Biography

L. John Bueno was elected executive director of Assemblies of God World Missions at the 47th General Council in 1997.   He is a member of the Executive Leadership Team and Executive Presbytery.   Bueno serves a family of over 2,700 missionaries and missionary associates in 212 countries and territories with a worldwide constituency of over 61 million.

Prior to his election he served eight years as field director for Latin America and the Caribbean region. A dynamic speaker and veteran missionary, John Bueno, and his wife Lois, served for 28 years in El Salvador where he pastored the Evangelistic Center in San Salvador.   Under his leadership, the church became the largest evangelical church in Central America.  He also began a small school for children who were basically off the streets of San Salvador.  This program grew until 1978, when Bueno founded Latin America ChildCare.   This is a ministry that provides schooling, clothing, meals and medical care for thousands of needy children in Latin America.

Bueno also has served as chairman of the missionary field fellowship, area representative of Central America, and as sub-director of the Executive Council of the Assemblies of God in Central America, the Caribbean and northern countries of South America.

Born in Modesto, California, Bueno attended Bethany University in Scotts Valley, California, receiving a degree in exegetical theology.   The college later awarded him an honorary doctorate.   Bueno has also received honorary doctorates from the Evangelical University of El Salvador and the Christian University of El Salvador.

He is author of An Open Heart, Remember the Poor, Agents of the Kingdom (Spanish), and Soul Clinic (Spanish).   He has also written numerous articles for Today's Pentecostal Evangel.