Allen Yeh

Allen Yeh is Dean and VP of Academic Affairs at International Theological Seminary (West Covina, California), and a Professor of Missiology & Intercultural Studies. He earned his B.A. from Yale, M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell, M.Th. from Edinburgh, and D.Phil. from Oxford. Geographically he specializes in Latin America and China. He also has other academic interests in history, classical music, homiletics, social justice, the California missions, the Maya, and biographical interest in Jonathan Edwards (America's greatest theologian), Adoniram Judson (America's first intercontinental missionary), and Sun Yat-sen (the first President of China). He has previously served on the Boards of: American Baptist International Ministries, the Evangelical Missiological Society, and the Foundation for Theological Education in Southeast Asia. Allen has been to over 60 countries in every continent, to study, do missions work, and experience the culture. As Mark Twain said in 1857, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." He is happily married and they have a delightful young son.