Ken Rathbun is a missionary teacher with Baptist Mid-MIssions at Fairview Baptist Bible College in Westmoreland, Jmaica. He earned his BA and MDiv degrees at Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary. In addition, he has completed an MA in the History of Religions from the Univ. of Iowa and a PhD from the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. Ken has taught or preached in Australia, Brazil, England, Guyana, India, Libera, New Zealand, Scotland and Thailand. His wife Cléa is an MA student at FBTS.

Dan Chapa was saved at an early age and Christ is the most important part of his life. He has attended independent or Southern Baptists Churches his entire life. His main ministries have been evangelism and teaching Sunday school, but he has also enjoyed discussing Calvinism/Arminianism over the years. He is a member of SEA and blogs at arminianchronicles.com. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and two boys.

Jim Franklin is a native of Covington, Kentucky and is 2004 graduate of Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana. He earned his MA in Theological Studies at age 50. He served twenty years in the US Air Force as a supply specialist and medical technician, retiring in 1997 as a Technical Sergeant. Jim was an Adjunct Professor of English with Grace College’s Prison Extension Division from 2008 to 2011. He is currently the pastor of Flora Grace Brethren Church, Flora, Indiana. Jim is married to Alice. They have two adult sons. Jim blogs with his good friend Jeff Bowers at “The World as Best I Remember It” and comments at The American Thinker as “Van Owen.”

Gary Gilley has served as Senior Pastor of Southern View Chapel in Springfield, Illinois since 1975. He has authored several books and is the book review editor for the Journal of Dispensational Theology. He received his BA from Moody Bible Institute. He and his wife Marsha have two adult sons and six grandchildren.

Kevin Subra is a graduate of Faith Baptist Bible College (Ankeny, Iowa) and has enjoyed studying the Bible since high school. He has served as a bi-vocational pastor since 1987, assisting churches that cannot afford full-time pastors. He has been shepherding Northridge Baptist Church in Des Moines since 1996 (helping 2 other works during that time). He currently works for a government military contractor in the IT security field. Kevin and his wife Jane just celebrated 30 years of marriage. God has belssed them with 15 children and 7 grandchildren (so far!).

Fred Moritz serves on the missions faculty at Maranatha Baptist University. He earned his MDiv at Central Seminary (Plymouth, MN) and DMin at Bob Jones University (Greenville, SC). He became assistant to Dr. Monroe Parker at Baptist World Mission in 1981 then Executive Director in 1985, where he oversaw 350 missionaries. He is also the author of Be Ye Holy: The Call to Christian Separation and Contending for the Faith.

Micah Pattisall is the Pastor of Church Life at Salem Chapel in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He graduated from Piedmont Baptist College with a degree in Biblical Studies. His primary responsibilities are small groups, assimilation, local ministry and counseling. He and his wife have three sons and live just outside of Winston Salem. He blogs sporadically at www.micahpattisall.com.

Ted Bigelow earned the MDiv and ThM at The Master’s Seminary and has a doctorate in expository preaching from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He pastors Grace Church in Hartford, CT and has been married to Deena since 1987. They are blessed with 4 children who, by God’s mercy, love the Lord: Katie (20), Karryn (18), Daniel (15) and David (13).

Brenda Thomas received her BS from Faith Baptist Bible College (Ankeny, Iowa), MA from Faith Baptist Theological Seminary and MA from California State University Dominguez Hills. She lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota with her husband and two children and is a member of a Baptist church there.

Todd Wood was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho in 1969. He received his seminary training at Bob Jones University. He came back out to the West under the church planting umbrella of Northwest Baptist Missions. He did a short internship at Grace Baptist Church in Elko, Nevada. And then his family moved back to his hometown, Idaho Falls, to church-plant. He has been the pastor of Berean Baptist Church for 14 years.