Rev. Brandon Doyle
Brandon and his wife Breanne earned their MDiv at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. They spent significant time in the Holy Land studying, serving, and honing their language and cross-cultural skills. The Doyles currently reside in Metro New York and have worked locally with JFM Network, co-founded the PAAFC, and served as founding members of Global Gates. The Doyles oversee a multicultural coalition that serves least-reached peoples, helps disciple believers from non-western backgrounds, and supports their efforts to reach their own.
Brandon serves as Heart For Muslims’ Executive Director and seeks to educate, equip, and mobilize urban churches to welcome, love, and regularly engage their unreached neighbors.
HFM Board of Directors
Rev. Dr. Alfonse Javed
Rev. Dr. Alfonse Javed, the Senior Pastor of 1st Baptist Church of Metuchen, has planted a church abroad, has been a missions pastor and has served as a missionary in Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. He has also planted a church in Greece.
Born in Lahore, Pakistan — the son of a pastor — Pastor Javed began serving in church at a young age. In the 1990s, a providential relationship formed when Calvary Baptist Church started supporting his ministry efforts; he would later serve as the missions pastor of that congregation. Eventually, in 2009, he moved to New York with a new vision — mobilizing churches to engage Muslims in the NYC metro area.
Dr. Javed’s advanced theological training is from the Greek Bible College, Davis College and Liberty University. He maintains a blog, www.alfonsejaved.com, and is the author of The Muslim Next Door: A Practical Guide for Evangelism and Discipleship.
Dr. Alfonse is the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church in Metuchen, NJ. He is the founder of RAM Foundation, an organization dedicated to serving religious minorities in the Muslim world, and co-founder of Heart for Muslims, which equips believers to reach their Muslim neighbors for Christ. He holds three doctoral degrees, four masters degrees, and three bachelors degrees in various subjects both secular and spiritual. He is also a member of the graduate online faculty of Liberty University.
Dr. Javed and his wife, Sarah, have four children.
Rev. Dan McDowell
Rev Daniel McDowell is the Lead Pastor of GraceCrossing Community Church in Phoenixville Pennsylvania and serves on the regional staff of the American Baptist Churches of Pennsylvania and Delaware as the Southeast Area Minister. He earned his Master of Divinity at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1987 and was ordained in 1988 by the American Baptist Churches in the USA. Since then he has served as pastor of 5 churches, has led short term mission trips to Haiti, Mexico Pakistan and Uganda and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for a homeless shelter in upstate New York.
Rev. Mimsie Robinson
Pastor Mimsie Robinson serves as the Missions Pastor of Bethel Gospel Assembly, the Executive Pastor of Living Water Christian Center (a daughter congregation), and the Chairman of the Board of the Beth-Hark Christian Counseling Center, Inc. in East Harlem, a separate 501c3 social service non-profit agency affiliated with Bethel Gospel Assembly. He has earned a
doctoral degree in Applied Intercultural Studies from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (2019).
Reverend Mimsie is a minister, educator, and a global missions mobilizer with a strong community and social services background along with extensive community health involvement including collaboration on several publications. Pastor Mimsie has a burden and desire to see people from all backgrounds develop a life transforming relationship with Jesus Christ. That is
the basis of his involvement with Heart for Muslims, World Team USA, Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, Missio Nexus, the National African American Missions Council and other endeavors which focus upon reaching the least reached people of the world for Jesus.
Pastor Robinson and his wife, Minister Beverly Lynn Robinson, have two adult married children, Michelle and David, and three grandchildren and they reside in the Harlem community.
