Ivan Liew is the missions and outreach pastor of Woodlands Evangelical Free Church, the Missions Director for the Evangelical Free Church of Singapore, and a member of the SIM Singapore Council. His doctoral research at Asbury Theological Seminary focussed on optimizing church-agency partnerships for member health and missionary mobilisation. He subsequently led cohorts of church and missions agency leaders who worked on partnership practice, and authored Churches and Missions Agencies Together: A Relational Model for Partnership Practice with these leaders. He lived in Malaysia, Australia and the United States, before settling in Singapore where he worked as a biomedical engineer before entering full-time ministry.