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Kristie Anyabwile is a pastor’s wife and the mother of Afiya, Eden, and Titus. She joyfully supports her husband, Thabiti, as he pastors Anacostia River Church in Southeast Washington, D.C. Kristie enjoys spending time with family, cooking, and discipling women, as well as speaking and writing about marriage, motherhood, and ministry. You can follow her on Twitter at @KAnyabwile.

Thabiti Anyabwile is one of the pastors for Anacostia River Church. He has served as an elder and pastor in churches in NC, DC and the Cayman Islands. After a few years as a practicing Muslim, Thabiti was converted under the preaching of the gospel in the Washington DC area. He and his wife, Kristie, have three children. Thabiti is the author of several books, including The Life of God in the Soul of the Church; The Gospel for Muslims; What Is a Healthy Church Member?; The Decline of African-American Theology; and The Faithful Preacher. He blogs regularly at The Front Porch.

The power of the gospel is creating an eternal, cosmic, multiethnic community here and now. God’s design for his kingdom is wonderfully diverse and every church can contribute to this beautiful picture of how Christ’s kingdom has broken into this age. This talk from the 2023 Harbor Network Leaders' Summit is intended to encourage and equip God's people to display the multi-faceted wisdom of God in our churches.

Rechab Gray is the pastor of preaching and spiritual formation at New Creation Fellowship in Orlando, a brand new church plant in the downtown area. He has been married to Brittany since 2009, and they have four children —Aaron, Zipporah, Jonathan, and Hadassah. He has a Master’s of Biblical Studies from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is pursuing a PhD from North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies. 

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The power of the gospel is creating an eternal, cosmic, multiethnic community here and now. God’s design for his kingdom is wonderfully diverse and every church can contribute to this beautiful picture of how Christ’s kingdom has broken into this age. This talk from the 2023 Harbor Network Leaders' Summit is intended to encourage and equip God's people to display the multi-faceted wisdom of God in our churches.

Timothy lives in Louisville with his wife and 4 daughters. He is one of the preaching pastors at Sojourn Midtown. He holds a PhD from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and serves there as the Vice President of Doctoral Studies. Along with many other books, he is co author of In Church As It Is In Heaven. 

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The power of the gospel is creating an eternal, cosmic, multiethnic community here and now. God’s design for his kingdom is wonderfully diverse and every church can contribute to this beautiful picture of how Christ’s kingdom has broken into this age. This talk from the 2023 Harbor Network Leaders' Summit is intended to encourage and equip God's people to display the multi-faceted wisdom of God in our churches.

Paul Tokunaga, Founder and President of MELD, LLC, brings 40+ years of hands-on multi-ethnic leadership development training, coaching and consulting with organizations throughout the United States. Paul is a third-generation Japanese American from San Jose, California. He was an undergraduate student at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo where he earned a B.S. of Journalism.  He was awarded the C.G. Young Award by the university president as the outstanding graduate in his class. Paul went on to earn a Masters of Christian Studies at New College Berkeley.

Paul’s biggest assignments have come from InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, for whom he has served since 1973 in a variety of leadership and management roles, including National Asian American Ministry Coordinator for 14 years. Most recently he has been the Vice-President, Director of Strategic Ministries, for nine years. InterVarsity is a $110 million non-profit, employing 1600 throughout the United States.

Paul is a Certified Facilitator in Cultural Intelligence  (CQ) and Unconscious Bias by the Cultural Intelligence Center and was certified as a conflict mediator by the Conflict Resolution Academy.

He and his wife Margaret recently celebrated their 42nd anniversary. They have an adult son, Sam. They all reside in Atlanta.

Paul is a co-author of two multi-ethnic leadership books as well as the author of Invitation to Lead: Guidance for Emerging Asian American Leaders, now in its 10th printing. Paul is a sought-after speaker to audiences of 18 to 18,000 on subjects of multi-ethnicity, diversity in the workplace, and developing high potential leaders.

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The power of the gospel is creating an eternal, cosmic, multiethnic community here and now. God’s design for his kingdom is wonderfully diverse and every church can contribute to this beautiful picture of how Christ’s kingdom has broken into this age. This talk from the 2023 Harbor Network Leaders' Summit is intended to encourage and equip God's people to display the multi-faceted wisdom of God in our churches.

Suzanne Bates (MAC ’99), a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and PhD student (‘23; University of Missouri-St. Louis), brings a wealth of experience from the counseling field into the classroom as Assistant Professor of Counseling. She provides counseling part-time as Staff Counselor for New City Fellowship – St. Louis, a position she has held for more than a decade. For more than twenty years, Suzanne has provided care and counsel to individuals, couples, and families of diverse populations, including the incarcerated, immigrants, and refugees. She counsels, shepherds, and teaches CTS students and members of New City Fellowship Church with the wisdom she has gleaned over her years of teaching counseling courses, facilitating and teaching Bible studies, leading women’s groups, and more. Suzanne is a native of St. Louis, Missouri; she has four grown children and four grandchildren.

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For more on The Leaders' Summit visit www.theleaderssummit.com

The power of the gospel is creating an eternal, cosmic, multiethnic community here and now. God’s design for his kingdom is wonderfully diverse and every church can contribute to this beautiful picture of how Christ’s kingdom has broken into this age. This talk from the 2023 Harbor Network Leaders' Summit is intended to encourage and equip God's people to display the multi-faceted wisdom of God in our churches.

Dr. Williams is a New Testament professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a preaching pastor at Sojourn Midtown. He holds a PhD from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife Ana have one son, Jaden, and live and serve in Louisville, KY. Jarvis has authored many books, including Redemptive Kingdom Diversity. 

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For more on The Leaders' Summit visit www.theleaderssummit.com

The power of the gospel is creating an eternal, cosmic, multiethnic community here and now. God’s design for his kingdom is wonderfully diverse and every church can contribute to this beautiful picture of how Christ’s kingdom has broken into this age. This talk from the 2023 Harbor Network Leaders' Summit is intended to encourage and equip God's people to display the multi-faceted wisdom of God in our churches.

Jamaal and his lovely wife Amber have 5 beautiful children: Nia, Josiah, Kayla, Micah, and Judah. He is a Chicago native, now serving in Louisville as the Lead Pastor of Sojourn Midtown. He holds an MDiv and DEdMin from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Black Church Leadership and is one of the authors of In Church As It Is In Heaven.

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In this episode, Zack Eswine walks through Psalm 131, and what it means to come to a childlike space before God.

Zack Eswine serves as lead pastor of Riverside Church in St. Louis, Missouri. ​He is the author of Preaching Today’s book of the year, Preaching to a Post-Everything World (Baker, 2008), as well as The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus (Crossway, 2015), which received Christianity Today‘s 2016 book of the year in the church/pastoral leadership category.

In this episode, Zack Eswine expounds on the theme of the Steadfast Love of the Lord from Psalm 90:14.

Zack Eswine serves as lead pastor of Riverside Church in St. Louis, Missouri. ​He is the author of Preaching Today’s book of the year, Preaching to a Post-Everything World (Baker, 2008), as well as The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus (Crossway, 2015), which received Christianity Today‘s 2016 book of the year in the church/pastoral leadership category.