Global Baptist Mission Conference

Dr. Allen Yeh is Dean and VP of Academic Affairs at International Theological Seminary located near Los Angeles, CA, USA. He was formerly Professor of Intercultural Studies and Missiology for 16 years at Biola University. He earned his B.A. from Yale, M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell, M.Th. from Edinburgh, and D.Phil. from Oxford. Allen has traveled to 65 countries across every continent to study, speak at conferences, do mission work, and experience the culture. He also the author of Polycentric Missiology: 21st Century Mission from Everyone to Everywhere (IVP, 2016), and co-editor (along with Tite Tienou) of Majority World Theologies: Theologizing from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Ends of the Earth (William Carey, 2018).

Rev. Dr. Adalia Gutiérrez Lee is a medical doctor and ordained minister. She worked as a medical missionary for International Ministries of American Baptist Churches for twenty years, first in PROVADENIC (Vaccination and Community Health and Development Program) which is a rural ministry of the Baptist Convention of Nicaragua, and later at Deborah’s House, a ministry of healing and hope for victims of domestic violence from the Regional Baptist Convention of Baja California, Mexico. In April 2015, she began serving as International Ministries Area Director for Ibero-America and the Caribbean to strengthen and coordinate the relationships between American Baptist missionaries and their counterparts across the continent.

Javier Perez is an international development professional serving as the Director of Global Strategy and Programs for Global Missions at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Javier leads the strategy function and field programming strategy. He also leads the Latin America strategy, focused on transformational development to lift 5000 children out of poverty via transformational development centers. Javier holds a Bachelor of Theology and Social Change from the Colombia Baptist Seminary, a Bachelor of Arts in Leadership from Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas, and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Texas RGV. Javier and his family live in Atlanta, Georgia.