Osias Segura-Guzman served as Regional Coordinator of Curriculum and Small Group Leadership Development for Latin America and the Caribbean by the General Board of Global Ministries, UMC. He earned a BA in Sociology from Universidad de Costa Rica. He then earned an MDiv, ThM, and DMiss from Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, KY, and received an MA in Organizational Leadership from Eastern University, Philadelphia, PA, and became a Spiritual Director at CenterQuest ecumenical School of Spiritual Direction (SSD). His publications include essays on contextualization, emerging churches, discipleship (small groups), evangelism, and general missiology. Together with his wife Dr. Desiree Segura-April and son make their home in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.