Originally from Australia, Darren Whitehead serves as a Teaching Pastor at Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago, regularly teaching to more than 20,000 people. He also leads the church’s Next Gen Ministries and the Creative Arts Departments. Willow Creek’s innovative, multi-site ministries have made it one of the most attended churches in North America. Prior to Willow, Darren served as Teaching Pastor and Director of Student Ministries at The People's Church in Nashville. Darren lives with his wife Brandy and their two half-Aussie, half-American daughters just outside of Chicago.

In 2006, Jamie Tworkowski founded To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA), which began as a simple attempt to tell the story of a friend in need of treatment. It soon became an Internet phenomenon and global movement. TWLOHA now has the largest online audience of any non-profit on MySpace and Facebook, and has responded to nearly 100,000 messages from more than 40 countries, and donated more than $700,000 to treatment and recovery organizations. Tworkowski has been interviewed by NBC Nightly News, CNN, MTV, Spin Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, and recently won the 2009 MTVu “Good Woodie ” award for social activism.

Ed 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 seminary professor at the Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and has taught at fifteen other seminaries. He is currently the Director of Lifeway Research and Lifeway's Missiologist in Residence.

Brent Crowe is a thought-provoking visionary and speaker with a passion to present the life-changing message of the Gospel. An emerging spiritual and cultural leader, Brent uses humor and real-life situations to relate to people at the heart of their struggles. The desire of Brent's heart is to see people realize that they have been set apart to the gospel of God and thus, in turn, they must set their lives apart in an effort to capture every moment in worshipful service to Him.

Drew is an accomplished illusionist, magician and mentalist. He lives in Washington State where he is the Creative Arts Pastor of a collegiate church plant. Drew travels around the country and occasionally overseas performing using illusions and magic in order to earn the right to share about the God that has given him both purpose and life.

A hit artist, producer, and songwriter, Regie Hamm has penned more than 20 No. 1 hits, many of them in the Christian market. He hit the Top 20 as an artist on the pop charts, and his song, “Time Of My Life,” topped the charts for four months. Regie has earned Grammy and Dove nominations, and earned SESAC’s Songwriter of the Year award four times. But nothing could prepare him for the real-life drama of adopting a little girl from China, discovering her severe genetic disorder, and helplessly watching a life and career spin out of control.

Beneath her youthful exterior and fresh-faced exuberance, Meredith Andrews is a focused artist who knows exactly what she wants to say. She creates music that serves as a personal conduit for those seeking to worship God, and she also wants to remind others of God’s desire to reach them. “God is extending an invitation to you, to you personally, calling you by name,” she says. “He knows where you’ve been and he knows your background. He knows your family situation. He knows the things you struggle with, but he’s calling you by name and he’s inviting you to come in and to meet with him and to know him.” Andrews shares that theme on her debut album with a well-crafted set of songs that are musically inventive and lyrically challenging. It’s a potent combination that is garnering her enthusiastic support.

Jeff became a Christian while in college at Carson Newman in Jefferson City Tennessee. While there he wrestled, earned All American honors and represented the USA in 1985 in Greece, Paris and Yugoslavia. He spends most of his spare time now raising his three children, hunting ducks, and occasionally playing a round of golf. He has previously been a camp speaker, guest lecturer and teacher in various seminary and college classes on the topic of student ministry. He is the Director of Student Training and Events at LifeWay and also is the student minister at FBC, Nashville.

David Ferguson and his wife Teresa are directors of Intimate Life Ministries, which serves thousands of churches and ministry leaders worldwide. Out of an intense desire to honor God and minister to the needs of his family, he rediscovered a biblical principle that transformed his life, his family, and his ministry. For more than 20 years, the Fergusons have helped people deepen their intimacy with God and strengthen relationships in marriage, family, and the church. David and Teresa have been married almost forty years and have co-authored several books and numerous articles. They reside in Austin, Texas, and have three adult married children and seven grandchildren.