Senior Pastor of International Praise Center
Baguio City, Benguet 2600

• Education: Master of Arts in Ministry Master of Divinity Doctor of Ministry
• Experience: Joel A. Tejedo (D.Min) is a research professor at the Asia Pacific Theological Seminary, Baguio City and a member of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Joel for the last 5 years was part of the various professional study groups; The Tyndale Research Center on Social Theology in Cambridge England in 2013; Lausanne Global Consultation on Prosperity, Simplicity and the Gospel in 2014; the study group of ISEAS Research Center on Pentecostal Mega Churches in Asia, a research work that was published as a book by Terrence Chong in Singapore in 2018 and just recently, he was invited as a part of the study group of on Public Integrity, Good Governance and Corruption of The Faith and Public Integrity Network (FPIN) of the Oxford Center for Mission Studies, Oxford, England. Joel for the past ten years was actively participating academic conferences in UC Berkeley, Cardiff University, London Metropolitan University, and Australian National University. Joel has written two important books on religion and social capital, namely: Sambayanihan: How Filipino Pentecostals Build Communities (Sambayanihan Publishers, 2011) and The Church in the Public Square: Engaging our Christian Witness in Society (Sambayanihan Publishers, 2016).