Dr. Christine Pohl is professor of Church and Society/Christian Ethics. She has taught at Asbury Theological Seminary since 1989.  She worked in various ministries for 11 years before attending seminary. She also worked in advocacy and refugee resettlement. She currently serves as an occasional advisor for homeless shelters and refugee programs. She has also helped plant three churches and is currently assisting her brother in planting a church in Nicholasville, KY.  She is a passionate follower of Jesus Christ.

Dr. Pohl is the Kingdom Conference co-chair and is the author/co-author of several books, including "Making Room: Recovering Hospitality As a Christian Tradition" (Eerdmans), "Friendship at the Margins: Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission" with Chris Heuertz (IVPress).

She received a B.S. in Special Education at Syracuse University, 1972; a M.A. in Theological Studies, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 1986; and a Ph.D. in Ethics and Society at Emory University, 1993.

David Fitch is the Betty R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary and the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community- an emerging church in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. He is the co-founder of Up/Rooted, an emergent cohort that gathers leaders and thinkers to engage issues of the emerging church and the post-modern context. Up/rooted now has chapters all over the Chicago area. He has been aspeaker and presenter at "emerging church" gatherings, the Ekklesia Project, as well as academic and denominational gatherings on the issues of church, postmodernity and culture.

Dr. Fitch is the author of numerous articles on church, culture and theological ethics in journals as diverse as the Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Discernment, Pastoral Psychology and the Journal of Christian Education.??He is the author of "The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from American Business, Para-Church Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism and Other Modern Maladies" (Baker Books, 2005) and the upcoming "The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission - Towards an Evangelical Political Theology" - (Cascade Books, 2011) Theopolitical Visions Series.

Dr. Gary Nelson is the President of Tyndale University College & Seminary and author of "Borderland Churches: A Congregations' introduction to Missional Living" (Chalice Press, 2008).  The book serves as an introduction to the challenge of missional living at the congregational level from a distinctly Canadian perspective with global application.

Dr. Nelson brings to the Seminary proven experience in pastoral work and congregational revitalization as well as teaching experience at numerous seminaries across Canada. Before taking up his role as General Secretary of Canadian Baptist Ministries, he served congregations both as staff member and lead pastor, and was the founding director of an urban leadership training initiative. Most recently he served as pastoral leader of a historic downtown church in Edmonton that underwent significant renewal and revitalization into a dynamic contemporary congregation.

Teaching and speaking take him throughout Canada, the United States and around the world, animating congregations and denominations to think in new ways. Gary’s passion is encouraging local congregations to engage their local communities and the global world. He is co-author with Don Posterski of Future Faith Churches (Woodlake Books, 1997).

Skye Jethani is an ordained pastor, author, editor, speaker and Jesus follower. He serves as the senior editor of Leadership Journal, a publication of Christianity Today International. Skye is the author of "The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity" (Zondervan 2009).

Prior to his editorial role with Leadership, Skye served for six years in full-time pastoral ministry at Blanchard Alliance Church in Wheaton, Illinois. During this time he helped Blanchard launch a second congregation in Warrenville, Illinois, and wrestle with questions of mission and spiritual formation in a postmodern, post-Christian culture. Skye continues to preach at Blanchard and at churches and conferences around the country.

Skye and his wife, Amanda, have been friends since high school. They were married in 1999 and currently live in Wheaton, Illinois, with their three children Zoe, Isaac, and Lucy.