Alan is the founding Director of Forge Mission Training Network, co-founder of Shapevine and part of the leadership team of Christian Associates. Known for his innovative approach to mission, Alan is a teacher and key mission strategist for churches across the western world, an adjunct professor at Fuller Seminary and lectures frequently throughout Australia, Europe and the U.S. He is the author of several books including The Shaping of Things to Come,The Forgotten Ways, ReJesus (with Michael Frost), and Untamed.

Hugh is the national director of Missio, a ministry team committed to training, developing, and apprenticing Incarnational leaders for the church. Within Missio, Hugh co-directs the MCAP, an online collaborative training environment for Incarnational leaders, pastors, and church planters. Hugh is also lead architect of Adullam, a local movement of missional communities in Denver, CO. As co-author of The Tangible Kingdom and the accompanying Tangible Kingdom Primer, Hugh is an advocate for disoriented God seekers and loves to inspire and re-orient leaders around the mission of God.

Dave and four friends from college launched Community Christian Church, a church that is passionate about "helping people find their way back to God." This church has grown to 650+ leaders with more than 5,500 in attendance at eleven sites every weekend throughout Chicagoland. Dave serves as a resource for other churches and leaders seeking to expand through multiple church sites and provides visionary leadership for the NewThing Network, a catalyst for a movement of reproducing churches. He is also the co-founder and serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Community who partner with real estate developers to accomplish their mission of "helping people build quality relationships where they live and work through the power of genuine community." Dave is the co-author of The Big Idea: Aligning the ministries of your church through creative collaboration and Exponential: How you and your friends can start a missional church movement – both with Zondervan.

 

Mike and Sally Breen have been innovators in leading missional churches throughout Europe and the United States for more than 25 years. In their time at St Thomas Sheffield in the UK, they were one of the original pioneers of Missional Communities, mid-sized groups of 20-50 people on mission together. The result, less than 6 years later, was the largest church in England, and ultimately, one of the largest and now fastest growing churches in the whole of Europe. In 2006 Mike and Sally were approached by Leadership Network to lead an initiative into church planting. Through this partnership, more than 750 churches were planted in Europe in just three years. Today, Mike and Sally live in South Carolina, leading 3DM, a movement/organization that is helping hundreds of established churches and church planters move into this discipling and missional way of being the church. Mike is the Senior Guardian of The Order of Mission (TOM) – a global covenant community of networked missional leaders. He has authored numerous books, selling more than 150,000 copies, including Launching Missional Communities, Building a Discipling Culture and Covenant and Kingdom.

Brandon is pastor of Austin New Church, co-founder of Restore Austin, and a missional strategist with Missio. Together, ANC and Restore Austin have developed a unique network of churches and non-profits which serve in a collective effort to impact their city and world.

Brandon is author of the newly released Leadership Network/Zondervan book Barefoot Church: Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture.

Eric Bramlett is the Creative Arts Director for Community Christian Church in Naperville, IL, and has been since 1996. Community Christian Church is a multisite church with locations across Chicagoland and affiliates across the country through the NewThing Network. At Community Christian Church, Eric is responsible for overseeing all large-group experiences from artistic vision through production, for adults, students and kids, and anything else he can think of overseeing. Eric co-authored the book The Big Idea with Jon and Dave Ferguson. In addition to his work at Community, Eric has written and staged creative content for NewThing Network, the Exponential Conference, and the Willow Creek Association. Eric’s background is in the professional theatre, with degrees in acting and directing. He has continued to be involved in the Chicago Theatre scene, most notably as an Artistic Associate for Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago, a theatre company he has been involved with since its inception in 1995. Eric loves his wife Kristi and their three kids, Sadie, Dillon and Anna. Eric twitters under the stage name “billshazzar.” Billshazzar is a plastic wise man.