Before returning to Sacramento, Rick was the Senior Pastor of Glad Tidings church in Omaha, Nebraska where the church grew from 600 to 1200 in four years. Prior to the Nebraska pastorate, Rick was the associate minister at Capital Christian Center for over six years.

Rick attended Northwest College from 1975 through 1978. He graduated from Bethany Bible College in 1979. Rick married Cathy Carlton Stanphill (daughter of Ira and Gloria Stanphill) August 10, 1979. They have three children: Nate, Laine, and Travis.

Rick and Cathy have traveled in missionary outreach to Mexico, South Africa, Italy, Russia, and Peru.

Bill Hybels is the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., with a weekend attendance of twenty thousand. He is also chairman of the board for the Willow Creek Association, a not-for-profit fellowship of over twelve thousand like-minded churches located in forty-five countries.
Hybels is the best-selling author of more than twenty books, including Holy Discontent, Just Walk Across the Room, The Volunteer Revolution, Courageous Leadership, and classics such as Too Busy Not to Pray and Becoming a Contagious Christian.

Willow Creek Community Church began in 1975 when a ragtag team of young people gathered in a rented movie theater with a vision of turning irreligious people into fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. Today, it is one of the most attended churches in North America. Drawing on well-honed wisdom acquired over the past thirty-two years, Hybels speaks and consults internationally, bringing to bear passionate style, relevant teaching, and cutting edge leadership.

He convened The Leadership Summit in 1995 following a God-given prompting to help pastors develop their “Romans 12:8” spiritual gift of leadership in the context of their ministries. Since then, he has become a highly sought-after expert in equipping and training Christian leaders to transform individuals and their communities through the local church.

Held every August, The Leadership Summit attracts more than eighty thousand ministry and marketplace leaders in North America, and another twenty thousand to Global Leadership Summit each fall, which is broadcast in more than twenty countries such as Brazil, Germany, Ukraine, and South Africa.

Matthew Kelly is an internationally acclaimed speaker and author and the founder and president of Floyd Consulting, a consulting firm founded on the belief that your organization can only become the-best-version-of itself if the people that drive your organization are striving to become the-best-version-of themselves. 

Kelly’s books have sold more than one million copies and have appeared on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, and numerous other best-seller lists.  His titles include The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose, The Seven Levels of Intimacy, and The Dream Manager.
 
More than three million people in fifty countries have attended Kelly’s presentations and seminars.  Over the past decade, he has given over 2,500 keynote presentations at conferences and conventions for a wide variety of organizations including Fortune 500 companies, national trade associations, professional organizations, universities, churches, and non profits.  Against the backdrop of his travel to fifty countries, millions more have been touched by his writings and appearances on radio and television programs.

Erwin Raphael McManus is a husband, father, writer, futurist, activist, artist and spiritual and cultural leader.

He also serves as the lead pastor and Cultural Architect of Mosaic in Los Angeles. Known around the world for its spiritual creativity and cosmopolitan diversity, Mosaic is a community of followers of Jesus Christ committed to live by faith, to be known by love, and to be a voice of hope. Since the early 90’s, Erwin has led Mosaic in a pioneering enterprise whose primary focus is to serve the post-modern, post-Western, and post-Christian world.

Erwin is the catalyst behind Awaken, a collaboration of dreamers committed to creating environments that expand imagination and unleash creativity. Convinced that the world is changed by dreamers and visionaries, Awaken serves the purpose of history by maximizing the divine potential in every human being.

He is also the author of An Unstoppable Force, a Gold Medallion Award finalist; Chasing Daylight; Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul (also companion The Uprising Experience life storyboard); The Barbarian Way; Stand Against the Wind and Soul Cravings, soon to be released at the end of 2006.

Engaging such issues as culture, creativity, change, and leadership, Erwin is widely known as a thought-provoking communicator. His travels have taken him to over 30 countries and he has spoken to over a million people from a wide variety of audiences. His work is featured in numerous films, articles, and magazines across the US and internationally. He also partners with Bethel University as a distinguished lecturer and futurist.

Erwin is a native of El Salvador, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Southwestern Theological Seminary. He and wife, Kim, have two children, Aaron and Mariah, and a foster daughter Paty.

Ed Young is a straightforward communicator who uniquely connects God's unchanging truth with a diverse culture through compelling and creative teaching methods. He is the founding and Senior Pastor of Fellowship Church. The church has its main campus just north of the DFW Airport and operates three satellite campuses in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area and one in Miami, Florida.

Ed Young Ministries airs a weekly televised program on networks throughout the U.S. and Europe, including USA, TBN, Daystar and CNBC Europe. His weekday radio program is broadcast in major cities throughout the U.S. Ed's newest book is The Creative Leader: Unleashing the Power of Your Creative Potential. Other books include The Creative Marriage: The Art of Keeping Your Love Alive, YOU: The Journey to the Center of Your Worth, Rating Your Dating While Waiting for Mating, Kid CEO, High Definition Living, and Know Fear.

Delirious? have always talked about being on a journey, always embracing change and looking out for direction. It all goes right back to the start. In 1992 producer/engineer Martin Smith (vocals and guitars) teamed up with studio owner Tim Jupp (keyboards) and graphic designer Stew Smith (drums) to provide the music for a local event aimed at joining the dots between church and young people.The blend of Smith’s open hearted lyrics with the rest of the band’s home grown delivery made immediate sense to those who saw it first hand. For more information, visit www.delirious.co.uk.

DRB began and continues as one of the worship bands for Capital Christian Center in Sacramento, CA. The six member band was formed during a time of change at the church (CCC). Doug Reid, lead vocalist and guitarist of DRB and also student ministries director at CCC, was asked to lead worship at the church’s casual service (a contemporary worship style service) at the beginning of October, 2005. At that time, Kirk Ellis, DRB keyboards and vocals and also production manager at CCC, joined with Reid to start leading worship at the church. Shortly after, band members Demetri Wells (DRB keyboards/organ/piano), Eli Ramos (DRB electric guitars), Alvaro Morales (DRB drums), and Ariel Garcia (DRB bass) joined Reid and Ellis to complete the band.

Israel & New Breed Israel Houghton is considered a forerunner and architect of cross-cultural worship. He has written hundreds of songs for the church worldwide and is an award winning producer and arranger. Israel is the Founder and President of New Breed Music which is a worship movement that crosses all cultural, generational, and denominational boundaries. He also serves as worship leader at Lakewood Church in Houston with Pastor Joel Osteen. However; simply put Israel says, “I am a husband to Meleasa, a father to Mariah, Israel II, and Milan Lily, and a Friend of God.” For more information, visit www.newbreedmusic.com.