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More About Bill Donahue
Bill is the executive director of adult ministries for Willow Creek Association and pastor of small group leader development at Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago. A recognized group life expert, his books include Leading Life-Changing Small Groups and In the Company of Jesus. |
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More About Don Everts
Don
is an award-winning author of several books and Bible study guides including Jesus with Dirty Feet, The Smell of Sin and, most recently with Doug Schaupp, I Once Was Lost: what postmodern skeptics taught us about their path to Jesus. For 14 years Don Everts worked on college campuses with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a ministry which included leading hundreds of small groups on various campuses and recruiting and training new student leaders every year. In 2008 Don joined Bonhomme Presbyterian Church (a nearly 200 year-old church in St. Louis ) as a teaching pastor and minister of outreach. |
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More About Juanita Rasmus
Juanita
has led the St. John's United Methodist Church for 18 years with her husband Rudy. In this brief span of time the couple has transformed the spiritual landscape and the face of poverty in Downtown Houston. Beginning with 9 existing members in 1992, St. John's has grown to over 9,000 members (3,000 of the total either are or were formerly homeless) in seventeen years into one of the most culturally diverse congregations in the country where every week people of every social and economic background share the same pew.
They attribute the success of the church to a compassionate congregation who has embraced the vision of tearing down the walls of classism, sexism, and racism and building the bridges of unconditional love, and universal recovery. |
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More About John Townsend
John
is a clinical psychologist and co-founder/co-director of Cloud-Townsend, Inc. He is the best-selling author of Hiding from Love, and coauthor of Boundaries, Boundaries with Kids, Boundaries in Marriage, Boundaries in Dating, 12 "Christian" Beliefs That Can Drive You Crazy, Safe People, The Mom Factor, Raising Great Kids, and How People Grow. He is a specialist on such topics as biblical models of personality and character growth, and spiritual issues of psychopathology. |
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More About James Bryan Smith
(M.Div., Yale University Divinity School, Ph.D., Fuller Seminary) Jim is a theology professor at Friends University in Wichita, KS and a writer and speaker in the area of Christian spiritual formation. He also serves as the director of the Christian Spiritual Formation Institute at Friends University. A founding member of Richard J. Foster's spiritual renewal ministry, Renovaré, Smith is an ordained United Methodist Church minister and has served in various capacities in local churches.
Smith is the author of the widely acclaimed Apprentice Series on spiritual formation – written and tested in small groups. Titles in the series include The Good and Beautiful God (April ‘09), The Good and Beautiful Life (Feb 2010) and The Good and Beautiful Community (Aug, 2010). |
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More About Christopher Webb
Chris
is President of Renovaré USA, a Christian ministry dedicated to helping people experience a richer life with God through spiritual formation. Before coming to the US, Chris was a Franciscan Anglican priest in the Church in Wales, ministering in a wide variety of contexts from rural farming communities to blue-collar steelworking towns; his twelve years of pastoral ministry did not result in the founding of any globally significant megachurches, but did offer memorable work such as blessing a fleet of tractors, leading twelve church services in a single day, and teaching a Baptist church to sing Latin Gregorian chant. He has graduate degrees in Planetary and Space Physics from the University of Wales, and in Theology from Trinity College Bristol. Chris and his wife Sally live in Colorado; they have four young children and, usually, a home full of more visitors than rooms. He adores early music, ice cream, and reading Dante. |
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More About Wayne Cordeiro
Dr. Wayne Cordeiro is Senior Pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship, a Foursquare church in Honolulu, Hawaii. New Hope is a multi-campus church with 5 different locations on the island of Oahu, as well as affiliate churches world-wide. New Hope began on September 10, 1995 and since then eighty-three churches have been pioneered under Wayne's leadership.
In 1998, he founded Pacific Rim Bible College that trains, develops and supports emerging leaders who will plant twenty-first-century churches throughout the world.
He has written nine books - Doing Church As A Team, Gems Along The Way, Attitudes that Attract Success, Rising Above, Culture Shift, Dream Releasers, The Divine Mentor, Leading on Empty, and The Encore Church. He is contributing author for church leadership books and has written articles for various magazines such as Leadership Journal. Pastor Wayne and his wife, Anna, have three children, Amy, Aaron, and Abigail and three grandchildren. |
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