Al Tizon is the lead pastor of Grace Fellowship Community Church in San Francisco, CA. He is also affiliate faculty at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, LA, as well as at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. He has engaged in community development, church leadership, advocacy, and urban ministry in the United States and in the Philippines. Previous positions he has held include executive minister of Serve Globally, the international ministries of the Evangelical Covenant Church; holistic ministry director and then president of Christians for Social Action; and associate professor of holistic ministry at Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University near Philadelphia, PA.

Tizon is an ordained minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and is the North American representative of the International Fellowship for Mission as Transformation (INFEMIT).