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Lauren Allgood is a Strategic Partnerships Director for World Relief, a global Christian humanitarian organization that brings sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence & oppression, and mass displacement. Before joining World Relief, Lauren held various leadership roles in the non-profit sector both in the US and abroad. She led DayBreak, a community organization serving one of Washington, DC’s most challenging neighborhoods and consulted local community leaders in Nairobi, Kenya. Lauren has a Bachelors in Finance from the University of Georgia and a Masters of Business Administration from the George Washington University.

Lauren lives in Atlanta and strives to be the “fun one” to her nieces and nephews. She enjoys running, hiking, traveling, and spending time with friends and family. She attends Cornerstone Church in Southwest Atlanta. Lauren is passionate about issues of poverty and injustice in the U.S. and abroad and being an advocate for those whose voices are marginalized.

Trey serves as the Director of Marketing & Partner Relations at SCORE International, a full-service mission organization. On average, SCORE takes 6,000 individuals on short-term mission trips each year. Trey’s call to ministry began when SCORE invited Trey to be an intern in the DR for the entire summer of 2000. He is now 20 years into his service with SCORE and loves the life that the Lord has given him. He has an undergrad degree from Marshall University and earned his masters’ degree at Temple Baptist Seminary in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is married to Terri and together they have two sons, Evan (15) and Carson (11).

For more than three decades, Dr. David Garrison has been a missionary pioneer in understanding church planting among unreached peoples. He is the author of several books including The Nonresidential Missionary (1990), Church Planting Movements (2004), and A Wind in the House of Islam (2014). His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. This year Dr. Garrison has published two new books: Ying and Grace Kai's Training for Trainers and Superplan, a journey into God's story, by Chris Clayman, the co-founder of Global Gates.

Dr. Garrison is the executive director of Global Gates, which seeks to reach the world's least-reached peoples through global gateway cities.

Luke is 24 years old and lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Rebecca. He graduated from Life Pacific University with degrees in Speech Communication, Christian Ministry, and Strategic Leadership. In the past 2 years alone, Luke has been a part of seeing over 1,000 high school and college students respond to the Gospel in Nashville. He lives with a passion to see revival in the Church and awakening in America. Luke is also the visionary and director of a young adults conference called Consecrate that calls his generation to radical holiness, audacious faith, and a renewed commitment to the Great Commission.

Larry has been church planting in NYC for 10 years with my wife, Lindsey. They have 3 boys (12, 10, 9) and 1 girl (3) and love raising children in the Big Apple. He believes Christians have a responsibility to love and serve our cities and have seen God use the simplest expressions of our faith in Jesus to transform individual lives and entire families.

Lori McDaniel has been a global mission catalyst for over 25 years. Her heart for discipleship and the nations has led her to over 30 countries, working with global partners, indigenous leaders, and mobilizing churches to participate in God’s mission. Lori worked at the International Mission Board as Church Initiatives manager for 7 years and served as a missionary in Africa for 4 years with her husband and their 3 children. Upon returning to the States, they planted Grace Point Church in Bentonville, Arkansas where Mike is Sr. Pastor, and Lori led in women's ministry for 12 years. A graduate from Southeastern Seminary, she loves teaching God’s Word, equipping leaders, and activating people to participate in God's mission. You can connect with her at lorimcdaniel.org.

Christian Mungai is a native Kenyan, who is answering God’s call to be a missionary to the United States. Christian serves as the Global Movement Pastor at Mariners Church in Irvine, California, where he is passionate about deploying the Church into what God is doing around the world. He studied Law in India, and attended Claremont School of Theology. Christian is compelled to excavate the image bearer in every human being for the purpose of building bridges of unity in diversity. Christian was previously a member of the urban Afro-fusion and humanitarian singing group, Milele. The group, originally started as a celebration of God through music, eventually became a vehicle through which to carry out Kingdom work. Christian has served in the United States for more than 20 years now. He has been married to his wife, Delta, for 11 years and they have a 9-year-old daughter, Kabi.

Edwin was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and has planted Redemption Church in one of the most challenging communities (Red Hook) in the city. Redemption Church was birth in 2018 and is in the heart of the 2nd largest low-income housing development. Although crime, poverty, and social disparities exist - Redemption Church has provided Hope to a community once forgotten. Edwin & Melinda Pacheco have been married since 2001. They have 2 daughters, Isabella and Heather-Michelle. 

David Platt serves as Lead Pastor of McLean Bible Church in Washington, D.C. He is the founder and chairman of Radical, an international ministry that serves the church for the cause of Christ—to glorify God by making disciples and multiplying churches among all nations. Resources from David Platt and Radical can be found at radical.net.

David Platt is the author of Radical, Radical Together, Follow Me, Counter Culture, Something Needs to Change, and Before You Vote, and he is the author of several volumes in the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary series.

David Platt received his Ph.D. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Along with his wife and children, he lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Walter is married to the amazing Linda Shaffer and they have five children. He is currently the Director of Cru's Global Leading with Information department. Walter & Linda were in East Asia for 19 years focused on reaching and discipling adults in cities. Four of their children were born overseas. Before going to East Asia, Walter got his Masters in Business Administration with a focus on Information Management. He believes in celebrating what God is doing through the ministry and that reality is our friend and when we know the reality we can make better ministry decisions.

In response to young people being labeled noncommittal, lazy, entitled, slacktivists, Grant Skeldon started Initiative Network when he was 23 with the goal to develop young leaders into Christ-loving, city-changing, church-investing, disciple-making local missionaries. Initiative has united and accelerated some of the most diverse and dynamic next gen leaders from across the country. In 2020 Grant got married and moved to Nashville to become the Next Gen Director for Q Ideas.

He has written for The Wall Street Journal, Relevant, The Gospel Coalition, and was recently featured on the cover of Outreach Magazine. His book on the next generation, The Passion Generation has helped thousands of pastors and parents who are trying to reach, raise, and retain the next generation. 

Clay was approved unanimously by the congregation to serve as the senior pastor of Johnson Ferry on August 4, 2019. A native of Greenville, SC and the son of a pastor, Clay's passion for ministry revolves around the Great Commission, Matthew 28:18-20, including a biblical concentration in three major areas: evangelism, relational discipleship and missions. Clay earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of South Carolina in 2001 and a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2005. He is currently a PhD student at Southwestern with a concentration in preaching. He and his wife, Terrica, have three daughters.

Chris serves at the Next Gen Catalyst at the Georgia Baptist Mission Board. Having recently wrapped up almost 17 years as the Middle School and Student Pastor at Johnson Ferry Baptist in Marietta, Georgia, he has a passion for pointing teenagers to Jesus and investing in leaders who are impacting the next generation for Christ. As an “old guy” in youth ministry (now 30 years), he is also the co-host of the Longer Haul Youth Ministry Podcast and author of Consider This: A Youth Minister’s Guide to Longevity. 

Originally from the nation of Texas, Keith and his family have lived in the Northwest for 13 years and in Pullman for almost a decade. After getting married in 2000, Keith and Paige landed in Vancouver, WA for theological training and to minister to students at Clark College. After completing seminary in 2004, Keith and Paige moved to Pullman to minister to college students and in the process, they started Resonate Church.

Along with serving as lead pastor at Resonate Church, Keith is a Church Planting Catalyst for the Northwest Baptist Convention, helping discover, develop, and deploy church planters. As the story of what God is doing in the Northwest among college students has spread, Keith has started to travel extensively over the past two years, telling the story of Resonate Church and collegiate church planting.

Keith loves building with his 10-year-old son, dancing in the kitchen with his 8-year-old daughter, and teaching wrestling moves to his rambunctious 5-year-old boy.