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Joshua Harris
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Joshua Harris serves as senior pastor of Covenant
Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD, a role he assumed in September, 2004. For
the three years prior he led Covenant Life in its day-to-day operations and
direction as executive pastor. He is also the best-selling author of four books
:
I
Kissed Dating Goodbye, Boy
Meets Girl, Not
Even a Hint: Guarding Your Heart Against Lust, and Stop
Dating the Church.
Currently he also serves on The
Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.
From 1999 to 2004, Joshua directed an annual conference hosted by Sovereign
Grace Ministries called New
Attitude, for 18-29 year olds.
He lives with his wife, Shannon, and their daughter and son in Gaithersburg.
Patrick Morley
 Patrick
founded Morley Properties, which, for several years, was hailed as one of
Florida's 100 largest privately held companies. During this time he was the
president or managing partner of fifty-nine companies and partnerships. In 1989
he wrote The Man in the Mirror, a landmark book that poured from his own search
for meaning, purpose, and a deeper relationship with God. This best-selling book
captured the imaginations of hundreds of thousands of men worldwide. As a
result, in 1991, Patrick Morley sold his business and founded Man in the Mirror,
a ministry to men. Through his speaking and writing, he has become a tireless
advocate for men, encouraging and inspiring them to change their lives in
Christ. He has authored eight books.
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Howard Snyder
 Howard A. Snyder serves as
Professor of the History and Theology of Mission at Asbury Theological Seminary
in Wilmore, Kentucky. Previously he taught at United Theological Seminary,
Dayton, Ohio, and has pastored in Chicago and Detroit. He has been at Asbury
Theological Seminary since 1996, where he teaches in the E. Stanley Jones School
of World Mission and Evangelism.
Howard was born in 1940 in the Dominican Republic where his parents, Edmund
and Clara (Zahniser) Snyder, were serving as Free Methodist missionaries. From
the age of four he grew up in Spring Arbor, MI; his father taught at Spring
Arbor Junior College from 1944 to 1953.
Howard is a graduate of Spring Arbor Junior College (1960), Greenville
College (1962) and Asbury Theological Seminary (1966). In 1962 he married Janice
Lucas of Smith Creek, MI.
After graduating from Asbury Seminary, Howard pastored the Detroit Redford
Free Methodist Church for two years. During seminary, his time in Detroit, and
his ministry in Brazil, Howard developed a deep interest in church renewal which
has continued to the present.
Howard earned the Ph.D. in historical theology at the University of Notre
Dame in 1983, completing a dissertation on church renewal movements under John
Howard Yoder. From 1968 to 1975 he served as pastor and seminary professor in São
Paulo, Brazil, with the Free Methodist Church. See a list of his Books!
More information at Baker
Books (use Book Search) - or click: Decoding
the Church.
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 Patrick
Johnstone
Patrick Johnstone was born in 1938, the first of six children in a busy
doctor's home. He had a nominal Christian upbringing but had no knowledge of the
gospel until a friend at university confronted him with the claims of Christ.
After completing an honours degree in Chemistry at Bristol University, Patrick
taught for a year before leaving for Bible School, followed by service with the
Dorothea Mission in southern Africa in 1962.
Ministries in Africa were largely itinerant urban church-based evangelism,
plus discipleship training. Based in Zimbabwe, the team accepted invitations to
Kenya, Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa. Patrick married a fellow
missionary, Jill, and they had three children: Peter, born 1969, Timothy 1971
and Ruth 1973. As a sideline, Patrick was involved in Bible translation. The
first edition of Operation World was written to provide fuel for a regular
feature of life in the Dorothea Mission - a Week of Prayer for the World. Later
publication of the book by Operation Mobilisation has led to wide distribution
around the world in six languages. The most recent edition was published in
1993. Its purpose is still the same: prayer for the unreached.
An invitation by WEC International in 1978 to succeed Leslie Brierley as the
mission's Director of Research led to an opening for the family to spend 1979
ministering on and with the OM ship MV Logos in South and South-east Asia and
the Pacific. In 1980 they settled at the WEC centre in Britain and began a rapid
expansion of Research Office information. Much of Patrick's research work is
aimed at making information readily available to potential recruits and
missionaries, and at developing practical strategies to speed the final
completion of world evangelization. In 1992, Jill went to be with the Lord but
not before writing You Can Change The World, a prayer handbook for children.
Their own three children, now adults, are all deeply committed to the work of
God.
Patrick is co-leader, with John Robb, of the Unreached Peoples Track of the
AD2000 and Beyond Movement. Patrick also works closely with Dr David Barrett in
researching the reachedness of every ethnic group on earth and in the
preparation of the next World Christian Encyclopedia.
In February 1995 Patrick married Robyn Erwin, a WEC missionary from the USA
who had worked for several years in the International Research Office before
spending a time with the WEC field in Turkey. | 
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