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Bruce Burkholder is the General Director of Editorial Bautista Independiente, the Spanish publishing arm of Baptist Mid Missions. Prior to EBI Bruce served in Mexico City where he planted the Iglesia Bautista de Fe. He also helped to start and taught in the Seminario Teológico Bautista Independiente. Bruce is married to his wife Lisa and they have three adult children and three grandchildren. 

Caleb Stein is a missionary in Trujillo, Peru. He serves as professor en the Seminario Bautista del Perú and in his local church in the areas of teaching and preaching. Caleb is married to Ecko and they have six children. 

Mark Swedberg is a second-generation missionary, serving in Brazil. His wife, Anita, is also a missionary kid, having grown up in the Dominican Republic. Mark and Anita originally served as church-planters in São Paulo state where they were responsible for 2 church plants and a Bible institute. Later, Mark became the director of Editora Batista Regular, the publishing house for the Regular Baptist Association. In 2021 Mark and Anita moved to Natal, in northeast Brazil, where they teach at Seminário e Instituto Batista Bereiano (SIBB). They have 2 adult children and 5 grandchildren.

Scott Kenson grew up on the mission field in Asia, and later returned to teach for eight years in a seminary in a restricted access nation (RAN).  When he was unable to get a visa to return, the Lord led him and his family to another country in Asia, where they are assisting a church, and working to train church leaders.  His D.Min thesis was on training non-western students in  hermeneutics using culturally informed pedagogy.