After earning her Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2000, Crystal has gone on to author 2 books: Biblical Parenting and Grace Based Living. She is the founder of the Arms of Love Family Fellowship, a ministry devoted to mentoring moms and dads in a positive discipline approach called Grace Based Discipline.

Theologically conservative, Crystal is Senior Pastor at Shema Congregation, a Messianic Church of the Nazarene congregational plant that strives to understand and embrace the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith.

Lead Pastor - Transformation Church

Lead Pastor - Genesis Church - Tallahassee, FL - FSU - FAMU - The Club Church @ Floyd's

Pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in NYC

Founder of WomenLivingWell.org and GoodMorningGirls.org

The Simple Way is a web of subversive friends conspiring to spread the vision of Loving God, Loving People, and Following Jesus in our neighborhoods and in our world

Pastor of the Salt Mine Church Charlotte North Carolina

Rachel's personal journey from certainty through doubt to faith unfolds in the town made famous by the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925.

Benny Perez | The Church at South Las Vegas

In 2003, Benny Perez and his wife, Wendy, founded The Church of South Las Vegas, which is one of the fastest growing churches in the city. Pastor Benny's vision for reaching people goes beyond city limits.

Church Planter & Lead Pastor http://www.thechurchlv.com/ Author, Speaker, Evangelist http://www.bennyperez.org

Matt Chandler

Pastor of The Village Church, near Dallas, TX

Andy Stanley

Pastor of North Point Church in Alpharetta, GA.

Mark Driscoll (PastorMark) is on Twitter. Sign up for Twitter to follow Mark Driscoll (PastorMark) and get their latest updates

Lead pastor of LifePointe Church, church replant Jedi, carnivore

Eugene Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson (born November 6, 1932), is a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. He has written over thirty books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language

SETH GODIN has written thirteen books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. Every one has been a bestseller. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything.

Donald Miller

Author (Blue Like Jazz, other titles) and blogger.

Kurt Willems is an Anabaptist writer and pastor who is preparing for church planting by finishing work towards a Master of Divinity degree at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary.

Pastor of Elevation Church

Pastor at the L.A. Dream Center

Scot Mcknight

Scot McKnight is a New Testament scholar who has written widely on the historical Jesus, Christian spirituality, and the Emerging Church. He is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University

Activist, Author, Catalyst, Blogger. Co-Founder of Kairos Los Angeles and the Ecclesia Network

Pete Wilson

Pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville, TN

Ron is the lead pastor at Grace Community Church and a church leader passionate about planting churches, helping established churches thrive, and assisting pastors and those in ministry think through leadership, strategy and life. Ron is an avid blogger.

Ed Stetzer

President of LifeWay Research

pastor, writer, advocate, mommy, rule-breaker, dreamer.

Greg Boyd is the senior pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. His books include the best selling and award winning Letters From a Skeptic and The Myth of a Christian Nation.

Beth Moore

Living Proof Ministries

Leonard Sweet

Apologist, Speaker, Debater, Author, Founder & Director of Confident Christianity Apologetics Ministry.

A tall skinny itinerant social entrepreneur and father of five kids who loves to blog

Lead pastor at Quest Community Church in Lexington, KY - did an awesome job last year!

Christine Caine

Hillsong Church / Founder of Equip and Empower

co-pastor (along with his wife Stephanie) of The Eucatastrophe in Fort Worth, Texas

Author of Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of Our Daily Choices (IVP 2009) and frequent speaker on issues related to the intersection of faith, social justice and Christian living.

MIkel is Adjunct Professor of Christian Apologetics in Sacramento, California. He has lectured alongside expert apologists like Craig Hazen, J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig.

Mikel has presented for the Association of Christian Schools International, the Billy Graham Center‘s Mission America Network and students on university campuses including Azusa Pacific University, Biola University, and William Jessup University.

Author of the award winning book Love is an Orientation, President of The Marin Foundation and a man trying to learn how to live and love.

Poet, spiritual director, urban monastic, author of Practicing the Way of Jesus: Life Together in the Kingdom of Love

Mark Batterson

Pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D. C.

Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Tony is the author of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier and is theologian-in-residence at Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis. He is the author of many books on Christian ministry and spirituality and is a sought after speaker and consultant in the areas of emerging church, postmodernism, and Christian spirituality. Tony has three children and lives in Edina, Minnesota.

Peter Rollins is a widely sought after writer, lecturer, storyteller and public speaker. He is also the founder of ikon, a faith group that has gained an international reputation for blending live music, visual imagery, soundscapes, theatre, ritual and reflection to create what they call ‘transformance art’.
Peter gained his higher education from Queens University, Belfast and has earned degrees (with distinction) in Scholastic Philosophy (BA Hons), Political Theory (MA) and Post-Structural thought (PhD). He is currently a research associate with the Irish School of Ecumenics in Trinity College, Dublin and is the author of the much talked about How (Not) to Speak of God. His most recent work is entitled The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales. He was born in Belfast but currently resides in Greenwich, CT and is employed by The Olson Foundation

Lead Pastor - Daystar Church - 24 to Double

Phyllis Tickle is an authority on religion in America and a much sought after lecturer on the subject. She has authored over two dozen books in religion and spirituality, most recently The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why. She is also the author of The Divine Hours series of manuals for observing fixed-hour prayer.

Author of Saving Savvy and money-saving blogger.
Kelly Hancock has one of the most popular money-savings blogs on the Internet, faithfulprovisions.com. She has also appeared on many radio and television programs to share her amazing savings secrets. She and her husband, Bradford, have 2 children and live in Nashville, TN.

Bob Roberts is the founder and Senior Pastor of NorthWood Church and founder of glocal.net. Zondervan author.

Lead Pastor, Passion City Church
Founder, Passion Conferences

Tommy Sparger is the Founding Pastor of North Point Church in Springfield, MO and author of the new book "The ImpACT Effect."

Jennifer Knapp is a Grammy nominated, Dove Award winning artist, who was happy to let go of all the success she had to live a very different kind of life traveling to the most remote corners of Australia, looking to reclaim a part of herself she felt she lost in all the excitement of her accomplishments. She has recently returned to the music scene while also courageously coming out publicly as both a lesbian and a Christian.

Disciple Maker in the Andes Mountains Cloud Forest Region of Ecuador

President, CEO of HOPE International, Christian micro finance network impacting global poverty and co-author of The Poor Will Be Glad.

Author, speaker, and founder of Wiconi International working to promote community, strengthen culture and foster spiritual vitality among Native American or First Nations people

A conference speaker, church leader, and writer. Wife of Alan Hirsch

Equipping grassroots theologians for creative thinking, engaging, and living.

Bestselling Author, Former NFL Coach

Tony Myles is the Lead Pastor of Connection Church in the Cleveland suburbs and reaches 63,000 unchurched people weekly through his newspaper column "Fully Alive Living." With two decades of experience with the emerging generation, Tony is a messy Christ-follower passionate for the Church and all its imperfect, redemptive beauty.

Jenni Catron

Executive Director of Cross Point Church in Nashville. Founder of Cultivate Her.

Brandon is the Lead Pastor of Austin New Church, a missional church focused on serving the under-resourced in Austin Texas. He is author of “Barefoot Church: Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture”, Co-Founder of Restore Communities which serves as a conduit for volunteerism in Austin by connecting the church with Austin based non-profits that serve our city and world, and is a Missional Strategist and Ministry Coach with “Missio“.
He and his wife Jen recently adopted from Ethiopia.

John C. O'Keefe

An emerging author who supports and speaks honestly about the importance of Inclusivity in the Church.

Michael Hyatt’s thoughts on leading with purpose, personal productivity, book publishing, and social media.

David Fitch received his Ph.D from Northwestern University and currently serves as one of the three pastors at Life on the Vine. He teaches as the B.R. Linder Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary and heads up the M.A. in Missional Church Ministry at Northern. He helped to start Up/Rooted, a collaborative gathering for Chicago are church leadership engaging in the post-modern context. He has authored many articles on church, culture and theological ethics in diverse journals. He is the author of The End of Evangelicalism: Discovering a New Faithfulness for Mission, The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from American Business, Para-church Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism and Other Modern Maladies.

Author of "The Hole in Our Gospel"

Trina Pockett is an inspirational speaker with over ten years experience in Women's Ministry. She has served in leadership roles within The Salvation Army, MOPS, and currently Stonecroft Ministries.

Lead Pastor of Crossroads Church, Youngstown Ohio

Pastor at The Journey in St. Louis

Bert Crabbe

Bert is a long time friend, crazy guy and serves as Lead Pastor of True North Community Church in Bohemia, NY. I believe the story God is telling through his life will be both motivating and encouraging.

Kay Warren

Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, CA

Founder and Executive Director at CMA

journalist & author of the forth-coming book - Belieber, fame faith and the heart of Justin Bieber - http://belieberbook.com/

Perry Noble

Sr Pastor of NewSpring Church, Anderson, SC.-- Listed in the top 25 fastest growing churches in the US. Pastor, Leader, Visionary,

one of the curators (along with this wife Toni Cook-Smith) of Mission House, a kingdom experiment in Salisbury, NC

Leader in the Church Diversity movement.

Sara Miles is the founder and director of The Food Pantry , and serves as Director of Ministry at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Her books include Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead and Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion. She speaks, preaches and leads workshops around the country, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and on National Public Radio.

Judah Smith

Pastor of The City Church, Seattle WA.

Carlos Whittaker is an artist, pastor, thinker, experience architect, and Web 2.0 junkie.

Dr. Tony, Campolo, is an Eastern College Sociology professor. Tony Campolo, President of EAPE, has authored 30 books.

Associate Minister at Northside Christian Church (Yorktown, VA)
Blogger

Noted Christian Author, Speaker and Adoption advocate. Jen has compiled 8 books, the latest being a book due out by the end of 2011 called 7 (an experimental mutiny against excess). Jen took 7 months, identified 7 areas of excess and made 7 simple choices to fight against greed, overindulgence and materialism. She and her husband have recently adopted two children from Ethiopia.

A techie-humanitarian-pastor, Shaun King is widely regarded as one of today’s leading voices on how social media and a little bit of courage can make our world a radically better place. He speaks a message of hope and action over 150 times a year, has appeared in dozens of national press outlets, and is the founder of TwitChange, aHomeInHaiti, and Courageous Church in Atlanta, GA.

Tim is the co-director for the Center for Church Communication and is a branding and communications consultant with Church Solutions Group.

Founder & President, Salter McNeil & Associates, Chicago, IL

Jamie Arpin-Ricci is an inner city pastor, missionary & writer. His next book "The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis & Life in the Kingdom" is an exploration of the Sermon on the Mount & a call to live it out today.

Point Church exists to help people unleash their full redemptive potential and is a mutli-site church in Long Island, NY.

Lead Pastor - TheChurch on Strayer - Ohio

Laura is associate director of Master Plan Ministries in Denver, Colorado and author of Beholding Him, Becoming Missional: Awakening the Mission Through the Study of First Samuel. Laura has been radically transformed by the Lord and desperately desires her life to display His glory.

Pastor of True North church in LI NY

Dave Gibbons

Pastor of NewSong Church, Irvine, CA and multiple locations

Pastor of the hugely influential Hillsong Church

Jared C. Wilson is the pastor of Middletown Springs Community Church in Middletown Springs, Vermont and the author of the books Your Jesus is Too Safe: Outgrowing a Drive-Thru, Feel-Good Savior and Abide: Practicing Kingdom Rhythms in a Consumer Culture.

author of "Global Soccer Mom" - blogger, speaker, mama of three, the original members of the ONE Campaign

Rich Hammar is one of the country's leading thinkers on church law, tax, and finance matters. He is an accomplished author and speaker, consistently rated one of the best presenters at conferences. For The NINES, Rich can speak to the key law, tax, and finance issues every church leader/church planter should know right now.

Executive Pastor at Westridge Church

Kenda Creasy Dean is an ordained elder in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference (United Methodist) and professor of youth, church, and culture at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she works closely with the Institute for Youth Ministry. Author of "Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church" and several other books on youth ministry.

Author of Pagan Christianity, Jesus Manifesto, From Eternity to Here, Reimagining Church, Revise Us Again. Themes: Missional Church, Organic Church, Deeper Christian Life, Spiritual Formation, Beyond Evangelicalism, God's Grand Mission and Eternal Purpose.

Jonathan is the author of Discovering the God Imagination, and Senior Editor at Civitas Press, a boutique publishing firm specializing in inspiring and redemptive ideas. He is leading the way in a new model for publishing and seeks to create new opportunities for fresh and creative voices. He speaks on issues of justice, theology, and living a life in the way of Jesus.

Eugene Cho is the founding lead pastor at Quest Church in Seattle, Washington. He and his wife Minhee also founded One Day's Wages, “a movement of People, Stories, and Actions to alleviate extreme global poverty.”

Gary Haugen serves as President and CEO of International Justice Mission. IJM is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local governments to ensure victim rescue, to prosecute perpetrators and to strengthen the community and civic factors that promote functioning public justice systems.

The mission of International Justice Mission is to protect people from violent forces of injustice by securing rescue and restoration for victims and ensuring public justice systems work for the poor., Biography of Gary Haugen, president and CEO

Justin Wise

Social Media Director at Monk Development

Pastor at Grace Family Baptist Church in Spring, Texas

Host of On Being, a national conversation on the boldest new science of the human brain to the most ancient traditions of the human spirit.

Frank Schaeffer

Frank Schaeffer, author of the memoir, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back.

Ian Morgan Cron is an author, speaker, Episcopal priest, psychotherapist, and retreat guide.

Lead Pastor at Crossover Church - Tampa, FL. Also known as Urban D, recorded 6 hip-hop albums.

Lead Pastor

Christian Piatt is an author, editor, speaker, musician and spoken word artist. He co-founded Milagro Christian Church in Pueblo, Colorado with his wife, Rev. Amy Piatt, in 2004. Christian is the creator and editor of the Banned Questions book series, which include Banned Questions About the Bible and Banned Questions About Jesus. He co-created and co-edits the “WTF: Where’s the Faith?” young adult series with Chalice Press and speaks nationally on church transformation, young adult spirituality, social justice, emergent Christian identity and postmodern theology.

Lead Pastor at North Coast Church

Lead Pastor - Renovatus Community - Charlotte, NC

Carol, Author of Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation and Reframing Hope: Vital Ministry in a New Generation, is quickly becoming known both in the USA and around the world as one of the “go to” voices who teach the church how to truly engage young adults on their own terms.

Lead Pastor of New Life Fellowship in Queens, NY and Author of The Emotionally Healthy Church and Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.

Toney Salva is the senior pastor at Discovery Christian Church in Pittsburgh, PA. Discovery is a unique multi site congregation serving both the suburbs and the city.

Lead Pastor of REAL Church, Detroit, MI

Lead Pastor or Waters Edge Church in Yorktown, VA

Bestselling author, his books include Drive, A Whole New Mind, Johnny Bunko and Free Agent Nation.

Brian Bloye West Ridge Church Dallas ,GA

Small Groups Pastor http://www.benreed.net

Amazing kick-ass theologian and provocative thinker and speaker

President & Founder of Radical Faith Ministries which is all about pursuing passionate purpose with undoubted faith towards God - even when facing incredible challenges. Seneca is passionate about encouraging and motivating others to define their life's destiny and discover their purpose through God!

Lead Pastor - New Hope Church - Sevierville, TN - musician - songwriter - Marine

Kimberly is the founder and pastor of Koinonia Church

in Second Life. She is the online organizer for the progressive Christian organization The Beatitudes Society where she maintains online community, teach social media for preachers workshops and edit the Weekly Circuit Reader, a collection of progressive Christian resources for busy clergy. She received her Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She has a B.A. in religious studies from Georgia State University. Before entering seminary she worked nearly fifteen years a variety of technology related fields. Kimberly, her partner and their two children are active members of Kirkwood United Church of Christ in Atlanta, GA.

Knightopia is the online home of Steve Knight, kingdom journalist. I love telling stories and throwing parties.

Contemplative Activist, Gardener, Author, Blogger, Consultant,

President and Founder, Synergy Women's Network
Author of numerous books, including Half the Church

Beliefnet Voices – Joan Ball

Tracey Bianchi is the author of Green Mama the book and the mother of three young children. She is a pastor, MDiv, and seasoned speaker.

Pastor, professor, and author of Orphanology: Awakening to Gospel-Centered Adoption and Orphan Care

Christian counselor, ministry leader for fastest-growing church in Richmond, Va. Focused on reaching the next generation of leaders.

Providence Church, Frisco, TX

Wayne was a shoe industry executive in 2004 when TV coverage of the Asian tsunami disaster moved him to try to make a difference in the world. Upon seeing the image of a single shoe washing up on a beach half way around the globe, Mr. Elsey quickly galvanized colleagues to route a quarter-million pairs of shoes to Southeast Asia. Today, Soles4Souls has distributed more than 15 million pairs of new and gently worn shoes to people in 127 countries. Wayne’s leadership experience and passion for the mission of the fast-growing charity make him an excellent speaker on topics related to engaging donors, motivating teams and aligning employee goals with organizational missions.

follower. husband. father. son. brother. teacher. leader. writer. thinker. dreamer.

Pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee, author, and scholar.

Director of Heartcry Missionary Society

Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, an ELCA mission church in Denver, Colorado. She's a leading voice in the emerging church movement and her writing can be found in The Christian Century and Jim Wallis' God's Politics blog. She is author of "Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television" (Seabury 2008) and the Sarcastic Lutheran blog.

PsRobertMorris

Gary Smalley is a well known conference speaker, best-selling author, and president and founder of the Smalley Relationship Center. He releases Four Days to a Forever Marriage October 2011.

Ideation Strategist, Networker, and Compassionary

Senior Pastor of New Hope Oahu in Honolulu, HI and president of New Hope Christian College in Eugene, Oregon. Author of Doing Church as a Team, Leading on Empty and Divine Mentor.

Founder of 3DM ministries. Missional Community Guru

Founder and President of Stand to Reason

Adam McLane is a lifelong student of youth ministry, a veteran youth pastor, and mentor to an ever-expanding web of students and adults. Adam created and later sold Youth Ministry Exchange, an online community for youth workers, before joining the team at Youth Specialties in 2008. In September 2011, Adam is joining The Youth Cartel, a full-service consulting firm specializing in helping churches, businesses and ministries connect with teenagers, young adults, and youth workers.

International missiologist, social entrepreneur, consultant, professor, teacher, futurist.

Melvin is a devoted husband, committed father, learner, teacher, writer, storyteller, lover of people, connoisseur of creativity, purveyor of sustainability and believer in possibilities.

Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) - To reach and challenge those that shape the ideas of culture with the credibility of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Executive Pastor, Crosspoint Community Church (www.crosspointlive.tv) in Decatur, AL

Pastor of one of America's fastest growing churches.

Michael is the student and family pastor at Grace Community Church and is a leading voice family ministry across the nation.

Author of Making Room for Leadership. MaryKate Morse is professor of leadership and spiritual formation at George Fox Evangelical Seminary and director of strategic planning at George Fox University in Portland, Oregon.

Mike Foster is a speaker, author, and consultant with organizations on personal sustainability and life management. Mike leads a non-profit called “People of the Second Chance” which provides innovative strategies on failure and crisis. He is the author of “Gracenomics: Unleash the Power of Second Chance Living” and serves on the executive team of PlainJoe Studios which is an award winning national design firm. Mike is also an advisor for the Q and Catalyst conferences. He lives in Southern California and blogs at www.POTSC.com.

Don is a video producer and pastor. He and his wife Pam founded Vision Community Church (www.visiblechurch.org) in Warwick, NY in 2001

Author of Green Mama the book. Conversations on stewardship and our shared planet.

Sean Wrench

Sean is the founder and executive director of Forsaken Generation. A non profit organization that is leading a nationwide movement to end youth homelessness, child sex trafficking, and hunger in the U.S. Last year Forsaken Generation was featured at the Shine Conference put on by Celebration Church in Jacksonville, FL. Sean has recently spoken at a Congressional Hearing in Washington, DC and his work was recently featured in Relevant Magazine. He will be appearing this fall in a panel to end child sex trafficking being organized by the World Affairs Council.

Daniel Montgomery Sojourn Community Louisville.KY

Your Best Life Now!..Oh, and he's the pastor of the nation's largest church

Founding and Lead Pastor of Lifepoint Church in Wilmington, NC. 2009 Jerry Falwell Church Planting award winner.

Longtime speaker & author of Under Cover, Bait of Satan, Driven by Eternity and many other books.

Author of Deep Church; is founding church planter and pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, California. He is the cofounder of the Restoring Community Conference:Integrating Social Interaction, Sacred Space and Beauty in the 21st Century, an annual conference for city officials, planners, builders and architects - www.restoringcommunityconference.com.

Co-Pastor of The Emmaus Community, a non-denominational Christian community in Chicago Heights, Illinois, which uniquely fuses post-modern worship with a celebration of the historic African-American worship traditions.

Efrem Smith

Efrem Smith is an internationally recognized leader who uses motivational speaking and preaching to equip people for a life of transformation. He also consults on issues of multi-ethnicity, leadership, and community development for churches, educational institutions, and other organizations.

passionate pray-er / artist / speaker / church planter

Center for Church Communications: Communication Strategist / Social Media Consultant / Church Champion / Networker / Recycle Junkie

Executive Director - People for Care & Learning - Cambodia - Clean Water, floating clinics/schools, Gospel multiplication

Missional Pastor, Missional Thought Leader, Website Designer for Social Entrepreneurial Enterprises

Nate is the Director of Master Plan Ministries Durango and a dynamic thinker and gifted speaker.

Pastor and founder of Apostolic Coalition of Colombia, as well as REDoma a network to empower pastor. Lives in Bogota, Colombia and has sponsored church plantings in several cities and in Charlotte, NC.

changing the way people think about church...

Tools and strategies for non-profits and activists to harness web and media to change the world.

Jeremy is founder of Hold Fast Ministries in Harrisburg PA where he lives with his wife Hannah.

lead pastor of Missiongathering Christian Church in San Diego, California, and the co-founder of MissionPlanting.com

rockstar teacher, thinker, activist.

Rhonda is passionate about reaching students for Christ. She has 11 years of experience speaking to groups and been doing full time college ministry with Master Plan Ministries in Colorado for 6 years.

Subversive author, teacher and activist.

Lead Pastor - Mosaic Church - Little Rock, AR & Founder - Mosaix Global Network

Ryan Meeks

Pastor at Eastlake Community in Seattle, WA

Pastor of Brand New Church and author of Transforming Church in Rural America.

Shannon O'Dell, is a devoted husband and father of four. People know him as innovative, inspiring and committed to reaching out to struggling rural churches.

Bill Hull writes books and blogs in the area of spiritual transformation and discipleship.

Lead Pastor, Apostles Church, NYC

Senior Pastor - Central Church of God - Charlotte, NC

An elder statesman of the Integral Mission movement, Padilla is a founding member of the Latin American Theological Fellowship and of the Kairos Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is President of the Micah Network and Executive Director of Ediciones Kairos, the publishing arm of the Kairos Foundation. He has lectured in many countries around the world and has published several books.

Because all of Life flames with God, and because she's really good about teaching us how to see the beautiful in the uglies of life. She's good at teaching us how to live fully right where we are and she's good about helping us see gratitude!

Co-pastor Life on the Vine Christian Community, Northwest Chicago Suburbs

Chuck Smith, Jr.

Peter Haas Substance Church Fridley, MN

Carl Lenz

Church planter - Hillsong NYC

changing the story of homelessness

Small Groups guru from National Christian Church.

Lead Pastor of New Song Community Church, Oceanside the church that made To Save A Life, the movie.
Author of The God Questions, Jonah, Future History

Helen Lee is an award-winning Christian journalist and author of The Missional Mom: Living with Purpose in the Home and the World. She also has a passion for entrepreneurship and is the co-founder of Best Christian Workplaces Institute, which runs the annual Best Christian Places to Work survey and a founding member of Redbud Writers Guild (www.redbudwriters.com).

Trevor is the senior pastor of Mountair Christian Church in Denver, CO, a small, urban, multi-ethnic church, and has also been a pastor of a missional-focused house church in Aurora, IL, and a large suburban church outside of Denver. He's also the founder of Unique Conformity (http://www.uniqueconformity.com/), a discipleship ministry dedicated to reigniting the Church to be devoted and active disciples of Jesus.

Author of Belieber! Faith, Fame and the Heart of Justin Bieber

Cathleen Falsani is an award-winning religion journalist and author who specializes in the intersection of spirituality and popular culture. Currently a columnist for Religion News Service in Washington, D.C., Cathleen is best known for her personal interview profiles of Barack Obama, Bono of U2, Elie Wiesel, Hugh Hefner, Anne Rice, Dusty Baker, Melissa Etheridge, Studs Terkel, Michael Gerson, Annie Lennox and many other notables. She is the author of three critically acclaimed books The God Factor, Sin Boldly and The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers. Religion writer for the Chicago Sun-Times from 2000-2010, Cathleen now lives in Laguna Beach, California, with her husband, fellow author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maurice Possley, and their son, Vasco.

Mark Jobe

Mark has been involved in transformational ministry in Chicago for over two decades. Under his leadership New Life has grown from a hand full of people to several thousand that meet at eleven campuses throughout Chicago. He and his wife Dee have three great children and view themselves as a team in ministry.

Lead Pastor - Hope and Life Church - Atlanta, Ga

a ministerial and business visionary, kingdom strategist, millennial trailblazer, and prophetic voice to this generation. Founder and President of Power International

Harmony Dust, the President, founded Treasures, a non profit organization which operates an outreach and support group to women in the sex industry.
Each month, Harmony and a team of dedicated volunteers visit 170 strip clubs in the greater Los Angeles area to give gift bags to the women inside the clubs. The gifts represent the heart of this organization, sending the message to each woman, “You are loved, valued and purposed!” Harmony is truly passionate about seeing women’s hearts and lives revolutionized by a relationship with God and a revelation of their true worth in Him.

Rose is a missional pastor who co-pastors Vineyard Community Church in Shoreline, WA with her husband, Rich. She is also the Executive Director of Turning Point, a missional group which partners with local agencies to serve low-income families in the greater Seattle area.

Calum Miller is an apologist at Dove Theology and Apologetics.com. He is currently training to be a Doctor at the University of Oxford and is particularly involved with the issues that Medicine raises for Theology and Apologetics.

Pastor of New Directions in Memphis, fisherman, and all round great leader

Coaching beyond common leadership landmines

Want to reach youth in this culture? Bob knows how.

"Terry Virgo is based at Church of Christ the King, Brighton, UK and is the founder of Newfrontiers.

Communications Pastor for Cornerstone Community Church in Orangeburg, SC. Avid blogger.

The Content Matrix: Navigating the New Rules of Conversation

Author of Start Here, Go Anywhere - consultant - agent - Richie Hughes Instructional Camps (camps produced for Shaq, John Smoltz, Dominique Wilkins)

Anthony is associate professor of theology and ethics at The King's College in New York City and serves as a research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. He is author of Black and Tired and Liberating Black Theology. He is a blogger for worldmag.com. Visit his website, The Institute. Follow Dr. Bradley on Twitter @drantbradley.

Ruth Padilla Deborst has been involved in leadership traning, church and community development through a Network for Holistic Mission in El Salvador. Having spoken and ministered to students and leaders through the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) for many years, she is currently presiding over the Latin American Theological Fraternity, serving on the International Justice Mission board, and directing Ediciones Certeza Unida, the publishing house of the Spanish speaking movements linked to IFES.

Arloa is the founder and President of Urban Breakthrough Ministries in Chicago.

Truefaced - Find grace and freedom from blame and shame with a Truefaced lifestyle. We can help you discover amazing grace and true freedom.

Mark is a pastor, consultant and strategic thinker. He has served in churches large and small, traditional and contemporary. Mark's passion is for the folks who would never walk in the door of a church on their own.

Pastor of Mosaic Nashville.

"There are maybe ten or twelve things I could teach you... after that, well, you're on your own..."

Husband, friend,Church planter, Christ follower, semiprofessional Redwings fan, Android aficionado, Lead Pastor of Audacity Church in Wichita, KS. Also, a creative thought provoker.

Lead Pastor at Sun Valley Community Church

Josh Surratt (JoshSurratt) is on Twitter. Sign up for Twitter to follow Josh Surratt (JoshSurratt) and get their latest updates

Founding Pastor at Hope Community Church in Raleigh, NC.

Brandon Cox is a Pastor at Saddleback Church and the author of one of the top 100 "church" blogs in the world, as well as a freelance designer.

Lead Pastor - City Church - Chattanooga, TN

Senior Pastor of Remnant of Christ (ROC) Fellowship in Raleigh, NC

Harvey Carey is the founder and Senior Pastor of the Citadel of Faith Covenant Church in Detroit, MI. An internationally known speaker, Carey's passion for reaching the lost and vision for urban renewal is transforming communities and challenging leaders across the globe.

Eric Metaxes

Award-winning author of Bonhoffer.

Lisa Sharon Harper

Sojourners Director of Mobilizing, Lisa was the founding executive director of New York Faith & Justice , an organization at the hub of a new ecumenical movement to end poverty in New York City. Her writing has been featured in The National Civic Review, God’s Politics blog , The Huffington Post, Urban Faith, Prism, and Slant33 where she has written extensively on tax reform, comprehensive immigration reform, health care reform, poverty, racial justice, and transformational civic engagement.

Lisa ’s faith-rooted approach to advocacy and organizing has activated people of faith across the U.S. and around the world to address structural and political injustice as an outward demonstration of their personal faith.

Having earned her masters degree in Human Rights from Columbia University in New York City, Lisa's forthcoming book, Left, Right & Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics, was co-written with D.C. Innes (an evangelical Republican who is also a Tea-Partier). Harper and Innes explore their philosophies of government and business as well as six major issues the next generations of evangelicals must wrestle with to be faithful witnesses in the public square. (Forthcoming October 2011)

Bill Johnson is the Senior Pastor of Bethel Church (Jesus Culture, Global Legacy). Bill is a fifth generation pastor with a rich heritage in the things of the Spirit. Together they serve a growing number of churches that have partnered for revival. This apostolic network has crossed denominational lines in building relationships that enable church leaders to walk in both purity and power.

Shunna Jones Moreno

Executive Pastor, Oasis, Los Angelos

Michael Fletcher

Lead Pastor-Manna Church, Fayetteville, NC

Church Planter in Utah, Going where no one else wants to go.

Jim Daly is president and chief executive officer of Focus on the Family, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping families thrive.

Lead Network

Phileena Heuertz serves as co-director of Word Made Flesh (WMF)--an international community serving Christ among the most vulnerable of the world's poor.

Over the years, Phileena has traveled through nearly 70 countries working with marginalized and oppressed people-abandoned children, victims of HIV and AIDS, sexually exploited women and children, people recovering from drug addictions, children who live on the streets, refugees and children of combat and war.

Founding Pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City, 15,000 members on 3 campuses. Adam is arguably the most influential United Methodist of our time.

Jason Derr is a Theologian in Affiliation with the Progressive Christian Alliance (Proca), an emerging denomination/church and ministry network wrestling with what it means to be church in the 21st century. Jason's first book is an academic beat poem which evaluates liberation theology through the lens of the theopoetic. He also writes for The Huffington Post and Patheos.com.

Trina Pockett

Teresita Glasgow is the author of Destiny Seven Steps to Finding & Fulfilling your Purpose in Life, She is the host of the Teresita Glasgow Blog Talk Radio Show. Ms. Glasgow is the president and CEO of In His Season, Inc. She is a minister, motivator and savy social media strategist.

Lead Pastor, Emmanuel Baptist in Brooklyn, holistic ministry for the city

Marriage Pastor at New Life Fellowship in Queens, NY and Author of I Quit!: Stop Pretending Everything Is Fine and Change Your Life.

Children's Pastor at Redeemer.tv in Utica NY

Founder of community development organization based in Costa Mesa, CA.

Dr. R. A. Vernon is the founder and senior pastor of “THE WORD” CHURCH. A respected spiritual leader, philanthropist, and humanitarian, he is dedicated to creating and providing programs, resources, and services to help the less fortunate. He is resolutely committed to unconditional outreach, and leads the culturally diverse congregation of “THE WORD” CHURCH with integrity and excellence.

Dr. Vernon founded “THE WORD” CHURCH on love, God’s Word, and a passion for humanity. It continues to operate with this same spirit of purpose over a decade later. As a result, “THE WORD” CHURCH has become one of the fastest growing churches in the region and continues to experience remarkable growth.

He is the author of two books, Blessing Behind Closed Doors (2007) and Size Does Matter: Moving Your Ministry from Micro to Mega (spring 2011).

Dr. Vernon has a Diploma of Theology, a Master of Arts in Practical Theology, and a Doctorate of Ministry with a concentration in church growth from Ashland Theological Seminary. He is honored to be married to First Lady Victory Vernon and they have six children.

Teaching Pastor at New Life Fellowship in Queens, NY.

Lead Pastor - Bridgeway Community Church - Columbia, MD

Jimmy Siebert - Antioch Community Church Waco, TX

Executive Director of the effective and fruitful city transforming ministry Kingdom Causes

President, Association of Gospel Rescue Missions - author of Invisible Neighbors http://www.invisibleneighbors.org

Former lead teaching pastor of megachurch ROCK HARBOR in Orange County, California. Author of a few books including: "The Jesus of Suburbia," "Why Guys Need God," "Death By Church" and "Why The Bible Matters."

On May 25th 2001 Eric defied the odds and scaled Mt. Everest guiding his blind- friend Erik Weihenmayer to its lofty 29,035′ summit. In his book, The Summit: Faith Beyond Everest's Death Zone, an d in his ministry,
Eric reminds us of our humanity and demonstrates the courage it takes to succeed in climbing to the “top of the world”.

Oie Osterkamp

The author of "Being a Sharefish in a Selfish World," a popular speaker and a successful entrepreneur, Oie motivates with his concept of "The Second Day" -- how to think and act with authentic purpose and to discover the power of giving back.

A movement to stimulate a global economy of enough

author, Spirithome.com. Radio programmer, host, and dj at WUSB Stony Brook NY (wusb.fm). Noted political centrist.

cultural theorist, author & human rights advocate

Would love to join your fine team. I am the executive director of CPR-3 a mission that breathes life and hope into the world through relief, rehabilitation and development. We are involved in Haiti in a Church2Church partnership serving the needs of the church in their responsibility and desire to assist the overlooked.

Pastor and multicultural/multi-economic church planter of Overflow Church in Benton Harbor, MI and OCCDA, a nonprofit organization centering on 2 pillars of community development: education and job creation. Both exist in a community separated by long-standing racial tension and economic disparity. Pastor, preacher and executive director overseeing church and social businesses employing under-served youth, transitional jobs for re-entry men and women, and overseeing a literacy program for K-3rd grade students embraced by the public school administration.

Linda Rankin

Campus Development Director., Eastlake Church, San Diego

Greg Oraham

Lead Pastor for Foothills Church, Seneca, SC

Author of Mastering the Management Buckets, blogger, church leadership consultant, Former President of CLA/CMA, WCA, CCCA

Dynamite leader of Christian City Church Global. Goal to plant 1000 churches in Urban Cities around the world

Bob Lepine

Co-host of FamilyLife Today; Vice President of Content/Chief Creative Officer for FamilyLife (Little Rock, AR); Pastor of Redeemer Community Church, Little Rock

Pastor Chris loves Jesus, his wife and son! He serves on a committee overseeing the church planting and revitalization for our denomination, and has at least 20 friends currently planting churches. You can find him on Twitter @mrclm

Christ Fellowship Baptist Church

Sammy lives in Olive Branch, Mississippi
(suburb of Memphis, TN).

Sammy clearly communicates biblical truth in a visual and memorable way. Sammy combines sound biblical doctrine with humor, illustrations, and illusions. Whether he is exegetically teaching scripture or doing up close illusions, his sole purpose is to relevantly present the truth of Christ in order to impact this generation and generations to come.

Founder of charity:water

Wes Jamison is a Minister at Large in the christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and is Jointly ordained with the United church of Christ. Wes works for full inclusion in the Church and currently serves as the chair person for the Open&Affirming ministry team for the GLAD Alliance.

R.C Sproul

Pastor of Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio and teacher on the Truth For Life radio program.

Lisa Thompson

Lisa Thompson is the blogger behind money-saving sites Nickels-n-Dimes.com and SimplifiedSaving.com.

She is married to the man of her dreams and is the mom of 2 teenage girls who were adopted from Ukraine at the ages of 9 and 11.

Lisa speaks on a variety of topics including living with lupus, adopting older children, getting out of debt and discovering who you are in Christ.

Greg Boyd is the senior pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. His books include the best selling and award winning Letters From a Skeptic and The Myth of a Christian Nation.

Jim Putman Real Life Ministries Post Falls, ID

Pastor of Colwood Church in Caro, MI and improv-comedy guy from The Second City, Chicago

Mike Housholder

Founder and Senior Pastor of Lutheran Church of Hope, West Des Moines, IA (largest Lutheran church in the country). www.hopewdm.org

Sr Pastor of Springs Church, a multi-site church in 6 locations in Canada. Leon is also President of Miracle Channel, a 24/7 Christian TV station. Pastor Leon writes articles for 2 major newspapers and hosts LEON, a daily 30-minute TV program interviewing Christian church leaders across denominations.