In Latin America, there is a significant need for trained, equipped leaders to guide the church. Around 85% of pastors have no formal theological training. There are 0 accredited evangelical theological schools in Peru.
Far too often, where theological training lags, a lack of theological depth follows. This can render the life-transforming and liberating gospel static, boring, and irrelevant. In addition, the church becomes vulnerable to dangerous theologies, such as the prosperity gospel. As children of the Peruvian evangelical church, we want to be part of the solution to this problem.
Our Mission
To serve the Peruvian church by:
- training pastors and ministry leaders to read and communicate the Bible faithfully and in a manner that addresses the needs of their context.
- strengthening Peruvian institutions of theological education through administration.
- producing theological resources in Spanish that speak to the needs of the context.
Our Vision
To see the next generation of pastors, teachers, and writers in Peru receiving the training they need within their own country for a life of faithful ministry.
“If the gospel is not contextualized, the Word of God will remain a logos asarkos (unincarnate word), a message that touches our lives only tangentially. This is precisely one of the most tragic consequences of the lack of theological reflection among us—that the gospel still has a foreign sound or no sound at all in relation to many of the dreams and anxieties, problems and questions, values and customs in the Majority World.”
Rene Padilla, “Contextualization and the Gospel”
Our Approach
Andrew completed his PhD in Old Testament at Wheaton College in May of 2026. He serves as a Mesa Scholar, a team of missional scholars that teach in seminaries, universities, and informal schools throughout the majority world.
He is appointed to Centros Teológicos Bautistas (CTB), where he serves full-time as the Old Testament Professor and Director of Academics. For the past 20 years, CTB has equipped ministry leaders in Peru and throughout Latin America with high-quality, holistic, accessible, and contextually sensitive theological and biblical training. In 2025, they served over 500 students in 14 countries.
Andrew oversees CTB’s academics—hiring and coordinating faculty, ensuring the quality and continual improvement of the curriculum, pursuing accreditation and academic partnerships. He also teaches the Old Testament sequence, comprised of five courses—introductions to the Pentateuch, historical books, pre-exilic prophets, exilic and post-exilic prophets, and poetical books.
