Activist, evangelist, author, and public speaker. Caine and her husband Nick are best known for founding The A21 Campaign in 2008, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-governmental organization that combats human trafficking around the globe.

Lead Pastor of Rockharbor Church in Costa Mesa, California, and a Senior Fellow at Barna Group. He is the author of, “What’s a Christian, Anyway? Finding Our Way in an Age of Confusion and Corruption” (March, 2025), along with eight other books, including two bestsellers—“The Resilient Pastor” and “The Intentional Year.”

Steve Carter is a pastor, speaker, author, podcast host, and the former lead teaching pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago. He hosts Craft and Character, a Preaching Today podcast devoted to empowering pastors and church communicators who want to work on their craft while learning to lead with character.

Tara Beth Leach is a pastor, preacher of the Word, and writer. She speaks widely at conferences, retreats, and universities across the country on Women in Ministry, Church Leadership, and the call to be a Radiant Witness. She is the Senior Pastor at Good Shepherd Church in Naperville, IL and previously served at Christ Church in Oakbrook and as Senior Pastor of First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena (”PazNaz”) in SoCal.

David Housholder has been in church leadership since 1986 and has served both large and small, rural and urban congregations. He has been the founding senior pastor at The Well at Surf City in Huntington Beach, California since 2006.

Steve serves as Lead Pastor of Northgate Church in Ramsey, Minnesota, and Executive Director of the Alliance of Renewal Churches, a leader-care network connecting and supporting hundreds of churches and pastors. He is passionate about helping leaders thrive, churches flourish, and people discover who God has created them to be.

Beth Felker Jones (PhD, Duke University) is a Midwestern writer and professor of theology at Northern Seminary. She has published short stories and is working on her first novel. She writes theology and fiction, has published numerous books, and writes regularly at her substack, Church Blogmatics.

Ingrid Faro (PhD, MDiv) is Interim President and Professor of Old Testament at Northern Seminary in the Chicago area. She is an international speaker and the author of Redeeming Eden: How Women in the Bible Advance the Story of Salvation with Joyce Koo Dalrymple, Demystifying Evil, co-author of Honest Answers, Evil in Genesis, co-author of the forthcoming volume As We Forgive: A Biblical Theology of Forgiveness.

Lead Pastor at Hosanna Church

Steve Turnbull (PhD, Duke University) is the senior pastor at Upper Arlington Lutheran Church in Columbus, Ohio. He is also provost and professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at The Master’s Institute. He is a member of the St. Hildegard Fellowship of the Center for Pastor Theologians.