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2023 Faculty

Our 2023 Faculty is full of world-class Christian leaders that give our conference a unique blend of talent, experience, and knowledge.

 

David Cassidy


David is the Senior Pastor at Spanish River Church in Boca Raton, FL. Born in Illinois and raised in Indiana, David Cassidy grew up in the Lutheran Church under his Christian parents Patrick and Dolores Cassidy. He has been married to his wife Toni since 1980 and they have three children, Sean, Claire, and Anna. Sean is married to his wife Jacquelyn and live in the Nashville area along with Claire. Anna is eighteen and in her senior year of high school.

David met Toni in Oxford, England where he was engaged in studies in History and Literature, as well as student mission, beginning in 1979. David served as a church planter in London from 1981 to 1987. A life-changing conversation with Francis Schaeffer in 1982 eventually led to a radical new direction for David and after further church planting in the US, he became a Presbyterian minister in 2000. David has served churches in Britain, Kentucky, Texas, and Tennessee, sharing the Gospel of Grace with clarity, prophetic passion, and winsome wit, all with a view to reaching non-believers, strengthening the faith of Christians, encouraging the renewal of the Church, and training future leaders for global mission. He has also authored the book Indispensable: The Basics of Christian Belief.


Al Barth

On January 1, 2022, Al joined the staff of Spanish River Church as the Executive Pastor of Ministries and Church Planting. Prior to January 1, he served as the Global Church Planting Catalyst in the cities of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America for Redeemer City to City, a not-for-profit organization connected to Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York. Since 2001, in those four continental regions, he has been working with national leaders to start urban-center churches and trans-denominational church planting networks in leading cities, sub-continental networks, and continent-wide networks. His primary work involves recruiting, consulting, coaching, training, and resourcing church planters and city and regional network leaders. Al is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, but also serves as a consultant to many denominations and church networks helping them to devise strategies for the planting of new churches or the replanting of old churches in global cities.

Prior to his work the past twenty years with City to City, Al had planted four PCA churches, one in Sevierville, TN while serving on the staff of Cedar Springs PCA in Knoxville, two on the west coast of Florida in New Port Richey and Spring Hill and one just outside of NYC in Oyster Bay, NY.


Ralph Cunnington

Ralph is husband to Anna and dad to Sophie, Zach and Jacob. With the support of Spanish River Church, he led the team that planted City Church in the centre of Manchester in September 2014. The church has seen more than 50 believer baptisms and planted a new church in North Manchester in June 2020. They have facilitated the planting of a further three churches in the city and launched the Northern Gospel Project in November 2022 - an initiative to see 30 gospel churches planted in Greater Manchester by 2030. Ralph is the Director of the Northern Gospel Project and Chair of Crosslands. He is the author of Preaching with Spiritual Power (Christian Focus, 2015) and has a new book coming out later this year with P&R looking at unity in diversity.


Denine Blevins

Denine Blevins loves bringing together people who normally wouldn’t share the same space. She serves as the executive director of Parakaleo, a global nonprofit that builds gospel-based resilience in women in church planting.

Over the years, Denine has been blessed to help launch several initiatives, including a recovery home for women and a bilingual church in Manhattan. She and her favorite ministry partner Robert reside in Huntsville, Alabama with their dog Sydney.


Robert Guerrero

Robert Guerrero works toward catalyzing church planting networks in key cities of North America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Born to Dominican parents in New York City, Robert has spent much of his life in both the U.S. and the Dominican Republic. He has planted churches in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Chicago, and New York City. Robert was also co-founder of La Red del Camino for Integral Mission in Latin America, committed to inspiring and training churches to live out the gospel holistically with a commitment to justice, compassion, and community renewal. He now lives in Miami, where he leads the recently launched Latino Initiative of City to City North America. Robert and his wife Damaris have 4 sons - Joshua, Tomas, Robert Jr, and Joel.

Robert Guerrero trabaja catalizando redes de plantación de iglesias urbanas en ciudades claves de Norteamérica y el Caribe Hispano. Nacido de padres dominicanos en Nueva York, Robert ha vivido gran parte de su vida entre los Estados Unidos y la República Dominicana. Ha establecido iglesias en Santo Domingo, Chicago, y Nueva York. Robert fue co-fundador de La Red del Camino para la Misión Integral en Latino América, una confraternidad de pastores dedicados a inspirar y capacitar iglesias a promover el evangelio integral con enfoque en la justicia, la compasión, y la renovación de la comunidad. Actualmente vive en Miami de donde dirige la Iniciativa Latina de City to City Norteamérica y el Caribe. Robert y su esposa Damaris tienen 4 hijos - Josué, Tomás, Robert Jr., y Joel.


Bob Orner

Bob has partnered with Gospel Boot Camps as a trainer for over ten years and became the Executive Director in 2022. He received his Doctor of Ministry from Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando.  He presently serves as the Lead Pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He has served as a youth pastor, senior pastor, and church planter. Furthermore, he has helped to start church planting networks and continues to serve as a church planting coach. Bob was the Dean of Students and Guest Lecturer of Practical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida, for four years.

Bob is passionate about the ministry of the local church and committed to seeing people discover Christ and grow in grace.  He grew up in East Africa, where he developed a love and appreciation for cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity.  God used these years to build a passion for equipping leaders for the global community who are Biblically and theologically grounded, Gospel-motivated, and culturally intelligent. 


Stefan Paas

Stefan Paas is a Dutch theologian (Ph.D. in Old Testament Studies in 1998) who is currently a Professor of Missiology and Public Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Professor of Missiology at Theological University Utrecht. Previously, he worked as a consultant for evangelism and as a church planter in Amsterdam. His research focuses on missions in the secular West. Among his published works are Church Planting in the Secular West (Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 2016) and Pilgrims and Priests (SCM: London 2019). Currently, he works on lived soteriology and views of salvation in relation to mission. A Dutch book on this topic (Vrede op aarde, transl. Peace on Earth) has come out in September. An edited volume with scholarly contributions on soteriology and mission in the West, salvation in the 21st Century (brill: Leiden), is scheduled to appear in 2024.

Stefan is married with three adult children.


Chan Kilgore

Chan Kilgore is the Lead Pastor of New River Fellowship. He is passionate about showing how the gospel can inform and transform our everyday lives. He holds degrees from University of Central Florida and Reformed Theological Seminary.

Chan has been married to his wife Stacy for more than 30 years and have been blessed with three beautiful daughters and a grandson. He enjoys woodworking, home remodeling, reading and going to beach with his wife.


Jose Carrasco

Jose is originally from Peru and has been married to his wife Laura for over 30 years. They have two children, Jose Alonso and Natalia, who was recently married.

Jose has served as a Head Pastor of the Church of the Savior, a reformed Baptist Church in Lima Peru. He worked closely with missionary and evangelist Paul Washer from Heart Cry Missionary Society in forming the church and its growth strategy. Worldwide gospel proclamation and Latin America evangelization was achieved. He is currently a Deacon at Spanish River Church in Boca Raton, Florida.

He spent the last 22 years serving at Compassion International as a Country Director, Regional Director and most recently as the Senior Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean until May 2022. During those years coordinated and sponsored “The Gospel Project”. This project based its training on the Bad News and Good News material from Gospel First Ministries. The project has accomplished the training of most Compassion Latin America and the Caribbean staff, associate pastors, project directors and Frontline Church Partners (Volunteers), enabling Compassion staff and tutors (volunteers) to present the Gospel in a clear and compelling way to children and youth. Proven Positive Impact on more than a million people throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Jose completed the Coaching Mastery Certificate Program. He is an International Coaching Federation member with over 170 hours of accredited Coaching experience.

He was chosen as a 2015 Gallup Manager of the Year finalist and 2015 Compassion International Manager of the Year.


Luchrysta Caswell

Luchrysta is the oldest of five and grew up in a Christian home. She and Lyle met in college and after a few years of marriage, to her delight, God opened a door for them to plant a church in her hometown of Lakeland, FL and raise their 4 kids there. She has over 25 years of experience in ministry, including serving in the local church, leading groups and meeting one-on-one with people.

Luchrysta currently works for Parakaleo as a Florida Network Leader, a Local and Virtual Group Leader, a Trainer and a Coach. Luchrysta can get entangled in pride and unbelief, which expresses itself in grasping for the seat of honor, willfulness, self-righteousness and self-reliance, to name a few. She knows she needs Jesus and the gospel, applying it in the ordinary dailies of life. Doing life and ministry through prayer and community has become a tangible, personal, beautiful way for her to practically live out her dependence on and enjoyment of God’s presence.


Lois Kehlenbrink

Lois Kehlenbrink is a speaker, biblical counselor, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. For nearly 25 years, she worked within Tim Keller’s ministry network at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Redeemer Counseling Services, and Redeemer City to City. Today, under the auspices of Paul Tripp Ministries, she offers counseling services, as well as equips leaders around the world to start their own counseling programs. Lois received her M.S. in Family Counseling at Iona College and studied Biblical Counseling at Westminster Theological Seminary.

She lives in New York City and has two adult daughters, Rebekka and Sylvia.



Doug Logan Jr.

Dr. Doug Logan, Jr. has a PhD in Organizational Leadership and a Master of Arts in Ministry in Church Planting. Dr. Logan has been in urban ministry for more than 25 years. He serves as the president of Grimké Seminary, church planting pastor at Remnant Church in Richmond, VA, and is the author of On The Block: Developing a Biblical Picture for Missional Engagement.

In 2011, he planted Epiphany Fellowship of Camden with his wife Angel. They have three sons and four grandchildren.


Tom Wood

Dr. Tom Wood is President of CMM, Inc. CMM is focused on Church Vitality and serves in three spheres- Individuals, Churches, and Networks (church ecosystems and/or networks). Their mission is “Empowering leaders to multiply the gospel in their spheres of influence. They continue to train Gospel coaches and trainers in USA, UK, and Cuba. Tom planted and pastored two churches and was founding director of North Georgia Church Planting Network (now MAC). He is the pioneer of Gospel Coaching and author of Vital Grace:Getting Everything For Nothing (2022)), The Church Planter Field Manual (2010) and co-author of Gospel Coach (2012). He earned his doctorate from RTS in Gospel Coaching.

Tom and Rachel have been married for 46 years, have 3 daughters, two son-in-laws and four grandkids.  


Casey Cleveland

Casey Cleveland is the lead pastor of The Avenue Church. The Avenue Church was planted in 2010…and I have grown increasingly aware of my desperate need for Jesus while preaching the Gospel. I love but struggle to believe in the everyday occurrences of life, and somehow, God keeps allowing me to fall more in love with him in the midst of anxiousness, selfishness, and weakness. Through this, I am thankful that my greatest delight has become the person of God. So the story, rescue, and renewal continue, and He, who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Revelations 21:5a