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Michael Frost
Michael Frost is an internationally recognized Australian missiologist and one of the leading voices in the missional church movement. He is the vice principal of Morling College in Sydney, Australia, and the founding director of the Tinsley Institute, a mission study centre located at Morling College. An expert in church planting, Frost cofounded the Forge Mission Training Network with Alan Hirsch, and he has written more than a dozen books including The Shaping of Things to Come, Exiles, The Road to Missional, and Incarnate.
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Scott Loughrige
Scott Loughrige has been the founding colead pastor of Crossroads Church and Ministries (CCM) for more than twenty-five years, where he provides preaching, teaching, and spiritual direction for the leadership team. Scott has provided vision and executive oversight for CCM, Bread of Life Food Pantry, and CCM World Missions. An International Enneagram Association (IEA) professional, Scott is certified in the Enneagram and serves on the Great Lakes Board of the IEA. Scott uses the Enneagram as financial strategist for CCM, a board member of the Michigan Human Trafficking Task Force, vice president of the Brian Project, and vocational coach for Michigan Rehabilitative Services. He lives in Marshall, Michigan, with his wife, Clare.
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Jean Vanier
Jean Vanier (1928–2019) is the founder of L'Arche, an international network of communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities experience life together as fellow human beings who share a mutuality of care and need. Today over 147 L'Arche communities exist in thirty-five countries on five continents. Vanier's books include Living Gently in a Violent World, Life's Great Questions, Community and Growth, Becoming Human, From Brokenness to Community, and Befriending the Stranger. He won the Templeton Prize in 2015.
Read the tribute to Vanier's life and work from Christianity Today.
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M. Blaine Smith
M. Blaine Smith (d. 2021) (MDiv, Wesley Theological Seminary; DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary) was an ordained Presbyterian minister who lectured widely on topics of guidance and God's will, Christian living, and personal growth. A frequent guest on Christian radio programs, Smith also appeared twice on The 700 Club. His lectures have been recorded for Guidance by the Book, part of a home-study course produced by the Christian Broadcasting Network. In 1978 Smith founded Nehemiah Ministries with the goal of "helping Christians understand God's guidance in their lives and realize their personal potential." The organization's bimonthly newsletter, seminars, articles, books, and website have benefited many Christians around the world.
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Jeanette Yep
Jeanette Yep, an American-born Chinese, served as coordinator for Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents. She was an InterVarsity Christian Fellowship student leader at Mount Holyoke College. After graduation she spent a year studying Chinese language and culture in Taiwan. Recently she received an M.A. in communications from Northwestern University. Now in her twenty-first year on IV staff, she is a divisional director, based in Chicago. She is affectionately known by Urbana Student Mission Convention delegates as "Auntie Jeanette." She serves as a special director of staff training and development, working with student movements around the world.
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Janis Bragan Balda
Janis Bragan Balda (PhD, Claremont Graduate University) is professor of management, currently teaching at Fuller Seminary and UCLA Extension. She formerly taught at St.George's University in the Caribbean and George Fox University. Dr. Balda also established the Peter F. Drucker Society of the Caribbean at SGU while working as a principal at the Max De Pree Center for Leadership. As an attorney, she has practiced international law for thirty years and served as World Vision International's first in-house legal counsel, as well as set up the initial Drucker archives project with Peter Drucker.
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Belinda Bauman
Belinda Bauman is the founder of One Million Thumbprints, a movement of peacemakers advocating with women in the world’s worst conflict zones. Belinda is also the cofounder of and the visionary behind #SilenceIsNotSpiritual, a campaign calling churches to break the silence on violence against women. Belinda is a speaker and contributor to Newsweek's The Daily Beast, Red Tent Living, Huffington Post, and Christianity Today.
Belinda completed a masters in curriculum development at Covenant College, and a certificate in lay trauma counseling from the Seattle School of Theology. She and her husband, Stephan, and their two sons live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Watch Belinda tell her story in this interview with Ed Stetzer at the 2018 Amplify National Evangelism Conference.
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Gregory W. Lee
Gregory W. Lee (PhD, Duke University) is assistant professor of theology at Wheaton College. His academic interests focus on the appropriation of early Christian writers for contemporary theological reflection. His forthcoming book, "Today When You Hear His Voice": Scripture, the Covenants, and the People of God, explores the dynamics of scriptural authority in Augustine, Calvin, and the epistle to the Hebrews. His next major project will focus on Augustine's understanding of ecclesial sin and its implications for church division and the church-world relationship. He and his wife live in the North Lawndale area of Chicago, where they attend Lawndale Christian Community Church.
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Sylvia Rose
A former teacher and school administrator, Sylvia Rose now has an active speaking, writing, and songwriting ministry. She has led workshops at churches and conferences in 20 states across the USA. She has published articles, poetry, and dramatic readings in a variety of publications, and her book A Guide to Effective Choral Singing was published in 1987. In addition, Rose has composed more than 200 songs--many licensed and included in music books around the world, including her own hymnal, Songs of Faith. Rose's music publishing companies, Srose Publishing Co, Inc, (BMI), and Great Heritage Publishing (ASCAP), have produced and distributed many recordings.
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Trevin Wax
Trevin Wax (PhD, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) is vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor of theology at Cedarville University. A former missionary to Romania, Trevin is a regular columnist at The Gospel Coalition, has served as general editor for The Gospel Project, and has taught courses on mission and ministry at Wheaton College. He is the author of several books, including The Multi-Directional Leader, Rethink Your Self, and Gospel Centered Teaching.
