Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
 Soong-Chan Rah is Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Illinois, and was previously the founding pastor of Cambridge Community Fellowship (CCFC), ), a multi-ethnic, urban, post-modern generation church in the Central Square neighborhood of Cambridge, MA.
Soong-Chan Rah just released his [xth] book titled The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity.
Soong-Chan has previously served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Boston, and has been a part of four different church planting efforts. Soong-Chan has been active in urban ministry, particularly in the cities of Cambridge and Boston. Currently, Soong-Chan serves on the boards of Sojourners and the Catalyst Leadership Center. He has extensive experience in cross-cultural preaching, speaking at numerous college campuses and as a conference speaker, including plenary speaker at the 2003 Urbana Student Missions Conference, the 2005 Summer Institute for Asian American Ministry and Theology, the 2006 Congress on Urban Ministry, and the 2007 Evangelical Covenant Church Midwinter Conference.
Soong-Chan received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, his M.Div. degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, his Th.M. from Harvard University and his doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Center for Urban Ministerial Education. He has been published in Reconcilers Magazine and Leadership Journal and has been featured in Christianity Today. He is a contributor author to Growing Healthy Asian American Churches on IVP and an upcoming work with IVP on the changing face of American evangelicalism.
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Mark Harden
 Mark Harden is the Dean of Intercultural Relations, Lead Faculty for the Master of Arts in Community Ministry Leadership at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul.
Mark is a licensed and ordained minister. His passion for transformational ministry has led him to specialize in several forms of Christian outreach ministry such as community and project development, violence prevention, positive youth development, and other intervention strategies for improving conditions among children, youth, and families in the urban church context.
He has professionally assisted over one hundred urban churches in developing youth outreach programs; organized Streetwise Inc. in Detroit; and while working for World Vision as a Church Mobilization Coordinator, he organized an urban-based community collaboration consisting of churches and mission agencies called Detroit Love, Inc
Rick Mattson
 Rick Mattson is currently a Regional Director for InterVarsity for the North Central Region, and previously was an InterVarsity Campus Staff member at Macalester College and Hamline University from 1992 - 2002. He and his wife Sharon have two children and live in the Midway area of St. Paul.
Rick has an MA in Christian Thought from Bethel University, loves history and philosophy, and has minstered among young adults nearly all of his career.
David Myles
 Pastor David Myles is the Family Life/Community Outreach Pastor of the Brooklyn Park Evangelical Free Church in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Since 2005, David has ministered through the preaching of the Word, counseling and the training up of lay leaders. He received a Bachelor of Science in Corporate and Community Fitness from North Dakota State University and then went on to receive a Masters of Divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2004. He is currently is serving on the North Central District Board of Directors and ReachGlobal Board of Directors. He and his wife Tammy are the parents of two boys, DJ and Jackson and a daughter Taylor. David enjoys getting to know people, believing that “everyone has a story to tell, even if they don’t know the Author (God) of their story yet.” Their family resides in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. David's hobbies are sports, hunting, and reading. The most important fact about him: He is a grateful child and servant of God.
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