Perspectives Teacher Bios – Baja Bible School, January 2010

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Larry Walker (ThM)
Since 1989 Larry Walker has served as the Western Regional Director for ACMC (Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment). He has received degrees from California State University and Dallas Seminary, missionary training with PMT and linguistics training with Wycliffe.  He, his wife and their four children served as missionaries in Guatemala during the 1970’s where they were involved in leadership training, church development, community development and NT translation.

Dave Burdette (M. Div.)
Dave Burdette attended Vancouver Bible College and Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, before beginning work with the BGC, church planting in both Mexico City and Tijuana. In recent years, Dave has focused on missions mobilization, founding Mexico Caravan Ministries and passionately encouraging believers to go to the least evangelized peoples and the least reached parts of the harvest field.

Dr. Walt Russell (PhD)
Dr. Russell's is a professor at Biola University, specializing in Biblical exegesis, hermeneutics, and New Testament theology, especially as they relate to world evangelism and the spiritual growth of the church. He is an accomplished author and has extensive experience in collegiate ministries, and church planting.

Jeff Johnson
Jeff joined Frontiers in 1988 and has been on church planting teams in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. He and his wife were recently deported from Uzbekistan and are currently back in the states.

Dr. Elaine Vaden (MA, PhD)
Elaine has been a missionary in Zambia and the Philippines and is now director of scholars program for John Stott Ministries. She is an adjunct with Fuller Seminary and Azusa Pacific University.

David Hall (M.Ed.)
Dave serves as Global Outreach Pastor at Emmanuel Faith Community Church in Escondido, CA and was previously in a similar ministry at Calvary Church in Lancaster, PA. His fourteen years in church-based mobilization follow six years of missionary work in Spain. One of Dave's greatest passions is helping people come alive to the global purposes that God wants to fulfill in their lives. He is deeply committed to seeing the church mobilized for transformational ministry, both locally and globally.

Dr. Larry Dinkins (ThM, PhD)
In 1980 Larry went to Thailand with OMF International. In 1981 he and his wife Paula started a church-planting ministry with leprosy patients in Central Thailand. Larry was founding director of the Chiang Mai Theological Seminary in 2000.

Dave Bogosian
For the last 15 years, Dave Bogosian has worked with the U.S. Center for World Missions and the Global Adopt-A-People Campaign as a researcher, writer, and speaker. From 1995-2006 he worked in the Frontier Mission Fellowship's Asia Adopt-A-People office located in the Philippines. Dave also spends much of his free time writing books and articles on missions for publications such as Global Prayer Digest.

Ron Binder (MA)
Ron worked in Panama and Colombia for 23 years with Wycliffe where he helped to complete a New Testament translation among the Wounaan people and also did extensive work in developing literacy materials, training pastors, teachers and artists, community development and ethnomusicology. He is currently an Area Coordinator for Wycliffe in the Southwest doing mobilization, and for the last 5 years he and Kathy have also been traveling to Panama 2-3 times a year to develop Wounaan materials designed to help the people use the Scriptures in their language.

Dr. Elizabeth Brewster (PhD)
Betty Sue is associate professor of Language and Culture Learning at Fuller Seminary. She grew up as an MK in Venezuela where she came to know the Lord and discovered her interest in languages at a very young age. She has since written several books and traveled in over 90 countries, teaching and consulting with missionaries.

Brad Buser
Brad spent 20 years living and working among the Itari people of Papua New Guinea, who before that time had never had outsiders live among them. He and his team were able to share Christ with the Itari people, disciple the new church and translate the New Testament. With the Church well established and thriving, their need to be among the Iteris was over. Since the year 2000 he and his wife have been Representatives with New Tribes Mission.

Mike Brown
Mike has experience serving as an assistant pastor of a local church in Los Angeles as well as several years experience on the mission field in Mexico, where he started a training ministry called 'El Puente', which served as a bridge to equip short term missionaries and enable the local Body of Christ in Mexico to become self supporting apart from American funds. Mike currently pastors Tribe Church in North Hollywood, CA, and urban ministry that focuses on reaching "The Unreached and the Overchurched".