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John D. Beckett

John D. Beckett, after graduating from M.I.T. in 1960 and working as an engineer in the aerospace industry, joined his father's small manufacturing business and became president in 1965. The R.W. Beckett Corporation has grown to become a worldwide leader in producing engineered components for residential and commercial heating. Mr. Beckett is a founding board member of The King's College in New York City; serves on the board of Campus Crusade for Christ, International; is a director of Graphic Packaging Corporation, a NYSE-listed manufacturing company; and is the author of the books Loving Monday and Mastering Monday (masteringmonday.com). He and his wife of 45 years, Wendy, reside in Elyria, Ohio, and are the parents of six children and eleven grandchildren.

David Befus

David Befus (MBA, Michigan; Ph.D, Miami) moved from a career in international financial consulting to start micro-finance programs with Opportunity International (Latin America) and World Vision (Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe). For the past eight years, as the president of Latin America Mission, he has promoted economic-development programs as a tool for international ministry, and his book, Where There Are No Jobs, presents practical cases and methodologies. He is currently organizing a major effort to promote new businesses as a job-creation and ministry strategy of a large denomination with over 700 churches in Northern Colombia, an area that was ravaged for many years by the civil war. He and his wife, Connie, will relocate from Miami to Sincelejo, Colombia, to work full-time on this Christian venture-capital mission project in 2007.

Father Benigno Beltran, SVD

Father Ben - as he is affectionately called by his parishioners - has lived and served among the poorest in the Philippines for the past 28 years. By launching dozens of micro-enterprises and organizing the community, Father Ben was able to transform the lives of the 25,000 scavengers who lived and worked on Manila's Smokey Mountain, at one point the world's largest garbage dump. His Parish of the Risen Christ is now an international model of environmental and financial sustainability as well as a testimony of God's transforming power. His ministry has earned many honors, including World Vision's 1997 Robert W. Pierce Award for Christian Service.

Jon Boyd

Jon Boyd is an Associate Director of InterVarsity’s Graduate & Faculty Ministries and Web Producer with InterVarsity’s Information Services. Ever since he could hold a crayon he has been in publishing, and his vita includes stints as a Senior Editor at Britannica.com and as the hobbyist/entrepreneur of the Octothorp Press. He holds a Ph.D. in American intellectual history from Johns Hopkins and teaches as an adjunct professor of history at North Park University. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Ann, and infant daughter, Lucy.

Tom Buckles

Dr. Buckles is an Associate Professor of Marketing in the Crowell School of Business at Biola University with primary teaching responsibility in the Executive MBA program. He has also been a part of two start-ups, is a consultant for a number of private and public sector firms, and sits on the Board of Advisors/Directors of several companies. A primary reason for his going to Biola after 20+ years in secular universities was his desire to have an impact in the business as mission/ministry arena. He is currenly working on a six-week curriculum as well as two books.

Daniel T. Byrd

Daniel T. Byrd is a strategy professor at Emory University in Atlanta, with previous appointments at Stanford and MIT. Professor Byrd's research examines how firms can improve their knowledge through learning and competitive interactions. As part of his mission, he seeks to understand and make known business as a noble, Kingdom pursuit. In his academic and personal life he is guided by a central truth: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."

Al Erisman

Al Erisman is Director of the Center for Integrity in Business at Seattle Pacific University, and the publisher of Ethix magazine (ethix.org). He spent 32 years at The Boeing Company, where he retired in 2001 as Director of Mathematics and Computing R&D. He has been involved in global business missions with InterVarsity, co-leading teams to Southeast Asia and Central Africa. He and his wife, Nancy, live in Bellevue, Washington, where they raised their four children and now spend time with seven grandchildren.

Craig Gartland

Currently serving as Regional Director for InterVarsity's Graduate & Faculty Ministries in the Midwest, Craig has been on staff with InterVarsity since 1989 when he graduated from Fuller Seminary with an M.Div. Craig served his first 15 years on staff with InterVarsity at the University of Chicago where he helped pioneer and grow the MBA fellowship in the Graduate School of Business. Married, with four children, Craig spends his free time in competitive cycling.

Ram Gidoomal

Ram Gidoomal is an entrepreneur and former UK Group Chief Executive of the Inlaks Group, a multinational business with seven thousand employees turning over $200 million and operating in 15 countries. In 2000, as leader of the newly formed political party, the Christian Peoples Alliance, he was a candidate for London Mayor (and again in 2004) polling nearly 100,000 votes in each election. He is chairman of The Employability Forum, helping refugees into jobs and a non-executive director of Amsphere Ltd., a software testing and outsourcing company with interests in the United Kingdom, India, and Singapore. He was a founder, trustee, and chairman of the Christmas Cracker charity, which has given thousands of young people direct entrepreneurial experience and which has raised over £5 million for projects in developing countries.

Gary Ginter

Gary is Joanna's husband of 36 years, father of four, and grandfather of six. They have raised their family in an economically marginal area called Central Austin on Chicago's west side. Gary is an entrepreneur with specific domains of entrepreneurial experience including: derivative financial instruments, primarily futures and options market-making (CRT, Hull Trading Company); electronic trading systems (Globex); money management using hedge funds of CTAs (Efficient Capital Management) and investment advisors trading stocks selected using the valuation technique called discounted cash flow return on investment analysis (St. Croix Asset Management); and control of the formation of pollutants during combustion of hydrocarbons in air (VAST Power Systems, VAST Remediation Systems).

Peter Greer

Peter Greer is President of HOPE International, a global nonprofit organization focused on alleviating both physical and spiritual poverty. Prior to his education at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (in Political and Economic Development), Peter served as Managing Director of URWEGO Community Banking (a program of World Relief) in Kigali, Rwanda; as a technical advisor for Self-Help Development Foundation (CARE Zimbabwe) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; and as a microfinance advisor in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. While at Harvard, Peter studied HOPE’s work in the Democratic Republic of Congo for a graduate thesis project and his interest in working for HOPE grew as he saw its unique desire to combine physical and spiritual ministry through the tool of microfinance. Peter and his wife Laurel have two children and are active members of Calvary Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Julie Hindmarsh

Julie Hindmarsh has served on the boards of Opportunity International (OI) and the Women's Opportunity Fund for more than twelve years, serving on numerous task forces that have helped OI grow to become the largest international Christian microfinance organization. Julie has a particular passion for serving the poorest women and families with sustainable business loans, financial services, and transformational training. Julie is a clinical instructor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, specializing in community and international health. She also runs her family's farming business in Nebraska. Previously she was director of the Women's Cancer Prevention Program and health planner for the Office of Family Resources in the Baltimore County government.

Jim Hocking

Jim Hocking was raised in the Central African Republic and served there as a full-time missionary for 20 years. In 2004, Jim and his wife, Faye, started Integrated Community Development International, a non-profit and non-governmental organization, which drills wells in villages for drinking water, cares for orphans, teaches abstinence-based AIDS education, will shortly be broadcasting on shortwave radio, and initiates micro-enterprise and micro-finance development in the Central African Republic. Jim currently leads over 40 Central African staff, and he partners with numerous mission agencies and other non-profit organizations who seek to meet the needs of the extremely poor in this forgotten country and to provide an open doorway for the Gospel. Jim and Faye live in Warsaw, Ind., and have four children.

Kent Humphreys

Kent Humphreys has served as President of Christ@Work/Fellowship of Companies for Christ since 2002. Prior to leading Christ@Work, Kent owned and operated Jack's Merchandising and Distribution for 25 years, serving major retailers in thirty states on general merchandise. He continues active ownership of four businesses in distribution, manufacturing, and real estate. His books include Lasting Investments (NavPress) and Show and Then Tell (Moody) with his wife Davidene. They have three children and eight grandchildren.

Doug Hunter

Doug spent 23 years in the vertical-transportation industry, becoming President and CEO of Carter Elevator Company, Inc., from 1987 to 1994. As a Christian CEO, Doug became involved with the Fellowship of Companies for Christ International (FCCI), joining its board of directors in 1992 and relocating to Atlanta to work full-time with FCCI in 1994. In 2003, Doug joined the staff of Perimeter Church to lead Business Partners International (BPI) as President and Managing Director. BPI is a strategy of Perimeter’s Global Outreach Ministry designed to support the church’s international partners as they minister to and through those in the marketplace, the "9-to-5 Window."

David Johnson

Rev. David A. Johnson is a member of the board of Integra Ventures, which develops businesses to impact society, change communities, and touch lives with the Gospel. He served for four years as Development Director for Integra. He is currently senior pastor of the Evangelical Free Church of East Dennis, Mass. Prior to his work with Integra, David was the College and Young Adult Minister at Grace Chapel in Lexington, Mass. for thirteen years where he led numerous mission trips around the world.

Bob Kuhlman

Bob Kuhlman is president of Integra Ventures, USA, an organization dedicated to bringing the light of the Gospel through business development in Eastern Europe and Russia. Integra provides business training, coaching, personal mentoring and capital for aspiring entrepreneurs. After working 20 years in the financial markets in Chicago, Bob pursued his passion to serve those less fortunate and began a second career in fundraising and development, launching the development office of Sonlife Ministries, a youth ministry training organization in the Chicago area, before moving to Integra. At Integra, Bob’s Christian commitment and years of marketplace experience come together as he ministers to new business owners in post-communist eastern bloc nations.

David Kwok

David Kwok is a social entrepreneur who has trained professionals through equip, a marketplace ministry that repurposes businesses in South Africa, India, and Indonesia to have a Kingdom vision. He also started a free clinic with Silicon Valley Christian Health Alliance for the homeless and underserved in San Jose. Prior to earning an MBA from Haas (UC Berkeley), David helped a VC firm to raise $60M. David’s career has focused on marketing and engineering with such Fortune 500 companies as Agilent, Intel, National Semiconductor, Motorola, IBM, and Texas Instruments.

Sam Lam

Sam is President of Singapore-based Linkage_Asia and one of the leading practitioners in the field of leadership development and human resources consulting. Sam serves as executive coach and adviser to a number of notable CEOs and senior government officials in Asia, with expertise in leadership development, executive assessment and coaching, performance improvement of top teams, and talent management. He was formerly country head of Towers Perrin and Director of the Hay Group in Singapore. He worships at Bethesda (Bedok-Tampines) Church in Singapore with his wife Shirley and two daughters, Joanna and Susanna.

David Lambert

Dave Lambert is pastor of Cellebration Fellowship in Atlanta, Georgia, a church primarily made up of refugees from Sudan, West Africa, Congo, Iran, and Burma. He teaches English as a Second Language and has adapted a Jobs For Life course for the Clarkston Community where the church is located. His passion is providing a spiritual home for refugees and mentoring young people who might go into missions in the future, and his immediate goal is to attract a team of young people who will live in community and work with the church to help refugees learn work and life skills in a Christian context. His wife, Marg, is manager of a Ten Thousand Villages store that provides employment for artisans from Africa, Asia, and South America.

Beverly Liu and Morris Li

As an assistant to the CEO of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), the largest semiconductor foundry in China, Beverly's chief responsibility is to keep the peace and manage an office environment that seeks God's leading for both near-term and long-term business decisions. Morris works closely with the SMIC CFO, implementing financial disciplines to help the operations team align their daily decision-making with the company's long-term business strategy. Both have received their MBAs and seek to actively encourage fellow co-workers to bless their employees, transform communities, influence government, and testify to God's abundant love and grace. Beverly and Morris spend their leisure hours teaching their one-year-old daughter, Skylar, to walk and their three-year-old dog, Yogi, to sit.

Timothy Liu

Timothy Liu, Director and Founder of Marketplace Christian Network (MCN), works as a regional sales manager for a US company with responsibility to oversee business in Asia. Timothy also serves as Vice President on the Graduates’ Christian Fellowship-Singapore Council. At his local congregation, he is a worship leader, musician, and lay preacher. Timothy was also convener for the 2004 Lausanne World Evangelization conference's Marketplace Ministry Issues Group and currently serves as Chairperson for the Lausanne Special Interest Committee for Marketplace Ministry.

Bob Lynn

Bob Lynn, a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary and The Johns Hopkins University, is Associate Pastor for Missions, Adult Education and University Ministry at Knox Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, Mich. He has been married for 31 years to Ilene Lynn (who is a CPA), and they have a daughter, Rachel, who is an urban-policy analyst. Bob is also a Fellow of the Wilberforce Forum of Prison Fellowship and a lecturer at the Istanbul Reformed Seminary in Istanbul, Turkey.

Scott McFarlane

Scott McFarlane and his wife Karen have two boys, Brennan (6) and Drew (3), and they live in Gilbert, Arizona. Scott works for Trax Technologies in Scottsdale. He just completed a year as the Area Director for Asia Pacific and currently leads the Global Account Management team. He formerly directed EC Institute. Scott has an undergraduate degree in ministry and an MBA.

William Messenger

After jobs at IBM, McKinsey, and Advanced Metabolic Systems, in 1999 William Messenger became Director of the Mockler Center for Faith and Ethics in the Workplace, a unit of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Will is a member of the Board of Directors of ArQule, Inc., and is also an Episcopal pastor. He holds a B.S. in Physics from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an M.Div. from Boston University School of Theology. Will lives with his wife and two daughters in Belmont, Mass.

Brian Moss

Brian Moss is the Director of Worship, Music, and the Arts at John Knox Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Wash. He has been writing, recording, and performing music for over 15 years and has toured with Michael Card, Jeff Johnson, and others. His most recent CD is a recording of old hymns to new music entitled, Not What My Hands Have Done. He is the chief architect of the Prayerbook Project, a collection of new songs inspired by the Psalms, whose first installment, Prayerbook, No. 1, contains songs from Psalms 1-15 and was released in 2005.

Duane Moyer

Duane Moyer has been involved in the work/life-discipleship field for over 15 years, serving currently as Vice President of His Church at Work. His Church at Work empowers churches with a sustainable work/life ministry process equipping and supporting believers to live out their faith and to reach coworkers for Christ. In 1999, Wally Hawley and Duane Moyer co-founded Faithworks Silicon Valley to address the opportunity to help business leaders invest their time, talent, and treasure to make a difference in the lives of others. Duane has an MBA in Marketing/Entrepreneurship and spent a few years in the corporate world as well as many years in entrepreneurship education of urban teens.

John Mulford

John Mulford is Professor, School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, and Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, at Regent University. Dr. Mulford came to Regent University in 1982 as a founding faculty member in the School of Business and served as dean of the school from 1990-2004. At various times between 1994 and 2002, he served as Regent’s Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations, overseeing all the business functions of the university, and as Chief Investment Officer, managing the university’s endowment. Dr. Mulford earned a B.S. in Engineering, magna cum laude, from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow.

Mako Nagasawa

Mako Nagasawa is on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as an Area Director in Boston. Prior to serving with InterVarsity, Mako worked for two Boston startup companies, both bringing technology to the inner city. He also worked for Intel Corporation for six years in project management while living with and serving Mexican immigrant families in East Palo Alto, Calif. He graduated from Stanford University in 1994 with a double major in Industrial Engineering and Public Policy.

Mark Neuenschwander

Mark Neuenschwander has been involved in mission on both sides of the pulpit and on four continents and twenty countries. For twenty years, as a pastor, he worked in churches devoted to equipping and sending Christians into the workplace for God's sake. For the past fifteen years, Mark's firm, The Neuenschwander Company, has provided consulting services for healthcare providers and technology companies endeavoring to make the medication-use process safer in hospitals. Mark is also president of The Nomenclature Company, helping companies talk more clearly about themselves, their products, and their services.

Dwight Nordstrom

Dwight Nordstrom has 25 years of experience in doing technology-based business in China. Currently, he is chairman of Pacfic Resouces International (PRI), a US manufacturing and media-holding company with more than ten locations in China. PRI has helped develop a benchmark of "best practices" for Great Commission Companies (GCCs) and has a six-month management/engineering internship program in China.

Paul Park

Paul Park is currently the Senior Program Officer at First Fruit, Inc., a grantmaking foundation based in Newport Beach, Calif., whose areas of focus are leadership development, reaching the less and least reached, and holistic ministries. Prior to First Fruit, Mr. Park served in corporate-development and international-licensing roles at Amgen, Inc., the world’s largest biotechnology company. He has previously worked for APM Management Consulting, the Endeavor Initiative, Chile-based Mercantil.com, the International Finance Corporation, and the Chalmers Center for Economic Development. Mr. Park received his MBA from the Wharton School of Business and his A.B. from Brown University.

Bill Pollard

Bill Pollard, Chairman Emeritus of ServiceMaster, joined the company in 1977 and has served not once but twice as its Chief Executive Officer (1983-1993 and 1999-2001). Bill is a graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois) and received a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. He is the author of a best-selling book, The Soul of the Firm, and also has written or contributed to numerous other books and magazines, including his newest book Serving Two Masters? Reflections on God and Profit (HarperCollins). A native of Chicago, Bill and his wife, Judy, have been married for over 47 years, and they have four adult children and fifteen grandchildren.

Steven Preston

The Honorable Steven C. Preston was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the 22nd Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA supports loans and investments exceeding $75 billion, facilitates $80 billion in federal procurement activities for small businesses, provides financing to victims of natural disasters, and trains and counsels millions of small businesses. He has served in senior finance and operational roles at The ServiceMaster Company and First Data Corporation, and worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers. He and his wife, Molly, have five children, and they recently reolcated to the Washington, D.C. area.

Jimmy Quach

Jimmy Quach serves as an Area Director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, supervising undergraduate ministries at Harvard and MIT. Prior to InterVarsity, he worked as Senior Product Manager for Netscape Communications Corp., directing its personalized web services. Jimmy has led students on summer projects among the urban slums of Manila and developed ongoing projects to support micro-enterprises there. He and his wife, Ivy, recently celebrated their second anniversary.

Barry Rowan

Barry Rowan has over two decades of financial and operational leadership experience, and has dedicated his career to building four technology and communications companies during this period. In addition to working for Hewlett-Packard prior to business school, Barry’s career has included service with Comlinear Corporation; Fluke Corporation (NYSE); Velocom Inc.; Vesper; Rowan & Company, LLC; and Nextel Partners. Mr. Rowan earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1983, and his BS, summa cum laude, in Business Administration and Chemical Biology from the College of Idaho in 1979. He is married to Linda, his best friend and wife of 25 years, and they have two sons, Mark and David.

Steve Rundle

Dr. Steve Rundle is an associate professor of economics at Biola University. Before entering the academic world he held several management-level positions in the interstate-trucking industry. He is coauthor of Great Commission Companies: The Emerging Role of Business in Missions (InterVarsity Press, 2003), a book that explains how globalization is opening up new opportunities for ministry-minded businesspeople. He also assists or has co-founded several organizations that aim to see Christian-owned businesses prosper in less-developed countries.

Jay Sivits

Jay currently serves as an Associate Director for InterVarsity's Graduate & Faculty Ministries (GFM) after just leaving a GFM Regional Director position in the South/Central U.S. Jay has been with InterVarsity since 1976 after a professional career in nursing. While with InterVarsity Jay has worked on several Marketplace Conferences and served on the Marketplace Advisory Council for four years. She has also worked alongside InterVarsity staff at business schools in the Midwest and South/Central campuses in the U.S.

Brad Smith

Brad Smith is the President of Bakke Graduate University (BGU), a U.S. accredited school with an international student body that holds classes on city, spiritual, social, and economic transformation in the largest cities of five continents. Prior to BGU, Brad served as the President of Leadership Network where he facilitated over 400 peer-learning forums for business, large-church, and emerging-church leaders. Brad has also served as a legislative assistant to two US Senators, an urban-church planter, and an entrepreneur in a variety of small businesses. Brad lives in Dallas with his wife, Debby, and three young children.

Sarah Smith

Sarah is founder and president of Sarah's Hope Jewelry, a for-profit company started to fund a non-profit organization that provides small business micro-loans to give women living in impoverished situations a fair chance at supporting themselves and their families. In addition to Sarah's Hope, Sarah is involved as comptroller in a family-held veterinary pharmaceutical research corporation. Sarah previously served as a church planter in Michigan and pastor in Kentucky. Sarah holds advanced degrees in theology and homiletics and in her free time enjoys paddling, wilderness camping, and time at her family's working ranch.

Craig Terrill

Craig Terrill is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and educator. He has built and run many of his own companies, including two that were venture-backed, and recently was the CEO of a Christian-run private equity firm. Craig has taught MBA courses as an adjunct professor for more than ten years in Entrepreneurship for the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and in Marketing for the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and four children, is a member of Willow Creek Community Church, and has advised InterVarsity’s Kellogg Christian Fellowship for over fifteen years.

John Terrill

John Terrill serves with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA as the National Director for Professional Schools Ministries. Prior to InterVarsity, John consulted with the Hay Group, a global management consultancy focused on human resources and organizational effectiveness issues. He is a graduate of Indiana University (Bloomington) and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) and an MAR and MATh from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. For the past six years, John has led teams of MBA students, faculty, and alumni on business- and missions-related projects to Southeast Asia and to the Central African Republic.

Bill Toannon

Bill Toannon serves as the Director of Microenterprise Development for World Relief. He has over 16 years of domestic commercial and retail banking experience and seven years experience in raising funds for domestic and international agencies. Bill and his family spent one year in Russia teaching a curriculum of morals and ethics. Prior to joining World Relief, Bill was Pastor of Administration and International Outreach at Bethany Community Church in Tempe, Arizona.

Mats Tunehag

Mats Tunehag is a journalist, lecturer, and consultant from Sweden who has worked in nearly half the countries of the world, developing global strategic alliances. Mats is a senior Associate on Business as Mission for both the Lausanne Movement and the World Evangelical Alliance and has published and lectured widely on business as mission. He writes editorials on international affairs for a national newspaper in Sweden and is the Chairman of the Swedish Evangelical Alliance. Mats is a global spokesperson on religious liberty and freedom of speech for the World Evangelical Alliance and has lectured around the world on freedom-of-speech issues and lessons learned in building strategic and influential alliances shaping public opinion and legislation.

Jeff Van Duzer

Jeff Van Duzer serves as the Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Seattle Pacific University and Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Business Law. Prior to his appointment to the School, Jeff was a partner with the international law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine where he practiced for more than 20 years, concentrating in commercial finance and natural resources. Jeff received his undergraduate degree from the University of California in 1976, majoring in rhetoric, and received his J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1979. Jeff is married to Margie Van Duzer and has two sons, Andrew (23) and Nate (21).

Joseph Vijayam

Joseph Vijayam presently manages Olive Technology's overall business planning and corporate strategy as its CEO. Prior to founding Olive, he served as the Chief Executive of Matrix Computer Consultancy, India. He serves on the boards of several for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in India and the US and has been giving direction to several Christian agencies on the use of technology in global missions. He earned a B.S. with highest honors in Computer Science from Biola University and an MBA in Information Systems Technology from Georgia State University.

Marie Williams

Marie serves full-time with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's MBA Ministry in Boston at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Before campus ministry and seminary, Marie worked in business: in GE’s Financial Management Program, with the Latin American M&A and Merchant Banking group at Banc of America Securities, and at Equest Partners, a Latin American venture-capital fund in New York. Marie still enjoys an occasional consulting project but has channeled most of her business energy into micro-enterprise development (MED), actively volunteering with PEER Servants, a Boston-based Christian MED organization with partners in 13 countries around the world. Marie completed an M.Div. at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in 2005, holds a degree in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is married to Andy Williams (not the singer).


 
 

"All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us."

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (NIV)

 
 

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