Smith, Ralph Allan: - Ralph Allan Smith graduated from Grace Theological Seminary in 1978 with a Master of Divinity. In 1981, after years of church-planting experience in the United States, he went to Tokyo, Japan, where he and his wife, Sylvia, have been laboring to plant and build the Mitaka Evangelical Church. He has authored The Covenantal Kingdom, Paradox and Truth, The Eternal Covenant, Trinity and Reality, and The Baptism of Jesus the Christ. He is also the director of the Covenant Worldview Institute (berith.org).