Dr. Sanchez serves as distinguished professor emeritus of missions in the Roy J. Fish School of Evangelism and Missions. Dr. Sanchez has taught at Southwestern for almost 40 years. Prior to his tenure at Southwestern, Dr. Sanchez served as a missionary in Panama, a church planter, and as the evangelism director and state missions director of the Baptist Convention of New York. He completed studies at Oxford, Fuller Seminary, and Southwestern Seminary and did his undergrad work at Howard Payne University. In his early seminary days, Dr. Sanchez served under Ted Lindwall, founder of G4N, in Guatemala as a missionary intern. Dr. Sanchez has published in both Spanish and English in Missiology and Theology. In addition to his writings, he has lectured and taught in numerous countries in central and south America, Europe, and Asia. He is married to Tamera and they attend Meadowridge Church in Fort Worth.