Alvin L. Reid serves as Professor of Evangelism and Student Ministry at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has written extensively on evangelism, missional Christianity, spiritual awakening, and student ministry.
Alvin's passion is to equip leaders for the coming generation who will change the world for the glory of God and the sake of the gospel. His hobbies include a collection of pet snakes. Alvin and his wife Michelle have two children, Joshua and Hannah.
http://www.alvinreid.com/
http://www.sebts.edu/
J.D. Greear, Ph.D., (born May, 1973) did his degree work in Christian and Islamic theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. He now pastors a rapidly growing church of 4000. J.D. is committed to the local church and to church planting, having undertaken the goal of planting 1000 churches in the next 40 years. Currently, they have 12 plants around the world. He has authored a number of publications, including Breaking the Islam Code. He lives in Durham, NC with his gorgeous wife Veronica and his four ridiculously cute kids, Kharis, Alethia, Ryah and Adon.
http://jdgreear.typepad.com/
http://www.summitrdu.com/
The Ryan Smith Band is based out of Stillwater, Oklahoma. Ryan Smith is the worship leader at Eagle Heights Baptist Church in Stillwater, where many of the band members lead on Sundays. The Ryan Smith Band is committed to sharing a timeless message of hope, grace and truth and turning a new page on modern worship. Their debut album, "One Day Is Coming," was released in 2009.
http://www.ryansmithband.com
http://twitter.com/ryansmithband
Caleb Crider is a missionary, writer, and teacher. After serving as a church-planting strategist in Barcelona, Spain, Caleb returned to the U.S. to help prepare the American church for the challenges of ministry in a post-Christian context. He is co-founder of the Upstream Collective, a collection of churches that think and act like missionaries. He leads vision trips to help church leaders see how they fit into what God is doing around the world. Today, he lives in Portland, OR and is a part of the Evergreen Community.
http://theupstreamcollective.org/
Richard Ross is husband to LaJuana, who has joined him in a lifetime of loving teenagers. They are parents of college student Clayton. Richard served as youth minister for thirty years and now is a volunteer with teenagers and parents at Wedgwood Baptist in Fort Worth. Richard is professor to the next generation of youth ministers at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth. Since its inception, Richard has served as the spokesperson for the international True Love Waits movement.
http://www.richardaross.com//
Chris Forbes is a ministry communication strategist and marketplace researcher who has served with the IMB, NAMB, BGCO, and various other Southern Baptist ministries. Presently, he works as an independent nonprofit marketing coach, and is co-authoring "Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits" to be published by Entrepreneur Press this year.
http://www.google.com/profiles/MarketingCoach
Daryl Eldridge is President and Cofounder of Rockbridge, a fully online seminary. Daryl has a passion for helping persons have an intimate relationship with God through the study of His word. Before seminary teaching and throughout his faculty career, he has served in the local church as a youth pastor and pastor of spiritual development.
He enjoys cycling, and hiking. He is a DIY enthusiast and said to be a half-decent cook. He and his wife, Carole, have two married children, and one grand-daugther. He is a San Jose Sharks Hockey fan and a Dallas Cowboys fan. His drink of choice is a Grande, sugar-free vanilla, non-fat latte. He edited the textbook, The Teaching Ministry of the Church, as well as a contributor to many other books, articles, and curriculum. They reside in Springfield, MO with their Shih Tzu, named Latte. His playlist contains Glad, Avalon, Hillsong, Eagles, Journey, James Taylor, and Sugarland.
http://www.rockbridgeseminary.org/
http://mysoulfriends.wordpress.com/
Thomas Sanders did his Ph.D. research on how children understand and describe their conversion experiences. His passion for discovering what children understand and how they construct meaning in the language of faith has led him to continue this research, along with his graduate students in childhood ministry at Dallas Baptist University, into these issues and others related to the youngest generations of the church. Thomas has served as minister of childhood education at Park Cities Baptist Church, Dallas and Hyde Park Baptist Church, Austin, as well as leading the publishing, ministry design, and consultation as the Director of Childhood Publishing at LifeWay Christian Resources. Thomas is the author of three books, including When Can I?, a book for assisting parents and ministry leaders in their discussions with children about conversion and baptism. Sanders speaks in churches, conventions, and conferences throughout the US and internationally. He and his wife, Treva, are the parents of three children, Katie (19), Jayne Claire (18), and Kyle (15).
Ed Stetzer has planted churches in New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and transitioned declining churches in Indiana and Georgia. He has trained pastors and church planters on five continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and has written dozens of articles and books. Ed served for three years as a seminary professor at the Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and has taught at fifteen other seminaries. Ed's primary role is President of LifeWay Research and Lifeway’s Missiologist in Residence. His books include Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age, Breaking the Missional Code, and Comeback Churches. He is also the author of Lost and Found and has three cute daughters and a wonderful wife.