Alan R. Johnson, was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He and his wife Lynette of 30 years, have lived primarily in Thailand for the past two decades under appointment of Assemblies of God World Missions. They have worked in church planting and various forms of formal and informal training with the Thailand Assemblies of God. In recent years they have begun pioneer work among the urban poor, developing a house church network and ministries to children in a series of slum communities in Bangkok. In addition to his work with the urban poor, Alan has been involved in several functions at a broader level that coalesce around least-reached peoples. These ministries include the Strategic Church Planting Initiative in the Asia Pacific region, which focuses on developing new church planting teams among least-reached groups, the Institute for Buddhist Studies that trains people working among people groups influenced by Buddhist worldviews, and the Acts 1:8 Project which is an international committee focusing on emerging missions movements and unreached people groups in the Assemblies of God worldwide fellowship. Alan is a graduate of Northwest University (B.A. in Pastoral Ministry), Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (M.A. in Biblical Studies), and Azusa Pacific University (M.A. in Social Sciences). His Ph.D. was awarded through the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies/University of Wales. His dissertation was an ethnographic work on social influence processes in a slum community in Bangkok. Alan and Lynette have two grown daughters, Laura and Rebecca, who are both alumni of Northwest University. Laura, and her husband Mark Snider live in Memphis, Tennessee, where he completed a pediatric residency and started a fellowship in hematology/oncology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2009. Laura is the real writer in the family and recently finished an M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Memphis. Rebecca married Phillip Mefford in the spring of 2008 and they are working with an unreached people group in central Asia. The Johnsons continue their work among slum dwellers in Bangkok, Thailand.