Dave Auda | Matt Carter | Alan Danielson | Mac Lake | Eric Metcalf | Brian Mosley | Marc McCartney | Larry Osborne
Dave Auda | Pete Briscoe | Amena Brown | Matt Carter | Alan Danielson | Tony Evans | Anne Jackson | David Kinnaman
Mac Lake | Max Lucado | Marc McCartney | Erwin McManus | Eric Metcalf | Brian Mosley | David Nasser | Larry Osborne
Dave Auda is a Pastor of Developers at Mosaic in Los Angeles, C.A. He has served in this dynamic community of faith, love and hope for over 30 years. Dave has helped poineer and champion Small Group communities since 1977. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California Baptist University, and a Master of Theological Studies from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
Pete Briscoe, youngest son of Stuart and Jill Briscoe, grew up under his father’s ministry in Milwaukee. Since 1992, Pete has served as the senior pastor of Bent Tree Bible Fellowship in Dallas, TX.
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Writer, poet, and spoken-word performer Amena Brown is passionate about voicing the cry of her generation for what is real.
From the time she was 12 years old, Amena has been writing poetry. At age 17, she began blowing audiences away with her spoken-word performances.
Follow: @amenabee
MATT CARTER
Matt serves as lead pastor at Austin Stone Community Church, which he planted in 2002. The first meeting of 30 people now encompasses 4000 worshippers on Sundays, making Austin Stone one of the 100 fastest growing churches in America. Matt’s vision is to foster the churches passion for Christ, love for each other, and outreach to their communities – ultimately planting churches throughout America and the nations, supporting missionaries who are loving the peoples of the world and bringing them the hope of the gospel. In addition to pastoring at The Austin Stone, Matt is a cancer survivor, author and speaker for camps and conferences nationwide.
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Alan was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico and became a follower of Christ at age 15. Alan is married to Stacey and they have three beautiful sons. He served as the Central Team Leader for LifeGroups at LifeChurch.tv in Edmond, Oklahoma where His ministry included over 1000 Small Groups on 14 campuses in 6 different states. Now Alan is an independent consultant, speaker, and the Editor-at-Large for SmallGroupTrader.com.
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Dr. Evans is co-founder and Senior Pastor of the 8,500 member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship (OCBF) in Dallas, Texas. In 1976, Dr. and Mrs. Evans started OCBF with a Bible study of 10 people in their home. Under Dr. Evans' leadership, OCBF today has over 100 ministries that give members the four vital experiences of Worship, Fellowship, Christian Education and Outreach.
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Anne Jackson is an author, speaker, and social change activist who lives in the Nashville area with her husband, Chris. Her book, Mad Church Disease, which discusses health and burnout in ministry, released through Zondervan Books in February 2009. Her next book, Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession and Grace (Thomas Nelson) will be released in August 2010. She is an advocate for Compassion International, a down-to-earth communicator, and an all around dreamer.
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David Kinnaman is the President of the Barna Group. He is the author of the best-selling book, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity, and the Barna report, Teens and the Supernatural. Since joining Barna in 1995, David has designed and analyzed nearly 500 projects for a variety of clients, including Columbia House, Compassion, Easter Seals, Habitat for Humanity, Integrity Media, InterVarsity, NBC-Universal, the Salvation Army, Sony, Thomas Nelson, Time-Life, Prison Fellowship, World Vision, Zondervan and many others.
Mac Lake has been the Leadership Development Pastor at Seacoast Church in Mount Pleasant, S.C. since 2004. He and his wife Cindy have three children and reside in Mount Pleasant. Mac grew up in West Virginia and is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute and Dallas Theological Seminary. He served as the founding and senior pastor of Carolina Forest Church in Myrtle Beach, S.C. for seven years. Mac's passion is growing and equipping leaders to do the work of the ministry.
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Max Lucado has touched millions with his signature storytelling writing style. Awards and accolades follow Max with each book he writes. Max is the first author to win the Gold Medallion Christian Book of the Year three times—1999 for Just Like Jesus, 1997 for In the Grip of Grace and 1995 for When God Whispers Your Name. In 2005, Reader’s Digest dubbed him “America’s Best Preacher.” In addition, he has been an ECPA Gold Medallion finalist with more titles than any other author in the industry.
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Marc McCartney has a passion to help his generation become traders… people willing to trade in the pursuit of the American Dream for a world that desperately needs Christ. Consumerism and culture are competing with the mission of the church and Marc is dedicated to serving the church by helping church leaders stay true to their biblical calling. Through his ministry at RightNow, Marc has launched the RightNow National Leadership Conference and the RightNow Leadership Development Kit. Both of these tools help engage next generation leaders to learn how to mobilize their people to put their faith in action.
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ERWIN McMANUS
Erwin McManus is an author, speaker, activist, filmmaker and innovator who specializes in the field of developing and unleashing personal and organizational creativity, uniqueness, innovation and diversity. Erwin serves as the Lead Pastor and Cultural Architect of Mosaic in Los Angeles. He is the author of An Unstoppable Force, a Gold Medallion Award finalist; Chasing Daylight; Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul; The Barbarian Way; Stand Against the Wind, Soul Cravings, and Wide Awake. He also serves as a Senior Research Advisor with The Gallup Organization.
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Eric Metcalf is the Small Groups Champion for Community Christian Church and NewThing. He provides leadership for the small group directors at each of its nine locations across Chicago and influences small group philosophy and product throughout the NewThing Network Churches. Eric is also the NewThing Leadership Resident Director, where he leads a team that recruits, develops and releases lead planters and lead arts planters to start new, reproducing churches/sites.
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Brian Mosley is the President of The RightNow Campaign which includes Bluefish TV and Small Group Trader. He married his high school sweetheart, Julie. They have three kids, Abby, Grant and Ashley. As licensed foster parents their home is sometimes a little fuller. They worship and serve at Allen Bible Church where he is also an elder.
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As one of the nation's upcoming speakers and visionaries, David Nasser’s greatest passion is to connect people to the living God. He has been involved in revivals, citywide rallies, camps, and school assemblies, speaking to over 700,000 people each year.
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Larry Osborne has served as a Senior Pastor and Teaching Pastor at North Coast Church since 1980. He has helped oversee the growth of the church from a fledgling group of 128 meeting in a rented school, to a multi-site ministry that reaches nearly 7,000 in weekend attendance.
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As the pastor of Frontline Church in Washington D.C., Todd Phillips is leading one of the most well respected and looked to churches in the country for ministry to 20 and 30-somethings.
Tim Ross is articulate, energetic, captivating, and on the cutting edge of ministry for this generation. He is one of the most sought after speakers both nationally and internationally. Tim serves as Young Adult Pastor for The Potters House in Dallas, TX where Bishop T.D. Jakes is pastor. In 2001 he was the youngest to ever receive ordination credentials and was installed as an elder.
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JR Vassar is the founding and lead pastor of Apostles Church in New York City. He and his wife Ginger have three children and make their home in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. As the Lead Pastor, JR oversees the leadership community of Apostles and is responsible for the strategic vision of the Church, leadership development and the majority of the teaching.
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A native Alabamian, Heather Zempel engineers environments that foster community and spiritual growth as the discipleship pastor at National Community Church in Washington, DC, where she oversees small groups, leads leadership development training and spiritual formation retreats, and serves on the weekend worship teaching team. Heather is also the author of a small group curriculum by Threads (LifeWay) called Sacred Roads: Exploring the Historic Paths of Discipleship.
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