SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
CAMDEN BUCEY
Dr. Camden M. Bucey is executive director of Reformed Forum, host of the Christ the Center podcast, historian of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), and a minister of Hope OPC in Grayslake, Ill. He is the author of Lamentations, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah in Crossway’s Knowing the Bible series, as well as Karl Rahner in P&R’s Great Thinkers series.
SEBASTIAN HECK
Sebastian Heck is a licentiate in the PCA and the organizing pastor of the Selbständige Evangelish-Reformierte Kirche in Heidelberg, Germany.
GETHIN JONES
Rev. Gethin Jones, originally from Cardiff, Wales, is the minister of Église de la Trinité, in Lille, in northern France, a church in the European Mission Presbytery of the International Presbyterian Church. He read Linguistics at Cambridge University and completed his Master of Divinity degree at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, in 2017. Following his ordination in 2018 he served as an assistant minister at a Reformed church in Pari, until called to plant Église de la Trinité in 2023. He currently serves as the Synod Moderator of the IPC and the chair of its Ecumenical Relations Committee, and he is a member of the European Mission Presbytery’s Church Planting Committee. He is married to Katie and they have a son, Ioan.
JOCHEN KLAUTKE
Jochen Klautke studied Latin and history at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , going on to teach at a Christian high school whilst studying theology at the Akademie Für Reformatische Theologie (ART) in Giessen. After serving as pastoral advisor in the Confessing Evangelical Reformed Congregation in Giessen, he was ordained as a pastor there in September 2021. He currently lectures in the departments of historical theology and systematic theology in ART, and also edits the magazine Bekennende Kirche. Jochen is married to Natalie, and they have three children.
DAVID KRANENDONK
Dr. David Kranendonk is the author of Paul Bayne’s Pastoral Teaching of Predestination (2021), Teaching Predestination: Elnathan Parr and Pastoral Ministry in Early Stuart England (2011), and Vital Balance. The Pursuit of Professors J.J. van der Schuit, G. Wisse, and L.H. van der Meiden (2006). He has served various congregations of the Free Reformed Churches of North America and is involved in various mission boards supporting theological education. David holds degrees from Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (MDiv, 2003), Calvin Theological Seminary (ThM, 2008), and the Theological University Apeldoorn, The Netherlands (PhD, 2021). He is married to Elly and they have seven children.
DONALD JOHN MACLEAN
Westminster’s President and Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Donald John MacLean (BSc, Heriot-Watt University; PhD, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David) is a minister of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of England and Wales (EPCEW), and serves as an elder at Cambridge Presbyterian Church, where he preaches regularly. With a background in senior leadership in the corporate finance sector, Dr MacLean also serves as a trustee of the Banner of Truth Trust and of Tyndale House, Cambridge. He edits The Presbyterian Network for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of England and Wales and is associate editor of the Banner of Truth magazine. DJ is married to Ruth and they have two children, Hannah and Jonathan.
JON PAYNE
Rev. Dr. Jon D. Payne is a trustee of Westminster UK, and has served as senior pastor of Christ Church Presbyterian (PCA) in Charleston, South Carolina since 2013. He is the Executive Coordinator of the Gospel Reformation Network, series co-editor (w/ Joel Beeke) of the Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament, a regular contributor to TableTalk Magazine, and author/editor of numerous books including In the Splendor of Holiness, John Owen on the Lord’s Supper, and A Faith Worth Teaching: The Heidelberg Catechism’s Enduring Heritage. He recently contributed a chapter to Dr. Ian Hamilton’s festschrift, Catholic Calvinism: A Vision for Ministry. His chapter is entitled “The Zurich Consensus: The Lord’s Supper and the Pursuit of Unity in an Age of Discord,” Rev. Payne and his wife Marla have been married for 27 years and have two adult children.
CARL ROBBINS
Carl Robbins was born and raised in the Oklahoma City area. He and his wife Sandy (also an OKC native) were married in 1980 and promptly moved to Memphis, TN where Carl received a B.S. in Bible at Mid-South Bible College in 1983. In 1987 Carl completed his studies for a Masters Degree from Covenant Seminary in St. Louis. Carl served PCA churches in Spartanburg, SC, Anderson SC, Oklahoma City and Las Vegas. before coming to Woodruff Road Presbyterian in 2000. Carl and Sandy have three grown children—all married—and seven grandchildren.
JOSE DE SEGOVIA
Jose De Segovia is a Spanish teacher, journalist & theologian. He studied journalism at Universidad Complutense (Madrid), theology at University of Kampen (Netherlands) and Biblical Studies at The School of Biblical Studies Welwyn (England), where he became interested in the work of preacher Martyn Lloyd-Jones. De Segovia is currently leading active student groups such as European Mission Fellowship, International Fellowship of Evangelical Students and Unión Bíblica. He was also President of the Theological Commission on Spanish Evangelical Alliance between 2001 and 2015 and representative of the World Evangelical Alliance in theological dialogue with the Vatican.
PETER SZABO
Peter Szabo is minister of Budapest Reformed Presbyterian Church, a congregation within the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to taking up the call to the ministry Peter served as economic analyst to the Hungarian Ministry of Finance.
YAROSLAV VIAZOVSKI
Dr. Yaroslav Viazovski (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen, 2014; MA, Reformed Theological Seminary, 2004) is an ordained PCA minister, pastor of a presbyterian congregation in Minsk, Belarus, since 2018; head of Gospel and Reformation Publishing since 2003; principal of Minsk Reformed Seminary since 2022; author and coeditor of several books including Image and Hope: John Calvin and Karl Barth on Body, Soul and Life Everlasting (in English, 2015), Theology of the Reformation (2017), A Mystery of the People of God (2019), The Rules of Faith (2021), Death and Resurrection of Christ in Psalms (forthcoming).