Dr. Leonard Sweet

Currently occupying the E. Stanley Jones Chair of Evangelism, Len served from 1995 to 2001 as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Theological School at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. He is also a Visiting Distinguished Professor at George Fox University in Portland, Oregon, and President Emeritus of United Theological Seminary. He is a weekly contributor to the online preaching resource, sermons.com.

Author of more than two hundred articles, 1200 published sermons and almost forty books, Leonard is currently working on two textbooks: one on preaching and one on evangelism. His most recent book is So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church. The last two years Len has been voted by his peers as "One of the 50 Most Influential Christians in America" as polled by ChurchReport magazine. His free weekly podcast is called "Napkin Scribbles." Leonard Sweet will be at the NWLC Southwest & NWLC East

Pete Wilson

He is the Founding Pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Cross Point is a seven year old church which reaches over 2,500 people each weekend through its four campuses located around the metro Nashville area. Pete's a pastor, speaker, and author who resides in Nashville with his wife, Brandi, and their 3 boys, Jett, Gage, and Brewer. His highly anticipated first book, entitled Plan B will be released in May of 2010 through Thomas Nelson Publishing.

Ted Haggard

Ted and Gayle Haggard have five children. They have lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado since 1985 where they planted New Life Church in the basement of their home. During their time serving as pastors, the church grew to 14,000 members. In addition to serving as the pastors of New Life church, Ted served as the president of the National Association of Evangelicals for four years, which grew from 22.5 million members to 30 million members during his time of service. In addition, Ted founded the Association of Life Giving Churches, a network of several hundred churches, and worldprayerteam.org, which was the world's largest internet based prayer site.

In November of 2006, moral failure caused Ted to resign from all of his leadership positions. Gayle and Ted, along with three of their children moved temporarily to Phoenix, Arizona where they joined Tommy Barnett's church for a time of healing and restoration. While there, the church Overseers and the church Restoration team oversaw his activities. He was released from their oversight in January of 2008 which gave them the freedom to move back home to Colorado Springs, which they did 6 months later, and to minister in churches again, which they started doing again 11 months later. Because Ted and Gayle had agreed to have HBO release the documentary, "The Trials of Ted Haggard," and do a series of repentance interviews on Oprah, Larry King, Good Morning America and the CBS Morning Show in January of 2009, New Life Church released the Haggards from their severance agreement just prior to those engagements. That release gave them the freedom to begin ministering in Colorado Springs as well. The HBO documentary and the accompanying interviews launched the Haggards into public ministry again. Since that time, they have been speaking publicly and writing.

Dave Workman

Dave Workman is senior pastor of Vineyard Community Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, a growing church of over 6000 weekend attendees and over a dozen local church plants. Vineyard Community Church has become well known for its outward-focused message and ministry. While criss-crossing the country playing Christian music, Dave became involved with Steve Sjogren and the new little church plant of twenty people in 1984. A couple of years later Dave stepped into a worship leading role and helped architect the servant-oriented atmosphere of a very different kind of church, pioneering video production and graphic design in the early nineties.

After leading worship for twelve years, Dave moved into a regular teaching role and in 2000 accepted the position of senior pastor. He and his wife Anita have been happily married since 1978 and are proud parents of two children, Rachel and Katie. Dave has spoken on developing outward-focused churches both nationally and internationally.