ASM OFFICERS

William Gregory

President 

William P. Gregory is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa. He received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston College in 2006 after teaching for two years with the Christian Brothers in The Gambia, West Africa. His research interests include Catholic theology of mission, religious epistemology, intellectual challenges to religious faith, and the U.S. context of Christian mission. He served as President of the Association of Professors of Mission in 2011 and edited Go Forth: Toward a Community of Missionary Disciples (Orbis, 2019), a collection of Pope Francis’s teachings on mission. He has published articles in the International Bulletin of Mission Research and the International Review of Mission.

Ruth Padilla-DeBorst

1st Vice President

Ruth yearns to see peace and justice embrace in the beautiful and broken world we call home. A wife of one and mother of many, theologian, missiologist, educator, and storyteller, she has been involved in leadership development and theological education for integral mission in her native Latin America for several decades. She teaches at Western Theological Seminary and serves with the Comunidad de Estudios Teológicos Interdisciplinarios (CETI – a learning community with students across Latin America), and with INFEMIT (International Fellowship for Mission as Transformation). She serves on the board of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and the American Society of Missiology. She lives with her husband, James, in Costa Rica as a member of Casa Adobe, an intentional Christian Community with deep concern for right living in relation to the whole of creation. Her studies include a Bachelors in Education (Argentina), an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Wheaton College), and a PhD in Theology (Boston University).

Jay Moon

2nd Vice President 

Jay Moon served 13 years as a missionary with SIM, largely in Ghana, West Africa, among the Builsa people focusing on church planting and water development, along with his wife and four children. He is presently a Professor of Evangelism & Church Planting and Director of the Office of Faith, Work, and Economics at Asbury Theological Seminary. He authored six books, including Effective Intercultural Evangelism. He also edited five books, including Entrepreneurial Church Planting: Innovative Approaches to Engage the Marketplace. He is a frequent speaker on areas of church planting, evangelism, discipleship, and marketplace mission. He previously served as the president of the Great Commission Research Network and APM. In addition to his role as a teaching pastor in a local church plant, Jay holds a Professional Engineer’s license and his MBA focused on social entrepreneurship. His hobbies include tree houses, axe throwing, and small business incubation.

Darren Duerksen

Secretary

(Three-year term beginning 2022)

Darren Duerksen is Associate Professor of Intercultural and Religious Studies at Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, California. He received his Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2011 and an M.Div from Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary (Fresno, CA) in 2002. He has served as a missionary with the U.S. Mennonite Brethren Church in India and, previous to that, with Youth With a Mission based in England. His research interests include Christian witness other faiths, Christian and interfaith relationships and collaboration, global theologies, theologies of church, Indian Christianity, and Critical Realism/Emergent theory. He has published articles in the International Bulletin of Mission Research and the International Journal of Frontier Missiology. He is the author of Christ-Followers in Other Religions: The Global Witness of Insider Movements (Regnum 2022), co-author with William Dyrness of Seeking Church: Emerging Witnesses to the Kingdom (IVP 2019), and author of Ecclesial Identities in Multi-faith Contexts: Jesus Truth-Gatherings (Yeshu Satsangs) among Hindus and Sikhs in Northwest India (Wipf and Stock 2015). Darren is ordained with the Pacific District Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches.

David Scott

Treasurer

(Three-year renewable term beginning 2023)

Dr. David W. Scott is Director of Mission Theology at the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, where his work helps Methodists around the world reflect on the nature of mission through research, writing, and training. He has taught mission, church history, world religions, and leadership at Ripon College, Eden Theological Seminary, and through the United Methodist Course of Study. He is the author or editor of the books Unlikely Friends, The Practice of Mission in Global Methodism, Methodist Mission at 200, Crossing Boundaries, and Mission as Globalization as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He coordinated the 200^th anniversary celebration (in 2019) of the founding of the first Methodist mission society in the United States and has contributed to the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism’s work on mission from the margins and the 100^th anniversary of the founding of the International Missionary Council.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Class of 2025

Class of 2026

Class of 2027

 Conciliar Protestant

Kirsteen Kim

Ellen Sherby

Soojin Chung

OMSC

 Roman Catholic

Alison Fitchett Climenhaga

Rosalia Meza

Roger Schroeder

Catholic Theological Union

 Independent

Dennis Horton

Paul Lewis

David H. Scott

Fuller SMT