Brian Brodersen is the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, and the president of the Calvary Chapel Bible College. He is also the featured speaker on the Back to Basics radio program and the director of Creation Fest (UK). Brian is extensively involved in missions and church planting around the world.

Joel Turner is the teaching pastor at Mountain Spring Calvary Chapel in Calgary, Canada. Prior to the Lord’s calling him into the ministry, Joel was a comedian in western Canada. In 2017, Pastor Joel felt the call of God to strengthen the churches and do the work of an evangelist through various speaking engagements in Canada, the USA, and Europe. Joel uses humor and evangelism to connect with others in his book, “Humor Me”.

Bill Clem leads the Center for Pastoral Flourishing at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. Bill has spent over forty years in various ministry contexts leading college ministries, planting churches, teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and leading professional development seminars. Most recently, he served as the associate pastor of Imago Dei Community Church for almost six years.

Tommy Cota is the lead pastor of Hope Alive Church in Santa Ana, California. In Tommy’s young teenage years, the life he was living led him into darkness and ultimately 5 1/2 years of prison time in the California state prison system. It was during this time that his wife, Diana, began praying for him, and soon after his release in January of 2000, he surrendered his life to Jesus Christ. Tommy was so excited to live his life for the Lord that he enrolled in Calvary Chapel’s School of Ministry, and after graduating in 2004, he was brought on staff as an assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa.

Tim Chaddick is the pastor for preaching at Reality Ventura and founding pastor of Reality Church London and Reality LA. A native of California, Tim's first ten years of church-planting ministry started as the lead pastor of Reality LA in 2006, a thriving church in the heart of Hollywood, before planting Reality London in the UK in 2016. In 2021, Tim returned to California to take up the pastor for preaching role at Reality Ventura.

Mike Neglia is the lead pastor at Calvary Cork located in Cork, Ireland. After graduating from Bible College in Siegen, Germany, in the summer of 2002, he served at Calvary Cork as a full-time missionary youth outreach coordinator/assistant for two years before taking over as lead pastor. Mike also channels his passion for Christ-centered expository preaching by serving on the steering committee of Expositors Collective and hosting their weekly podcast.

Justin is a Washington native who has lived in the Seattle area since 2005. He is currently president of Calvary Chapel Bible College in Twin Peaks, California. He has his M.A. (Biblical & Theological Studies) from Western Seminary and his B.B.S. from Calvary Chapel Bible College.

Jeff Gipe currently serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of Calvary Global Network. Jeff was ordained at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa and served as a pastor there for two years before planting a church in Newport Beach, California in 2005. Jeff served there for 15 years where he was blessed to partner with other churches in planting churches around the world. In 2020 Jeff transitioned to serving with Calvary Global Network to pursue his passion for church planting and pastoral care. Jeff is the author of the book Contented, where he writes that the key to the contented life is communion with Christ.

Gerry Breshears has been a professor of theology at Western Seminary since 1980. In addition to teaching and lecturing at a number of colleges and seminaries around the world, he speaks in many churches. He works in leadership in the Evangelical Theological Society, nationally and regionally. He is co-author of "Vintage Jesus," "Death by Love," "Vintage Church," and "Doctrine" with Mark Driscoll. He is an elder and a member of the preaching team at Grace Community Church of Gresham, Oregon.

Wayne Taylor is the founding pastor and has been the lead pastor of Calvary Fellowship Seattle for 41 years. During this time, God used their church to help plant over 50 churches, about half locally, and half globally. Recently, Wayne has transitioned to be an itinerant Bible teacher, a support minister to the church, and director of Calvary Chapel Bible College Seattle.

Brenda Leavenworth serves as the Reliance Women’s Director and has a heart and passion to see women develop a deeper understanding of God’s Word and cultivate a sincere, lifelong relationship with Jesus Christ. As an author and speaker, she feels privileged to write many Bible studies and travel to share God’s word globally. Brenda graduated from Calvary Chapel University with a bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies and is currently working on her master’s with an emphasis in Christian leadership. 

Ted Leavenworth planted Reliance Church in 2007 and serves as the main teaching pastor. Prior to starting Reliance Church, Ted was the founder and executive pastor of Revival Christian Fellowship in Menifee, where he served for 15 years. He is a graduate of the Calvary Chapel School of Ministry and has a heart for church planting, helping to plant many churches, both nationally and internationally. He is also leading the Care & Coaching Team for CGN.

A. Clay Worrell is a native Californian who spent the first eight years of his adult life as a missionary in Ireland where he planted a Calvary Chapel in Waterford City. For the next seven years, he lived in the San Francisco Bay Area where he served as the lead pastor of Calvary Tri-Valley in Pleasanton, California. He is now the COO and Executive Director of CGN.

Rod was saved in 1985 at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, and in 1990 God called him to serve at the Calvary Chapel Conference Center in Millstatt, Austria. Thus began 15 years of serving in Eastern and Western Europe. In 2005, he and his family of five moved back to the States where he served as the director of the Calvary Chapel Conference Center in Murrieta, California, until January 2019. During that time, he also served as the pastor of a local church called Cross Culture Ministries. Now he and his wife Zuza are living in Italy, again as full-time missionaries, full of vision and expectation for God to do great things.

With over a decade of experience in youth ministry, Aaron Salvato has served as a middle school pastor, high school pastor, and Bible college teacher. Today, Aaron serves as the founder and director of GoodLion Ministries and the GoodLion School of Discipleship, as well as the Content Strategy Director at Calvary Global Network. Aaron blends his passion for the gospel and his creative skills to produce Gospel-centered content through podcasts, writing, videos, and theological courses.

As an avid reader, lifelong learner, and dedicated Bible teacher, Aaron is passionate about helping young people navigate the challenges of our post-Christian culture. He prioritizes the ministry of peacemaking in a divided world and finds great happiness in mentoring others on their journey with Christ.

With the heart of a pastor and the hands of an artist, Aaron brings a unique blend of spiritual passion and creativity to his work. He lives in Oklahoma with his best beloved wife Brooklynn and their son Jack, and considers his role as a husband and father to be the most rewarding ministry role he has ever had.

Riley Taylor is an Elder and the director of preaching and vision at Mountlake Church (formerly Calvary Fellowship) in Mountlake Terrace, Washington—a large, growing church located in the suburbs of Seattle. He is the author of the children’s book I Pray, You Pray, an interactive picture book that teaches young children how to pray in Jesus’ name. A musician and filmmaker, Riley’s work has been seen on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and TBN. He holds a Master’s in Applied Biblical Leadership from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. Riley is married to Bhritney, and they have three kids: Atticus, Scout, and Athen.

Susan Vandepol is the widow of Los Angeles City Firefighter Robert Ortega, an author, conference and retreat speaker, founder of “A Life After Breath Experience - A Widow’s Calling” widow’s retreats, creator of the “Families of the Fallen” protocol for fire departments and the “Life After Breath” protocol for churches. The “Families of the Fallen” protocol is endorsed by experts in the fields of grief, crisis, trauma, suicide prevention, CIR, PTSD, and CISM, and is being used in fire departments around the country. The protocol supplies a model for fire departments when coming alongside a widow of a fallen firefighter, as well as providing firefighters with a pragmatic way to express their own grief. The congruent “Life After Breath” protocol was developed primarily for churches and faith-based organizations, and is a way for the Body of Christ to answer its Biblical call to care for widows, so that they can thrive in their new role, and fulfill their set-apart calling.
Susan is the author of “Life After Breath - After Her Husband Takes His Last Breath, and After She Tries to Catch Hers” (Morgan James Publishing) and has been a contributor to several other publications as well, including “Stories of Faith and Courage from Firefighters and First Responders.” Her most recent project - “Catching Your Breath,” a booklet on spousal loss with Our Daily Bread’s Discovery Series is now available at discoveryseries.org.
Susan is a member of the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, and is certified in Grief, Crisis and Trauma Counseling, Grief and Loss Coaching, Master Life Coaching, Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support, Grief and Trauma Care/Military Application, Victim Response, and Basic and Family Mediation. Her speaking engagements include a keynote at the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation’s World Congress, The California State Firefighters Convention, the Honor Guard at the International Association of Firefighters Memorial, Fire Rescue International, and Firehouse World.
Susan homeschooled her three children without ever succumbing to pressure to wear Birkenstocks, and now lives with her husband whom she shamelessly manipulated into falling in love with her. He obliged by sweeping her off her feet with a large broom. They now reside in Michigan.
For more info or to connect with Susan: www.mattersoflifeandbreath.com

Founder of VandePol Crisis Response Services LLC to function as an independent contractor focused upon Crisis Leadership, organizational resilience, and Crisis Response consulting, training, and delivery. Formerly served as Executive Director of Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services’ Employee Assistance and Church Assistance programs where he leveraged behavioral health expertise to support healthy, productive people and groups. Developed Resilience programs in partnership with healthcare, law enforcement, military veteran, and fire safety organizations. Prior to joining the Pine Rest team, he was President of Crisis Care Network (now R3 Continuum), helping to lead it from a startup to the world’s largest provider of Critical Incident Response services to the workplace. Active as a keynote speaker, Mr. VandePol has published and been quoted in business and clinical journals, co-authored book chapters addressing workplace response to tragedy, and has been featured as subject matter expert in numerous video training series. He managed CCN’s Command Center in Manhattan after the 2001 terrorist attacks and led teams in response to high-profile tragedies, including the Boston Marathon bombing; Aurora, Sandy Hook, and Las Vegas shootings; natural disasters, and our nation’s prominent university-based tragedies. He frequently consults with businesses, universities, schools, and churches regarding how leaders can accelerate organizational recovery following crises.

John Bonner is the founder and director of Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru, and the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Hosanna in Cajamarca. He has served in missions ministry with Calvary Chapel for 40 years in the US, Mexico, Costa Rica and Peru.

Bruce Zachary was raised in a Jewish home, and came to faith in Christ as Messiah over 30 years ago. He has been teaching the Bible for 30+ years. He and Karen, his lovely bride have been married since 1991, and are blessed by their sons Joshua and Jonathan. Bruce taught at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa’s School of the Bible, and is a graduate of CCCM’s School of Ministry. He has been an ordained pastor for near 30 years, and was an attorney for 25 years. In 1996 he planted Calvary Nexus in Camarillo, Ca. where he continues to serve as teaching pastor. Bruce is the author of 17 books, and has directed the Calvary Church Planting Network [CCPN] a global church planting initiative.

Brian Kelly is a Calvary Chapel pastor and Church planter with a heart for the great commission. For the past twenty years Brian has been involved in church planting and mission work in East Africa, New Zealand, and the United States. Brian has a passion for planting churches and has hands-on experience seeing churches grow from the ground up. Brian has been involved in five church plants, and has been a sending pastor for dozens more. He is a graduate of Calvary Chapel Bible College, and the founder of the CCBC campus in East Africa. Currently, Brian is five months into a new church plant in Florida, where he lives with his beautiful wife Lynne and their three children.

Nick Cady is the lead pastor of White Fields Community Church in Longmont, Colorado. Prior to moving to Colorado, Nick spent 10 years in Hungary as a missionary, pastor and church planter with Calvary Chapel. He holds a Master’s degree in Integrative Theology from London School of Theology, and a Bachelor’s in Theology from the University of Gloucestershire (UK). Nick has a heart for the mission of God through the Church, and prior to leading the Cultivate team, was involved in equipping and training church planters in the US and Europe.

Matthew Gaston is a U.S. Navy Chaplain serving currently at Navy Medical Training Center San Diego. He served as an associate pastor in Seattle, Washington, with Calvary Chapel Wallingford before answering his call to serve Sailors and Marines. He has been married to Michaela Gaston for the last 12 years and has two wonderful children. He is currently a doctoral student at Liberty University for counseling, and his passions are coffee, counseling, motorcycles, running, and killing zombies in any format.

Sarah Yardley is a follower of Jesus who is passionate about faith, travel, reading, coffee, and community. She grew up at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa in California, served at Reality Carpinteria, and currently lives in the United Kingdom, serving full-time with Creation Fest UK. She loves discovering what it means to follow Jesus and inviting others to know and follow Him.

Rafael Manzanares, originally from the island, pastor Rafael became a Christian in the USA, and attended Calvary Chapel Bible College in Austria. He then served with pastor Brian Brodersen in a church plant in London, where he met his wife Loretta. They sensed the Lord leading them to move to Mallorca in 2001 and took over the pastorate of Santa Ponsa Community Church in 2002. They opened a Calvary Chapel-affiliated Bible College in 2005, and they trained many students and interns in love for the Word and service in local churches as well as the mission field for 10 years. They continue to serve the church mainly through Bible teaching and are now working on a long-standing vision to open a Christian school on the island.

Krista Fox and her family live and serve as missionaries in the Amazonian region of Brazil in Belem, Para. She and her husband Kyle have been married for 20 years. They have two sons Aidan and Liam. She and her husband planted Calvary Chapel Belem where Kyle is the pastor and Krista serves as the women’s ministry leader and leads the Proverbs 24:11 ministry (a ministry dedicated to individuals involved in human trafficking and prostitution).

Krista has been involved in ministry for over 15 years. She is currently pursuing her doctorate’s degree in counseling focusing on trauma as her heart’s desire is to see the hurt healed and walking with the Lord.

Rod and Noreen Carver met at a Chuck Smith Bible study in 1988, and by 1990 they were married. From the start, they served in ministry together, eventually moving to South Texas and planting a church that Rod continues to pastor. Both their daughters love the Lord with their husbands as the family takes every opportunity to remain close over long distances.
Calvary Coastlands reaches Corpus Christi through radio and a coalition of local pastors keeping those with political authority accountable to the truth of God’s word. In addition, they have sent missionaries worldwide and are actively involved in prison ministry and church planting.
Rod loves education and continues to take classes to better minister to those in need. Additionally, the Carvers mentor pastor couples and have a burden for the emotional, spiritual, and marital health of those serving in ministry positions. They often travel to help train ministers and strengthen marriages through conferences and seminars.

Kelly Bell has been the Director of Women’s Ministry at Calvary Murrieta for over 30 years and loves what she does. She has a passion to see women grow in their faith and become doers of the Word, not hearers only. She is a conference/retreat speaker, as well as a Bible Study teacher. She is the author of a Bible Study series called “Reasons to Rejoice.”

Concerning Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery, she has a passion to advocate for the rights of the oppressed and exploited, and to “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.” Kelly is a volunteer for Riverside County’s Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force and oversees the Justice Ministry, working to help people figure out how to use their gifts, talents, and finances in fighting this battle. She also volunteers with other community organizations, including Big Brothers/Big Sisters in the Inland Empire and the Murrieta Food Pantry.

Richard Cimino is the founding pastor of Metro Calvary. After eight years as the high school pastor at Costa Mesa and 13 years as lead and teaching pastor of CC Grass Valley (Crossroads Community Church), Richard sensed a tremendous burden to start a Bible study in the city of Roseville, California, as an outreach of CC Grass Valley (now called Metro Calvary). Richard has a deep love for God’s work in the UK and Brazil and is engaged in regular outreach and discipleship in both places.

Rob Salvato has been the Lead Pastor of Calvary Vista in Vista ca, since 1996. Prior to that Rob served as a youth pastor, a church planter in Oregon, and has been active in missions work and church planting in 23 countries around the world.