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Presentadores

BICTE VIII Speakers & Presenters

Deji Isaac Ayegboyin (Nigeria)

Dr. Deji Isaac Ayegboyin has been a Professor of Church History and African Christianity at the Department of Religious Studies,�University of Ibadan, Ibadan since 2006. He has also served as President of Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary in Ogbomoso, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Church History�from the University of Ibadan and his M.Div in Theology from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Entre las publicaciones más recientes del Dr. Ayegboyin figuran La globalización, la tecnología, el VIH y el SIDA y la educación teológica en África (Jos & Kumasi: WAATI Publications) (2009);�Pedagogía: La iglesia, el liderazgo y la educación teológica en África (2009);�Papers in Honour of Prof. Osadolor Imasogie; and�La Reforma y la respuesta de la Iglesia en África,�Course Material for Post-Graduate Diploma in Christian Theology (National Open University of Nigeria, 2008).

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William Brackney (Canadá)

Rev. Dr. William Brackney currently holds the Millard R. Cherry Distinguished Chair in Christian Thought and Ethics on the Faculty of Theology at Acadia University and teaches in Acadia Divinity College. The author of over 40 books in Christian Thought, Ethics, and Baptist Studies, Dr. Brackney currently teaches in Historical Theology, Ethics and Baptist Studies. His particular interests are in human rights and religious traditions and developing a congregational model for interpreting theological and ethics in context. His recent published works include�Human Rights and the World’s Major Religions�(2013),�Los bautistas en los primeros años de América del Norte�(2013), a 13 volume series he is editing,�Diccionario Histórico del Cristianismo Radical�(2012), and�Estudiar el cristianismo: Los temas críticos�(2009). He is much involved in ecumenical and interfaith conversations at the national and international levels.

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Neville G. Callam (Jamaica)

El Rev. Dr. Neville G. Callam es el Secretario General de la Alianza Mundial Bautista. Graduado del Colegio Teológico Unido de las Indias Occidentales, la Universidad de las Indias Occidentales y la Escuela de Divinidad de Harvard, asumió el liderazgo dentro de la BWA en septiembre de 2007. Enseñó en el Colegio Teológico Unido de las Indias Occidentales y en el Seminario Teológico de Jamaica.

He is the author or editor of seven books, the most recent being�Persiguiendo la unidad y defendiendo los derechos: La Alianza Mundial Bautista en acción (2010), el Dr. Callam ha presentado ponencias en foros, simposios, seminarios, talleres y servicios de culto en más de 70 países.

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Graham Hill (Australia)

Rev. Dr. Graham Hill (DipMinHons, BTheol, PGCertTESOL, CertIV.TAA, MTheol, PhD ) joined the Morling faculty in 2007 as Lecturer in Pastoral and Practical Studies, the Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies,�and the Coordinator of Postgraduate Coursework degrees. Before coming to Morling, Graham lectured in Culture, Mission, and Leadership�at Burleigh College in South Australia, and has also served as the Director of Baptist Youth Ministries in Western Australia. Graham has been in Christian ministry since 1988, and has significant�experience in local church leadership, including church planting, youth ministry, associate pastor of a large growing congregation, and coaching pastors and planters of missional experiments.

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Burchell K. Taylor�(Jamaica)

El Rev. Dr. Burchell K. Taylor es pastor de la Iglesia Bautista Bethel, Half Way Tree, Kingston, Jamaica. Participa en la dirección de seminarios, conferencias, presentación de ponencias y dirección de estudios bíblicos y temas relacionados, tanto a nivel local como internacional. Ha sido capellán bautista de la Universidad de las Indias Occidentales, miembro de la Comisión de Ética y Comunicación de la Alianza Mundial Bautista y miembro del ejecutivo del Consejo de Iglesias de Jamaica.

Profesor a tiempo parcial en el United Theological College of the West Indies y en el Seminario de San Miguel (católico romano), es licenciado en Divinidad por la Universidad de Londres, máster en Teología por la Universidad de Oxford y doctor en Teología por la Universidad de Leeds.

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Doug Weaver�(EE.UU.)

Rev.�Dr. Doug Weaver has been at Baylor University since 2003 and was recently promoted to full professor in the Department of Religion.� He is a member of the Department?s ?Historical Studies? area and teaches at the PhD, Masters, and undergraduate levels. �He received his PhD from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Rev. Dr. Weaver?s current research and teaching focus are on Baptist history and Pentecostalism. In other recent studies, he has explored the importance of freedom of conscience and the relationship of personal voluntary faith and ecclesiology in Baptist life in�Explorando la herencia cristiana: Un lector de historia y teología.

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Respondedores

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Otneil Ioan Bunaciu (Rumania)

El Dr. Otneil Ioan Bunaciu, que actualmente es el pastor de Biserica Providenta, Bucuresti (Rumania), también es vicepresidente de la Federación Bautista Europea, presidente de la Unión Bautista de Rumania y director nacional del TCMI, Heiligenkreuz (Austria). Se desempeña como Decano de la Facultatea de Teologie Baptista, Universitatea din Bucuresti.

Conocido teólogo, en la actualidad es Doctor por el Institutul Protestant de Cluj (Rumanía) (Teología), Licenciado por el Regent's Park College de la Universidad de Oxford (Reino Unido) (Teología / Máster por acumulación) y Máster en Ciencias por el Institutul de Constructii de Bucuresti (Rumanía) (Ingeniería Mecánica).

Algunas de sus principales publicaciones incluyen: Istoria crestinismului (Editura �Universitatii Bucuresti);Istoria crestinismului (Editura Universitatii Bucuresti) y Istoria crestinismului (Editura Universitatii Burcuresti).

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Ademola Solomon Ishola�(Nigeria)

En la actualidad, el Rev. Dr. Ademola Solomon Ishola supervisa a estudiantes de máster y doctorado en el Seminario Teológico Bautista de Nigeria; el Instituto Teológico B. H. Caroll de Arlington (Texas) y el Seminario Teológico Bautista del Sureste (estudiantes con sede en Nigeria y la República de Benín).

The holder of a PhD and MDiv. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, he is actively involved in publishing, submitting scholarly articles and writing for other book reviews over a wide range of topics�including his most recent work in�(2009)�Pedagogía: La iglesia, el liderazgo y la educación teológica en África; �in Honour of Professor Osadolor Imasogie.

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Bill Tillman (EE.UU.)

Rev. Dr. William Morris Tillman, Jr. is currently the Director of Theological Education of the Baptist General Convention of Texas in Dallas Texas, USA.� He is also presently a member of the BWA Christian Ethics Commission, and has been since 2001.� Prior to this, he was a member of the BWA Evangelism and Missions Workgroup, and the BWA Theological Education Workgroup.� He has earned a certificate in Conflict Resolution and Mediation in compliance with Texas Mediation Trainer Roundtable Standards, as well as his M.Div and Ph.D from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.� Previously, he was a professor of Christian Ethics at Logsdon School of Theology of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, USA from the year 2000 until 2012.� Rev. Dr. Tillman has worked as a pastor since 1965, in places such as Oklahoma and Tennessee, USA.� He has published or assisted in the publication of several books, most recently of which he took on the role as editor on Ambos-y: Un lector de Maston, lecturas seleccionadas de los escritos de T. B. Maston, published in 2011.� He is also the recipient of several distinguished awards, such as the Christian Live Commission, BGCT, Distinguished Service Award, which was presented in 2008.� He currently lives with his wife Leta Ruth Meek Tillman, and they have two grown children, William Andrew and Glenn Michael.

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Phyllis Rodgerson Pleasants Tessieri�(USA)

Dr. Phyllis Rodgerson Pleasants Tessieri, who from a young age resided in Richmond, VA; has two degrees from the University of Virginia, her BA from Mary Washington when it was the women?s college of the University and later her MEd from the University in Charlottesville.� In mid-life she earned her MDiv and PhD degrees from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.� She has taught Church History at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, IL; Baptist Theological Seminary at R�schlikon, Switzerland; International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic; and ended her faculty career as the John F. Loftis Professor of Church History at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, VA.

After interesting and varied careers, Tessieri has launched out on her own as a consultant/educator for local congregations and businesses.� Her focus is thinking historically in order to participate in creating the future.

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Panelistas

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Lina Andronoviene (Praga)

La Dra. Lina Andronoviene es la Líder del Curso de Teología Aplicada en el Seminario Teológico Bautista Internacional (IBTS) en Praga, República Checa. También es Directora de la Escuela Bíblica no residencial de su unión de origen, la Unión Bautista de Lituania. Es licenciada en inglés y teología por la Universidad Internacional LCC de Klaipeda, Lituania, y tiene un MTh y un PhD del IBTS. Autora de muchos artículos, también ha publicado Involuntary Free or Voluntarily Boundily Bound: La soltería en las comunidades bautistas de la Europa poscomunista. IBTS Occasional Publications Series, Vol. II (Praga: Seminario Teológico Bautista Internacional, 2003).

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Miyon Chung (Corea)

Dr. Miyon Chung is currently an Associate Professor of Theology at Torch Trinity Graduate University in Seoul, Korea.� She holds a BA in Government/Pre-Law from the University of Texas at Austin, MA?s in Church Social Work and Theology from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as a PhD in Theology from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.� Some of her publications include Cambridge Companion of Evangelical Theology, Chapter 8 ?Conversation and Sanctification?; Learning to Lead: Lessons in Leadership for People of Faith, Chapter 23, ?Working with Asian?s?; and various articles in Korean academic journals.� She is currently working on two collaborative projects: selected passages on ESV Women?s Devotional Bible Crossway Publishing Ministries and Evangelical Theological Dictionary, ?Assurance? by Baker Books.

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Glenroy Lalor (Jamaica)

El Reverendo Dr. Glenroy Lalor es actualmente Guardián Superior Bautista y profesor de Historia de la Iglesia y Estudios Pastorales en el Colegio Teológico Unido de las Indias Occidentales en Jamaica. Actualmente imparte cursos de Historia de la Iglesia Primitiva hasta el año 451 d.C., La Reforma, Historia de las Iglesias Cristianas en el Caribe: 1492-1834, Historia de las Iglesias Cristianas en el Caribe después de la emancipación, Historia de la Iglesia del Caribe y Congregación en Comunidad.

El Rev. Dr. Lalor obtuvo dos licenciaturas y un doctorado en Teología por la Universidad de las Indias Occidentales, y su Dip.Min. por el United Theological College of the West Indies.

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Carlomagno M. Nditemeh (Camerún)

Rev. Dr. Charlemagne Nditemeh is currently the Academic Dean of the International Leadership University (ILU) Cameroon and a visiting adjunct faculty member in three African seminaries: West Africa Theological Seminary (WATS) Lagos-Nigeria, the Facult� de Th�ologie Evang�lique de Bangui (FATEB) in the Central African Republic, and the Cameroon Baptist Theological Seminary Ndu.

Nditemeh es autor de dos libros: El que tiene oído: Sermons on the Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia Minor" (abril de 2011) y "Towards An African Christian Premarital Counselling" (noviembre de 2011).

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Richard J. Serrano (Venezuela)

Richard J. Serrano P.�is a Venezuelan�pastor, theologian and musician.� Currently he is the senior pastor of Primera Iglesia Bautista de San Antonio de Los Altos�and president of the Seminario Teol�gico Bautista de Venezuela.� He wrote the notes on Proverbs for the Biblia de Estudio Mundo Hispano, published by�Editorial Mundo Hispano.� He has been a lecturer in several countries and has written several articles and essays.� He is the author of�?Frente al altar con coraz�n de muchacho? (In Front of�the Altar with a Boy�s heart),�in Enrique Pinedo, ed., Ni�ez, adolescencia y misi�n integral (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Kair�s, 2012).� He is a student of the doctoral program in Philosophy of Theological Education, a doctoral program sponsored by SETECA, Guatemala,�especially prepared for seminary presidents and deans.� Serrano�is�the president of the�Asociaci�n Latinoamericana de Instituciones de Educaci�n Teol�gica (ALIET), director�of the Theological Education Commission�of�the Uni�n Bautista Latino Americana (UBLA)�and a member of the directory of the�network Red de Instituciones Bautistas de Educaci�n Teol�gica (RIBET).�With his family, he lives in�Los Teques, Venezuela.

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Meredith Stone (EE.UU.)

La Rev. Meredith Stone actualmente sirve como Especialista en Mujeres en el Ministerio para la Convención General Bautista de Texas.

She received her B.A. and also her M.A. in Religion from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. �She is currently working toward the completion of a PhD in Biblical Interpretation at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. �She has previously served as an adjunct instructor of Bible and Hebrew at Hardin-Simmons University, Teaching Pastor of a local church, and Admissions Coordinator for Logsdon Seminary. She regularly contributes to Bible studies from BaptistWay press and has also written articles, a book chapter, and other curriculum.

Presidentes de las reuniones regionales

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Trevor Raymond Edwards (Jamaica)

Rev. Trevor Raymond Edwards is a graduate of the University of the West Indies; UTCWI and the University of Edinburgh.� He is currently a Baptist Tutor and Lecturer at the United Theological College of the West Indies, in the area of Pastoral Theology.� He is also Coordinator of the UTCWI Counselling Centre, Moderator of the Barbican Baptist Church, and Director and Co-founder of FRESH START-a divorce recovery Ministry associated with the Family Life Ministries.� He is the former General Secretary of the Jamaica Baptist Union, former Deputy President of the United Theological of the West Indies, and Director and former Chair of the Caribbean Christian Publication (CCP).� He is currently married to Sharon Earle, both parents of four adult children; Grace-Ann, Ade, Raymond, and Francois.

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Paul S. Fiddes (Reino Unido)

El Dr. Paul S. Fiddes es catedrático de Teología Sistemática en la Universidad de Oxford y posee los títulos de Doctor en Filosofía y Doctor en Filosofía por dicha Universidad. Es ministro ordenado en la Unión Bautista de Gran Bretaña. Fue Director del Regent's Park College de la Universidad de Oxford durante 18 años, y actualmente es Director de Investigación del College y Director en funciones del Oxford Centre for Baptist History and Heritage. Fue presidente de la Comisión de Doctrina e Intereclesiástica de la Alianza Mundial Bautista entre 2005 y 2010, y presidente bautista de Conversaciones Teológicas Internacionales tanto con la Comunión Anglicana como con la Iglesia Católica Romana. El Dr. Fiddes ha escrito o editado 17 libros y más de 90 artículos en los ámbitos de la doctrina cristiana, la teología ecuménica y la teología de la cultura, y tiene un interés particular en la interfaz entre la teología y la literatura creativa. Su libro más reciente es Seeing the World and Knowing God: Hebrew Wisdom and Christian Doctrine in a Late-Modern Context (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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A. K. Lama (India)

El Rev. Dr. A. K. Lama es el Secretario General del Consejo de Iglesias Bautistas del Noreste de la India (CBCNEI), una familia de 7000 iglesias bautistas en la India. También es miembro de la Comisión de Educación Teológica y Desarrollo de Liderazgo de BWA, miembro ejecutivo del Consejo Nacional de Iglesias de la India (NCCI) y director ejecutivo de Transforming Leaders in Asia, AL. Anteriormente, fue Secretario Regional de la Unión de Estudiantes Evangélicos de la India (el capítulo InterVarsity de la India) durante 8 años.

Obtuvo una Maestría en Divinidad en 1996, un Doctorado en Ministerio en 2002 de la Universidad de Samford (Birmingham, AL), y un Doctorado en Filosofía en el Antiguo Testamento de la Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL) en 2007. Él y su esposa, la Dra. Asangla, han estado en el ministerio durante 23 años. Han sido bendecidos con tres hijos, Sonam, Neema y Joshua.

His publications include an article in Journal of Asian Evangelical Theology (Vol.17/1, 2013):�Interpreting Scripture in Northeast India;�Two chapters in ATA Publications�Light for Our Path: The authority, inspiration, meaning, and mission of the Scripture,�Manila, 2013: (1)�Preaching God?s Word n Northeast India;�(2)�¿Cómo podemos reconstruir, restaurar y renovar?; and the recent published monograph:�Leyendo el salmo 145 con los sabios�by Langham Publications. He is the Editor of the Baptist News, a magazine of the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India.

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Dinorah B. M�ndez (Mexico)

Dr. Dinorah B. M�ndez , a native of �Durango, Mexico, holds degrees in Informatics from the Technological Institute of Durango and in Theology from the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary. She studied for her Master of Divinity at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas and gained her doctorate from Wales Univeristy through the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. She has worked as missionary in Mexico City and has been professor of theology and Christian heritage at Mexican Baptist Seminary (STBM) since 1989. Currently she is serving as visiting professor at the Baptist University of the Americas and as adjunct professor at Logsdon Seminary extension program both in San Antonio, Texas.

Entre sus últimas publicaciones están sus comentarios bíblicos sobre 1 Timoteo y Tito en el Comentario B�blico Mundo Hispano, Vol�men 22, Editorial Mundo Hispano, 2008. Su tesis doctoral Evangélicos en México: Su himno y su teología, Peter Lang, 2008;?Características clave de la espiritualidad mexicana? en Transformación. Revista de la Misión HolísticaOxford Centre for Mission Studies, octubre de 2010; y las notas y comentarios sobre 1 y 2 Timoteo en el Nueva Biblia de Estudio Mundo HispanoEditorial Mundo Hispano, 2012.

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Elizabeth Newman (EE.UU.)

La Dra. Elizabeth Newman ocupa la cátedra Eula Mae y John Baugh de Teología y Ética en el Seminario Teológico Bautista de Richmond (Virginia, EE.UU.). Es licenciada por la Universidad Wake Forest, máster en Divinidad por el Seminario Teológico Bautista del Sur y doctora por la Universidad Duke. Es autora de Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers (Brazos Press, 2007), y Attending the Wounds on Christ's Body: Teresa's Scriptural Vision (Cascade Books, 2012). Beth fue nombrada becaria Henry Luce III en Teología en 2009.

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Harrison Olan'g (Tanzania)

Dr. Harrison Olan?g received a BA in Religion and Business Management from the University of Mary Hardin Baylor in 1988, a Masters of Divinity and Theology from Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in 1991, and a Doctor of Philosophy and Theology from Brunel University/London School of Theology in 2003.� He studied Clinical Pastoral Education in 1976, African Studies in 2001, Energy Technology Assessment sponsored by Royal Netherlands Government and conducted by ESAMI in 2002, and a workshop in Church and Modern Communication presented by the BWA in 2004.� His publications include a book review of�Ciudad de Dios, ciudad de Satán: Una teología bíblica de la Iglesia urbana?�by Abraham Linthcum in the�African Journal of Theology Vol. 11.2, 1992 y¿Qué significa el Evangelio para nosotros en África?�presented at the Baptist World Congress in Buenos Aires in August of 1995, later published�como "El Evangelio de Endiyanga"�in�Los acentos contemporáneos del Evangelio, EDS. Daniel Carro and Richard F. Wilson, Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 1977, pp. 35-39.��"Un caso de educación holística en las instituciones de enseñanza superior de Tanzania"�Mount Meru University General Education Journal will be published in April, 2013.� His area of teaching has been in African Traditional Religions, Contemporary Theology in Africa, and Theology of Development.

Saludos, Devociones y Sesiones

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Johnathan Hemmings (Jamaica)

Rev. Johnathan Hemmings has been in pastoral ministry for the past twenty six years. He is a past� president of the Jamaica Baptist Union, which he currently serves as a member of various committees and commissions. He is the chairman of the Jamaica Baptist Union superintendent council and serves as the� superintendent minister for the parishes of St. Ann, St. Mary, and Portland. He is the pastor of the Ocho Rios circuit of Baptist Churches for the past sixteen years. He is also married to wife, Lois, with two grown children, Jon and Gabrielle.

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Louise�Kretzschmar (South Africa)

Louise Kretzschmar es profesora de ética teológica en la Universidad de Sudáfrica en Pretoria. Es una de las universidades de educación a distancia más grandes del mundo y actualmente tiene más de 350.000 estudiantes. Sus principales áreas de enseñanza e investigación son la ética cristiana, la espiritualidad y el liderazgo. También tiene un gran interés en la Ética Aplicada. Es miembro de la Convención Bautista de Sudáfrica, es anciana en su iglesia y sirve en la Junta del Colegio de la Convención Bautista en Soweto.

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Parush Parushev (Bulgaria)

El Rev. Dr. Parush Raykov Parushev es nativo de Sofía, Bulgaria. Actualmente es el Pro-Rector y el próximo Rector del Seminario Teológico Bautista Internacional de Praga, República Checa. Da conferencias y publica extensamente en Teología Aplicada, Misionología, Ética Cristiana y Filosofía Moral en Europa y Norteamérica.

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Luke Shaw (Jamaica)

El Reverendo Luke Shaw es pastor del Circuito de Iglesias Bautistas de la ciudad de Linstead/Buxton, Santa Catalina de Jamaica y actualmente se desempeña como Presidente de la Unión Bautista de Jamaica (JBU). Posee un diploma de estudios ministeriales del United Theological College of the West Indies, una licenciatura y una maestría en teología de la Universidad de las Indias Occidentales. El reverendo Shaw ha prestado servicios a la Unión Bautista de Jamaica en diversos cargos tanto a nivel local como internacional, entre ellos el de misionero en Panamá de 2000 a 2006. También presta servicios en la Comisión de Evangelización del METR de la BWA. Está casado y tiene dos hijos.

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John V. Upton, Jr. (ESTADOS UNIDOS)

Rev. Dr. John V. Upton, Jr. is currently serving a five-year term as President of the Baptist World Alliance that began July 31, 2010, with his election at the 20th Baptist World Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.� As President of the BWA, John travels the world representing over 41 million Baptists and sharing the message of the redeeming love of Christ.� He was also elected Executive Director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia in the United States and the Virginia Baptist Mission Board during the annual meeting of the General Association in November 2001.� He had been group leader of the Mission Mobilization Group since 1995. Earlier, he was pastor of Urbanna Baptist Church in Urbanna, VA, and him and his wife, Deborah, served as missionaries in Taiwan through the Southern Baptist Convention?s Foreign Mission Board (now International Mission Board).

Rev. Dr. John V. Upton, Jr., a Norfolk-born Virginia native, is a graduate of Averett College (now University) in Danville, VA and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, USA.� The Upton?s have two sons, Christopher and Richard, a daughter, Emily, and six grandchildren.

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Fausto A. Vasconcelos (Brasil/Estados Unidos)

Rev. Dr. Fausto Aguiar de Vasconcelos is Director of the Division on Mission, Evangelism, and Theological Education at the Baptist World Alliance in Falls Church, Virginia, in the United States. Rev. Dr. Vasconcelos is a former pastor of First Baptist Church, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1985-2006); was president of the�Latin American Baptist Pastors? Conference (1992-1995); an eight time president of the Brazilian Baptist Convention (1992-2006); and is a former� president of the Union of Baptists in Latin America (2001-2004). He is married to Dione and has two daughters, Diane and Denise (married to Mario), and a grandson named Theodoro.