Since 2007, Jon has spent the last three years exploring what it means to take ideas to unexpected places. Called “hilarious and insightful” by Group Magazine and featured as a regular contributor on CNN.com, Jon has a wealth of ideas to share with anyone from dairy farmers to CEOs of billion-dollar companies. With two books under his belt, conference keynotes throughout the year, and one of the most popular blogs in the world, he’s just getting started.

Ben Crawshaw is the creative director of the high school ministry at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, GA. In addition to speaking and writing, Ben plans services and events. He graduated from Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, where he played baseball and served as President of FCA. Prior to working at North Point, Ben was an assistant pastor at North Georgia Church for six years where he did a little bit of everything. He and his wife Holly live in Dahlonega, Georgia, with their cat Cupcake.

Jamey Dickens has a passion for working with students. While at the University of North Carolina, he founded 180 Ministries, a multi-campus movement inspiring thousands of students towards deeper worship and devotion. From there, Jamey sensed God directing him to Moldova, a little country in eastern Europe, where he spent two and a half years building student ministry environments for a generation alienated from the Church and skeptical about God. Currently, Jamey is the director of high school ministries at Buckhead Church in Atlanta, Georgia. His passion is to show students that knowing Jesus is the greatest thing on the planet and inspire them to live radically for Him.

Talk about making the most of every opportunity . . . Stuart Hall provides vision and leadership for two highly effective non-profit organizations (XP3 and DASH Inc.), deeply desires to develop spiritually influential students that engage culture, partners with great organizations such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes to develop students as leaders, travels and speaks to thousands of students and leaders each year, has coauthored three books, is working on authoring one or two more, laughs incessantly, coaches his daughtersʼ basketball teams, relishes watching his son play football and basketball and his daughters play basketball and soccer, and loves his beautiful wife Kellee with every fiber of his being.

Jared serves as the creative director for XP3 Students, the junior high and senior high curriculum published by Orange. He also serves as the voice and personality of many podcasts and webcasts at Orange. During the summer months, you can find Jared speaking at BigStuf Camps. He often travels to other locations around the country to communicate the hope of Jesus with a humorous and captivating approach that has reached thousands of teenagers and college students. Jared and his wife, Rosanna, live in Alpharetta, Georgia.   Blog: www.JaredHerd.com/blog/   Twitter: twitter.com/jaredherd

Justin is an Ohio boy, born and raised there. He attended Indiana Wesleyan University graduating with a degree in youth ministry. Justin has a deep passion for worship through the form of music as well as teaching the next generation about the love of God.  He also enjoys the outdoors, the local church, and great coffee.  He is engaged to a girl named Lauren, who is a righteous fox.  Justin’s desire is to watch God stir a passion for His Kingdom through worship in the form of music, and minister to the next generation of leaders in the Sugarloaf area.

Carey Nieuwhof is the lead pastor of Connexus Community Church, a multi-campus church north of Toronto and strategic partner of North Point Community Church. Before starting Connexus in 2007, Carey served for 12 years within a mainline denomination, transitioning three small rural congregations into a new congregation that experienced significant growth.  He speaks to church leaders across North America about change, leadership, parenting and the strategy behind Orange.  Carey co-authored Parenting Beyond Your Capacity with Reggie Joiner.  He and his wife, Toni, live near Barrie, Ontario, and have two teenage sons, Jordan and Sam.  In his spare time, you can find him cycling his heart out on a back road somewhere.

Reggie is the founder of Orange. He is also one of the founding pastors of North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. In his role there as the executive director of family ministry, Reggie developed the concepts of ministry for preschoolers, children, students, and married adults over the course of his 11 years with the church. He is the co-author of Seven Practices of Effective Ministries and the author of Think Orange, Parent Beyond Your Capacity, as well as the Orange Leaders Handbook. Reggie and Debbie Joiner live in Cumming, Georgia, and have four grown children.

Lanny Donoho, President and Creative Director of BigStuf, has been working with kids, producing events, and creating environments for ministry for what seems like 43 years, but probably more like since 1975.

Lanny is the brain behind the BigStuf Camps and Conference and has been the emcee/host guy for these as well as Atlanta Fest, DCLA, CHIC, Catalyst Conference, Orange Conference, his kid’s birthday parties, and KidStuf at North Point Community Church. He also does some creative consulting for a bunch of Christian and secular organizations and his mom is really proud of him.

In 2006, Lanny founded the 410 Bridge. This non-profit organization is focused on partnering churches in America with churches in Kenya to help meet the specific needs of Kenyans. Since visiting Kenya in 2005, Lanny has had a passion to use the resources on this side of the world to help and equip people on the other side of the world.

He wrote this bio himself, and wonders why he typed it all in third person. He also figures that all the stuff in the paragraph really doesn’t mean a whole lot, but that his relationship with God does.

He and his talented and creative wife Peggy live in Alpharetta, Georgia, and are presently enjoying the challenge of raising their three sons:  Landon, Andrew, and Evan.

Tommy Woodward and Eddie James, the Skit Guys, have been best friends since high school. Think of them as the wise guys in class who had everyone laughing and managed to make a career out of it. They've been teaching God's word using comedy, drama and whatever category "talking action figures" fits into for over twenty years.