John Ensor’s contribution to the pro-life movement is recognized in Legacy of Life: Honoring Fifty of the Greatest Pro-Life Leaders of the Last Fifty Years (Florida Family Policy Council, 2023). This book, written to commemorate the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, pays tribute to the greatest founders, builders, strategists, and innovators of the pro-life movement during the last 50 years.

John Ensor is an Evangelical pastor and leader in the pro-life movement. He is the President of PassionLife Ministries and the author of numerous books on theology and ethics, including Innocent Blood: Challenging the Powers of Death with the Gospel of Life. His newest book is Pregnancy Crisis Intervention: What To Do and Say When It Matters Most.

John, along with the PassionLife team, trains leaders and their churches in biblical bioethics, pro-life apologetics, and pregnancy crisis intervention. They work in countries suffering the highest rates of abortion, infanticide, and gendercide (gender-targeted abortion) to help the local Church stand for life with courage and compassion in the name of Jesus Christ.

Starting in 1991, John helped churches in Boston establish a network of six ultrasound-equipped pregnancy help medical clinics. In 2006, he went to Miami to train Hispanic and Haitian pastors and their churches in pro-life bioethics and helped them set up five pregnancy crisis intervention ministries. Since 2011, John has taught this blend of theology, bio-ethics, and intervention ministries in China, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Zambia, Ghana, Cuba, and Russia.

John has an undergraduate degree in Biblical Studies from Bethel College (1977) and a Master's of Divinity (M.Div) from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1981).

John and his wife, Kristen, have been married for 45 years. They have three married children and five grandchildren. They live in Atlanta, GA.

After finishing his college degree in mechanical engineering, Rafik has been involved in the mission field for 23 years. With his wife and their two sons, Rafik has a passion for planting churches in unreached areas and empowering the oppressed churches. Rafik is the Executive Director of Bridges of Hope - Jossour, which focuses on sending missionaries, equipping churches, and responding to the emerging needs in their area.

Dr. David Thompson is a retired missionary surgeon who, with his wife Rebecca, served under the Christian & Missionary Alliance at Bongolo Hospital in Gabon for 35 years and at Harpur Memorial Hospital in Egypt for five years. He and his wife, Becki, retired to Redding, California in 2018.

David grew up in Cambodia, the son of missionary parents Ed and Ruth Thompson, both of whom were martyred in Banmethuot, Vietnam, during the 1968 Tet Offensive. David and his wife Becki married in 1971 and have three children and six grandchildren. He is currently 75 years old.

From 1977 to 2014, Dr. Thompson led the Alliance team in Gabon that built Bongolo Hospital. Since the hospital's inception, more than 20,000 patients have come to faith in Jesus, and many churches have been planted in the region, several of which the Thompsons personally started.

In 1996, Dr. Thompson helped establish the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons(PAACS) to respond to Africa's desperate shortage of formally trained surgeons. In 1997, he started one of the first PAACS programs at Bongolo Hospital. He helped train and disciple 20 Christian African surgeons, all of whom continue to serve and proclaim the gospel in Africa. Between 2013 and 2018, Dr. Thompson and his wife Rebecca moved to Egypt to open a new PAACS training program and a nursing school, both of which are still thriving. The Thompsons left Egypt in December 2017 after turning their work over to other Christian faculty surgeons and nursing educators.

Since retiring from full-time missionary service in 2018, Dr. Thompson has remained active on the PAACS Board of Directors, the Bongolo Hospital board, and two other NGO boards for Christian hospitals in Africa. He has made numerous mission trips to Gabon and Egypt in support of the hospitals he worked at, and this year, he served as the Interim Medical Director of Bongolo Hospital in Gabon during June. Dr. Thompson is also active as a speaker at missions conferences, such as the Prescription for Renewal Conference in Orlando in October of 2022 and the recent Global Health Missions Conference in Louisville, KY. He also speaks several times a year at PAACS fundraisers.

Finally, Dr. Thompson is a volunteer in serving Redding's homeless community, providing medical care in homeless camps, helping drug addicts get into rehab, and being a witness for Christ.

Dr. Thompson has authored five books describing his years of overseas experience: "On Call," "The Hand on My Scalpel," "Beyond the Mist," "Christian Mercy," and "Training God’s Surgeons for Africa." All are available on Amazon.

Lipok has been involved in church planting for 20 years. He and his wife, Asangla, have one son and are living and serving the Lord in Mumbai, India.

Bradley Bell is the Executive Director of Upstream Equipping and Publishing. He has over twenty years of experience as a missionary, missions pastor, lead pastor, and missiologist. He is also the author of multiple Upstream books, including The Sending Church Defined and Lent and Missions: A 40-Day Devotional. Bradley writes for numerous publications, which are compiled at brokenmissiology.org. He is married to Katie, and they have four daughters, all named after missionaries: Elisabeth, Charlotte, Anneliese, and Madeleine. They live in Louisville, Kentucky.

Larry began planting churches in the United States in 1991 and was subsequently part of 8 church plants. Larry and his family moved to Western Europe in late 2001 and served in both Spain and Germany with IMB. He has worked in the areas of church planting and mission strategy among Europeans, as well as in leading efforts to engage immigrants and refugees who now live in Europe.

In 2008, he co-founded The Upstream Collective (www.theupstreamcollective.org), which is a non-profit devoted to helping churches learn how to engage people with the gospel at home and in other cultures. He currently serves as the CEO/ President of Upstream, which includes the equipping, books, and sending divisions.

Larry has co-authored two books: Tradecraft for the Church on Mission and First 30 Daze. He also wrote The MarketSpace, which addresses how marketplace people can take the gospel with intentionality all over the world.

Larry and his wife Susan have been married for 36 years. They have two adult TCKs who currently live in the States. Susan is the European Member Care Coordinator with Teach Beyond. Larry and Susan often speak together to churches and Christian organizations about raising a family in another culture and living with missional intentionality.

Susan is the Europe Member Care Coordinator for TeachBeyond, a missions organization that desires to see individuals and communities transformed by God’s Spirit through education and grounded on God’s Word. Originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, she and her husband, Larry, live in Madrid, Spain, and have served in Europe for the past twenty-three years. They have two adult children and three precious grandsons who fill their hearts with joy. They are crazy about good coffee, all foods, and running.

Nicole is a passionate advocate for the unreached and a lover of the word of God. She loves teaching and writing about God’s big story and His global purposes. Her personal mission statement is to educate, equip, and empower members of the American church to understand the Great Commission and find their unique role in it. She has a BBA in International Business and a MA in Global Studies. She is an active Perspectives instructor, having taught at over 40 classes and multiple missions conferences. She is a published author with three more books in the works. She leads the missions effort at her church. Her love of travel and Jesus has brought her to 25 different countries and counting. But her favorite role of all is a full-time wife and mom to three children.

Kristen provides oversight and strategic direction to East-West’s development, marketing, and communications initiatives, including campaign strategy, institutional giving, planned giving, events, direct response marketing, online strategies, and all marketing/communications collateral. She also serves the field by leading our field leadership across all 10 regions where East-West operates.

Kristen has been selected as East-West’s next President. She will continue serving in her current role until a new Executive Vice President of Development is hired.

Prior to joining East-West, Kristen served alongside the International Mission Board on the mission field across South America, primarily focusing on evangelism and church planting strategies. Kristen continues to fulfill her calling and passion for missions through her role at East-West.

Chris White has a passion for seeing all people groups in all the nations reached with the Gospel! Chris received his Master of Divinity with a specialization in Christian Apologetics from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 2017 and is currently a Ministry Associate on staff in Global Ministries at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia. Chris has traveled throughout the world teaching, training, and mobilizing others to take their part in the Great Commission. Chris lives in Roswell, Georgia, with his wife and three kids.

Katy White is a missions mobilizer focused on helping Gen Z find their place in God's global work. She writes and speaks from her experience as a practitioner for the past decade in recruiting and equipping the emerging generation.

Through her executive leadership role with GoCorps, a missions agency pioneering new pipelines and recruitment strategies with college students, and through her service in the local church, she works to ignite a passion for missions in the lives of young adults and to shepherd them all the way through the process from initial exploration to thriving on the field.

Katy lives in Texas with her husband, Colton.

Tina is the Co-Founder and Director of The Table on Delk. Started in 2017, The Table serves women and children who are currently, or at risk of, being sexually exploited out of motels on Delk Road and I75 (exit 261) in Marietta. Guests are offered free meals, a safe place to hang out, and are connected to resources that they might not know about. Prior to The Table, Tina volunteered with other First Touch ministries serving at-risk individuals, victims, and survivors of sexual exploitation. She has done street outreach, safe house mentoring, recovery program identification and screening, jail ministry, and long-term mentoring. Tina and her husband, Scott, live in Marietta and have four grown children and five grandchildren.

Allison Young serves as the Missions & Disciple Making Associate for the Children’s Ministry at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, where she develops and organizes a weekly missions discipleship program for elementary-age children, as well as helps to engage families in what it means to live a missions lifestyle. Raised in a missions-centered household, her eyes were opened to missions when she became a TCK in Hong Kong as a preteen. That, combined with years of experience as a former children’s missions educator and trainer in various volunteer capacities throughout the state of Tennessee, including churches and the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, has given her a passion to be a part of next-generation missions education training and helping families and church leaders know how they can be a part of it too.