Mark Labberton

Mark Labberton was born in Yakima, Washington, an agricultural town in Eastern Washington State.  He has been married to Janet Labberton for 42 years, and they have two adult sons.  Mark did an undergraduate degree in English Literature at Whitman College, his MDiv at Fuller Theological Seminary, and his PhD in hermeneutics at Cambridge University. Mark was ordained in the Presbyterian Church USA in 1982, and served has primarily served as a pastor (twice at the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, as well as in Carmel, CA, and in Wayne, Pennsylvania). In 2009, he became a professor of preaching at Fuller Theological Seminary, where, in 2013, Mark became its fifth president. He concluded his presidency at the end of 2022, and is now professor and president-emeritus, primarily writing, preaching, and speaking.  Mark serves as a trustee for International Justice Mission.  His podcast, Conversing, is distributed by Fuller Seminary and Comment Magazine.  He instigated what became another podcast, Credible Witness.

Mark’s faith has been marked by the shocking surprise of the gospel: the breadth and depth of God’s redeeming love and justice in Jesus Christ that reorders everything.  This means discipleship is about a life of worship, of continuous learning, of living and serving as part of a new communion of unlike people in Christ (the Church), and who live and love to make God visible and tangible in the world, not least in places of pain, need, and marginalization. His forty-year involvement in global theological education has been one of his life’s greatest joys and primary commitments.

Books authored or edited include:

• The Dangerous Act of Worship:  Living God’s Call to Justice

• The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus

• Still Evangelical? Insiders Consider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning 

• Called:  The Promise and Challenge of Following Jesus Today

Many articles and chapters of other publications and books.

Dr. Scott W. Sunquist

Dr. Scott W. Sunquist serves as the seventh president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He also serves as professor of missiology and authors the Attentiveness blog.

Before Gordon-Conwell, Dr. Sunquist served as the Dean of Intercultural Studies and Professor of World Christianity at Fuller Seminary. Prior to this, he taught for seventeen years at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Dr. Sunquist and his wife, Nancy, served as missionaries in the Republic of Singapore from 1987–1995, where he was the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church and lecturer in church history, ecumenics, and Asian Christianity at Trinity Theological College. Before this, he was a campus staff member with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Virginia and Massachusetts.

He received his BA in History Education from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; his MDiv (Summa cum Laude) from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; and his PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. In 2017, he was the Senior Scholar in Residence at the Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, CT.

Dr. Sunquist is married to Nancy Sunquist. They have four adult children and twelve grandchildren.

Drew Hyun

Drew Hyun spearheads Leadership Development for Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, a movement that is dedicated to transforming church culture through the multiplication of deeply changed leaders and disciples. In addition, Drew is the Founder and Pastor of Hope Church NYC, a family of diverse churches in and around NYC. Drew is also the Co-Founder of the New City Network, a network of urban churches that value multi-ethnicity, Spirit-filled ministry, emotional health, and mission.

Drew graduated from UC Berkeley in California with a major in rhetoric. He later went on to graduate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (MDiv) and Fuller Theological Seminary (DMin). He has gone on to preach in many different contexts, both in the United States and abroad. His particular passion is for authentic community and for the transformative power of meaningful relationships.

Drew loves cities, ESPN, and naps, and finds it a restful Sabbath when all three come together. He lives in New York City with his lovely wife, Christina, and their two children, David and Avery.

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Kara Powell, PhD

Kara Powell, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI), the founder of the TENx10 Collaboration, and the Chief of Leadership of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. Named by Christianity Today as one of “50 Women to Watch,” Kara speaks regularly at national parenting and leadership conferences, and is the author or co-author of a number of books including Future-Focused Church, Faith Beyond Youth Group, 3 Big Questions that Change Every Teenager, Faith in an Anxious World, Growing With, Growing Young, The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family, Sticky Faith Curriculum, Can I Ask That?, Deep Justice Journeys, Essential Leadership, Deep Justice in a Broken World, Deep Ministry in a Shallow World, and the Good Sex Youth Ministry Curriculum.