kevin-cawley-bio-picKevin Cawley is the directional leader of Redeemer Fellowship in the Midtown neighborhoods of Kansas City. He planted Redeemer together with a team of elders in the summer of 2008. Because they are in the early phases of church planting, Kevin spends most his time trying to maintain his sanity.

Redeemer Fellowship is committed to gospel centered community development and Kevin is passionate about cultivating leaders and seeing the truth of the Gospel transform lives for God’s glory and the good of the city.

Kevin holds a M.A. in Biblical Exegesis from Wheaton College and is completing his ThM in Philosophical Theology from Regent College. He and his wife Katie have one son Quinn.

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matt-chandler2Matt Chandler is the lead pastor of The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas. He describes his six years at The Village as a re-planting effort where he was involved in changing the theological and philosophical culture of the congregation. The church has seen a tremendous response, growing from 160 people to over five thousand. Alongside his current role as lead pastor, Matt is involved in church planting efforts locally and internationally. Before coming to The Village, Matt had a vibrant itinerant ministry for over ten years where he spoke to hundreds of thousands of people in America and abroad about the glory of God and beauty of Jesus.

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daveheadshot1Dave Harvey is responsible for church care, church planting and international expansion for Sovereign Grace Ministries. He has served as a member of the Sovereign Grace Ministries leadership team since 1995.

Dave has been in pastoral ministry at Covenant Fellowship Church since 1986, was ordained in 1988, and served as senior pastor from 1990 to 2008. He received a Master of Arts in Missiology from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1989, worked toward a Master of Divinity from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1993 to 1995, and in 2001 became a graduate in Westminster’s D.Min. program. The subject of his doctoral thesis was the identification and equipping of church planters.

Dave contributed a chapter to Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World (Crossway, 2008). He is also the author of When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage (Shepherd, 2007). Dave’s newest book, Rescuing Ambition, is forthcoming in May 2010 (Crossway).

Dave lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Kimm, their four children, and despite his many protests, one stray cat.

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rdmnewRussell D. Moore is the Senior Vice President for Academic Administration and Dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Moore is also a preaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, where he ministers weekly. Dr. Moore writes and speaks frequently on topics ranging from the Kingdom of God to the mission of adoption to a theology of country music. He is a senior editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity and also blogs regularly at Moore to the Point. Dr. Moore’s latest book is Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches.

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n714380583_47411Darrin Patrick founded The Journey in 2002 with a desire plant a church in the heart of St. Louis, Missouri. Darrin is Vice President of The Acts29 Church Planting Network, and also serves as the executive director for another church planting movement called 360-St Louis, a network which joins the church and the business community in planting gospel-centered churches. Darrin’s passion is to equip the church to live the gospel in the world. Darrin is working on his first book, The Man, The Message, The Mission. Today, The Journey runs four services across three campuses, while continuing to being aggressive in church planting in St Louis and beyond.

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ed-stetzerEd Stetzer has planted churches in New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and transitioned declining churches in Indiana and Georgia. He has trained pastors and church planters on five continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and has written dozens of articles and books. Ed served for three years as a seminary professor at the Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and has taught at fifteen other seminaries. Ed’s primary role is President of LifeWay Research and Lifeway’s Missiologist in Residence. His books include Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age, Breaking the Missional Code, and Comeback Churches.

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bob_2008_crop-1Bob Thune is the Lead Pastor of Coram Deo Church Community in Omaha, Nebraska. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Reformed Theological Seminary and served as a parachurch campus minister and a teaching pastor before planting Coram Deo in 2005. He and his wife, Leigh, have been married for 12 years and have 4 children: Parker, Sophie, Lewis, and Grace. Bob is the co-author of The Gospel-Centered Life, a missionally focused small-group curriculum recently published by World Harvest Mission. He is zealous about gospel-centered, missional church planting and longs to see the church recover the centrality of the gospel.


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stevetimmis1Steve Timmis has been married to Janet for 29 years and they live in Sheffield. Steve is the Western Europe Director for Acts 29. He also directs The Porterbrook Network - a training initiative aimed at equipping the church for mission and church planting. Steve is an elder in The Crowded House - an international church planting network. With Tim Chester he co-authored the book Total Church.

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