Alan Hirsch
Alan is a founder of 5Q, Movement Leaders Collective, and Forge Mission Training Network. He is a highly sought after movement strategist for leaders, churches and denominations across the Western world and the author of numerous award winning books including: The Forgotten Ways, 5Q, ReJesus, The Shaping of Things to Come, and The Permanent Revolution.
Oneya Okuwobi
Oneya is a sociologist and postdoctoral fellow at Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program. Her research investigates how diverse organizations impact racial inequality. She serves as teaching pastor at 21st Century Church, a church plant in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is also coauthor of Multiethnic Conversations: An Eight-Week Journey Toward Unity in Your Church.
L. Rowland Smith
Rowland serves as national director for Forge America Mission Training Network. He is also the director of The Pando Collective, a microchurch network in Colorado Springs, Colorado, launched from Pulpit Rock Church where Rowland serves on staff. He is the author of Life Out Loud: Joining Jesus Outside the Walls of the Church.
Brian Sanders
A social entrepreneur, Brian has helped to start hundreds of missional enterprises, including churches, nonprofits, and businesses all over the world. Most notably, Brian is the founder and former executive director of the Underground Network, an international fellowship of microchurch incubators creating city-based ecosystems of faith, creativity, and empowered social enterprise.
Lisa Rodriguez-Watson
Lisa serves as the national director of Missio Alliance. For nearly two decades, Lisa’s heart to see people reconciled to God and to one another has led her to invest her life and family in various roles within collegiate ministry, international missions, immigration advocacy, community development, and urban church planting.
Jay Y. Kim
Jay serves as lead pastor at WestGate Church, California. He’s the author of Analog Church: Why We Need Real People, Places, and Things in the Digital Age and lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and their two young children.
Rich Robinson
Rich is a spiritual entrepreneur, movement catalyst, and founder of Catalyse Change and Movement Leaders Collective. With a passion for releasing kingdom potential in leaders and organizations, Rich has led pioneering training across the globe to bring about spiritual, strategic, and social change.
Michael Adam Beck
Michael is a pastor, professor, and author redeemed by Jesus from a life of incarceration and addiction. He and wife, Jill, are United Methodist co-pastors with a network of fresh expressions gathering in nontraditional spaces. He serves as director of the Fresh Expressions House of Studies at United Theological Seminary; cultivator of Fresh Expressions Florida; and director of re-missioning for Fresh Expressions US.
Debra Hirsch
Debra is a pastor, speaker, and cofounder of Forge International. She is a founding board member of Missio Alliance and founding member of Movement Leaders Collective. Debra is the coauthor of Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship, as well as the author of Redeeming Sex: Naked Conversations About Sexuality and Spirituality.
Tyler Kleeberger
Tyler is a pastor at The Farmhouse in rural Northwest Ohio where he lives with his family. Host of the podcast Becoming Human and cohost of The Bible Archives, Tyler writes and creates content on theology, ecology, philosophy, and psychology. His work can be found at tylerkleeberger.com.
Michael frost
Michael is an internationally recognized Australian missiologist and a leading voice in the missional church movement. He is the founding director of the Tinsley Institute, a mission study centre in Sydney, Australia. Michael is the author or editor of nineteen theological books, one of the founders of the Forge Mission Training Network, and the founder of the missional Christian community, smallboatbigsea, based in Sydney.
Mark DeMayez
Mark is a thought-leadership practitioner who planted the Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas and cofounded the Mosaix Global Network. An adjunct professor at Wheaton College and United Theological Seminary, Mark has written several books, including The Coming Revolution in Church Economics; Disruption: Repurposing the Church to Redeem the Community; and Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church: Mandate, Commitments, and Practices of a Diverse Congregation.
Gregory Coles
Gregory is the author of Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity and No Longer Strangers: Finding Belonging in a World of Alienation. He holds a PhD in English from Penn State University and currently lives in Idaho’s Treasure Valley, where he works as a senior research fellow at The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender.
leonard sweet
Leonard is author of more than seventy books, including Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who’s Already There; From Tablet to Table: Where Community is Found and Identity is Formed; and Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith Through a Volcanic Future. He works with doctoral students at Drew University, George Fox University, Northwind Seminary, and Evangelical Seminary (Kairos University).
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