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• John Teter

  

  John Teter

  John Teter is senior pastor of Fountain of Life Covenant Church in Long Beach, California. He also serves as executive director of Fountain of Life Antioch, the FOL's church planting wing. John has also served as the Evangelical Covenant Church's church planting team leader and evangelism team leader. He formerly served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at USC, Cal State Dominguez Hills, and Compton College. John is a Bible expositor, evangelistic preacher, and author of two books, Get the Word Out and Jesus and the Hip-Hop Prophets (coauthored with Alex Gee). He and his wife, Becky, live in Long Beach with their three children.

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• E. K. Strawser

  

  E. K. Strawser

  E. K. Strawser (DO, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine) is the co-vocational lead pastor of Ma Ke Alo o (which means "presence" in Hawaiian), non-denominational missional communities multiplying in Honolulu, Hawaii; a community physician at Ke Ola Pono; and an executive leader at the V3 Movement, the church planting arm of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. Prior to transitioning to Hawaii, she served as adjunct professor of medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and of African Studies at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania (where she and her husband served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship), after finishing her Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Dar es Salaam. She and Steve have three seriously amazing children.

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• Bill Donahue

  

  Bill Donahue

  Bill Donahue is executive director of small group ministries for the Willow Creek Association (WCA) and trains and develops small group leaders at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. He is the author of Leading Life-Changing Small Groups and coauthor of Building a Church of Small Groups and Walking the Small Group Tightrope (both with Russ Robinson). He has also written the Jesus 101 small group study series (with Keri Wyatt Kent).

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• James L. Papandrea

  

  James L. Papandrea

  James L. Papandrea (PhD, Northwestern University) is professor of church history and historical theology at Garrett-Evangelical Seminary at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is the author of The Earliest Christologies, The Trinitarian Theology of Novatian of Rome, and Reading the Early Church Fathers. He studied Roman history at the American Academy in Rome, Italy.

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• Donald C. Simmons Jr.

  

  Donald C. Simmons Jr.

  Donald C. Simmons Jr. is an internationally recognized leadership consultant and the senior pastor for The Tremont United Methodist Charge in Northeast Mississippi. He also teaches graduate courses in political science and leadership for the University of Nebraska-Omaha and was the founding dean of the College of Leadership and Public Service at Dakota Wesleyan University. He is the editor of Organizational Leadership and the coauthor of the textbook Leadership and Service: An Introduction with Senator George McGovern and Dan Gaken. His best-known popular work, Confederate Settlements in British Honduras resulted in an appearance on C-SPAN Book TV, but he is most recognized in academic circles as producer of the public television documentary Hungry for Green: Feeding the World Sustainably, which premiered at Harvard University Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment in 2009 and aired nationally. He attended Sioux Falls Seminary and holds a certificate of ministry from Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. Simmons remains actively involved in baseball ministry and prison ministry.

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• James Parker III

  Parker, D.Theol. (New Testament, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland), M.Div., Th.M. (Princeton Theological Seminary), M.A. (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), postdoctoral fellow (Johns Hopkins University), is associate dean and professor of worldview and culture at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He also directs the Trinity Institute, a residential Christian study center located in Tehuacana, Texas. He serves as the national coordinator for the Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship, a branch of the graduate ministry of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He is editor-in-chief of Foundations, an international theological journal aimed especially at seminary students and faculty.

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• Simon Vibert

  Reverend Dr. Simon Vibert is vice principal and director of the School of Preaching at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He previously served as chairman of the Fellowship of Word and Spirit and has two decades of experience in parish ministry. As one of John Stott?s Langham Trainers, Vibert has equipped pastors in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Serbia and Haiti. He studied at Oak Hill College in London, Glasgow University in Scotland and Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida, where his thesis was on the preaching of John Piper. He is the author of Lives Jesus Changed and The Diamond Marriage.

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• Chris Plekenpol

  Chris Plekenpol is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, experienced as a platoon leader and executive officer in the 82nd Airborne. After being called to the ministry, Chris attended Dallas Theological Seminary. A dynamic public speaker, Chris speaks to the hearts of those searching for what God has created them to be. He encourages them to choose the harder right over the easier wrong while facing the challenges of everyday life. He has authored one previous book, Faith in the Fog of War: Stories of Triumph and Tragedy in the Midst of War (Multnomah, 2006).

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• John Rowell

  Rev. John Rowell received his undergraduate college education in California and began his business career as a Certified Public Accountant working with Arthur Young Company. He has also worked for several large corporations including a Fortune 500 multi-national company. He was deeply involved in disciple-making ministries before beginning his transition from the business world toward full time vocational ministry in early 1978. John is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Free Church of America and serves on the Executive Board of Directors for Food for the Hungry (US). He also directs a consortium of more than thirty US churches committed to working to build a church planting movement in Bosnia.

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• M. Craig Barnes

  

  M. Craig Barnes

  M. Craig Barnes (PhD, University of Chicago) is Meneilly Professor of Leadership and Ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and senior pastor at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a former senior pastor of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. His books include Searching for Home: Spirituality for Restless Souls, An Extravagant Mercy: Reflections on Ordinary Things, Sacred Thirst: Finding God in the Desert of Our Longings and Hustling God: Why We Work So Hard for What God Wants to Give . Barnes is also the author of numerous published articles and is a speaker at seminary and church events.

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