2027 Confessional Conference Pre-Conference: Presbyterian Missions

Jonathan Master is a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America and serves as President of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Gospel Reformation Network, Associate Editor of the Banner of Truth Magazine, and Chairman of the Board of The Paton Society. From 2012 to 2020, he served as Dean of the School of Divinity at Cairn University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Aberdeen and he has authored and edited a number of books, including, Reformed Theology, Growing in Grace, and You Must Be Born Again. He hosts a podcast entitled, Dead Presbyterians Society. He and his wife, Elizabeth, live in the Greenville area, and worship at Second Presbyterian Church. They have been blessed with two daughters.

Mr. Chad Vegas is Adjunct Lecturer in Missions. He is the founding pastor of Sovereign Grace Church in Bakersfield, CA. He completed his M.A. in Theology at Talbot and he is the founding board chairman of Radius International, an organization that trains people to plant churches among unreached language groups.

Rev. Dr. Ian Hamilton is an Associate Minister in the Free Church of Scotland, an adjunct professor at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and Westminster Seminary, UK and serves as a trustee for GPTS. For many years he served on the board for the Banner of Truth Trust, and as Editor of the Magazine. He served as the minister of Loudoun Church of Scotland from 1979-1999 and as the minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church from 1999-2016. He and his wife Joan have four children and six grandchildren.