J. Nelson Jennings was raised in a U.S.-American Christian home. After he completed the M.Div. at Covenant Theological Seminary (St. Louis, MO), in 1986 the Jennings family moved to Japan as church-planting missionaries. In 1995 Jennings completed a PhD in Non-Western Christianity through Edinburgh University. Jennings taught at Tokyo Christian University (1996-1999) and at Covenant Theological Seminary (1999-2011), then served at the Overseas Ministries Study Center (2011-2015) and with GMI (Global Mapping International, 2016-2017). For over six years (2015-2021) Jennings served as Mission Pastor, Consultant, and International Liaison for Onnuri Church, Seoul. He has published numerous articles and several books, including Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934) and God the Real Superpower: Rethinking Our Role in Missions. Jennings and his wife Kathy have three adult daughters and four grandchildren.

Enoch Wan is Research Professor of Intercultural Studies, Director of Doctor of Intercultural Studies, and Director of the Doctor of Education Program at Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon, USA. He is Past President of EMS (Evangelical Missiological Society, two terms), as well as the National VP-Publications and Editor of the EMS Occasional Bulletin. Wan is also Editorial Advisor for Global Missiology English and is the Founder of Global Missiology in all of its linguistic versions. He also serves as a board member for both the Worldwide Bible Society (USA) and the Tien Dao Christian Media Association.

Wanjiru M Gitau is a global research professional. She looks for the good stories about how contemporary religious communities support upwardly mobile young adults as they navigate a world in flux. She connects stories of local communities with national, regional and global histories. Wanjiru is assistant professor of World Christianity and Practical Theology at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Her IVP-published Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered: Millennials and Social Change in African Perspective has drawn rave reviews and has raised awareness of vitally important social dynamics associated with both African young people and megachurches worldwide. Gitau was born and educated in Kenya, but she has lived in quite a few places and traveled for service and research on every continent, including four countries of the Pacific Rim. She studied a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Literature (University of Nairobi), a Masters in Missiology (NEGST), and a PhD in World Christianity (Africa International University / University of Edinburgh).

Prasad D R J Phillips was born in India in a Christian family and has been a theological educator since 1998, equipping church and mission leaders. He first completed his graduate and postgraduate studies in Philosophy from Madras University. He earned his theological degree - Bachelor of Divinity, and MTh in Missiology from Serampore University, India. He later earned his PhD in World Christianity, from the University of Edinburgh. He currently serves Oxford Centre for Religion for Public Life, UK as the Deputy Executive Director with research interests in Missiology and Practical Theology. He has published a few articles, including one in the IBMR, and edited a couple of books. Prasad is married to Dr Premila Phillips, who is currently working with NHS as a specialty doctor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. They have a son attending University in the UK.

Gloria Tseng was born in Taiwan and grew up in California. Tseng earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in History, Modern France (modern China second field), from the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, since 2003 (History Department). Tseng has published in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research and Studies in World Christianity. She is editor of Cross-cultural Encounters: China and the Reformed Church in America (forthcoming, Wipf & Stock), has contributed a chapter in Giving Publicity to Our Thoughts: Journals of Asian and African Christians around 1900 and the Making of a Transregional Indigenous-Christian ‘Public Sphere’ (forthcoming, Harrassowitz Verlag), and has written The Search for a Chinese Church: Protestantism in Twentieth-century China (under contract with Bloomsbury).

Ruslan Zagidulin was born and raised in an interethnic Soviet family in Kyrgyzstan. At 17, he converted to Evangelical Christianity. Zagidulin graduated from Kyrgyz Technical University in 1998, majoring in cybernetics and engineering. He then attended Bishkek Bible School, earning another bachelor’s degree in Christian Education in 2006. After part-time study until 2013, Ruslan earned a master of theology degree. His speciality was Biblical Studies, with a second speciality in Contextual Missiology. He is currently working on a PhD in Missiology at the International Baptist Theological Study Center at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Zagidulin has worked with various Christian organisations, including the Bible League, Tearfund, Mission Eurasia, and OneHope. He has taught and organised non-formal training in Church Planting, Contextual Leadership, and Intergenerational Mission. He is married to Elena, and they have four sons: Roma, David, Robert, and Nathanael.