Mark Batterson

Mark Batterson serves as lead pastor of National Community Church (NCC) in Washington, DC. Meeting in movie theaters at metro stops throughout the DC area, approximately 70% of NCCers are single twenty-somethings.
Mark has two Masters Degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of the best-selling book, "In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day," "Wild Goose Chase," and most recently, "Primal." Mark is a daily blogger at www.markbatterson.com.

Ergun Caner

Ergun Mehmet Caner (B.A., M.A., M.Div., Th.M., Th.D.) is president of the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and Graduate School at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Raised as the son of a Muslim leader in Turkey, Caner became a Christian shortly before entering college. Serving under his Chancellor and President, Jerry Falwell Jr., Caner led the Seminary to triple in growth since his installation in 2005. A public speaker and apologist, Caner has debated Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus and other religious leaders in thirteen countries and thirty-five states. The author of seventeen books, Caner lives in Lynchburg with his wife Jill and two sons, Braxton and Drake.

Broken Voices

Andrew Morgan

Broken Voices is a non-profit organization that exists to awaken students and young adults to who God has created them to be. This is done by sharing inspiring stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. These stories create the framework for films, events, and a web community all encouraging people to find and live out their role in God’s story.

Andrew Morgan lives in Atlanta, Georgia where he serves as the visionary leader for this non-profit organization, Broken Voices. He and his wife Emily have two boys and a pug named Tuna.

Greg Speck

Greg Speck graduated with a degree in Sociology and studies in Social Work and Biblical and Theological Studies from Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He now travels and speaks to teenagers and families around the world. Greg has been a caseworker for emotionally disturbed and delinquent teens, a youth pastor, a youth specialist for Moody Bible Institute, and President of Youth Ministries International. He has lead groups of teens on mission trips to the British Isles and all across Europe for over 20 years. He is now the Youth and Family Communicator for Bethel University.

Jeff Bogue

Jeff Bogue pastors a congregation of nearly 5,000 people among two campuses at Grace Church in greater Akron, Ohio. He also travels nationally and internationally speaking and training leaders. He is recently the author of “Living Naked” which was released in January 2010. Jeff was named “Staff Person of the Year” for the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. His proudest title is that of husband and daddy.  He is the proud husband of Heidi, and the loving father of his five sons, Josiah, Isaac, Micah, Gabriel, & Elias and his little princess, Naomi.

Kondo Simfukwe

Kondo has served on the pastoral staff at Christ’s Covenant Church since 2002 and currently serves in the role of Lead Pastor. Pastor Kondo has the primary responsibility to serve the church by leading in the prayerful and passionate pursuit and strategic implementation of the vision and values of Christ’s Covenant Church through modeling, leading, preaching, teaching, communication, and oversight of the reciprocal care of Leaders and the Body. It is his desire that the people of 'CCC' would understand that the person of Jesus Christ can be truly experienced. Kondo also serves to oversee the worship ministries at Christ's Covenant. He has produced and written many of the songs on Christ's Covenant Church's four worship albums. Pastor Kondo holds a BA in Biblical Studies and a Masters of Divinity in Counseling from Grace College and Theological Seminary. He lives in Winona Lake with his wife, Melissa, and their two children, Judah and Jael.

Mike Yankoski

Now a 25 year old graduate from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, Mike Yankoski took off a semester from college between his Sophomore and Junior years to do something a little uncanny.

Mike was homeless. For five months, in six different American cities, He and a friend named Sam ate from trash cans and Rescue Missions, slept under bridges, and panhandled in order to survive.  They chose to do this not only in order to better understand the plight of the American homeless, but more specifically to observe how the Church and christians were interacting with this despised corner of American society.

Mike's book "Under the Overpass" captures his journey on the streets and relates the people and experiences that forever changed his life during the five month journey. 

Mark Cahill

Mark’s passion is for the entire world to know Jesus Christ! He is the author of the popular books, One Thing You Can’t Do in Heaven and One Heartbeat Away. Over the past 12 years the Lord has used Mark to equip and encourage others to boldly stand up for what they believe. “What I love to do most,” Mark says, “is share my faith.” The Lord actually allowed me to not work for one year and just go out witnessing. What a phenomenal year that it was! Malls, beaches, concerts, festivals, coffee shops, tailgating at football games, etc. there are numerous places that we can go to reach the lost for our Savior."
Mark is a graduate of Auburn University where he played basketball on the same team with Charles Barkley and was an honorable mention academic all-American his senior year.