Paul Washer

Paul Washer became a believer while studying at the University of Texas. He completed his undergraduate studies and enrolled at Southwestern Theological Seminary, where he received his Master of Divinity degree. After graduating, he moved to Peru and served there as a missionary for 10 years, during which time he founded the HeartCry Missionary Society to support Peruvian church planters. HeartCry's work now supports over 100 indigenous missionaries in over 20 countries throughout Eastern Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

An itinerant preacher, Paul also frequently teaches at the new church plant in Radford, Virginia, and is the author of The One True God: A Biblical Study of the Doctrine of God.

Paul serves as the Director and one of the laborers with the HeartCry Missionary Society (www.heartcrymissionary.com). He and his wife Charo have three children: Ian, Evan, and Rowan. Their family resides in Radford, VA.

Joel Beeke

Dr. Joel R. Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics, as well as Academic Dean for students from the Heritage Reformed Congregations. He is currently a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a position he has held for 20 years. He is also editor of the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written, co-authored, or edited fifty books and contributed over fifteen hundred articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His Ph.D. (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary is in Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology. He and his wife, Mary, have 3 children: Calvin, Esther, and Lydia.

Scott Brown

Scott T. Brown is the director of the National Center for Family Integrated Churches and elder at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Scott graduated from California State University in Fullerton in History and received a Master of Divinity from Talbot School of Theology. He gives most of his time to local pastoral ministry, conferences on fatherhood, church reformation, and strengthening the family. He has been married to Deborah for twenty-nine years and they have four children ages twenty-five, twenty-three, nineteen, and sixteen.

Doug Phillips

Douglas W. Phillips is the founder and director of Vision Forum, a discipleship and training ministry that emphasizes Christian apologetics, world-view training, multi-generational faithfulness, and creative solutions whereby fathers can play a maximum role in family discipleship. He is a passionate communicator with a heart for home education and the restoration of Christian family and culture to the glory of God. As a constitutional attorney, Doug served six years at Home School Legal Defense Association and as Director for the National Center for Home Education. Doug and his wife, Beall, have eight children - Joshua, Justice, Liberty, Jubilee, Faith Evangeline, Honor, Providence, and Virginia Hope. They live in San Antonio, Texas.

Kevin Swanson

Kevin Swanson is an elder at Reformation Church. Homeschooled himself in the 1960's and 70's, Kevin Swanson and his wife, Brenda, are now homeschooling their five children. Since graduating from his homeschool and then serving as student body president of a large west coast university, he has gone on to other leadership positions in corporate management, church, and other non-profits. Kevin has 35 years of experience in the homeschooling movement and serves as the director of Generations with Vision – a ministry he founded to strengthen homeschool families around the country. As a father who wants to leave a godly heritage for his own five children, Kevin's passion is to strengthen and encourage the homeschooling movement all over the world, and to cast a vision for generations to come. For the last four years, Kevin has hosted Generations Radio, the world's largest homeschooling and biblical worldview radio program, broadcasting daily to families across the US and in more than 80 countries.

Kevin has also served as the Executive Director of Christian Home Educators of Colorado for the last nine years. He has also authored several popular books for homeschoolers, including Upgrade-10 Secrets to the Best Education for Your Child, The Second Mayflower, the Family Bible Study Guide Series, and others. Serving as a passionate supporter of home education, he has been interviewed on hundreds of media outlets, including Dr. James' Dobson's Focus on the Family and the Fox News Network.

Joe Morecraft

Pastor Morecraft has been Chalcedon's minister since its inception. Pastor Morecraft is a preacher of the gospel and a noted lecturer on contemporary political and historical trends in the United States. His published works include two books - How God Wants Us to Worship Him: a Defense of the Bible as the Only Standard for Modern Worship, and With Liberty and Justice for All: Christian Politics Made Simple. He has also published hundreds of articles and is currently the Executive Editor of the Counsel of Chalcedon, a reformed magazine, and the New Southern Presbyterian Review, a reformed theological journal. Pastor Morecraft was born in 1944 and is a native of Madison, West Virginia. Pastor Morecraft holds a B.A. in history from King College in Bristol, Tennessee, a M.Div from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and a M.Th. and Th.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary in Lakeland, Florida.

In 1986, Pastor Morecraft was a candidate for the U.S. Congress in the 7th Congressional District of Georgia. Pastor Morecraft is married to the former Becky Belcher of Haysi, Virginia, who is an accomplished singer and poet. Pastor Morecraft and Becky have four children and seven grandchildren.

Dan Horn

Dan Horn is an elder at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He has been married to Kendra for twenty-one years and they have three children, Joshua, Rachel, and Stephen. He is also a computer programmer who has been president of Datatek, Inc., a small software firm, for seventeen years.

Jason Dohm

Jason Dohm works in the Electronics Manufacturing Services industry, and is an Elder at Hope Baptist Church, Wake Forest, NC. He graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992 with a B.A. in education. He has been married to Janet for nineteen years, and they have six children ages fifteen to four.

Don Hart

Boyd Dellinger

Steve Breagy

John Latham

 John Latham currently serves as a pastor/elder at North Gabriel Christian Assembly in Austin, Texas.

John is a bond-slave of Jesus Christ by the grace of God. As such, he desires to serve his Lord and Master with the honor and obedience that He deserves and by the grace that He supplies.

John is also a husband, father, pastor, and small-business owner in the Austin, Texas area. He has been married to Tobey Latham for 19 years and they have seven children: Michael, Joshua, Andrew, Samuel, Noah, Abigail, and Caleb. John is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Religious Education. He did his undergraduate work at Hardin-Simmons University and earned a BBS in Applied Theology.

John helped start the church, where he currently serves, nine years ago with fellow elder Don Hart, Jr. Before that, John was a youth minister and a “senior pastor.” These experiences helped him realize the importance of leading and ordering the church God’s way.

Paul Thompson

 Paul Thompson has been the pastor of Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls since June, 2001. Paul has been married to his wife, Renee, since 1986. Paul and Renee have two grown sons. He is founder of Wilderness Adventure Ministries, enjoys gardening, and is an avid reader. He served as president of the Utah/Idaho Southern Baptist Convention from 2008-2009 and has been vice president of the Saudi Advocacy Network since 2006. Paul and his son Silas were among the 10 Americans arrested in Port-au-Prince, Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. You can read his journal from those God-ordained days at www.bridgebloggin.blogspot.com

Matt Hudson

Matthew Hudson currently serves as an elder at Basswood Church in Knoxville, TN. After graduating from Samford University and Beeson Divinity School, Matthew Hudson has been honored to serve on church staffs in Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia, Texas, and Tennessee. In the Father's kind Providence, his family has had the joy of growing alongside many godly shepherds and families. From 2007-2008, Matthew Hudson had the privilege of mentoring under Dr. Voddie Baucham, Paul Renfro, and the families of Grace Family Baptist Church in their elder training program.

Now settled happily in East Tennessee, his family is honored to be a part of Basswood Church, where alongside other families, they are striving to implement as biblical a model as possible of church and family life. They are definitely not perfect, but they long for more than what they are.

Jeff Pollard

By God’s grace, Jeff Pollard was converted to Jesus Christ from a career in rock music in the early 1980s. Though religious from his youth, his true conversion at age thirty brought him to understand and then to preach God’s sovereign grace. God’s Spirit and Word awakened him to his responsibilities as husband and father as well as to God’s vision for families. He and his wife Myra home-schooled their children, Lacey, and Jordan. After years of conducting home and campus Bible studies, street and prison ministries, and interim pastoral work, he pastored Providence Baptist Church in Ball, Louisiana, for seven years. Jeff is now an elder of Mt. Zion Bible Church, Pensacola, Florida, the home of Chapel Library, which is a literature and tape ministry dedicated to reprinting Christ-centered literature from great authors and preachers of the past and distributing it free of charge. He is the editor of the Free Grace Broadcaster and author of Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America and Do You Know Jesus Christ?

Carlton McLeod

Dr. Carlton McLeod is a native of Columbia, SC and grew up in Upper Marlboro, MD. In 1987, he enlisted in the United States Navy and reached the rank of O-3 before the Lord called him into full-time ministry. In 1997, Dr. McLeod and his wife Donna established Closer Walk Christian Fellowship. After much prayer, Closer Walk Christian Fellowship changed its name to Calvary Revival Church Chesapeake in 2005.

Dr. McLeod is relentless in his pursuit to compassionately teach with a biblical worldview. After spending his early years in ministry attempting to pull young people out of the kingdom of darkness with all the world’s methods, the Lord led Dr. McLeod back to the Bible to see the critical need for constant, fervent, and Spirit led biblical family discipleship. The D6 Reformation.org was created out of this desire. His other passions in ministry include: discipleship, debt free living, the covenant of marriage, the supremacy of Scripture, servant leadership with accountability, integrity, and obedience to God, family integration – biblical manhood/biblical womanhood, and missions.

Dr. McLeod earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science from Hampton University; a Master of Theology and Doctor of Ministry from Andersonville Theological Seminary. He and his wife Donna have been married since 1992 and they have two beautiful daughters, Dori and Aryanna.

Conrad Mbewe

Conrad Mbewe has been pastoring Kabwata Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia for the last 25 years. Apart from the multi-facetted ministries that have developed in the church, Kabwata Baptist Church is also involved in planting over twenty churches in Zambia and in the neighboring countries. Conrad is the editor of Reformation Zambia magazine and is the author of Foundations For The Flock—Truths About The Church For All The Saints. He also sustains an itinerant ministry that has enabled him to preach the Gospel all around the world. Conrad is married to Felistas and they have been blessed with three children while they are fostering another three.

Fikret Bocek

Fikret Bocek's current church is Izmir, Turkey. Fikret grew up as a Muslim. He attended university in Turkey in 1991 and graduated in 1995.

He attended Westminster Theological Seminary in San Diego. He and his wife returned to Turkey in September 2001. His current church began meeting in their home.

Fikret spends most of his time discipling young believers in the church. Fikret is also involved in evangelistic outreach to local universities, writing and translating Christian materials, and teaching at Tyrannus School of Theology, a Bible school near Ephesus.

Marcus Serven

Marcus Serven has been a Presbyterian minister since 1980 and currently serves as the presiding pastor of Covenant Family Church. He and his wife Cheryl are blessed with nine children, three of whom are now married, and one grandchild. The Servens are dedicated home-educators and have done so for twenty-seven years.

Pastor Serven has a great love for verse-by-verse exposition of the Word of God. Marcus also delights in telling the remarkable stories of God’s providence in sermons and historical articles. He just recently finished his doctoral dissertation on the pastoral theology of John Calvin.

Craig D. Houston

Craig D. Houston is an elder at Westside Baptist Church. Privileged to grow up in a Christian home, Craig came to faith at a young age and was baptized. He married his sweetheart, Emily (Grogan), in 1994. They have have been blessed with eleven children and are seeking to raise them for the Kingdom of God. Craig was called to preach at 19, trained under his pastor in the local church and ordained into the Gospel ministry in 1997. He was sent out to plant a church in Oregon in 1998 and has been privileged to pastor Westside Baptist Church in Bremerton, Washington, since 2002.

Craig has a passion for the glory of God, the global advance of the Gospel, expository Bible preaching, restoring the Christian home, and uniting church and family.

For information about Westside Baptist Church, go to www.bibledirectionforlife.com. For the preaching, teaching and writing ministry of Pastor Craig Houston, please visit www.soundpulpit.com.

Geoffrey Botkin

Geoffrey Botkin currently serves as a senior consultant to the Western Conservatory of the Arts and Sciences. He has worked in politics, the pastorate, and private business. For the last five years Geoffrey Botkin has been probing the connections between national culture, public justice and personally-held theological belief. Mr. Botkin has lectured on philosophy, history, education, theology and the application scripture to modern culture. He and his wife Victoria have seven children.

Phillip G. Kayser

Phillip G. Kayser, Ph.D. is the Senior Pastor of Dominion Covenant Church in Omaha, NE. He holds a M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary (California) and a Ph.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary (Florida). Phillip Kayser currently serves as president at Biblical Blueprints, a resource organization that is leveraging the impact of small ministries around the world by helping them recapture Biblical patterns of training, leadership development, and cultural renewal. He has degrees in theology and philosophy/ethics. He and his wife Kathy have 5 children.

Jim Zes

Jim Zes currently serves as teaching elder at Reformation Christian Assembly in his hometown of St. Louis, and is a board member for Vision Forum Ministries and the NCFIC. Jim is husband to Kathleen and the father of three daughters. Raised in an unbelieving home, Jim was an ardent evolutionist and agnostic until his late-thirties when the Lord used the truth of Genesis to bring him to saving faith in Christ. He graduated with a B.S. in education from the University of Missouri-Columbia. For over three decades he has enjoyed being a self-employed businessman in construction and management of rental properties, and is co-founder of Lex Rex Publishing. A passionate defender of life, Jim has been actively involved in the pro-life movement for over ten years. He has a heart for the advancement of Christ’s kingdom through faithful living, public witness, hospitality, business discipleship, and preserving Christian works of antiquity.

Stephen Hopkins

Stephen Hopkins is a pastor/elder at Burnet Bible Church, Texas, founded in the summer of 1996. BBC embraces the 2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689. He and his wife, Sandra, have sixteen children and live on a small farm in the Texas hill country. Steve operates a small business with his sons, buying and selling government pre-owned vehicles. His wife and daughters add to the family income by raising and selling champion bred Golden Retrievers from home. Steve is a former U.S. Senate candidate and General Manager of KFGG Radio 101.9 FM in Marble Falls, Texas. His passions are family worship, open air preaching, and defense of preborn children. Men from BBC have an ongoing local presence at nearby abortion clinics, and the ladies and daughters of BBC counsel with local pregnant teens.

Rob Tart

Rob Tart serves as an Elder at Grace Baptist Church of Durham. Rob came to know the Lord at the age of 19. In 1991, he married his wife Lynda, while they were students at Bob Jones University. Rob received his undergraduate BA in Christian Missions in 1993 and his MA in Teaching Bible in 1995. Lynda received her BS in Home Economics. Rob and Lynda have 5 children - four girls and one boy ranging from 16 years old to 2 years old. All of their children are homeschooled. Rob came to Durham to serve at the Durham Rescue Mission in 1995 as a Chaplain. Today, he serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Durham Rescue Mission. He is a NANC certified counselor, and he is currently a candidate for his Ph.D. in Biblical Counseling.

Rob and Lynda enjoy spending time with their children and often take family camping trips. Rob is passionate about preserving the family in a Christ-honoring home.

Josue Raimundo

Josue Raimundo, pastor of Iglesia Biblica Dela Gracia (Grace Bible Church) in Arlington, VA, is married to Terri, who grew up as a missionary's child in Peru. They have two children.

Josue's first profession was in medicine and he participated in voluntary work in a missionary hospital and in clinics in Haiti from 1981-1984.

Josue is a member of the Pastors for the Caribbean, an organization recently formed to train pastors in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and to channel aid to those countries.

Josue has been sought after to speak or teach in both English and Spanish-language settings. His teaching reaches across generations and cultures, with depth of insight and a great love and respect for the Word of God. He teaches theology, Bible survey and in-depth studies of the books of the Bible. Josue has taught about family-life issues and theology, both in Northern Virginia and other US states, as well as in foreign countries.

Josue is the head of the Spanish speaking division of Carey University Ministries (based in Ontario, Canada). He is in charge of training pastors in Latin America. Two countries with which he has has been involved through this ministry are Peru and the Dominican Republic.

Jason Young

Jason Young is an elder at Heritage Baptist Church in Avondale, Arizona. He planted Heritage Baptist in 2003 and worked to plant Legacy Baptist Church in Mesa, Arizona in 2006. Both congregations are growing and are healthy family-integrated churches. He graduated with a B.A. in Bible from Cedarville University in 1995 and a Masters of Divinity from Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary in 2003. His bride of fifteen years stands by his side as together, they home disciple their seven children.

Gary Powers

Gary R. Powers currently serves as an elder at Geneva Lakes Christian Church, a family-integrated church he helped plant in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Gary’s passion for the Scripture has led him to serve various congregations as a preaching elder for the past twenty years. As a leader, Mr. Powers is committed to bringing glory to God in the marketplace, as in all areas of life. He currently serves as the CEO of Ortho Molecular Products, Inc., a leading dietary supplement company he founded over twenty years ago. Mr. Powers and his wife Patti have been married for 24 years and have 10 children.

Andy Bradrick

Andy Bradrick is a pastor and an elder at Living Waters Fellowship in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota. He and his wife Emily have been blessed with nine children. Having been raised in a Christian homeschooling family and trained by his father, Andy is aware of the tremendous blessing of a godly heritage and the danger of relying on this legacy alone for his standing before God. At the age of 20 he came to trust completely in the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ. Andy is passionate about communicating the gospel in word and deed to his family, his church, and his community. For the past nine years he has co-labored in a local church setting, seeking to cultivate biblical models of worship and ministry. Seeing their local community as their mission field the Bradrick family has been involved in door to door evangelism, community outreach, and home based cross-cultural ministry. In 2006, Andy was called by his local church to serve as their pastor.

Michael Cox

Michael Cox is a founder and elder of Christ Community Bible Church in Oakhurst, California. He also serves as the director of two homeschool programs, which serve hundreds of homeschooling families to help them fulfill their educational and child training goals. Michael Cox was saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus twenty five years ago. Mike is married to Martine, his wife and love of over twenty years. He is the father of seven children ranging in ages from two to sixteen. Mike’s personal and pastoral driving desire is a scripturally normative life with Christ ruling at the center as the great goal and source of all things. His mission in family and ministry is taken from Ephesians 4:12-13, “the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.”

Taylor Tsantles

Taylor Tsantles is a member of Sovereign Redeemer Church under the eldership of Jason Dohm. As a member of Sovereign Redeemer, Taylor has been involved in grassroots-level outreach, by participating in evangelism in his local city of Youngsville and in preaching the gospel at an abortion clinic. Taylor currently runs his own graphics design company - Steadfast Design Firm. Near the end of last year, he celebrated his first anniversary with Blair, following the birth of their firstborn child - Aedan Chase Tsantles.

Mike Cheney

Mike Cheney is a co-founder and elder of Covenant Love Fellowship, a family-integrated assembly in Parker, Colorado.

After 20 years as a corporate real estate executive, Mike and his family opened several enterprises from their home, allowing him to spend more time with his family.

As an entrepreneur and investor, he believes in developing multiple streams of income to keep family economies strong, vibrant, and able to weather economic difficulties presently and in future generations.

As the current director of the national AME Program (Apprenticeship, Mentorship, Entrepreneurship), Mike has a passion to share a vision for discipleship and to see the Lord turn the hearts of men to their wives and children, believing that a man cannot obey Deuteronomy 6 and Psalm 78 if his loyalties are divided.

Mike and his wife, Roxie, have been blessed with two children whom they have home educated since birth. They live and work from a small family farm in Elizabeth, Colorado. Mike can be reached at Mike@MikeCheney.net.

Dennis Haroldson

Dennis Haroldson currently serves as a pastor/elder at Providence Christian Church – a family-integrated church he helped plant last year in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Before moving to the Albuquerque area, he served as an elder for 11 years at Hope Reformed Evangelical church in Aztec, NM. He is a graduate of Phillips Academy, the University of Colorado, and Fort Lewis College. At age 24, he was called to an abiding faith in our sovereign Lord and has continued to be shaped by His grace ever since. He and his wife Tracy have been married for 26 years and they have been blessed with one son, five daughters, a son-in-law, and one granddaughter. Dennis also teaches science in a correctional facility, helping inmates earn their high school diplomas. His family has toured across the U.S. ministering with their band, Desert Skies.

Adam Gray

Adam Gray is the founding elder of Reformed Baptist Fellowship of the Albemarle, a newly planted church in Elizabeth City, NC. He graduated from Liberty University with a B.S. in religion and is finishing his Master's Degree in Apologetics at Luther Rice Seminary. Adam has been married to his wife Tracy for over 13 years. They have six children ages 12, 10, 7, 5, 3, and 1. Adam is also a Chief in the U.S. Coast Guard and has been serving on active duty for over 16 years. He has worked with Living Waters' Ambassador's Academy and is active in street preaching.