Pastor Robert Turner is the President and Founder of I Care Outreach and has a passion to share biblical truth with practical life application. He has served in various pastoral and discipleship ministry roles in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Ohio as well as in Kenya, and East Africa. Pastor Turner holds a master’s in Urban Ministry Leadership…

Marc Antoine is Living Water International’s Regional CCM Advisor for Latin America in the Caribbean. Marc has over a decade of international humanitarian and development experience, designing and leading holistic and innovative church-led transformation. Marc has a MA in International Development as well as a M.Div. He is currently doing doctoral research at the nexus…

Dr. Jonathan Mitchell is the Founder and President of Concentric Development Inc., a non-profit dedicated to helping Christian organizations become more effective at alleviating material and spiritual poverty in the developing world. Having grown up in Pakistan as the child of third generation missionaries, and with more than 40 years of experience in the international…

Brad Voyles was elected as Covenant College’s seventh president in 2023 after having served as the vice president for student development and dean of students at Covenant College since 2005. Prior to Covenant, Brad served as the dean of students at Belhaven College. Brad earned an Ed.D. in higher education leadership and policy from Vanderbilt…

A native of Laurens, South Carolina, H. Collin Messer earned his B.A. in English Literature from Emory University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his training and research focused on 20th-century American literature and the literature of the American South.  From 2006-2022 Collin…

Jane currently serves as the Global Fundraising Director of Tearfund, one of the world’s leading Christian NGOs. She began her management career in financial services before moving into the nonprofit sector, working in senior marketing and communication roles at World Vision, Oxfam and United Bible Societies. Jane has worked as an executive leader for over…

Jeff serves as a Central Group Leader at Life.Church with responsibilities for team and program leadership spanning Life.Church locations in eight states and oversight to 80+ local and global partner organizations. Jeff has a graduate degree from Colorado State University and is an instructor for Development Associates International MAOL program. Jeff and his wife Christy…

Craig is President and CEO of Cary Oil Co., Inc., a leading downsteam petroleum marketer serving the south and central U.S. Craig also serves as director of the company’s charitable private foundation. He has served on boards of numerous non-profit organizations including Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO and Concentric Development, Raleigh, NC. He has…

Dr. Brian Fikkert is the Founder of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development and Professor of Economics and Community Development at Covenant College. He is coauthor of the best-selling book When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself as well as: Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn’t the American…