Lacy Finn Borgo teaches and provides spiritual direction for Renovaré, the Companioning Center, and Mercy Center, Burlingame. She has a spiritual direction ministry for adults and provides spiritual direction for children at Haven House, a transitional facility for families without homes. Her recent books are Spiritual Conversations with Children: Listening to God Together and the children’s book All Will Be Well. 

Jared Patrick Boyd is a pastor, spiritual director, and founder of the Order of the Common Life, a missional monastic order for the twenty-first century. He pastors the Abbey, a contemplative church in the city of Columbus, Ohio. Jared is the author of Imaginative Prayer: A Yearlong Guide for Your Child’s Spiritual Formation and The Freedom of Constraint. He and his wife have four girls and live in the west-side neighborhood of Franklinton in Columbus, Ohio. 

Joseph P. Conway ministers with the Acklen Avenue Church of Christ in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition, he serves as an affiliate faculty member in the College of Bible and Ministry at Lipscomb University. He’s the author of Broken but Beautiful: Why Church Is Still Worth It. He and his wife, Beth, enjoy life with three daughters. 

Heather Ingersoll joined the Godly Play Foundation as the executive director in the fall of 2020. She earned a PhD in education from Seattle Pacific University and an MA in family life education from Concordia University. Before joining the Godly Play Foundation staff, she worked for several Christian churches supporting children’s ministry programs, served as a professor of 264 Contributors early childhood education, and taught courses in child development, positive psychology, spirituality in schools, and children’s ministry. 

Kevin Johnson serves as the director of children’s ministries for Discipleship Ministries, United Methodist Church. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. Kevin holds a master’s of divinity from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and a doctor of ministry in homiletical leadership from Phillips Theological Seminary. He is married to Jennifer and has three children, Braden, JonMarie, and Will. 

Dana Kennamer is a professor of early childhood education at Abilene Christian University. Her publications include Along the Way: Conversations about Children & Faith. Despite Dana’s busy life as an academic, you can find her on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings with the children of her church, who know her simply as “Teacher Dana.” 

Karin Middleton has served with an international mission agency for twenty years. She has led children’s ministries in large churches and church plants in California and Colorado across a broad spectrum of Christian traditions. She also served in children’s ministries in Scotland and London and conducted children’s ministry research in Germany and France. She holds an MEd from Azusa Pacific and an MA in theology from Fuller Seminary. 

Suzetta Nutt serves as a children’s minister and the director of communications at Highland Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas. For the past thirty-seven years, her passion has been listening to children and wondering about the mystery of God together with them as they share the lifelong journey of faith. She and her husband, Bob, have three children, Lauren, Ryan, and Tabby. 

Trevecca Okholm (editor) began her professional life as a children’s and family pastor for over a quarter century before moving into academics. She has spent nearly a decade teaching practical theology at Azusa Pacific University. She also serves churches as a ministry consultant and trainer for worship and wonder approaches to ministry with children. Trevecca has served on the board of the Children’s Spirituality Summit since 2014. Her books include Kingdom Family: Re-envisioning God’s Plan for Marriage and Family and The Grandparenting Effect: Bridging Generations One Story at a Time. 

Anthony Peterson has designed and facilitated diversity workshops since 2004. He has led workshops in corporate, academic, and community settings. His degrees in psychology (BA, Willamette University) and Christian education (MA, Scarritt Graduate School) inform his perspective on diversity and inclusion. Anthony’s diversity discussions took a personal turn in 2014 when he began documenting conversations with his White grandchildren regarding race, and his relevant TEDx talk has reached thousands. He hopes that those conversations serve as invitations for others to tell their own racial stories. 

Robin Turner (editor) currently serves as the director of family ministries at All Saints Dallas, having spent the last decade working in children’s ministries in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas in Anglican contexts. She studied Christian formation and ministry for her BA and MA at Wheaton College, and in 2019, she earned her doctor of ministry in leadership and spiritual formation from Portland Seminary. Her dissertation addressed leading change in congregations to value children’s spiritual formation for the sake of the whole church body. She loves spending time with her husband, Sam, and their two young sons, Davy and Jack. 

Edwin M. (Ed) Willmington is the director of the Fred Bock Institute of Music at the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts and composer-in-residence at Fuller Theological Seminary. Ed’s recent compositional projects include “Reconciled in Christ,” the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, held in Cape Town, South Africa, in October 2010, and “Consolation for the Suffering,” a musical work written to highlight the issue of Christian persecution. He also has a special interest in encouraging the creativity of musical artists and has developed Jubal House Publications (http://www.JubalHouse.com) as a means of sharing new works as tools for worship planning. Ed has a BA in church music and conducting from Bethel University in Minnesota and an MM and DMA in composition—both from the University of Arizona. Ed and his wife, Mary Lou, have two married daughters, Nicolette Kay and Cami Ferreira; two sons-in-law, Timothy Kay and Gus Ferreira; and four wonderful grandchildren. 

Stacey Wilson works as a ministry consultant, facilitating the processes of reflection and culture change that enable churches to flourish as intergenerational communities of faith. A passionate advocate for diversity, inclusion, and trauma-informed care, Stacey develops practical, evidence-based resources and training for ministry practitioners. She has held leadership positions in three intergenerational faith communities over the last fifteen years and spends too many hours at her local café drinking coffee.

Esther L. Zimmerman serves as chair of the Church and Ministry Leadership Department at Lancaster Bible College / Capital Seminary. Previously, she served for twelve years as the international children’s ministry director for a global mission organization. Her heart is to see every child in every community around the world have someone who can help them know, love, and obey God for a lifetime.