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Dr. Tom Clegg
President
Missional Transformation Network
Urbandale, Iowa
www.missionaltransformationnetwork.com

Tom is a highly sought after conference speaker, consultant and internationally recognized authority in the fields of evangelism. church planting, leadership, and missions. He is author of Missing in America, Lost in America, Releasing Your Church's Potential and The Seven Habits of a Visitor Friendly Church. Having helped plant and grow many new churches in the past twenty-five years through training, coaching, assessing and resourcing church planters, his broad experience enables him to provide strategic planning and management consulting for ministry leadership. Tom makes his home in Des Moines, Iowa with his wife Jodi and their teenage daughters: Chelsea and Lindsey.

Terry Walling
President
Leader Breakthru
Chico, California
www.leaderbreakthru.com

Terry is passionate to see leaders experience a breakthrough in their development. Terry resources, coaches and mentors breakthrough for entrepreneurial, risk taking leaders, helping to accelerate them onto greater Kingdom contribution. Along with his speaking and coaching, Terry teaches in the Doctor of Ministry programs in seminaries across North America. He currently serves as Adjunct Professor in the D.Min programs at Fuller Theological Seminary, Bethel Theological Seminary and Reformed Theological Seminary/Orlando. His subject areas are Lifelong Leadership Development and Advanced Leadership development. Terry has authored numerous resources on leadership development and corporate revitalization, which include: His new book Stuck!...Focused Living resources...Focused Ministry and Maximum Health Resource Kits...Advancing Leaders Reader and Resource Kit...The new on-line resource Verbatim...Marketplace leader resources.

Joshua Lyle
Captain, The Salvation Army
Director of Youth Ministries
North East Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio

Joshua is an ordained minister whose passion is to see young leaders living out of their faith and calling from God. Joshua attended Nyack College in New York and received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Bible from The American Christian College and Seminary in Bethany, Oklahoma. He and his wife Catherine planted a church in Derry, NH and Pastored a church in Bangor, Maine. They now serve as the Directors of Youth Ministries for The Salvation Army in North East Ohio giving leadership and influence to over forty churches. During the summers they direct a Christian Summer Camping Program with 150 young leaders as staff and 250 children per week.

Joel Lyle
Banker, Extreme Adventurer
Pittsfield, Maine

Joel is an avid extreme adventurer who serves as Guide in taking leaders kayaking,
fly fishing,rock climbing, mountain climbing or hunting in the woods. He attended
Eastern Nazarene College, Youngstown State University and The University of Maine.
By way of vocation, Joel is a Banker at the Bangor Savings Bank in Bangor, Maine.
He lives in Pittsfield, Maine with his hunting dog Keiser, a German short-haired Pointer.

Bob Hostetler is a writer, editor, pastor, and speaker from southwestern Ohio. His books, which include the award-winning Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door (co-authored with Josh McDowell) and the novel, The Bone Box, have sold over 3 million copies. He has won two Gold Medallion Awards, three Ohio Associated Press awards, and an Amy Foundation Award. He is a co-founder and Pastor of Leadership and Teaching at Cobblestone Community Church in Oxford, Ohio. He and his wife Robin have two grown children, Aubrey and Aaron, who have given them three beautiful grandchildren.

Professor Calenthia Dowdy
Eastern University
St. Davids, Pennsylvania
cdowdy@eastern.edu

B.A. Temple University; M.A.R. Westminster Theological Seminary, M.A. University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. Candidate of American University

Interests: I'm an anthropologist by training and a youth minister at heart. My interests include urban and international youth ministry with a particular focus on themes of poverty, justice and hip-hop as related to youth and culture in American cities, and impoverished youth in the favelas of Brazil.

Experience: Youth pastor with the Salvation Army Church; Christian college chaplain; missionary; educator; and anti-racism analysis trainer with the Mennonite Church.