Speakers

Dan Kimball

Vintage Faith
Dan Kimball (MA Western Seminary) is the founding pastor of Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, CA, designed for the emerging post-Christian culture. Dan serves on the emergentYS board and speaks extensively around the country.
www.vintagefaith.com - www.dankimball.com

Mark Mittelberg

Becoming a Contagious Church
Mark Mittelberg is a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, and a leading strategist and consultant in outreach and evangelism. He is the author of Building a Contagious Church: Revolutionizing the Way We View and Do Evangelism; co-author with Bill Hybels of the best-selling Becoming a Contagious Christian; contributing editor of The Journey, a Bible for spiritual seekers; and the primary author of the celebrated Becoming a Contagious Christian training course, which has been translated into twenty languages and taught to more than a million people around the globe. He has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy of Religion from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Heidi, and their children.

Becky Pippert

Recognized internationally as a prominent authority in the area of evangelism, founder of Salt Shaker Ministries, Rebecca Pippert is author of several books that include the modern classic, Out of the Salt Shaker, which was recently selected by Christianity Today as one of the books that has most influenced evangelical thought in the past 50 years. She is also author of the award winning 4 volume set, Salt Shaker Resources: An Evangelism Tool Kit. Her books have been translated in more than 25 languages.

Becky has an honorary doctorate and holds a B. A. and M. A. with High Honors in English literature from the University of Illinois. She has done advanced study at the University of Barcelona, Regent College in British Columbia and Harvard University.
www.saltshaker.org

Garry Poole

Seeker Small Groups
Willow Creek’s key evangelism leader since 1992, Garry Poole, is an innovator in seeker small groups and an outreach strategist. He is currently spearheading the evangelism efforts of Willow’s new neighborhood ministry initiative. Passionate about reaching people for Christ, Garry and his team have trained thousands of leaders to launch seeker small groups in their own settings. His award-winning book, Seeker Small Groups, provides a detailed blueprint for facilitating small group discussions that assist spiritual seekers with investigating Christianity.
www.willowcreek.com/evangelism

Todd Hunter

President, Three is Enough
Todd Hunter is President and Founder of Three is Enough and the former President of Alpha USA. Earlier in his career he was the National Director of Vineyard Churches. In addition to his work with Three is Enough, Todd is a regular speaker at conferences. Dr. Hunter also serves as an adjunct professor at seminaries such as George Fox, Fuller, and Western. Originally from southern California, Todd and his family now reside in Eagle, Idaho where he most enjoys family dinners, dates with his wife Debbie, reading and an occasional round of golf.

Rick Richardson

Evangelism Faculty, Wheaton College
Besides being an associate professor and the director of the Masters in Evangelism and Leadership degree, Rick is also an Associate Evangelist with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Rick has been in campus ministry for 20 years, regularly speaking and ministering as an evangelist on campuses in many different parts of the country. Rick is an ordained Anglican priest and served for three years as Pastor of Evangelism and Small Groups for Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois, a church known for its healing prayer ministry. Rick received his M.Div. from Northern Baptist Seminary, studying with Ray Bakke, focusing his studies in evangelism and urban ministry, and was Area Director for InterVarsity’s Chicago Urban Ministry for a number of years.
www.wheaton.edu/evangelism

Jim Henderson

Executive Director, Off The Map
Jim is the content guy behind Off The Map. The ideas and concepts for Off The Map come from Jim’s life experiences as a human, a pastor, a husband, a father and someone who just has the knack for seeing things through other people’s eyes. He spends a large amount of his time investing in people and helping them to realize their potential. He is the author of Evangelism Without Additives and Jim and Casper Go To Church.
www.offthemap.com

Matt Casper

Jim and Casper go to Church
Matt Casper is the co-author of Jim and Casper go to Church. Matt is happily married to Yvonne, a proud, hands-on father of Evelyn and Cole, a marketing copywriter, a freelance writer, a guitar slinger/rock singer, an avid reader, and a half-way decent cook. He and his family live in San Diego. His dream job: “gadabout…maybe raconteur.”
www.jimandcasper.com

Randy Siever

Director of Doable Evangelism, Off The Map
Randy is a gifted evangelist. He served twenty years on the Young Life staff and nine years as Pastor of Outreach at Sparks Christian Fellowship near Reno, Nevada. Randy has B.A. in philosophy from San Jose State and an M.A. from Fuller Seminary. He joined Off The Map as Director of Doable Evangelism in 2007.
www.doableevangelism.com