Philip Wingeier-Rayo was born in Singapore to missionary parents and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Education at the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church. He was previously Professor of World Christianity, Missiology, and Methodist Studies at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC, and continues to teach courses in the areas of missions, world religions, and Methodist history and doctrine. He served as Dean at Wesley from 2018 to 2022. He earned a PhD in Theology, Ethics, and Culture from Chicago Theological Seminary, an MTS from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and an MTh from Seminario Evangélico de Teología in Matanzas, Cuba. He has previously taught at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary; Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University; Pfeiffer University; and Seminario Báez Camargo in Mexico City. Wingeier-Rayo’s research interests are at the intersection of missiology, Methodist studies, Pentecostalism, migration studies, and liberation theology. His academic work is informed by his upbringing in Singapore and fifteen years of missionary experience where he served in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, and the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas near the border with Mexico. He has published five books, including Where Are the Poor?A Comparison of the Ecclesial Base Communities and Pentecostalism—A Case Study in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and La Biblia a través de los ojos de Juan Wesley: 52 estudios bíblios de discipulado The Bible Through the Eyes of John Wesley.
