Born in 1955, in Akron, Ohio, and now residing in Westerville, Ohio, Gregory D. Kufchak is a lifelong student of Anabaptist history. A minister for some 40 years in the Apostolic Christian Church (a denomination directly descended from Swiss Anabaptist heritage), he has devoted even more years to research, translation (primarily German, but also some Spanish), writing, and publication of various works related to Anabaptist church history and doctrine.