Mark Jobe

Dr. Mark Jobe, President of Moody Bible Institute, is the son of missionaries to rural Spain. He came to Christ at age 15, and at 17 left his village of 200 people to attend Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. By age 21, he was pastoring a small congregation in the inner city of Chicago. For more than 30 years, Dr. Jobe has served as the lead and founding pastor of New Life Community Church, and he and his wife Dee have seen the church grow from a handful of people to approximately 7,000 meeting at 27 locations throughout the Chicago area and in 8 cities internationally. He is also founder of New Life Centers, an organization focused on helping youth in undeserved areas of Chicago, is the author of Unstuck: Out of Your Cave and Into Your Call (Moody Publishers), and is the host of Bold Steps, a weekday program heard across Moody Radio’s nation-wide network of stations. He and his wife have 3 adult children.

Ron and Jody Zappia

Pastor Ron and his wife, Jody, were in their first year of marriage when they came to the brink of divorce. Desperately searching for help, the couple discovered a personal relationship with Jesus and, with the power of God, they were able to save and strengthen their marriage.
Their experience was life-altering. They felt the call to help change the lives of others. After spending seven years in the business world, Ron quit his job, went to seminary, and in the year 2000, he and Jody stepped out in faith to plant Highpoint Church. 20 years later, what started as a handful of people praying in a basement has grown into five campus locations around Chicagoland with church plants all around the country helping thousands of people believe in, belong to, and become like Jesus.
Ron and Jody currently live in Wheaton, IL, and have three grown daughters, Allie, Erin, and Emily.

Christopher Brooks

Chris Brooks is the host of the national syndicated radio program, ‘Equipped with Chris Brooks’, which is heard on over 200 stations throughout the U.S. and Canada. He is also the Senior Pastor at Woodside Bible Church in Metro Detroit. Woodside has fourteen campuses and sees nearly eleven thousand weekly worshippers. Chris is the author of Kingdom Dreaming and Urban Apologetics and is contributing author to ‘A New Kind of Apologetics’ and ‘Marriage: It’s Foundation Theology and Mission in a Changing World’. He graduated from Michigan State University with a BA in Finance, completed his MA in Christian Apologetics at Biola University, and graduated from the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Asbury Theological Seminary where he is studying the Integration of Economics and Theology. He and his wife, Yodit, are the proud parents of Christopher, Zewditu (Zoe), Cameron, Judah, Sophia and Christyana.

Phil Tuttle

For more than three decades, Phil Tuttle has been a vital member of the Walk Thru the Bible family. He has served as Dean of Faculty, Senior VP for International Ministries, and Global Teaching Pastor before becoming President and CEO in 2007. As author of serval books, he continues to share God's Word throughout the world in churches, Bible conferences, Christian education conventions, and corporate gatherings. Phil and his wife, Ellen, have two adult children, Emily and Philip, and a daughter-in-law, Erika, and two grandchildren.

Abdu Murray

Abdu is a speaker and Senior Vice President of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. He is the author of four books, including his latest book with Ravi Zacharias, Seeing Jesus From the East – A Fresh Look at History's Most Influential Figure. For most of his life, Abdu was a proud Muslim who studied the Qur'an and Islam. After a nine-year investigation, Abdu discovered that the historic Christian faith alone answers the questions of the mind and the longings of the heart.
Abdu has spoken to diverse international audiences and has participated in debates and dialogues across the globe. He has appeared as a guest on numerous radio and television programs all over the world and hosts the podcast The Defense Rests.
Abdu holds a BA in psychology from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. As an attorney, Abdu was named several times in Best Lawyers in America and Michigan Super Lawyer.
Abdu lives in the Detroit, Michigan, area with his wife and their three children.

Crawford Loritts

Crawford was ordained to the ministry in March 1972. He and his wife Karen have been featured speakers at Family Life marriage conferences. Crawford has written 9 books including the newly released book with Karen, Your Marriage Today … and Tomorrow. Crawford has several degrees, serves on several boards and is the host of two national radio programs, the weekend program Living a Legacy, and the daily program Legacy Moments. They have 4 children and 11 grandchildren. Presently, Crawford serves as Senior Pastor at Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell, GA.

Todd VanEk

Todd VanEk is Mission India’s President & CEO. He comes to the ministry with 20 years of experience in church leadership, and has served as an advocate for India and Mission India for more than 10 years. After traveling extensively in India, Todd shares, “I hold a deep passion for advancing God’s Kingdom through evangelism and Church Planting. Advocating for people’s involvement in the Great Commission gives me great joy!” This passion has prompted Todd to speak on the topic throughout the U.S. He and his wife, Jean, have five children, including a daughter adopted from India. They make their home in Holland, Michigan.

Ron Cline

Dr. Ronald A. Cline challenges and edifies the body of Christ around the world. His background as a pastor, educator, counselor, missionary and author gives him credibility and rapport with the many groups and individuals he and his wife, Barbara, minister to in various countries each year. Ron and Barb currently serve as Global Ambassadors with Reach Beyond and live in Southern California. They travel from there throughout the world preaching, teaching and coaching.
After 7 years of church centered ministry in Southern California, Ron served as Dean at Azusa Pacific University for 10 years. The Clines’ international service began in 1976 as a short-term opportunity when he agreed to pastor the English Fellowship Church in Quito, Ecuador for two years. Those two years stretched into six years. Following that he served as the president of HCJB Global for 20 years. HCJB Global, now Reach Beyond, has media, health care and leadership development ministries in North America, Latin America, Europe-Russia, North Africa/Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia Pacific.
Ron and Barb currently serve as Global Ambassadors with Reach Beyond and live in Southern California. They travel from there throughout the world preaching, teaching and coaching.

Nicolas Ellen

Dr. Ellen is the Senior Pastor of Community of Faith Bible Church in Houston Texas and Senior Professor of Biblical Counseling at the College of Biblical Studies in Houston, Texas. Dr. Ellen has also developed a biblical counseling training center called Expository Counseling Training Center LLC.
He received his B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, his M.A. in Christian Education from Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas, his M.A. in Biblical Counseling from The Masters University, Santa Clarita, California, his Doctorate of Ministry with a concentration in Biblical Counseling from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky and his PH.D in Biblical Counseling from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas.
Dr. Ellen is a certified Biblical Counselor with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC), a Fellow with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC) and travels nationwide with the organization teaching biblical counseling principles. Dr. Ellen and his wife Dr. Venessa Ellen have two children and four grandchildren.

Charles Price

Charles Price is Minister at Large with The Peoples Church, Toronto, Canada, where he was Lead Pastor from 2001 to 2016. Originally from England, for many years he was involved in the ministry of Capernwray Hall, a bible school, conference grounds and evangelistic center in the North of England. He has preached in over 100 countries on every continent and is the author of 8 books, some of which have been translated into German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Malaylam, Farsi, Korean and Latvian.
He is married to Hilary and they have two daughters, one son, two sons-in-law, five grandchildren, and their family is scattered in several parts of the world.

He had an hour-long television programme, Living Truth, broadcast coast to coast in Canada each week, as well as in more than 70 countries in a variety of languages. He has a daily 30 minute radio program broadcast in parts of the U.S.A. Canada, New Zealand, the Philippines and the UK.

Dave DeSelm

Dave DeSelm is the Executive Director of Dave DeSelm Ministries, a non-profit committed to resourcing everyday pastors to equip everyday people to become every day disciples. He brings over 40 years of pastoral leadership experience into the blogs, devotionals, and coaching offered to pastors and leaders.
He served on the staff of First Missionary Church in Fort Wayne, IN, from 1979-1982. Dave then went on to plant Fellowship Missionary Church in Fort Wayne, IN, where he served as Senior Pastor for 34 years. Dave and his wife, Gwen, have three grown children and seven grandchildren.

Al Toledo

Pastor Al Toledo, Lead Pastor of Chicago Tabernacle, with his wife Chrissy, pioneered the
multi-ethnic, vibrant church in 2002. Al, who spent his early years in New York City
preparing for a promising career as a professional baseball player, gave his life to Jesus
while on a baseball field at the age of 17. He left baseball and began attending a church a short distance from the apartment he grew up in, The Brooklyn Tabernacle. Al served in various
ministries and shortly thereafter responded to the call to full-time Christian service. This led
Al to Nebraska, where he pastored a thriving Assemblies of God church. He later
returned with Chrissy to The Brooklyn Tabernacle to support the growing work before,
finally, moving to Chicago.
Pastor Al lives with fervent desire to see people become all God has called them to be. An
expression of this desire is the DNA of a Leader, a leadership training launched in 2012 to
staff and lay leaders at Chicago Tabernacle, emanating from his over 25 years of ministry
experience. Since then, DNA has been taught globally, in multiple seminaries, and in
various cities.
Al and Chrissy Toledo have three children – Susie, Annie and Tommy – and four
grandchildren – Wesley, James, Roman and Joel.

Steve Harling

Erwin Lutzer

Dr. Erwin Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church where he served as the Senior Pastor for 36 years. A clear expositor of the Bible, he is the featured speaker on three radio programs: “Running to Win,” “Moody Church Hour,” and “Songs in the Night.” He has authored several books including One Minute After You Die, When A Nation Forgets God, and the Christian Bookseller’s Gold Medallion Award winner, Hitler’s Cross. He and his wife Rebecca have co-written the books: Life-Changing Bible Verses You Should Know and Jesus, Lover Of A Woman’s Soul. A frequent Bible conference and seminar speaker, he also leads tours to Israel and the cities of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Dr. Lutzer and his wife Rebecca live in the Chicago area and have 3 children and eight grandchildren.

Rod Van Solkema

Rod VanSolkema is the founding and senior pastor at Crossroads Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan and is also the founder of Ancient Path Study Tours. In addition to being very invested in the local church and its mission, Rod is extremely passionate about bringing people to the lands of the text. His hope is that by having people walk the story in community while studying its culture and context that people will gain a rich understanding of the text and gain a vision for discipleship. Currently, Rod leads trips to Israel and study tours that include Turkey, Greece and Rome. Rod has an undergraduate degree from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and completed his seminary work at Trinity University in Deerfield, Illinois. In addition, Rod has spent time in Israel attending and completing graduate work at Jerusalem University College. Rod lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his wife and three children.

Roy Patterson

Roy Patterson is a broadcaster, worship leader, facilitator, preacher and soloist. He came to Christ in 1973. He immediately developed a love for God’s word. During high school he established an afterschool Bible Study. During college, Roy preached at Cook County Jail weekly. He currently serves as the Community Relations Director at Moody Bible Institute. He had his wife Lynette have been married for over 30 years and have 3 adult children.
He is the host of a local and national show called Music for Sunday. He’s also the creator and former host of Urbanpraiseradio.org.
He served as the station manager of Moody Radio Chicago, 90.1fm for four years.
He has led praise and worship throughout America and internationally.
He served as a youth pastor for 10 years.
He pastored New Life Baptist Church in Chicago Heights for 11 years.
He has provided substance abuse counseling to youth and adults.
He has led numerous racial reconciliation workshops.
He is committed to seeing the body of Christ come together to bring hope and healing to the world.
He believes the ultimate addiction is sin and the ultimate cure is the cross.

He is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute and Trinity International University.
He is the host of a local and national show called Music for Sunday. He’s also the creator and former host of Urbanpraiseradio.org.
He served as the station manager of Moody Radio Chicago, 90.1fm for four years.
He currently serves as the Community Relations Director at Moody Bible Institute.
He has been married to Lynette for over 30 years and has 3 adult children.
He has the most wonderful grandchildren in the universe.

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Mike Fabarez

Dr. Mike Fabarez is the founding pastor of Compass Bible Church and the president of Compass Bible Institute, both located in Aliso Viejo, California. Pastor Mike is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute, Talbot School of Theology and Westminster Theological Seminary in California. Mike is heard on hundreds of stations on the Focal Point radio program. He has authored several books, including 10 Mistakes People Make About Heaven, Hell, and the Afterlife, Raising Men Not Boys, Lifelines for Tough Times, and Preaching that Changes Lives. Mike and his wife Carlynn have two grown sons and one teenage daughter.