Ruy Oliveira is a respected Brazilian Baptist mission leader whose influence spans Latin America. As a coordinator for the Americas in the Junta de Missões Mundiais, he has dedicated his life to mission mobilization, leadership training, and advancing the Gospel through strategic and collaborative efforts.

Daren Davis is a Global Engagement Leader for the International Mission Board (IMB) based in Sub-Saharan Africa. Alongside his wife, Shawna, he works to support church planting, theological education, and missionary training across the continent, focusing on reaching unengaged, unreached people groups

Ben Sprankle has served in pastoral and missionary ministry for almost three decades, including 14 years of pastoral ministry in the United States before moving overseas with his family. Alongside his wife of 27 years and their four children, Ben has spent the last 13 years serving in Africa, including extensive ministry in Madagascar focused on leadership development, gospel engagement, and strategic mission efforts.
Ben holds several advanced degrees in ministry, including studies in leadership development, and is passionate about equipping pastors, strengthening local churches, and mobilizing believers for the Great Commission. His ministry is driven by a vision of seeing African churches equipped to send African missionaries to the ends of the earth, while developing sustainable strategies to ensure every and all people have access to the gospel. Through training leaders, strengthening church partnerships, and encouraging missions engagement, Ben seeks to help churches play an active role in global gospel advance.

Everton Jackson, a Jamaican, has served as Director of Integral Mission for the Baptist World Alliance since July 2020. He has held numerous ministry roles at the local, national, and international levels, including serving the Mt. Hermon Circuit from 1985 to 1989, the Linstead Circuit from 1990 to 2005, and the Calvary Circuit from 2005 to 2020. From 2010 to 2020, he served as BWA Regional Secretary, Executive Secretary, and Treasurer for the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship. His earlier leadership roles include President of the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU) from 2000 to 2002, JBU Vice President from 1998 to 2000, and Director of the JBU Mission Agency (JBUMA) from 1994 to 1998. A strong advocate for ecumenism and peace, Jackson served on the Jamaica Council of Churches from 2000 to 2002 and participated in numerous ministers’ fraternal bodies across Jamaica. He also chaired the Western Peace Management Initiative in Jamaica from 2005 to 2020 and served as a Commissioner on the Jamaican government’s Commission on Violence Prevention from 2009 to 2020. Jackson received his theological education at the United Theological College of the West Indies and earned a B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. from the University of the West Indies. He is married to Cecelia, and they have one adult son, Abdu Anthony.

Dean L. Miller serves as the Mission Development Staff Coordinator with the Baptist General Association of Virginia, where he has led mission efforts and disaster relief initiatives since 1999.

Kang-San Tan is General Director of BMS World Mission. Kang-San regularly speaks at mission conferences and church events around the world. Kang-San was converted from a Buddhist family and is passionate about mobilising and catalysing mission movements from Africa. Previously, he also served as Head of Mission Studies at Redcliffe College in England. He completed his doctoral studies in Missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA. He also has a PhD in Theology of Religions from Aberdeen University.

Elijah Wanje is the co-founder and pastor of Ridgeways Baptist Church in Kenya, a vibrant congregation of more than 2,000 members with 24 church plants. He comes from a rich heritage of Southern Baptist mission work in Kenya, where his father was among the first converts in the late 1950s.
Elijah became a follower of Christ at the age of 12 and, at 22, surrendered his life to full-time vocational ministry. He holds a B.A. from Ouachita Baptist University and an M.A. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Over the years, he has served as Principal of Kenya Baptist Theological College, twice as President of the Baptist Convention of Kenya, and as Vice President of the Baptist World Alliance.

Dr. Stephen Mutua is a Kenyan-based international evangelist, church planter, and mentor serving as the Africa Director of the GO Movement and Chair of the Global Taskforce on Evangelism

Rev. Emmanuel Kwabena Mustapha is a prominent Ghanaian Baptist missionary, founder, and Executive Director of the Global Missions Resource Centre (GMRC), based in Yendi, in the Northern Region of Ghana

Kwame has a passionate commitment to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with people around the world, plant churches support mission workers. He is an ordained Baptist minister, a trained evangelist from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Training Institute. Exercising an apostolic ministry which leads him to oversee numerous churches, mission workers, evangelists, and church planters from Africa to Asia. He is the global leader for Evangelism and Discipleship at BMS World Mission and a minister at Trinity Baptist Church, London.His message is simply “making Christ known and making disciples who know Christ."