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Contributors and Development Team
Brendon is currently serving as the assistant pastor at Spring Street Wesleyan Church in Ft. Wayne, IN. His heart is full of love and joy for his wife Amanda and their two children Gavin(5) and Morgan(2). He is a graduate from the mother ship of IWU. He has been a youth pastor for 10yrs. and now enjoys working with young adults. He is a contributor to EW.

Born in 1974, Dr. Eutychus D. Bailey served as a pastor in the early decades of the 21st century. He “now” writes a column on the state of the mid-century church & culture which is being retrieved by us from the future because of recent technological advances enabling us to retrieve his articles 40 years before they are published. Depending on your time-travel ISP speed, you may be able to reach the old codger by e-mailing him at EutychusBailey@pastors.com. 

Derek Bethay, hailing from the land of corn and basketball, has been
serving in full time youth ministry since 1997, first as a youth pastor
in the local church and now as the Director of Programming at The Power
House Youth Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His list of accomplishments
include being the husband of the former Miss Christy Rummage and the
proud daddy of Joshua (6) and Hannah (4). He also finished in last place
in a Brad Pitt look-a-like contest at the Virginia State Fair in 1999
and is a contributor to EW. Derek's passion is to help young people
become all that God wants them to be! 

Mark is a designer, musician and artist who has a passion for creative ministry and creative visual thinking. He has worked in ministry for the past fifteen years and has devoted himself to developing innovative services that touch the heart and stimulate the senses. His origins are from the great potato state of Idaho. He serves as creative director at Daybreak Communtity Church and is a contributor to EW.
Steve Deur is married to Vicki and has two kids, Autumn and Harrison. He lives in Grand Haven, MI and is the Lead Pastor of Watermark.

David Drury is a pastor & writer living in Spring Lake, Michigan with his best friends: Kathryn, Maxim & Karina where they build sandcastles in the summer and watch football in the winter (which is twice as long there). Prior to planting two new church plants and serving at Spring Lake Wesleyan Church, he studied theology in Boston and holds degrees from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Indiana Wesleyan University. He has written nearly a dozen articles for Next-Wave and is currently writing his second book. He is a contributor to EW and a member of the development team. Some of his other writings can be found at his “Writers Attic."
Genetta Cockrell Herrera received her higher education degrees in the education field but as an ordained minister she has spent the last 20 years in full-time ministry. Her passion is to be (1) an ‘impacter” of men and women for God’s ministry, helping each discover and fulfill their unique God-given passion; leading them to reproduce for God’s Kingdom; (2) a “clarifier/crystallizer” giving direction and leadership to the work and ministries of “The Wesleyan Church” causing people, leaders, churches, districts and the denomination to grow in health for the purpose of reproduction. Her tag line is: “my signature is to help others find/write theirs.” Genetta and Gilbert have five children and currently live in Olathe, KS. Genetta is the founder of Church Planters, LLC and is a contributor to EW and a member of the development team.
Josh Jackson is a Teaching Pastor at Crossroads Church. He has apassion for communicating truth in the new world through writing and speaking. Josh and his wife Kari reside in Sydney, Australia. He is a
contributor to EW and you can catch up with his life, ministry and "communicators" site at www.one-life.blogspot.com.

Brett Jones is the pastor of the cession|community, a new church plant in the Eastern Suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand. Brett’s bi-vocational (or is that tri?) status finds him teaching a post graduate law course in his spare time and moonlighting as worship pastor for the cession|community’s parent church – East City Wesleyan. He recently completed an MBA from Henley in the UK – his dissertation topic, "Optimising Performance in the Local Church Setting through Systems Thinking – Mobilising the Members at East City Wesleyan," was the last in a line of church-related MBA papers. Brett is married to Kristen, formerly of the Wesleyan mafia in the US. He serves on the National Council of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of New Zealand. Brett’s serial weirdness can be studied empirically at his blogspot. He is a contributor to EW and a member of the development team.

Keith Klassen
Seeker
Child of God
Husband of one wife
Dad of one kid (Drew - 15mo.)
Pastor of Midtown Community, an experimental church (six years old)
A contributor to EW

John Lehmberg is a Baltimore native, an Eastern College graduate, and is
a 20 year veteran of Youth Ministry, having spent his life loving on
students and planting student ministries in the local church. John, his
wife Glenda, and four kids now call the Atlanta area their home, where
John is the pastor of a home church ministry plant called Village
Church. He also consults and coaches youth pastors in leadership
development, as well as being a youth ministry camp and retreat speaker. John is a contributor to EW.

Christy Lipscomb is a pastor at City Life Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. City Life is a multi-ethnic urban church that emphasizes missional community and worship. Christy enjoys reading classic novels,
discipling baby Christians, scrapbooking, and watching "Judging Amy." Christy is a contributor to EW.
Jo Anne Lyon is a licensed professional counselor, ordained minister, mother of four, and executive director and founder of World Hope International, Inc., an international relief and development organization located in Alexandria, VA. She is a contributor to EW and her most recent book is The Ultimate Blessing: Rediscovering the Power of God's Presence.
Steve McVey is the proud husband of his wife of fifteen years, Samantha, and the proud father of two great kids, Andrew and Rebekah. He graduated from I.W.U. with a BA in Christian ministries in 1995. He has been a pastor for twelve years and has served in the Wesleyan church for eight. He is originally from Lansing, Michigan and has lived in Indiana and Ohio. He is the Pastor of Lamont Wesleyan Church in Lamont, Kansas, "the biggest little church you will ever find in the middle of nowhere." He is a contributor to EW and a member of the development team.
Rob Paterson moved to the Indianapolis area in the summer of 1999 to pastor Keystone Community Church—a church plant in the north Indy area. He is a graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University and specializes in preaching, teaching, writing and mentoring. While he enjoys reading, music and sports of all kinds, his greatest joy is found in investing his time in the lives of the people of his Church. He is a contributor to EW and a member of the development team.

Kevin Perberg is the Creative Communications Director at Frontline Church in Grand Rapids. He leads The Wave technical and creative arts ministry and serves full time to help "give the greatest message the greatest means." He is married and has a beautiful two-year old daughter who will soon show him how little he really knows about computers. He believes creativity and technology are currently under-serving the Church and desires to help others discover how they can steward them to communicate more effectively. He is a contributor to EW and a member of the development team.

Jesse Pratt is currently serving as Point Pastor for CrossLink Community, a two year-old church plant located in Grove City, OH. Since its inception, CrossLink has experienced 100% growth due to its focus on impacting and enriching lives through ministries and developmental series. Jesse focuses on developing leaders and multiplying the gifts God has given. He graduated from IWU in ’98 and lives in Columbus, OH with his wife, Aimee, and two children, Caitee and Coleton.   

Phil Stevenson is a Senior Staff member of New Church Specialties. He is a coach, consultant, trainer and writer in the field of church health & multiplication. He resides in Rocklin, CA with his wife Joni. They have three adult children: Ryan, Megan & Scott. He is a contributor to EW.

Andrea Summers has had experience as a young adult pastor and now as a youth pastor on staff at College Wesleyan Church in Marion, Indiana. She is a contributor to EW.
Jim Watkins is a Child of God, an author/speaker: www.jameswatkins.com, a conference director: www.jameswatkins.com/sandycove.htm and a general threat to society: www.xariscom.com. The above links prove these claims. Jim has sold over 1,500 articles, devotionals, editorials, hard-news stories, poems, reviews, scripts, short stories and song lyrics, as well as over one hundred color and black/white photos. His work has appeared in Campus Life, The Christian Communicator, The Christian Reader, Christianity Today, Decision, The Door, Focus on the Family, Leadership, Moody, Rev., Today's Christian Woman and War Cry as well as more than fifty independent and denominational religious publications, plus secular periodicals such as TIME. He also has a weekly humor column in three (so far) newspapers as well as a regular column in Rev. Magazine. On top of all this he’s written eleven books including Death and Beyond and The Why Files. He is a contributor to EW.