In 2008 the WEA General Assembly designated him as International Council Member Emeritus for life, the only one since the WEA was founded in 1846.
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Georgie Lee
Georgie Lee’s career spans over 50 years in journalism, stockbroking, and investment banking. After graduating with an honors degree in business administration from the National University of Singapore, Georgie honed his skills in journalism with Singapore’s national newspaper, the Straits Times, and subsequently, with the Financial Times of London as its Singapore correspondent. He then worked as a stockbroker and investment banker at leading Asian financial institutions. George and his son, Galven, authored a bestselling 300-page book, Unfolding His Story, on the history of the charismatic movement in Singapore. He continues to contribute regularly to Christian publications in the area of faith, work, and business. George is the Immediate Past President of Gatekeepers Singapore, a marketplace ministry, and an elder of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, an Anglican church that he helped plant in 1979.
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Jonathan E. Lim
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Peirong Lin
Dr. Peirong Lin is a theologian and a passionate human development professional. She has been the WEA Deputy Secretary General for Operations since March 2021. Prior to being the deputy, she was human resource director and research coordinator for the World Evangelical Alliance’s Department for Theological Concerns. She brings with her a unique mix of praxis and theory. Besides working with World Vision in the Asia-Pacific region, she has studied at university institutions on three different continents, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in business administration, a master’s degree in organizational leadership and a PhD in theology and religious studies.
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Grant Lovejoy
Since 2004 Grant Lovejoy has been Director of Orality Strategies for IMB, where he is a member of IMB’s global strategy leadership team. Grant leads a team that develops heart-language Scripture resources in appropriate media, especially for Bible-less languages and oral cultures. He also advocates for contextualizing church leadership training and theological education for oral cultures. Since 2009 Grant has overseen IMB’s outreach to 34 million culturally-Deaf people around the world.Grant has been a pastor to students, church planter, pastor, and seminary professor. He has contributed to and co-edited five books, including Biblical Hermeneutics (2d ed., 2002) and Making Disciples of Oral Learners (2005).
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Theresa Lua
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Beniamin Lup
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Ruslan Maliuta
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Zenet Maramara
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Jay Mātenga
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Master Matlhaope
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Mary-Catherine McAlvany
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Terri Miller
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Angela Moore
Dr. Angela Moore has been married to Todd for 25 years and has hosted weekly Bible studies for more than 23 years at home and at her faith-based dermatology clinic and clinical research center. She is Christian Medical Dental Association Dermatology Section Chair and editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology Clinical Pearls Section. As clinical assistant professor at Baylor University Medical Center, Angela has been principal Investigator in over165 clinical trials, has authored more than100 publications and has co-edited 2 dermatology textbooks. She has lectured and led mission trips to more than 50 countries. Her passions are workplace ministry, global disciple making, and generosity.
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Todd Moore
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Werner Nachtigal
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Ray Neu
A graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Northwest Nazarene University and George Fox Evangelical Friends Seminary, Ray Neu is deeply committed to lifelong learning. Ray has designed oral and visual learning systems for several global ministry partners. His passion for empowering those who love God’s Word, yet lack an opportunity to enter formal theological school drives innovative approaches to creating sustainable, culturally reproducible theological training. It has also earned him the moniker of ‘The Story Doctor.’ Ray’s current role is as director of orality coaching at Spoken Worldwide, where his team trains tens of thousands of people each year.
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Michael A. Ortiz
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Nick Parker
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Jeremy Perigo
Dr. Jeremy Perigo is professor of theology and worship arts at Dordt University and a visiting lecturer and research supervisor at Regent University and London School of Theology. Additionally, he has taught on worship in diverse global contexts for the past two decades. He has a doctorate in worship studies, which focused on the contextualization of Christian worship in Middle Eastern contexts. Jeremy ministers internationally as a worship leader, preacher, saxophonist and theological educator. He hosts Worship/Theology, a podcast focused on faith and practice. He lives in rural northwest Iowa, USA with his wife and three daughters.
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Timo Plutschinski
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Jonatan Proietti
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Simpson Rebbavarapu
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Eduardo Retta
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Shawn Ring
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Kina Robertshaw
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Chansamone Saiyasak
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Yolande Sandoua
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Samuel Richmond Saxena
Samuel Richmond Saxena is an Indian educator, musician and eco-theologian. He enjoys advocating for creation care, science and theology and is presently serving as director and associate professor at the Centre for Advanced Religious Studies, North East Christian University, Nagaland. Samuel is also an academic consultant at Caleb Institute, Gurgaon. He has done postdoctoral studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, USA and holds a PhD in ecotheology from SHUATS in India. He is an honorary secretary of the Theological Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of India and a member of the WEA Theological Commission, World Evangelical Alliance. He is also a project officer with the WEA Sustainability Centre.
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Justin Schell
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Thomas Schirrmacher
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Brad Smith
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Sarah Starrenburg
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Brian Stiller
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David Sutherland
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David Swarr
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Dato Dr Kim Tan
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David Tarus
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Efraim Tendero
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Shelley G. Trebesch
Shelley G. Trebesch (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) serves as the global chief of staff for International Care Ministries (ICM). In her 30 years of experience, she has moved between academics (assistant professor of leadership and organization development at Fuller Theological Seminary) and organizational leadership (vice president for capacity development, Prison Fellowship International; global director for member development for OMF International). An active consultant, trainer and seminar leader, Shelley has facilitated complex change processes and developed leadership curricula for churches and organizations around the world.
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Mele Tu'iano
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Simoun Ung
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Joseph Vijayam
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William Wagner
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Mark Wagner
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Nupanga Weanzana
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Derek Webster
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Jan Wessels
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Jim Wilder
Dr. Jim Wilder is a clinical psychologist and neurotheologian at Life Model Works, an author, and an international speaker who develops ways to apply brain science and Christian practices that help all those who encounter the church to be drawn to and transformed into the character of Christ. He helps existing relational networks build joy, suffer well, love enemies and grow a mature community with the resilience to overcome trauma under the guidance of Christ’s Spirit.
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