Wayne Cordeiro

New Hope Church

Honolulu, HI

Wayne Cordeiro is the founding pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii with over 15,000 in weekend attendance over 9 campuses and over 3000 attending services via the internet each week. New Hope is also listed as one of the top ten most innovative churches in America with Outreach Magazine listing them as one of the “top five churches to learn from.”

Wayne is a church planter at heart with over 108 churches planted and author of ten books including Doing Church as a Team, a book that provides a radical yet simple model of discipleship. Through Wayne’s 26 years at New Hope, Wayne has proven strategies for building healthy, long lasting teams that he looks forward to digging into at Sticky Church 2010.

Larry Osborne

North Coast Church

Vista, CA (San Diego)

Larry Osborne is a Senior Pastor at North Coast Church in Vista, California and president of the North Coast Training Network. Under his leadership, North Coast has grown from 128 to over 7,000 in weekend attendance. It’s also been honored as one of the ten most influential churches in America for its pioneering efforts in the multi-site movement, sermon-based small groups, and its creative approach to shared leadership. Larry’s books include Sticky Teams, Sticky Church, Ten Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe, Spirituality For The Rest Of Us, and The Unity Factor.

Jamie Munson

Mars Hill Church

Seattle, WA

Jamie Munson is Lead Pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. Born and raised in the state of Montana, Jamie moved to Seattle as a 19-year-old non-Christian. He met Jesus at Mars Hill not long after the church began, and started serving as its first intern.

Over the next thirteen years, Jamie worked almost every job at Mars Hill, growing in leadership and responsibility along the way. In 2007, he became Lead Pastor, responsible for the senior leadership team, church operations, strategic planning, and the overall mission of the church.

Jamie received his Masters in Missional Leadership from the Resurgence Training Center in 2010; he has served as President of the local Chamber of Commerce; and he has been recognized by The Church Report as one of the Top 10 Church Business Administrators in the country. Jamie lives in Seattle with his wife, Crystal, and their four children: Caleb, Kara, Orin, and Haley.

Will Mancini

Auxano

Houston, TX

Will Mancini is a “clarity evangelist” who is passionate about every church having a stunningly unique vision. As the founder of Auxano, he has successfully navigated hundreds of church teams through the complexities of expanding their ministries and building teams. As a pastor, Will has served at two churches that experienced exponential growth; Clear Creek Community and Faithbridge UMC in the Houston area. He is the author of Church Unique and Building Leaders.

Chris Brown

North Coast Church

Vista, CA (San Diego)

Chris Brown is one of the Senior Pastors at North Coast Church in Vista, California and one of the two Teaching Pastors.  Along with being on the vision casting team, and providing directional leadership for the church, he also co-teaches a preaching course at Bethel Seminary.  Chris has a passion for building ministry teams that work together, and play together, in a healthy family atmosphere.

David Barr

New Hope Windward Christian Fellowship

Kaneohe, Hawaii

Dave Barr is the Senior Pastor of New Hope Windward Christian Fellowship, in Kaneohe, Hawaii.  New Hope Windward began in January, 2000 and has become a multi-site church with weekly services in the largest women’s prison on the islands and a 10 theater cinema complex. As a motivational speaker for businesses and civic organizations, Dave’s most popular talks include subjects on leadership, building relationships, and navigating teams successfully through difficult changes.  Before Dave began full-time ministry, he led a multi-million dollar international company in Hawaii.

Elise Boggs

North Coast Church

Vista, CA (San Diego)

Elise is one of the pastors and co-teachers of North Coast’s college ministry, the Jordan, and has a passion for leadership development and healthy teams. The Jordan has an average weekly attendance of 200 students (with over 80% involved in Growth Groups) and a thriving team of over 100 weekly volunteers. In addition, Elise has led several teams of 12-15 students to do missional work in India with Oasis Trust of London and Australia with Campus Crusade for Christ.

Elise has also been able to expand her sphere of influence as a professor in the Organizational Leadership program at National University and guest lecturer at Chapman University.  She has been instrumental in creating community partnerships for students to gain valuable work experience and offer free services to non-profits. Before going into full-time ministry, Elise learned a lot in the corporate world as a manager for the music division of Walden Media.

Michael Lwin

New Hope Windward Christian Fellowship

Kaneohe, Hawaii

Following seven years of climbing the ladder of success in the corporate sector, Mike traded his career of success for a career of significance. In January 2000, Mike began his call in full-time ministry at New Hope Christian Fellowship O’ahu as a member of Pastor Wayne Cordeiro’s Senior Management Team. With his passion for strategic planning, vision casting, building teams and synergistic results, Mike now successfully leads New Hope Leeward, one of New Hope’s satellite campuses that has an average weekend attendance over 3,000.

Chris Mavity

North Coast Church

Vista, CA (San Diego)

Ministry veteran, Pastor Chris Mavity joined the North Coast Church leadership team in 1998.  His first assignment was to “create an overflow room that was a reward.”  Instead, Chris developed the first “Video Worship Venue,” a preferred worship environment that spawned the modern day Multi-Site ministry movement.

Chris is also an instrumental leader of North Coast’s Sermon-Based Small Group ministry, serving five years as the lead pastor.  This vital network of home fellowship groups is the hub of the ministry at North Coast.  It’s the place where the weekend crowd becomes a church, with an 80% participation ratio of our adult attendees on a weekly basis.  In his role as Director of the North Coast Training Network, he’s consulted with and coached ministry teams of all shapes, sizes and locations in small group & multi-site ministry development.

Dave Enns

North Coast Church

Vista, CA (San Diego)

Dave has been on staff at North Coast Church since 1990 and is presently the Pastor of Growth Group Ministries (aka Home Fellowships). North Coast is known for maintaining 80% of its adult attendance throughout its 25 year history of having Growth Groups. Under Dave’s leadership during the past seven years the Growth Group Ministry has grown by 50%. He enjoys time with friends and a family, mountain biking, a good book on leadership, and almost any adventure outdoors. Dave and his wife Koreena have been married for 19 years and have three children 16, 14, & 13.

Brad Graves

CrossChurch

San Diego, CA

Veteran church launching strategist, Brad Graves, has started churches coast to coast in New England, Ohio, and Southern California. He has helped raise millions of dollars for starting churches and has coached countless church planters through tough issues such as fund raising and strategy development. In 2008 he launched a flagship church in San Diego and is currently working to start 3 additional churches in Southern California. Brad is a man who is living out his calling and passion to launch churches and coach fellow church planters.

JD Larson

North Coast Church

Vista, CA (San Diego)

JD Larson is the Campus Pastor at North Coast Church’s Carlsbad campus.  He recruited a team and launched this new off-site campus on March 14, 2010.  Almost 750 people showed up for opening Sunday, and over 700 have stuck and are still attending.  JD has a passion for taking a big church and working with his team to give it a small church “feel.”  He has a background in camping ministry and has now been on staff with North Coast for over 8 years.  Since then, JD has served as North Coast’s College Pastor, a Growth Group station–in-life pastor, and has launched and led two venues at North Coast’s Vista campus.  Recruiting teams and building leaders is what makes JD tick at work.  At home, he is all about his wife Linda and their two teenage sons.

Travis Sybert

North Coast Church

Vista, CA (San Diego)

Travis has been on staff at North Coast for 14 years, and has served as one of the Junior High Pastor for 10 years.  He leads a ministry team of 10 staff members and 90 volunteers, ministering to nearly 300 students each week.  Travis’ focus on diligently training adults and students for work in the ministry field has led to a constant waiting list to be a junior high volunteer (and an 85% average staff retention rate).