Art Azurdia

Art received his Master's Degree in New Testament from Simpson College in San Francisco and a Master's Degree in Divinity from American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley. He served as an Associate Pastor at Neighborhood Church in Castro Valley from 1981 to 1986. In 1987, Art and a group of families founded North Bay Bible Church in Vallejo. This was later to be renamed Christ Community Church after moving to its present location in Cordelia. Art has since earned the Doctor of Ministry Degree from Westminster Theological Seminary in Escondido. He is the author of Spirit Empowered Preaching and speaks at conferences locally and abroad.
http://christ-community-church.org

Michael Frost

Michael Frost is a noted Australian Christian communicator and evangelist. He is the founding director of the Centre for Evangelism and Global Mission (CEGM) at Morling Theological College in Sydney. Michael regularly speaks at churches, schools and conferences around Australia and overseas, including some of Australia's largest festivals and conferences, as well as events in Asia, Africa and the USA. He has written three books, Jesus the Fool (1994), Longing For Love (1996) -- both of which were commended as Christian Book of the Year in their respective years of release -- and Eyes Wide Open (1998). He is also a regular columnist with On Being, Australia's premier Christian magazine as well as a number of other more scholarly journals. He is strongly committed to internship training in evangelism and is co-director of the Evangelism Intern Scheme, a program for developing evangelistic preachers among seminary students and was co-director in the establishment of Forge, a mission training network for church planters based in Melbourne. Michael lives in Sydney's northern beaches area with his wife Carolyn and their three daughters, Courtney, Kendall and Fielding.
www.cegm.org.au

Robert Webber

Dr. Robert Webber, Th.D., is recognized by pastors, denominational leaders, scholars and lay people as one of the foremost authorities on worship renewal. He regularly conducts workshops for almost every major denomination in North America through the Institute in Worship Studies, which he founded in 1995. Over 30,000 people have attended his workshops. He has authored over 40 books on worship and the Church, including The Complete Library of Christian Worship. He is also a regular contributor to numerous magazines, journals and newspapers.

Prior to his appointment as the William R. and Geraldyne B. Myers Chair of Ministry at Northern Baptist Seminary, Dr. Webber taught at Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) for 32 years as Professor of Theology.
www.ancientfutureworship.com

Haddon Robinson

Dr. Robinson is co-host and teacher of Discover the Word, a daily radio program produced by RBC Ministries. He also writes for the daily devotional from RBC Ministries—Our Daily Bread. Dr. Haddon Robinson serves as the Harold J. Ockenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary located in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. Before going to Gordon-Conwell, Dr. Robinson was president of the Denver Seminary in Denver, Colorado, where he had served since 1979. He taught preaching on the faculty of Dallas Theological Seminary for 19 years. From 1970-79 he was also the general director of the Christian Medical and Dental Society, whose membership is made up of more than 10,000 physicians and dentists. Dr. Robinson was the president of the Evangelical Theological Society (1983) and has served on the executive committee for that group of evangelical scholars. Other boards of which he is a member are Vision New England and Marketplace Network.
www.gordonconwell.edu/faculty/robinson.php

Eddie Gibbs

Eddie Gibbs came to Fuller Seminary from his homeland of England with an extensive interest in mission which included serving as a missionary in Santiago and Quilpue, Chile, with his wife Renee. Currently, his academic interests include evangelizing nominal Christians and assisting local churches to become evangelizing churches. The church's response to modernity and post-modernity in becoming a missionary presence in that context is the subject of his most current book in process. He currently serves as a Donald A. McGavran Professor of Church at Fuller.
www.fuller.edu/provost/faculty