Kay Warren
Author and Activist, Saddleback Church

Kay Warren is a voice for those who suffer in the world’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. In 2002, Kay became, in her words, “seriously disturbed” by the suffering of the millions infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. God has taken Kay from her own fears to a passionate place on the world’s stage. Kay has traveled to many parts of the globe to see firsthand how AIDS is destroying men, women, and vulnerable children, and today she is a powerful advocate on their behalf. She launched the HIV/AIDS Initiative at Saddleback Church in 2003 and hosts Saddleback’s annual HIV/AIDS conference, called The Global Summit on AIDS and the Church. Kay is also an accomplished writer. Her doctrinal study, Foundations, co-authored with Tom Holladay, won a Gold Medallion Award in 2004 and her first solo work as an author, Dangerous Surrender was released in November 2007. She has also written for CNN.com and has been featured in POZ, Guideposts, Today’s Christian Woman, Missions Mosaic, Sojourner’s, Seed, Good, and OC Metro. Kay attended California Baptist College and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Los Angeles. She is mother to Amy, Josh and Matthew, and grandmother to Kaylie, Cassidy, Caleb, and Cole. She resides in southern California with her husband Rick.

Jim Belcher
Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (Newport Beach)

Jim BelcherJim Belcher (M.A., Fuller; Ph.D., Georgetown) is founding church planter and lead pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, California. He is also the author of Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional (InterVarsity) and cofounder of the Restoring Community Conference: Integrating Social Interaction, Sacred Space and Beauty in the 21st Century, an annual conference for city officials, planners, builders, and architects.

Dr. Michael S. Horton
Professor, Westminster Seminary

Dr. Michael S. Horton has taught apologetics and theology at Westminster Seminary, California since 1998. He received his doctorate from the University of Coventry and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. In addition to his work at the Seminary, he is the president of White Horse Media, for which he co-hosts the White Horse Inn, a nationally-syndicated, weekly radio talk-show exploring issues of Reformation theology in American Christianity. He is also the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. Before coming to WSC, Dr. Horton completed a Research Fellowship at Yale University Divinity School. A member of various societies, including the American Academy of Religion and the Evangelical Theological Society, Dr. Horton is the author/editor of twenty books, including a series of studies in Reformed dogmatics published by Westminster John Knox, whose final volume (People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology) was published in 2008.

Jena Lee Nardella
Executive Director, Blood: Water Mission

At the age of 22, Jena founded Blood: Water Mission alongside the band Jars of Clay. Jena has been featured in Sojourners Magazine, Christianity Today, Relevant Magazine, and the documentary film, Sons of Lwala. Her collaborative writing includes Hope in the Dark, Zealous Love, and The Revolution: A Field Manual for Changing Your World. She serves on the board for the Center for Nonprofit Management and the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health. Jena is a graduate of Whitworth University with a degree in Political Studies. She and her husband live in Nashville and travel often to Africa.

Miles McPherson
Senior Pastor, Rock Church (San Diego)

Pastor Miles McPherson played four years in the NFL with the San Diego Chargers from 1982-1985. During that time he became addicted to cocaine. After his second season in the NFL, he committed his life to Christ and stopped doing drugs in one day. Miles went to work as a Youth Pastor for Horizon Christian Fellowship in San Diego and enrolled in Azusa Pacific University’s School of Theology. He received his Master’s of Divinity degree in 1991. In 1992, McPherson founded Miles Ahead, a non-profit organization that reaches out to youth around the globe with the Gospel. Since its inception, more than 45,000 young people have given their lives to the Lord. In 2000, he started the Rock Church. The Rock has consistently been one of the nation’s fastest growing and largest churches, according to Outreach Magazine. Currently more than 12,000 people attend one of the Rock’s five weekend services. His newest book, DO Something is designed to equip people to take Christ’s love to the streets and make a difference in their community.

Dr. Soong Chan Rah
Professor, North Park Theological Seminary

Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah is Milton B. Engebretson Assistant Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL.

Rah is formerly the founding Senior Pastor of the Cambridge Community Fellowship Church (CCFC), a multi-ethnic, urban ministry-focused church committed to living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context. Soong-Chan was a plenary speaker at the 2003 Urbana Student Missions Conference, the 2005 Summer Institute for Asian American Ministry and Theology, the 2006 Congress on Urban Ministry, the 2007 ECC Midwinter Conference, the 2007 Urban Youth Workers Institute Conference and the 2008 CCDA National Conference.

Soong-Chan received his B.A. in Political Science and History/Sociology from Columbia University; his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; his Th. M. from Harvard University; and his D.Min. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is a contributor author to Growing Healthy Asian-American Churches (IVP). He is the author of The Next Evangelicalism, on the changing face of American Christianity and on the cultural captivity of the American evangelical church (2009).

Skye Jethani
Managing Editor, Leadership Journal

Skye Jethani has served as a teaching pastor at Blanchard Alliance Church in Wheaton, Illinois and is ordained in the Christian & Missionary Alliance. Skye is the managing editor for Leadership, an award-winning journal for church leaders published by Christianity Today International. Skye helped Leadership expand its readership by managing the launch of the journal’s blog–Out of Ur. Skye is also an author and released The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity in 2009. He also contributes to web and print publications around the country on issues of faith and culture including Relevant and The Huffington Post, and he is a frequent commentator on both Christian and secular radio stations.