Author of A Framework for Understanding Poverty; speaker; career educator and expert on poverty, the mindsets of economic classes, and the crossing of socioeconomic lines in education, in work and for social change.

Professor, evangelical speaker, writer and president of the Evangelicals for Social Action, whose books include Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, recognized by Christianity Today as the 7th most influential book in the evangelical world of the last 50 years.

South African pastor, author, speaker; a leading post-apartheid voice for reconciliation and restoration in the Christian community; and a committed champion for the powerful ministry and mission made possible through the “local church.”

The three-decade dreamer and lead pastor of Ginghamsburg Church, a spiritual entrepreneur of ministry marketplace innovations, and a tireless advocate for the children, women and men of Darfur, Sudan.

-- Mike Slaughter