Dr. Eloy H. Nolivos is originally from Ecuador, South America, but his family migrated to the United States when he was a year old. He is blessed to be married to Katie Elizabeth, their first child Maximiliano Elias (Maximilian Elijah) was born on April 24, this year. He also has a wonderful daughter Zoe Victoria who is 19 years old with special needs from a previous marriage. 

In the past 30 years, he served in the roles of educator, missionary, chaplain, administrator and minister. Education has been a lifelong dream and adventure he has pursued. He has worked in the Church, in academia and in the secular sphere with distinction. He has the honor of being part of the founding faculty of NSBT as well as Director of Information Literacy and Director of Online Learning. In his last role he was the Ambassador to the Hispanic and Latin American Communities and Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Oral Roberts University where he built relationships and points of connectivity with Hispanic and Latin American educational institutions, churches, and denominations, and helped students connect the dots between their theological studies and their ministerial and vocational formation. 
 
He is a scholar-practitioner who understands how to apply theological insights to every-day realities faced by people in the real world. He is deeply spiritual, and sensitive to the leading of the Spirit, while at the same time he understands the discipline of the mind has a critical role to play in the Church. The breadth of depth of both his experience in ministry and scholarly research are evident in his life. He is able to communicate the insights he has gained from both practical experience and academic study in ways that make them accessible to others at a variety of levels.

Dr. Nolivos has published particularly in the various areas of Latin American religion (Indigenous studies, colonialism and post-colonialism) and Latin American Pentecostalism (Church History, missiology and hermeneutics). In the next year he will publish an article “Latin America” in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism and another article “Ecuadorian Christianity in 21st Century” in Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity – Volume 6 – Christianity in Latin America. He is fast emerging as a younger Latino Pentecostal scholar who will be an important bridge between the Pentecostal-Charismatic academy and increasingly “brown” North American Church as we move further into the 21st century.