Al Tizon is executive minister of Serve Globally, the international ministries arm of the Evangelical Covenant Church. He also serves as an affiliate professor of missional and global leadership at North Park Theological Seminary.  He has earlier served as the founding director of LIGHT Ministries in the Olongapo City, Philippines; lead pastor at Berkeley Covenant Church in Berkeley CA, holistic ministry director and then president of Evangelicals for Social Action and associate professor of holistic ministry at Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University near Philadelphia, PA.
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Al has engaged in community development, church leadership, advocacy, and urban ministry in the United States and in the Philippines.  Al is the author or editor of six books, including Transformation After Lausanne: Radical Evangelical Mission in Local and Global Perspective (Regnum, 2008) and Whole & Reconciled: Gospel, Church, and Mission in a Fractured World (Baker Academic, 2018).