 Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson serves as lead pastor of National Community Church (www.theaterchurch.com) in Washington, DC. NCC was recognized as one of the Most Innovative and Most Influential Churches in America by Outreach Magazine in 2008. One church with nine services in five locations, NCC is focused on reaching emerging generations. Approximately 70% of NCCers are single twenty-somethings.
The vision of NCC is to meet in movie theaters at metro stops throughout the DC area. NCC also owns and operates the largest coffeehouse on Capitol Hill. In 2008, Ebenezers was recognized as the #1 coffeehouse in the metro DC area by AOL CityGuide.
Mark has two Masters Degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of a best-selling book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. His latest release is Wild Goose Chase. And he is a daily blogger @ www.markbatterson.com.
Mark is married to Lora and they live on Capitol Hill with their three children: Parker, Summer, and Josiah.
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 Wayde and Rosalyn Goodall
Dr. Wayde Goodall is founder of WorldWideFamily.org ministering to families, couples and children in over 30 nations. Wayde and Rosalyn are the founding Pastors of Vienna Christian Center, in Vienna, Austria. The Goodall’s have served as Senior Pastors of a congregation of several thousand attendees and received the Church Health Award from the Purpose Driven Church.
Dr. Goodall has written and co-authored 14 books, many of which are translated into several languages, including; Success Kills, Why Great Men Fall, Conflict Management for Church Leaders, Marriage and Family, By My Spirit, The Fruit of the Spirit, The Choice, The Blessing, The Battle, and Back to the Word. Focus on the Family utilizes his Marriage book as a tool for counseling the international community. Wayde created the ministers magazine, Enrichment Journal and was awarded first place for clergy magazines from the Evangelical Press Association.
Rosalyn is a speaker, technical editor, writer, and educator and has served as a faculty member at Southwest Missouri State University for five years. Her ministry has included women’s conferences, retreats, and educators training. Wayde and Rosalyn have viewed their ministry as a team effort for God’s kingdom. They have two grown children, Jeremy and Kristin.
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Worship Artist Dwayne Smith
 Dwayne is the loving husband of his beautiful wife Stephanie and father of four energetic children – Riley, Braden, Micah and Cadence. He is the Worship & Creative Arts Pastor at Manassas Assembly of God. He has a dream to nurture a community of creative thinkers and artists who use the arts to communicate the timeless message of Christ and His love to the world in which we live.
He is a graduate of Evangel University and has been in fulltime worship arts ministry for the past 17 years serving churches in the Midwest, in Seattle, Washington and now in Virginia. As a worship leader, he desires to see the generations worship together in “Spirit and Truth,” presenting themselves as a living sacrifice to the Lord, united together by their love and passion for God and His bride – the church.
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