Alan Roxburgh is a pastor, teacher, writer and consultant with more than 30 years experience. Alan has pastored congregations in a small town, the suburbs, church plants, and a redeveloping downtown urban church plant. He has directed an urban training center and served as a seminary professor and the director of a center for mission and evangelism. Alan teaches as an adjunct professor for seminaries in the United States, Australia and Europe. His books include: Reaching a New Generation: Strategies for Tomorrow’s Church; Missionary Congregation, Leadership, & Liminality; Crossing the Bridge: Church Leadership in a Time of Change; The Sky is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition; and The Missional Leader: Equipping your Church to Reach a Changing World.

Bishop Will Willimon was elected as Bishop of the United Methodist Church in July 2004. He leads the 157,000 Methodists and 792 pastors in North Alabama. For 20 years he was Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He has served as pastor of churches in Georgia and South Carolina. He is the author of nearly 60 books, over a million of which have been sold, and translated into eight languages. In 1996, an international survey conducted by Baylor University named him one of the 12 most effective preachers in the English-speaking world.