Timothy Ellis holds BA and MDiv degrees in theology from Andrews University, an MA in communication from Boise State University, and is currently working on his doctorate in leadership from Andrews University located in Berrien Springs, Michigan in the USA. He has served as a missionary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for seven years in Korea and Mongolia and has eighteen years of teaching experience teaching leadership, communication, and English on the college level. He has written and presented research papers on various subjects related to adult development, leadership development, ethical development, and organizational communication at national and international research conferences and has published four books on leadership development processes and outcomes.
James Mayamiko has close to ten years of experience in lay medical missionary work and from 2017 to the present has been involved in the training of lay people both in South Africa and in his home country of Malawi to be medical missionaries. He has a teaching certificate from Machinga Teachers Training Collage and a certificate from the School of International Massage, Beauty & Health located in Amsterdam, Netherlands certifying him as a medical missionary. He was the cofounder, and served as the chair of the board of trustees of the Philadelphia Missionary Training Center in Malawi, Africa from 2015 to 2021, and during that timeframe also served for two years as the director of that organization. He has also received additional training in South Africa on ministering to persons struggling with mental health challenges. He is a firm believer that the mind has an enormous effect on the body and vice versa. He is currently working on his BA degree in theology from Malawi Adventist University and has recently published his first book on mental health and wellness issues titled: Joy Through Suffering: Repurposing Your Pain to Find True Meaning in Life.
Thembeka Dyasi has 40 years of teaching experience at the secondary school level in South Africa. He was appointed District Director of Education for the South African public school system in 2003 and has been serving in that capacity until the present. He has also served as a committee member on the executive committee level for the Adventist Church in South Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Higher Diploma in Education (HDE) from University of Fort Hare, one of the oldest universities in South Africa, located in the city of Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church while he was a college student and he and his wife have been members of the Adventist Church in good standing ever since. He currently serves as an elder of the Mthatha Central Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
Director of Literature Distribution, Networking, and Marketing
Cynthia Dyasi
Director of Literature Distribution, Networking, and Marketing
Cynthia Dyasi has 25 years of teaching experience as a mathematics and science teacher on the secondary level in South Africa, and has also served as deputy principal of the Zingisa High School in Mthatha, East Cape, South Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree (1996) and a Higher (postgraduate) Diploma in Education (HDE) (1997) from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa. She has also received additional training in Health Life Management Sciences from Eswatini Higher Education Council in 2021, and further training to be certified as a medical missionary from the School of International Massage, Beauty & Health, Cape Town, South Africa (2022), and the Medical Missionary Movement South African Chapter (2024). She has also completed Level 6 training in SDA Woman’s Ministry, Level 8 training in SDA Children’s Ministry, and Level 3 training in Literature Evangelism from the South African Union of Seventh-day Adventists in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
