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  • Tommy "Urban D." Kyllonen

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    Tommy "Urban D." Kyllonen

    Tommy "Urban D." Kyllonen has been in full-time urban ministry for over nineteen years at Crossover Church in Tampa, Florida. Under his leadership as youth pastor and since 2002 as lead pastor, the church has grown from forty to over 1,000, and was recognized as one of America?s Most Innovative Churches by Outreach Magazine. Tommy is also an internationally known hip-hop artist, author and urban ministry coach and speaker. Tommy has released seven hip-hop albums as rapper "Urban D." He has performed and spoken at concerts and conferences across the United States as well as overseas in Japan, Australia, the UK, Germany and Nigeria. He is the author of Next, a resource for new believers from an urban context, and is the creator of Un.orthdox, which spans three types of media and includes a book, hip-hop album and film. His church, Crossover, is a multiethnic, multigenerational, economically diverse church in inner city Tampa with the vision to specifically reach those influenced by urban/hip-hop culture. Tommy is the founder of the Urban Coaching Network, a six-month webinar coaching experience for lead pastors and church planters in an urban, multiethnic context. He is also the founder of the Flavor Fest Urban Leadership Conference, which has trained over 5,000 leaders in fourteen years. Tommy is the publisher of S.O.U.LMAG, which has become the voice of the Christian hip-hop community with a readership in the tens of thousands. The magazine recently launched a TV show S.O.U.LMAG TV which Tommy hosts on JUCE Network (formerly JCTV). He has also authored articles for Relevant, Pastors.com, UYWI, Rapzilla.com and the American Bible Society. He lives in Tampa with his wife Lucy and two young daughters.

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  • IVP Receives Two Gospel Coalition 2019 Book Awards

    With nearly three hundred books reviewed each year between their academic journal Themelios and their regular book review section, The Gospel Coalition has chosen two IVP titles among its top twelve books of the year. The Gospel Coalition 2019 Book Awards went to He Descended to the Dead and A Big Gospel in Small Places.

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  • Steve Hayner

    Steve Hayner

    Steve Hayner

    Steve Hayner was the president emeritus of Columbia Theological Seminary and an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church USA, as well as a professor, author and the former president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He held a PhD in Hebrewand Semitic Studies from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He served on the boards of World Vision and IJM, among others. [use photo of Steve and Sharol together]

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  • Ben Witherington III

    Ben Witherington III

    Ben Witherington III

    Ben Witherington III (PhD, University of Durham) is Jean R. Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He has written over forty books, including The Jesus Quest and The Paul Quest, bothof which were selected as top biblical studies works by Christianity Today. His books also include The Indelible Image, Women and the Genesis of Christianity, The Gospel Code, A Week in the Life of Corinth, and commentaries on the entire New Testament.

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