Mark Clark is a senior pastor at Bayside Church and the author of The Problem of Jesus (Zondervan, 2021) and The Problem of God (Zondervan, 2017) winner of the 2018 Word Award for Evangelism. Mark has been the subject of several articles in Christianity Today and Outreach Magazine voted him one of the Top 26 Leaders to Watch. He resides in Sacramento, California, with his wife, Erin, and their three daughters.

His passions are connecting the message of Jesus to our culture, inspiring and training leaders, apologetics, marriage counseling, and working to see our world influenced by the gospel.

James Merritt is the senior pastor of Cross Pointe Church in Duluth, Georgia.  He is the host of a nationwide and worldwide broadcast ministry, Touching Lives, and he is one of the most dynamic, Gospel-centered preachers on air today. He earned a Master of Divinity degree and a PhD in Evangelism from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and served as President of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is the author of 52 Weeks with Jesus, among many other titles. He and his wife, Teresa, have three sons and five grandchildren.

Dr. Merritt strives to deliver God’s truths in a clear and concise manner. His passion is to reach lost people all over the world with the life-changing and life-saving Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Kyle Mercer is the founding pastor of Two Cities Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He planted Two Cities in 2016 out of the Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham. Over the last 8 years, Two Cities has grown from a launch team of 30 to a church of 3,000, making it one of the fastest growing churches in America according to Outreach Magazine. Kyle and his wife, Margy, have two sons and a daughter.

Kyle is a compelling preacher with a unique gift to speak truth into culture through expository, gospel-centered teaching. He is also the host of the Open Bible. Open Life. podcast.