Topic: Future Collaboration

Alex is an MC Deputy Leader, while primarily serving with VisionSynergy as their Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa (a secondment from Operation Mobilization). He also carries responsibilities with Vision 5:9 and COMIBAM. Alex has extensive global missions experience and is passionate about Leadership, Mobilization, and Networking and Collaboration.

Topic: Digital Realities

JP (John Paul) is the MC Synergist for Tech. He is a Filipino now based  in New Jersey where he pastors a culturally diverse congregation. JP is actively conversant in digital theology discussions in social media and is involved with major Evangelical networks exploring digital/virtual evangelism and missions. His vision is to see churches, ministries and missions all around the world reaching out to non-Christians who live and relate inside virtual/digital worlds.

Topic: Developing Leaders Intergenerationally

Evi is an MC Deputy Leader passionate about helping people to discover their calling and implement their visions and dreams. She is the founding Director of LeadNow, which she started in 2021 to support the development of younger leaders, particularly in Europe, inspiring them to engage in God’s mission. In 2022 Evi published her first book “Scheitern Erwünscht!” (Literally translated, “Failure Desired!”).

Topic: Missions’ Consumer Crisis

Jo serves the MC as a Deputy Leader and Synergist for Creation Care. She is passionate about the impact of consumerism and individualism on the Western church, the planet and the lives of people in poverty. Her focus is on environmental and economic sustainability, practically leading to a zero-waste lifestyle. Jo has a passion for young people and whole-of-life mission (integral or holistic mission), theology and equipping churches, theological colleges and organisations concerning a broader Biblical understanding of God’s mission.

Topic: Organisational Koinonia

Fred serves as one of three Associate International Directors of Pioneers. He was born and raised in Ghana where he served with an interdenominational ministry group (Joyful Way Incorporated). This “fueled” his passion for ministry across cultures and internationalization issues, leading him to join (and then led) the Ghana Mobilisation Base for Pioneers Africa and then in international leadership with Pioneers. Fred is passionate about developing biblically-authentic fellowship within missions organisations.

Topic: Releasing Humanity’s Full Potential for God’s Mission

Amanda is the Director of the Women’s Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance and is one of the pioneers of Rise in Strength, a network of international Christian women leaders. She heads up the new global Christian network to end domestic abuse (CNEDA), is Chair of Kyria Network UK, which aims to equip and develop healthy female leadership, and also works with a mission agency developing church planters in the majority Moslem world.

Topic: Indigenous Implications

Jay is the Director of Global Witness for the World Evangelical Alliance, and Executive Director of its Mission Commission. In addition, Jay leads Missions Interlink NZ, the Aotearoa New Zealand Evangelical Missionary Alliance. Jay is a Māori theologian of missions practice and strongly believes that the world needs to see the global Church and its missions working in loving mutuality as central to our witness for Christ in the world—a Holy Spirit enabled mutuality between those from Industrial knowledge backgrounds (West/individualist), those from Indigenous knowledge backgrounds (Majority World/collectivist), and the blended ethnic hybrids like himself. He believes this is “God’s heart for humanity” as revealed through a relational hermeneutic of Scripture.

Topic: The Value of Indigenous Movements

Dave is an encourager and resourcer of Church Planting Movements among unreached groups, serving with BEYOND. He has served as Lead Facilitator for the Bridging the Divide network since 2011, and is a member of the leadership team of the Motus Dei network. After pastoring for 10 years in the US, he served among Muslims in Southeast Asia for 24 years. Dave has published widely on topics related to contextualization, reaching Muslims, and the nature of the church, and Church Planting Movements. He is coauthor of Bhojpuri Breakthrough: A Movement that Keeps Multiplying, coeditor of  24:14 – A Testimony to All Peoples, and associate editor of Motus Dei: The Movement of God to Disciple the Nations.

Topic: Welcoming Nationals in Missions

Bijoy is the International Director of Interserve. He worked as a General Practitioner (medical doctor) in India for 13 years before joining Interserve India in 1994 and became National Director in 1996. Over 10 years he grew the organisation in size and diversity. He became Regional Director for the Americas and North Pacific in 2006 and South Asia in 2013 before accepting the appointement as International Director in 2015. Bijoy is eager to widen our theological and missiological framework in order to innovate effectively for the future. Such innovation requires us to look afresh through the lenses of Community, Kingdom, and Powerlessness which opens us up to greater diversity and inclusivity.