Leading Well in Times of Disruption

Abigail Abok is a researcher and writer passionate about driving positivechange, using writing to advocate for a more just and equitable world. As ateam member of The Para-Mallam Peace Foundation in Nigeria, she works toadvance the organization’s objectives geared towards building sustainable peace.

FEMI B. ADELEYE is the director of the Institute for Christian Impact as well as the director for Langham Preaching Africa. He previously served as the director of church partnerships for World Vision International, and before this worked with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), as regional secretary for English- and Portuguese-speaking Africa, and then as associate director for partnership and collaboration. Femi is an alumnus of Wheaton Graduate School, Illinois, USA, and the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has a PhD from Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture (ACI), Ghana. He currently serves on the international board of the Lausanne Movement and is adjunct faculty member at ACI, Ghana. Femi is married to Affy Adeleye, they are blessed with four children (Remi, Philip, Olive-Kemi, and Emmanuel), and currently live in Ghana.

Kiichi “Paul” Ariga is founding president of All Japan Revival Mission andglobal ambassador for A3/Japan.

RAMEZ ATALLAH is the General Secretary of the Bible Society of Egypt, a post he has held since 1990. He was born and raised in Egypt. He moved with his parents to Canada in the early 1960s after the Egyptian government nationalized his parents’ properties. He returned to Egypt in 1980, together with his wife, Rebecca, who is Canadian although born in Haiti where her parents were missionaries. He was Regional Secretary for the Middle East of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) from 1980 to 1990. He has participated in the Lausanne Movement since its inception in 1974, twice serving as its Vice-Chairman, and was Program Chairman for the Cape Town 2010 Congress.

An ordained minister with thirty six years of experience in church planting, leadership development, community development and business as mission practitioner. He studied in Maranatha University College, Ghana, Philippines Baptist Theological Seminary, and Asbury Seminary, Kentucky, USA. He is the founder and Executive Director (Emeritus) of Markaz Al Bishara (Centre Of Good News), an NGO in Ghana that operates Mission Network across Africa.

Nana Yaw Offei Awuku is global director of Generations, Lausanne Movement, based in Ghana. Serving to connect influencers and ideas across generations to accelerate global mission.

David W. Bennett is a global associate director for the Lausanne Movement,providing strategic oversight to the global directors for Regions, Generations,Issue Networks, Collaboration, and Partnerships, having previously served as a youth worker, associate pastor, church planter, and as senior pastor of globallyorientated churches in California, Oregon, and Massachusetts. He holds a BSfrom the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MDiv, DMin, and PhDdegrees from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Sarah Breuel is the founder and director of Revive Europe. Originally fromBrazil and currently living in Rome, Sarah has worked for IFES for seventeenyears in four national movements (Brazil, Canada, Norway, and Italy) andthe European region for six years as evangelism training coordinator for IFESEurope. Included in Christianity Today’s “33 under 33” list of leaders to watch,Sarah served as chair of the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering 2016. Shehas a business degree, an MDiv from Regent College, and serves globally inthe Lausanne board of directors. Sarah is married to René. They have planteda vibrant church in Rome and have two boys, Pietro and Matteo.

Doug Birdsall is honorary chair for the Lausanne Movement, ambassadorat-large for A3 movement, serving on the board of directors for A3 and waspresident of A3 from 1991 to 2007.

Joshua Bogunjoko is a family physician, missionary, and past SIMinternational director.

Eurico Buanaissa is general secretary of ABEMO.

Esther is the co-regional director for Lausanne English, Portuguese, and Spanish-speaking Africa (EPSA). She is also serves as the communications and programs manager at African Enterprise International, an organization that seeks to evangelize cities in Africa through word and deed, in partnership with the church. Esther has previously served with Navigators Kenya, Life Ministry Kenya (Campus Crusade), and most recently, the Hesabika Trust, an organization affiliated with the Fellowship of Christian Unions (FOCUS), a local chapter of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. She has been actively involved in Movement Day Africa and is an active church leader in Christ Is The Answer Ministries (CITAM).

Nadim Costa is from the Middle East and leads NEO Leaders, an agency committed to launching and multiplying movements of the gospel in the Levant, North Africa, and among migrant communities in Europe.

Jose L. Cruz is Spanish DMin coordinator at Dallas Theological Seminary and has served as a lead pastor in Central America, Latin America coordinatorfor a non-profit organization, cross-cultural church planter (Middle East, ElSalvador, US), and seminary professor.

Brenda Darke is an experienced teacher of children with severe cognitive disabilities, serving with Latin Link in Latin America since 1985, based in Peru and now in Costa Rica. For the last 20 years she has been engaged in educating pastors and leaders about how to better include people with disabilities in churches as well as giving pastoral support to people living with disabilities and their families.

C. J. lives in the UK with his wonderful wife and four children. His greatest joy has been walking with the Lord for over 25 years and is passionate about serving Christ's church through theological education. He serves with Union School of Theology in Wales and volunteers with Lausanne Movement. C. J. is working on a masters in theology and has an MA in leadership from Denver Seminary, Colorado, USA. He is also the author of "Missional Friendships: Jesus' Design for Fruitful Life and Ministry” (Acoma Press, 2020).

Lars Dahle is professor of systematic theology (with a specialty in Christianapologetics) at NLA University College, Norway, and serves also as executivedirector of Damaris Norway. He was the lead editor of The Lausanne Movement:A Range of Perspectives (Regnum, 2014) and has been Lausanne catalyst forMedia Engagement since 2013.

Prashan De Visser is Global Unites president and founder; a governing board member at Wesley College, Sri Lanka; council member at Colombo Theological Seminary; and a Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School visiting lecturer.

Jeyakaran Emmanuel co-founded the Powerhouse Churches in Chennai,India along with his wife Kavitha. He served with City to City India as nationalcatalyst before coming on board recently with A3 as vice president for globalministry. He has a passion for networking across the body of Christ andhas been involved with several networks including the GPro Commission,Movement Day, Chennai Transformation Network, and Asia CPX.

Kavitha Emmanuel is a pastor, trainer, and advocate for human rights. With a doctorate in transformational leadership from the Bakke Graduate University, Texas, USA, she is widely involved with transformational initiatives both within the church and in the secular arena. She is recognized internationally as the founder of the DARK IS BEAUTIFUL campaign, which addresses the toxic effects of colorism. She is passionate about being the voice for the vulnerable, especially women and girls, which led her to initiate the Women of Worth movement. She is an active member of Christian networks like Movement.org, Chennai Transformation Network, and the Women Global Proclamation Academy of RREACH. She launched the DISRUPTIVE WOMEN network, a Movement.org initiative to mobilize the urban Church to accelerate change for women especially in South Asia.

Andrew Feng is the US Director and Director of Global Partnerships for the Indigitous movement. Andrew holds a ThM from Dallas Seminary, Texas, USA.

PATRICK FUNG was born in Hong Kong and has a PhD in church history from the University of Hong Kong. He trained as a physician in Australia, with subsequent specialist training in the UK, and served as the 10th General Director of OMF International (formerly the China Inland Mission) from 2015 to 2023, and currently serves as the OMF Global Ambassador. He is actively involved in missionary training and preaching ministry, serving on the Langham Partnership International Council and facilitating training in Langham’s preaching programme.

Pearl Ganta is a speaker and sojourner impacting lives through storytelling,film, and global initiatives.

Dr. Mary Ho is the International Executive Leader of All Nations, a global Christian missions organization with workers making disciples and church planting in 45 countries. Dr. Ho is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by sharing the love of God among every people and in parts of the world where the name of Jesus Christ is little or not known. Dr. Ho received her Doctor of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, Virginia, USA in 2016. She is married to John and has two young adult sons.

Jonah is the Director of Community on the executive team of Indigitous and leads Indigitous Philippines.

Rudolf Kabutz is a media research strategist at TWR Africa, specializingin future media perspectives and engaging media user communities. Witha background in nuclear physics and strategic foresight, he supports globalmedia collaboration to share the hope of the Gospel. He also acts as a catalystfor the Lausanne Media Engagement Network, promoting purposeful mediaengagement for societal transformation. His work empowers individuals to askcritical questions for exploring the future for action paradigm in the present.

KEN KATAYAMA is a Great Commission influencer and an advocate for unreached people groups. He serves as the president & CEO of Crossover Global, which seeks to provide gospel access to unreached peoples of the world by planting multiplying churches. Ken resides in South Carolina, USA, with his family.

ERASTON KAMBALE KIGHOMA gained his PhD in Theology from the International Leadership University, Nairobi, Kenya (in conjunction with South Africa Theological Seminary, Johannesburg, South Africa). He is the executive director of the Centre for Intercultural Missions and Research and also serves as a coordinator for the DRC with the Lausanne Movement Care of Creation program. Dr. Kighoma teaches on mission and intercultural studies in a variety of seminaries and universities.

Denise Lewis has a PhD in clinical pyschology from Walden University, USA, and serves as associate professor at St George’s University, Grenada.

John Lewis is a doctor of transformational leadership from Bakke Graduate University, Texas, USA. He serves as director of The Grenada Institute For Theological Education.

LAURA MACIAS was born in Cuba and raised in Spain before moving to the USA during grade school. Laura has served as a cross-cultural missionary with Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), executive director with JOYA Scholars, and is currently the Director of Missional Engagement at Trinity United Presbyterian Church, California, USA. She is also a PhD candidate at Johnson University, Tennessee, USA.

Idris Mammadov, from Azerbaijan, is a lawyer in civil law and has a Bachelorof Theology degree. He serves as executive vice president of Crossover Global and is the founder of the Alov church network.

For four decades, Sam Metcalf led Novo, a North American-based mission sending agency committed to launching and multiplying movements of the gospel in the Levant, North Africa, and among migrant communities in Europe. Today, as President Emeritus, he coordinates CoNext, a global partnership of like-minded sodalities committed to gospel movements. Both NEO and Novo are CoNext partners.

Michael A. Ortiz is executive director of the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education and vice president for Global Ministries and professor of missiology and intercultural ministries, Dallas Theological Seminary. In 2015 he received his PhD from Seminario TeológicoCentroamericano following his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary in2008.

Funmi J. Para-Mallam is professor of gender and development studies andsenior fellow at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Nigeria.

Jocabed Reina Solano Miselis is from the Gunadule nation, an indigenous people which is one of seven original ethnic groups in Panama. She works as co-director of Indigenous Memory – http://www.memoriaindigena.org. Jocabed is currently studying a Master’s degree in the Community of Interdisciplinary Theological Studies, and she is part of the team called “Identity, Indigeneity, and Interculturality” within the Latin American Theological Fraternity. Her mother is Reina Miselis and her father is Guillermo Solano. She has three sisters (Yamileth, Yaneth, and Miriam), two brothers-in-law, Jonathan and John, and two nieces, Zoe and Giah. One of her dreams is to continue serving among the church of Abya Yala, recognizing that we need to dialogue and listen to these diverse and important voices. Learn more about Jocabed and support her work at http://uwm.org/missionaries/31569/.

Evi Rodemann is a theologian and event manager from Germany who ispassionate about encouraging and investing into younger leaders within theLausanne Younger Leaders Initiative and through her organization LeadNowworking across Europe. She currently serves as the congress event coordinatorfor the Fourth Congress and is finishing her PhD on long-lasting event impact.

Darío López is pastor of Iglesia de Dios del Peru, Lima, Peru (pastor with the Church of God of Peru in Lima, Peru), and has a PhD intheology from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and the Open University.

Janelle has been involved in ministry among Muslims for the past 25 years. She leads the Strategy Coordination department for an international mission organization and is completing a master's in organizational leadership with a concentration in global leadership and communication.

Kohei Takeda is co-chair of Lausanne Movement Younger Leaders Generationfor East Asia and Japan, and associate pastor for Japanese Language Ministries,Faith Bible Church, Seattle.

Peter Tarantal is an associate international director, OM global leadershipteam. Chair of the Majority World Christian Leaders Conversation, a groupof leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America and MENA, who serve as a thinktank for the church and ministries in the Majority World.

FRANCIS K. TSUI is a teacher, mentor, missional marketplace leader, and a passionate advocate on missional and transformational leadership. He has a Phd and MPhil in history and an MBA in business administration, as well as a DMin and MA in intercultural leadership studies. After teaching Chinese history at the University of Hawaii, USA, Francis returned to Asia and has been in private equity direct investment since 2000.

For over two decades, he has taught, discipled, and mentored Christian marketplace leaders in Greater China, Pan-Asia and North America contexts. Beginning in 2021, he was appointed an adjunct associate professor with the Institute of Faith & Global Engagement at the University of Hong Kong, co-leading a character leadership certificate program for undergraduates. He currently serves on the global board of Galilean Movement, the board of directors with A3 (formerly Asian Access), and as a trustee with AsiaCMS.

Paul Turner has a BSc in mathematics and a PGCE in primary education. He returned to Peru in 2007 as a missionary with Latin Link. He led the team there between 2013 and 2017 and was international team leader between 2018 and 2022. In 2016-17 he completed the Arrow leadership programme in North America and since 2022, his focus with Latin Link has been on leadership development, part of which involved starting and now leading the Arrow Peru programme. He chairs the board of the International School in Arequipa, Peru.

Mark Williamson is chair of the board for Fresh Expressions UK. He is also CEO of One Rock International, helping Christian leaders to start up and scale up mission projects by providing leadership training and coaching for church pioneers, charity founders and social entrepreneurs. He leads Sanctuary Westminster, a church in central London reaching out to people in their 20s and 30s.

Nick is the content manager for Indigitous US. He is currently at Dallas Seminary, Taxas, USA, pursuing a master’s in Intercultural Studies.

Dr. Allen Yeh is tenured professor of intercultural studies and missiology at Biola University, California, USA. He serves on the board of trustees for the International Theological Seminary, as the Learning Synthesis Manager for the Lausanne Generations Conversation, and adjunct teaches with Palm Beach Atlantic University and Cru. He earned his DPhil from University of Oxford, UK, and is the author of Polycentric Missiology: 21st Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere (IVP, 2016), and co-editor of Majority World Theologies: Theologizing from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Ends of the Earth (William Carey, 2018).

HWA YUNG is bishop emeritus of the Methodist Church in Malaysia. Among his many roles, he has served as a pastor and bishop within the Methodist Church, and as principal of Malaysia Theological Seminary. He has also been involved with various international ministries, including as chair for the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies’ council of trustees and a member of the International Board of the Lausanne Movement.