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Brenton Brown – A gifted songwriter and musician, Brenton has written many worship songs, including “Everlasting God,” “Lord, Reign in Me,” “All Who Are Thirsty,” and “Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing).” Everlasting God was released with Survivor and with Sparrow in the States. In 2005 the Browns reluctantly left London and their home church of Holy Trinity Brompton for California. Since then they have been welcomed into the Horizon family of churches and have travelled across the States and beyond leading worship in churches as far afield as Sweden and Korea. 2008 saw the arrival of a baby daughter called Bella, and Brenton’s second solo project, ‘Because of your love.’ Brenton has been lucky enough to have his songs recorded by Chris Tomlin and Lincoln Brewster. He has 5 songs in CCLI’s top 100.
Joel Auge – Joel Augé (pronounced “Oj-hay”) hails from Ontario, Canada, where he serves as a worship leader for The Meeting House family of churches, runs his own digital marketing company, and Records on the Integrity Music Label.
Joel’s passion for music has found him recording since 1999, fronting three distinctive bands. He has always felt at home smack in the middle of the sacred/secular road. For him, it’s the same road. ‘The balance between artist and worshiper is a heart thing,’ Joel says. ‘If you’re a Christian and you’re making art, you are in some way sacrificing your art in worship. My art, the thing I create, even though it’s not 100% congregational all the time, I consider it an act of worship… It’s a daily struggle to put the ego aside, but ultimately, I’m nowhere near as important as the one I’m singing to.’
Doug Gould – Doug Gould has served the Pro Audio/MI Industry for over 25 years in various sales and marketing capacities. He blazed a trail for Shure,Inc, where for seven years built their entire House of Worship strategy through his hundreds of workshops, artist relationships and through creating content for educational resources. He is now an independent consultant with his own company , Worship MD, and represents Audio-Technica, Westone, My Mix Audio and Presonus and other well-known brands in the industry who desire to train, equip and resource the worship community. Doug also serves as worship leader of his home church, Harvest Chapel in Lawrenceville NJ. He is married to Sheri Gould and father to eight children and three grandchildren.
Doug is a co-founder of “The Forge Conference”
Joel Klampert – Joel was born and raised in Long Island, NY and through many years of following God’s voice and moving way too much now resides with his wife and four kids in RI. He is music Director and worship leader at Lifepath Church in Middletown, RI. He is a blog addict, graphic designer/artist, musician, husband, father and innovator. Joel not only has a heart for worship in the small church, but he is also a huge advocate and avid promoter of unity and relationships within the Body of Christ.
Joel is a co-founder of “The Forge Conference”
Adam Fagan Kela – Born and raised in Hilo, HI now living in Newport, RI. Adam is currently serving his local church community as the Spiritual Life Director and creator and facilitator of two mens groups; ROOTS and Momentum. His greatest desire is to continually witness and partake of the life changing power of Christ’s love manifested through His Church.
Adam is a co-founder of “The Forge Conference”
Pastor Jack Osteen – Pastor Jack recently stepped down from his church in Cincinnati, OH to plant a church in Providence, RI called Connexion Church. The Churches birthdate was Easter sunday 2010 and has been growing in size, spirit, and community outreach ever since. Jack lives in the Providence area with his wife and two kids.
Jack is a co-founder of “The Forge Conference”
Scott Hoffman – Scott Hoffman is a published author, “ACTS 29″ and pastor. He is also Chief Administrative Officer of Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, location of the Forge Conference.
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Jim Weiveris - As a retired municipal government worker, Jim started pulling cable each Sunday with his local porta-church. Along the way, to better learn his craft, he took classes with Syn-Aud-Con, various church centered events (CMS, TMS, NEWI) and got involved with the good folks from Worship Arts Technology Summits, traveling often with them to lend a hand and to learn what he could.
When the church moved into their new building, he was asked to take over as the “sound guy”. In short time, that turned into a volunteer, full-time position as Technical Director, organizing and expanding the operations of the team. Jim has a very real sense for stewardship, both of people and money, which led to disagreement, causing him to depart the church.
In life after retirement, he also did electrical work for a communicattions company, learning the how-to (and how not to) of structured wiring.
Jim’s goal: to be united with his Lord and Savior, and reunited with my wife, who beat me there to hear those seven wonderful words…
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Fred Mckinnon - Fred is the Worship Director at St. Simons Community Church on St. Simons Island, GA. He is happily married to his wife, Joy, and they have four children. He loves to mentor and train up worship leaders. He is also a songwriter and producer and owns his own production company, Highest Praise Productions.
Mike Kim - Mike Kim is a pastor, worship leader, songwriter, and author. In over fifteen years of ministry, he has traveled extensively teaching, training, and leading people into deep worship. Spirit-led and highly congregational, many of Mike’s songs are being used around the world including Generation Holy, A Thousand Tongues, and Greatly To Be Praised.
Mike’s accessible style of leading worship, Word-centered teaching, and deep roots in the local church have enabled him to minister cross-culturally and cross-generationally. His vision is to equip and empower all generations through worship and life transforming truth. Mike and his wife Iris reside in Manchester, CT where he also serves as worship pastor of Church of the Living God.
Sheri Gould - Sheri is a graduate of the University of Ill. She has taught voice privately for 30 years. She has been a worship leader and music director in various local churches since 1986. She was the director of Good News Productions, an evangelistic outreach involving singing, drama, dance and original musicals for 13 years. She writes for Worship Musician! Magazine and Front Yard Worship Magazine and tours the country with her husband teaching and equipping the Body of Christ for music ministry at such conferences as Christian Musician Summit, Seminars4Worship, International Worship Institute, East Coast Worship Summit, Worship Institute Northeast and many more. A home-schooler since 1985, she her husband Doug reside in New Jersey where she is now home-schooling the last of her six children.
McKendree Augustas – Mckendree is a singer songwriter/worship leader who’s sound can be described as the ghostly electronics of Radiohead, the wide-open atmosphere of Coldplay, with the pounding piano of Ben Folds, and the intimately worshipful lyrics of John Mark McMillian, all the while retaining at least a peripheral awareness of emo-guitar, and mixed together into a creative, original, and refreshing sound. Mckendree has shared the stage with Jeff Deyo, Britt Nicole and currently is a member of Sonicflood.
Grant Norsworthy - Grant brings fresh perspective as he sings and speaks passionately about the true nature of worship, life and meaning and, above all, following Jesus. Originally from Australia Grant is a Grammy nominated and Dove Award winning musician who is quickly gaining a reputation as a powerfully engaging speaker.
Grant Norsworthy originally came to the public’s attention as the bassist for the very popular Paul Colman Trio (pc3); firstly in Australia and New Zealand in the late 90’s and then in the USA in the early 2000’s. Since then, while living in Nashville, Tennessee, in the USA – Grant continued as the bassist for many artists; most significantly a three and a half year stint with million-selling ‘worship rockers’ SONICFLOOd.
In March of 2008, Grant launched ‘word and song’ which combines his passions to teach through spoken word and to lead through music.
Alece Ronzino - Her story is one of brokenness, but also of redemption. Alece is a New Yorker who’s lived in South Africa for eleven years, running a ministry called Thrive Africa. Right now God’s in the process of rebuilding her heart and life in the wake of her husband’s unfaithfulness and decision for divorce. Alece will be heading back to Africa next year to step into leadership once again. In the meantime, she is living in Atlanta, pursuing the heart healing she needs.
Travis Paulding - Travis is the Production & Technology Director at St. Simons Community Church in coastal Georgia. He has been serving in worship related production for 17 years. His experience with A/V/L systems ranging from both large to small and both well-designed to thrown together. He loves troubleshooting anything production or tech related EXCEPT FOR Windows networking related problems. If he is in a room with an A/V/L system installed, you will probably find him near their controls… whether he is supposed to be or not.
Brent & Tammy Hodge - Brent is the Worship pastor at Table Rock Fellowship in Oregon. He is a passionate user of social media and along with his wife and two kids hosts many people in their home that they have befriended online.
Tammy is a Christ follower, wife and mother. She is a devoted friend and will come to your defense in a heartbeat. She has questions, lots of questions. About life, children, relationships, faith, God, people who do dumb things (including herself). Tammy is on a journey. A journey not meant to be traveled alone.
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Mike Overlin - Mike is the Manager of Worship Resources for Yamaha Corporation of America, and a worship leader and consultant with the Free Methodist Church in Southern California. A professional musician all his life, he served two tours of duty with the United States Air Force Band, earned two gold records for audio engineering and lead a band at Disneyland for many years.
In addition, Mike is a sought after fine art, portrait and event photographer specializing in worship concerts and iconic photography. He has developed a series of workshops supported by Nikon USA that define the tools and techniques necessary to produce imagery in support of contemporary worship.
Mike shoots and endorses Nikon cameras and lenses, Really Right Stuff camera support products and Think Tank Photo cases. You can see his work at www.mikeoverlin.net
His heart is for resourcing the church and her artists.
Dan Wilt - Dan Wilt, M.Min. (All You Are) is the Learning Community Director of WorshipTraining.com, which provides online and live training programs for the contemporary and emerging Church. He is an internationally respected worship leader, songwriter, author and trainer. Dan has also been the Director of Vineyard Worship Resources, and is the host of the DVDs What Is Worship?, Leading Worship, and Songwriting For Worship, designed to equip worship leaders in worldview/theology, basic worship leading skills and essential songwriting principles. Dan and WorshipTraining.com partner with St. Stephen’s University in New Brunswick, Canada, to offer a Masters program for worship leaders, artists and creative leaders desiring formation as spiritual leaders.
Dan, his wife Anita, and three children – Anna, Abigail and Benjamin – make their home in Nashville, Tennessee.
Shannon Lewis - Shannon Lewis serves as the Associate Worship Director at Saint Simons Community Church in GA, where his primarily responsibilities are mentoring, training & leading the Middle & High School musicians/teams. He has also served the Gathering Place, a local inter-church ministry, for the past three years in this same capacity. Having released 3 CDs with Set on Edge, Shannon – with his wife, Cyle – has just released his debut worship CD entitled “Saint Lewis: Songs from the Hope Farm”. He is also the founder of Hope Farm Music Ministries, an itinerant ministry who’s goal is to sew, cultivate, & harvest young worship leaders, fresh worship songs, & authentic Biblical worship for our great God.
Jonathon Lee - Jonathan Lee is a passionate worship leader with a heart to lead people into the presence of a holy God. He is the co-writer to the songs Jesus I Surrender, Nothing Less Than All of Me, and Revolution. Jesus I Surrender and Nothing Less are featured on Jeff Deyo’s latest album Surrender and Revolution is on the Promise keepers CD called Uprising. Also on that CD Jonathan is featured as one of the worship leaders, along with Jeff Deyo, Lincoln Brewster, John Katina and others, singing a song called “Holy is the Lord” written by Chris Tomlin and Louie Giglio and one called “I Will Not Be Shaken” by Tony Guerrero. Jonathan has traveled around the country sharing his heart for worship with his amazing band Matt Underwood, Phil Snowden, Caleb Miller, and Aaron Farmer. Together they share a vision to lead people to God’s heart so that we as Christians can truly come back to the heart of worship.
Jonathan Lee’s vision and goal is first and foremost to lift up the name of Jesus so that all people might be drawn to God, as stated in John 12:32. His desire is to worship the King of kings with all of his heart and his life with the hope of leading people to the true heart of God. Consumed with a passionate love for God, there is no doubt when listening to Jonathan’s music and experiencing his worship leading, that this worshiper is truly set apart.
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