Alan Hirsch is the founding Director of Forge Mission Training Network. He is the co-founder of shapevine.com, a ministry of Christianity Today International and an international forum for engaging with world transforming ideas.  Currently he leads an innovative learning program called Future Travelers helping numerous mega-churches become missional movements.  He has also been part of the leadership team of Christian Associates, a missional church-planting agency with focus on Western Europe.  Known for his innovative approach to mission, Alan is a teacher and key mission strategist for churches across the western world. His popular book The Shaping of Things to Come (with Michael Frost) is widely considered to be a seminal text on mission. Alan's recent book The Forgotten Ways, has quickly become a key reference for missional thinking, particularly as it relates to missional movements. His book ReJesus is a radical restatement about the role that Jesus plays in defining Christian movements.  Untamed, his most recent book (with his wife Debra) is about missional discipleship for a missional church.

Dan Kimball is a pastor, author and known to be part of the Emerginig Church movement. Kimball uses the phrase "Vintage Faith and Vintage Christianity" for how he expresses his perspective of going back to "vintage" values of the orginal Christian church and teaching of Jesus - yet at the same time moving forward to what it means to be the church in a very different culture today. Dan oversees the Sunday worship gathering and teaching, as well as supports the leaders of the Global and Local ministry teams and Soul Kitchen ministry at Vintage Faith Church, Santa Cruz. Dan acknowledges the emergence of post-modern culture and the church's need to minister to post-moderns, but does not see the need to reject historic Christian doctrine. Dan's role also includesextending the mission of the church through writing and speaking. He serves on the Leadership Council and is known to shop eBay in the wee hours of the morning for vintage shirts. His writing includes: The Emerging Church: Vintage Christianity for New Generation, Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations, They like Jesus, But Not the Church: Insights From Emerging Generations.

Jim Belcher (M.A., Fuller; Ph.D., Georgetown) is founding church planter and lead pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, California. He is the cofounder of the Restoring Community Conference:Integrating Social Interaction, Sacred Space and Beauty in the 21st Century, an annual conference for city officials, planners, builders and architects - www.restoringcommunityconference.com. Jim previously led the Twenty-Something Fellowship and cofounded The Warehouse Service at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena. He has served as adjunct professor at Azusa Pacific University and was cofounder of the Renaissance Project Skateboard Company. He has been published in Leadership Journal and re:generation quarterly, and he and his wife and four children live in Costa Mesa, California.

Deb Hirsch is a conference speaker, church leader, and writer. While co-leading a church in Melbourne, Australia she also pioneered a ministry to the GLBTQ community. She is author (with Alan Hirsch) of Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship.  She currently serves as a minister of Tribe of LA, a group of missional artists and vagabonds. She is also on the leadership team of Christian Associates (a church planting movement in Europe, North & South America). Deb has a heart for the poor and for those on the margins of both the church and broader society.