Duane White
Duane White has trained over 100,000 leaders around the world, funded micro-business empowerment projects, equipped and resourced missionaries and taken hundreds of people on short term missions trips. Duane and his wife, Kris, served with their family as missionaries to the UK for two years and have ministered in over 63 different nations. Born with a severe cleft lip and palate, Duane was told he would never be able to speak without impediment.
As an international speaker and author, he now miraculously uses his communication skills to teach and challenge people to fulfill their God-given destiny. Duane has a Master of Ministry degree in Christian Leadership from Southwestern Christian University and has been in full-time ministry for over 35 years. He founded The Bridge Church in Denton, Texas with his wife Kris 16 years ago and leads the O2 Network of Churches.
Dr. Leonard Sweet
Author of more than two hundred articles, 1500+ published sermons, hundreds of YouTube vlogs and over seventy books, Leonard Sweet’s recent publications include Rings of Fire, Telos (with Len Wilson), Contextual Intelligence (with Michael Beck), and Designer Jesus (forthcoming fall 2023), the companion volume to Jesus Human. Sweet often appears on the “50 Most Influential Christians in America” listings, and in 2010 was selected by the top non-English Christian website Christian Telegraph as one of the “Top 10 Influential World Christians.” His semiotic “LenTalks” are posted weekly on YouTube, and his “Napkin Scribbles” podcasts can be accessed on leonardsweet.com or spotify. His Twitter and Facebook microblogs are widely read and quoted. Former President of United Theological Seminary, Vice-President of Graduate Studies at Drew University and Dean of Drew Seminary, Dr. Sweet now works with graduate students at four institutions: Drew University, where he has occupied the E. Stanley Jones Chair, George Fox University, Northwind Seminary, and Southeastern University. Beginning in his late 20s, Sweet has written a lectionary-based sermon every week for various preaching resources like Homiletics (11 years), preaching plus (six years), sermons.com (eight years). In 2015 he launched his own homiletics resource preachthestory.com. One of the most sought-after speakers in the religious world today, he and his family reside on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands, where they operate a retreat center (or “advance center”) called Sanctuary Seaside.
