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ALLAN DEMOND is senior pastor at New Hope Baptist Church in Melbourne, Australia, and a former
president of the Baptist Union of Victoria.
Demond moved to Australia from Canada in 1995 to become senior pastor for New Hope. Under
his leadership the church has moved through a time of significant transformation and growth.
KARL JOHNSON, general secretary of the Jamaica Baptist Union, is one of Jamaica’s noted
preachers. Johnson has been a keynote speaker at Jamaica’s National Prayer Breakfast, at the
Caribbean Baptist Youth Festival, and at numerous evangelistic services.
He is a former president of the Jamaica Council of Churches, a major ecumenical church body
in Jamaica; former chairman of the board of the United Theological College of the West Indies,
the leading Protestant theological school in the English-speaking Caribbean; and a member of the
board of National Religious Media Company Limited, the leading religious broadcasting company in
Jamaica.
Johnson is a member of various BWA bodies, including the General Council, the Congress
Program Committee, the Nominations Committee, the Commission on Baptist Worship and
Spirituality, and the Church Health and Effectiveness Workgroup.
NGWEDLA PAUL MSIZA is general secretary of the Baptist Convention of South Africa and president
of the All Africa Baptist Fellowship, one of six regional bodies of the BWA.
Msiza is a member of the two governing bodies of the BWA, the General Council and the
Executive Committee, as well as the Congress Program Committee, the Membership Committee, the
Commission on Doctrine and Interchurch Cooperation, and the Academic and Theological Education
Workgroup.
A graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Msiza is a sought-after
speaker in Africa and elsewhere.
LANCE WATSON is senior pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia, in the United
States, and is host of the telecast “Positive Power,” seen on TV ONE Network.
His writings have been featured in the African American Pulpit, the Baptist Herald and several
other publications. He is the author of Being Healthy From Now On, Maximize Your Edge: Navigating
Life’s Challenges, and Meet Me in the Morning.
Watson is recognized for outstanding leadership in church and education.
He holds degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, Samuel DeWitt Proctor
School of Theology at Virginia Union University, and the Presbyterian School of Christian Education
at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia.

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