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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.

A University of Missouri alumna, Alisa has been in the travel industry for over 15 years. She has also been in ministry for over 20 years. Alisa has coordinated details for hundreds of mission trips and has worked as a travel agent helping churches and ministries get out on the mission field. Alisa and her husband John have four crazy children and live in north Atlanta.

Bryan serves as the Executive Pastor of Global Ministries at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church. Since 2011 Bryan has given leadership to the mission of the church within the US, including church planting and ministry to the vulnerable, while also maintaining relationships with JF’s partner ministries across the country. He is passionate about helping believers serve the Lord in areas where they have been given passion and gifts. Every Christian is called to love their neighbor, and Bryan aims to help people fulfill their calling. Bryan graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from the University of Georgia and a Masters of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Kendra, have been married since 2007 and have two children.

Duncan Kimani grew up on a coffee farm in Central Kenya. As the son of a pastor, Duncan grew up with a heart for compassion and pastoral care, which eventually led him to engage in the AIDS crisis by activating local churches to care for the most marginalized members of their communities. Duncan serves as a Co-Founder and Country Director of CARE for AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya, where he and his wife Rose live with their three biological children— Kieth, Abigail, and Anna— and seven adopted boys. 

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.

Cornel Onyango is a pastor, husband, and father. He serves as a Country Director for CARE for AIDS, a nonprofit he co-founded in 2007. Cornel grew up in Western Kenya near Lake Victoria where his passion for justice and inclusivity led him to engage in the HIV crisis that was destroying his community. Cornel and his wife now live and serve in Nairobi, Kenya. They have five children — Bryan, Justin, Sherry, Collins, and Cornel, Jr.   

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. 

Nathan Sloan is the executive director of Upstream Sending, a missions organization focused on putting the local church in the driver’s seat of sending. He is the author of Multisite Missions Leadership and holds a doctorate of missiology from Southern Seminary. Nathan is married to Sarah, and they have two wonderful children.

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.

Matthew Soerens serves as the U.S. Director of Church Mobilization and Advocacy for World Relief and as the National Coordinator for the Evangelical Immigration Table. Matthew earned his Bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College (IL), where he also has served as an adjunct faculty member for the Humanitarian and Disaster Leadership graduate program. He also earned a Master’s degree from DePaul University’s School of Public Service. Originally from Neenah, Wisconsin, he now lives in Aurora, Illinois with his wife Diana and their four children.

Luke has worked in the NAME (North Africa/Middle East) region for 15 years as a church planter, church planting team leader, and cluster leader (leader of a network of church planting teams). He currently serves primarily in leading the training of team leaders working across all of NAME.

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. 

Keith Wieser is Lead Pastor of Resonate Church, a network of churches focused on and around universities. Resonate started in 2007 at Washington State University and has multiplied to 15 different churches across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Utah. Keith primarily focuses on developing strategy to reach, equip, and send the next generation from the university setting. Keith works for the North American Mission Board as a Collegiate Church Planting Catalyst. Keith and his wife Paige and 3 kids (Karson, Karis, Karter) live in Pullman, WA.

Daniel and Catherine serve locally in Atlanta coaching teams who are laboring among uslims, Buddhist Animists, and Catholics. Catherine served among Muslims in Morocco and Daniel among animists, Muslims, and Hindus in Malaysia. They got married in November of last year while being stateside for covid! They serve together as NoPlaceLeft network catalysts, senior leadership at e3 Partners, and use their e-commerce business as a platform for working across Asia. They plan to move back to Malaysia next year to continue stewarding the local leaders who have seen church planting movements start in those regions. Their passion is to follow Jesus’ and Paul’s pattern of multiplying prayer, the gospel, disciples, churches, and leaders to the 4th generation and beyond, until there is #NoPlaceLeft (Romans 15:23) that is not engaged by local leaders.