Aaron Cline Hanbury is the founding editor of the award-winning Common Good magazine, a title published by Made to Flourish. He was previously the editor of RELEVANT magazine, during which time the print title underwent a complete redesign, and the magazine reached upward of 75 million people across all media channels, including record numbers of monthly online readers. Through his publication firm, NXTPG, he works with nonprofits and schools to reimagine or develop new print magazines. His writing appears in various publications in print and online, including The Atlantic. He makes the podcast Writers and Writings, and he writes an occasional newsletter about books and writing: aaronclinehanbury.substack.com.

Warren L. Maye is the editor-in-chief of SACONNECTS, the Salvation Army’s award–winning lifestyle magazine, published in English, Spanish, and Korean. He is the author of “Soldiers of Uncommon Valor: The History of Salvationists of African Descent in the United States” (The Salvation Army, 2008) and “When God Calls: The Heart and Ministry of a Holiness Preacher, Rev. Dr. V. Seymour Cole” (Nazarene Publishing House, 2012). He has also co–authored several books. Warren is a board member for EPA. He is also a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB). From September 11, 2002 to July 6, 2003 over 1 million visitors saw the exhibition “September 11: Bearing Witness to History” at the Smithsonian’s, National Museum of American History that included Warren’s 9/11 photos. He earned a B.F.A., from Parsons School of Design and the New School for Social Research and a M.A., from Fordham University. He is a Society of Illustrators award winner, Scholastic Magazines scholar, and former 90.7 WFUV FM co–host and first voice of “Cityscape,” a weekly talk show addressing New York City issues.

Sarah Kropp Brown has been on staff at the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) since 2007. As Vice President of Communications & Marketing, she serves as the NAE public relations officer, editor of Evangelicals magazine and producer of Today’s Conversation podcast. She has a journalism degree from John Brown University.

Stephanie Rousselle is the founder and managing director of Gospel Spice Ministries. An international speaker, writer, Bible teacher, entrepreneur and podcaster, this French native has lived the last two decades on three continents, four countries and five cities through six professional roles, from strategy consultant to project manager, communications lead and women’s ministry director. With her trademark French accent, she has been teaching Scripture to thousands over the last 20 years in France, the UK, Africa and the US, and now on six continents and over 60 countries through the Gospel Spice Podcast. She spices up your time with God each week with fresh spice explosions straight from Scripture through a combination of solo episodes and select guests. Beyond the podcast, Gospel Spice Ministries provide resources to empower Christian leaders across generational, social, ethnic, and geographical boundaries towards more intimacy with Jesus Christ and discipleship effectiveness through a Biblical Christocentric foundation. The Gospel Spice team provides a safe environment for spiritual and community growth empowering people to know Christ more intimately, serve one another more powerfully, and reach the world for Jesus.

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Heather Pubols is the founder of le Motif (lemotif.org), a ministry that helps organizations and networks tell their stories effectively. She is also the current editor of Evangelical Missions Quarterly, a more than 50-year-old professional journal for missionaries serving worldwide. She previously served nearly twenty years in various communications leadership roles with Wycliffe Bible Translators USA and the Wycliffe Global Alliance. Her missionary communicator responsibilities have taken her to more than 50 countries. She and her husband, Jeff, also served abroad in four countries over nine years and currently reside in the US.

Website: lemotif.org

Russell Moore is a public theologian at Christianity Today, editor-in-chief of CT, and director of Christianity Today’s Public Theology Project. Russell was President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention from 2013 to 2021. Prior to that role, Moore served as provost and dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he also taught theology and ethics. The Wall Street Journal has called Moore “vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate.” He was named in 2017 to Politico Magazine’s list of top fifty influence-makers in Washington, and has been profiled by such publications as the Washington Post and the New Yorker. Dr. Moore is the author of several books, including The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear Without Losing Your Soul, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel and The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home.

Paul Glader heads the journalism program and major at The King’s College in NYC where he also directs the McCandish Phillips Journalism Institute. He is founder and CEO of Vett Inc./VettNews.com. He is the executive director of The Media Project and the award-winning, non-profit news outlet ReligionUnplugged.com. Glader spent a decade as a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal and has written for the Associated Press, The Washington Post, The Indianapolis Star, Christianity Today, Forbes.com, World magazine, et al.

With over a decade of specialized experience in digital and social media marketing as well as fundraising strategies, Andy Walker loves helping leaders remove the stress and hassle of marketing their organization. As the Director of Integrated Communications at Infinity Concepts, Andy provides creative guidance and effective media strategies. Andy also specializes in developing web monetization opportunities for publishers and advertisers. Andy’s experience includes working in the local church, marketing agencies, non-profits, media companies, and a tech start-up. His career has taken him to New York City, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia.

Lorri Bentch serves as Mission Team Director at Eastern Mennonite Missions. She and her husband served for more than a decade with EMM in Hungary and her current role affords her the privilege of connecting with the body of Christ all around the world, including in Lancaster, PA.

Rwamucyo is a community organizer with Church World Service. He is a former refugee from the Congo DRC. He is the eighth of eleven children. Born in Congo, he spent most of his life as a refugee in Rwanda.

In the refugee camp, Rwamucyo was elected by fellow refugees to become their village leader. He served as the refugee camp’s leader from 2016 to 2018 and as an ambassador between the refugees and various organizations like the United Nations High Commission of Refugees and Plan Rwanda.

He served his community by building relationships, organizing, educating, listening to multiple conflicts among them and seeking to help them reach an understanding, and advocating for the community.

After his resettlement to the United States in 2018, Rwamucyo began his career in 2020 as a Swahili language interpreter for CWS Lancaster before transitioning to Case Aid and later receiving a promotion to Case Manager in 2022. Through his experience as a refugee, he could connect with all of his clients, whatever their country of origin. In September 2022, he became a Refugee Community Organizer for CWS Lancaster

Rwamucyo enjoys playing soccer with whoever calls him up to join their team. He is actively involved in the lives of Congolese refugees in Lancaster and enjoys learning how to balance American culture while maintaining his own culture.

Mary works at the Lancaster Sweet Shoppe. She is originally from Myanmar and came to the US as a refugee in 2013 with her husband and children. She was featured in a Times for Kids story in 2021.

Menuka is the leader of a Bhutanese-Nepali church in Lancaster as well as a worker with Eastern Mennonite Missions. She was born in Bhutan, but spent two decades in a Nepali refugee camp before coming to Lancaster with her husband.

Ron Forseth is currently the CEO of the business strategy firm Forseth Development, Inc., and co-founder and CEO of America’s Top Lists which offers disruptive business-to-business data solutions in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. ATL has built a robust database of over 20 million records and over 15 million email addresses in a wide array of industries including the church and ministry space.

For more than 10 years Ron served as Vice President at Outreach, Inc. and was concurrently general manager of Outreach Media Group and Outreach Web Properties. While at Outreach, Ron was general manager of SermonCentral.com, the world’s largest online community of pastors and church leaders with over 1.5 million monthly visitors. Ron is also founding executive Editor of ChurchLeaders.com which grew to over one million monthly users and over 40,000 pieces of content. He was also on the launch team of FaithIt.com which became the fastest growing website on the internet.

Earlier in his career, Ron was Mongolia Country Director for English Language Institute. While in Mongolia, Ron played a pivotal role in the founding of the Mongolian Bible Translation Committee. Upon returning from Asia, Ron was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Through the Bible Publishers.

Londoner Julia Bicknell was a program host, reporter and producer for 30 years on BBC World Service and BBC World (America) TV. She has spent her entire career reporting on crises, beginning with the death of John Lennon in 1980, and followed by war in the Falkland Islands and terrorist activity in London. She has traveled widely covering crises in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Her six-month stint in Vietnam resulted in a vision for training journalists in developing countries.

In 2012, Julia left the BBC to co-found World Watch Monitor, an online niche news agency focused on the global Church under pressure for its faith. In 2019, she and her Turkey-based colleague came second in the Excellence in Reporting Award for Multi-media Analysis from the Religion News Association.

Now Julia is a freelance journalist, speaker, consultant and coach, focused on reporting the global Church, especially as it relates to refugees and migrants.

Ann Byle has been a freelance writer for 25 years, writing for a variety of publications including Publishers Weekly, The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids Magazine, Liaison, and Inspire. She has also written or cowritten a number of books including the ebook The Joy of Working at Home with fellow EPA freelancers and the May 2023 release Chicken Scratch: Lessons on Living Creativity from a Flock of Hens. She and her family live in West Michigan.

Rick Szuecs is a graphic designer from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. With 17 years of graphic design experience, he has been working for many publishers, creating the Brazilian edition’s covers of important books by well-known authors including C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, John Stott, James Houston, Charles Swindoll, Brian McLaren, Paul Tournier, Frank Viola, N.T. Wright, among others. He was also the chief designer for Cristianismo Hoje (Christianity Today/Brazil) for 3 years; redesigned Ultimato magazine, the greatly respected Brazilian Christian publication (published for more than 50 years); he is currently a part-time designer for Christianity Today, working on online and print.

L.L. (Don) Veinot Jr. is co-founder and President of Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc., a national apologetics ministry and mission to new religious movements based in Wonder Lake, IL., with a branch office in Quincy, IL and Cape Coral, FL. He, along with his wife of 51 years, Joy, have been involved in discernment ministry as missionaries to cults and New Religious Movements since 1987. He is a frequent guest on various radio and television broadcasts including The John Ankerberg Show as well as being a staff researcher and writer for the Midwest Outreach Journal. He is co-author of, Richard Rohr and the Enneagram Secret, A Matter of Basic Principles: Bill Gothard and the Christian Life, contributing author of Preserving Evangelical Unity: Welcoming Diversity in Non-Essentials, as well as articles in the CRI Journal, PFO Quarterly Journal, Campus Life Magazine, Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics, Midwestern Journal of Theology, The Christian Post and other periodicals. He is also co-host of the weekly “Unknown Webcast” on the Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc YouTube Channel. He was ordained to the ministry by West Suburban Community Church of Lombard, IL, at the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem, Israel in March of 1997. Don is a charter member of ISCA (International Society of Christian Apologetics) and is also the current President of Evangelical Missions to Non-Christian Religions (EMNR), a consortium of Counter cult/apologetic ministries and missions to non-Christians.

Milyce Kenny Pipkin (a.k.a., Dee Dee Sharp) is a 30-year award winning veteran news anchor, reporter, and PBS talk-show host (The Aware Show with Dee Dee Sharp). Her accomplishments include working in various markets in the Southeast including Charlotte, North Carolina, Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina as well as Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida. She also worked as a public representative for the former Alabama Governor, (Don Siegelman), House Ways and Means Chairman, (Representative John Knight) and the Mobile County Personnel Board. Pipkin (Sharp) has received several broadcasting news awards throughout her career in the secular world but is now fully committed to the rewards of sharing the Gospel. She is currently a student at Dallas Theological Seminary earning a Master’s Degree in Christian Education (2023). She serves as a Fellow and guest co-host of the “Table Podcast” with the Hendrick’s Center on the DTS campus.

Bob Smietana is a veteran religion journalist who has investigated megachurch leaders, Christian nonprofits, and leaders of abusive congregations over the past two decades. He is senior editor for Religion News Service, a national news organization focused on nonsectarian coverage of faith, spirituality and values. He is a past president of the Religion News Association, former religion reporter for the Tennessean in Nashville, and former senior news editor for Christianity Today.

Website: religionnews.com

Jerome Blanco is editor-in-chief for Fuller Seminary’s FULLER magazine.

Hilary Sutton is the CEO of HSL Digital, a content marketing consultancy that relieves time-strapped entrepreneurs of the burden of content strategy and execution, so they can focus on their highest and best use. She is a keynote speaker and writer who has contributed to HuffPost, the Washington Post, USA Today, and Yahoo! Singapore. The author of several eBooks and courses, Hilary also hosts the popular Hustle & Grace Podcast where she serves as chief explorer in cultivating a flourishing career and life. Hilary began her career as an actress performing in theatres up and down the east coast, then transitioned to academics serving as professor of communications, social media, and journalism at Southern New Hampshire University. She has also held digital marketing roles at SpotCo, Pursuant, and McKinley Marketing Partners. 

Jeremy Weber is director of CT Global, a worldwide expansion of Christianity Today that will fulfill Billy Graham’s founding vision by building a “central nervous system” for the global body of Christ. An award-winning journalist and editor based in Chicago, Jeremy has visited 40 countries. 

Theresa Lynn Sidebotham graduated in the top 1% of her Wheaton College class in 1981 and first in her class from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2005. Founding the firm Telios Law PLLC in 2012 caps a lifetime of scholarship, adventure, and ministry. Theresa’s four grown sons were born in Panama, Washington DC, Los Angeles CA, and Indonesia. Her heritage as a missionary kid, missionary, military wife, and minister’s wife helps her relate, adapt, and advise on complex issues in multicultural contexts spanning multiple jurisdictions. She frequently applies her expertise to ministry investigations, and has written a book on the topic, “Handling Allegations in a Ministry: Responses and Investigations.” Traffic to her spin-off business, Telios Teaches, is growing. It provides online training for churches and ministries on child protection, sexual harassment prevention, and ministry-appropriate diversity/inclusion as well as professional development training on HR issues for ministry leaders. 

Warren Smith is the president of MinistryWatch. He has held leadership positions at The Colson Center for Christian Worldview and at WORLD Magazine. Newspapers he edited are multiple prize winners from the Evangelical Press Association and the Fellowship of Christian Newspapers. He is the author or co-author of more than 10 books, including A Lover’s Quarrel With The Evangelical Church, Faith-Based Fraud, Prodigal Press:  The Anti-Christian Bias of the American News Media and Restoring All Things.

Jason Goff connects business leaders (often “digital immigrants”) to the online world. With over 25 years experience in customer service, sales, copywriting, public relations, and online marketing experience, Jason has helped business owners, ministries, and sales organizations identify, simplify, and amplify their message so they can have successful, long-term relationships with their customers. Jason has served in contract or full-time work with organizations such as Answers in Genesis (Creation Museum and Ark Encounter), Social Media Examiner, 48 Days with Dan Miller, Vengreso, Delta Air Lines, Chick-fil-A, SermonAudio, and Camp Infinity.

Radha Vyas is a professional photographer and student at Dallas Theological Seminary where she studies Media Arts and Worship. She has been published in Christianity Today and Fathom Mag among others featuring her photography and writing. She loves educating others about photography. Radha was the 2022 winner of EPA’s Jerry Jenkins Scholarship.

Tomáš Coufal is the editor-in-chief of the Zivot viry (Life of Faith) monthly, the most-read Christian magazine in the Czech Republic and – as far as we know – the only inter-denominational monthly in the Central and Eastern Europe (former Soviet bloc). Over the last 20 years, Tomas has written hundreds of articles, co-authored two books and edited many others and also translated dozens of contemporary worship songs from English to Czech. With his colleagues, he started a Christian website/blog called Svet viry (World of Faith. He has passion for building bridges among Christians from different denominations and for helping the Body of Christ grow – both spiritually and in numbers.

Born in Tehran in 1977, Naghmeh Abedini Panahi immigrated to the United States at the age of nine and soon converted from Islam to Christianity. In late 2001, after graduating from college, she returned to Iran to work as a businesswoman and missionary. There, she witnessed—and experienced—the oppression and violence that Christians and especially women are subjected to every day in the Middle East. It was there that she also met her future husband, Saeed Abedini, with whom she led one of the largest house church movements in Iran. In 2005, due to persecution, she and Saeed moved to the United States, where their two children were born. When Saeed visited Iran in 2012 to work with the underground church, he was arrested. Naghmeh unceasingly advocated for Saeed’s release, publicly appealing to President Barak Obama, Donald Trump, the U.S. Congress, the United Nations, and nearly every major news outlet over the three and a half years that Saeed was in prison. Yet underneath the surface of her leadership in the Iranian house church, her family life in America, and the spotlight of her advocacy, Naghmeh had been an abused wife, and Saeed’s imprisonment had further intensified his abuse and paranoia. It took the crisis and aftermath of Saeed’s arrest for Naghmeh to finally recognize what had been happening to her and begin to find healing.

Naghmeh’s personal experience with domestic violence and the misuse of religion to reinforce abuse has given her a passion to advocate for women who are vulnerable to abuse and oppression because of religion. She is the cofounder and executive director of Tahir Alnisa (“Setting Women Free”) Foundation, which serves women and children around the world impacted by domestic abuse and religious-motivated violence. Naghmeh’s autobiography, I Didn’t Survive: Emerging Whole After Deception, Persecution, and Hidden Abuse (with Eugene Bach), will be released by Whitaker House in September 2023.

As a journalist and editor, Tim Morgan has covered HIV/AIDs, Katrina, the Ebola epidemic, Japan’s Fukushima quake/tsunami, human trafficking, sexual abuse, and many traumas. He is currently a teaching professor in journalism, media theory, and writing at Gordon College (Mass.). He was formerly the journalism certificate director at Wheaton College(Illinois) and served on the Christianity Today editorial team for 23 years. He participated in his first EPA Convention in 1993 and served on the team that redrafted the EPA ethics statement.

Brooke Miles founded Delaware ShoutOut, a social media training firm, to help busy entrepreneurs pack more punch into their social media without breaking a sweat. In 9 years of business, Brooke and her team have served hundreds of clients, who have reported significant gains in followers, engagement, and traffic to their websites. Brooke has also won multiple awards in marketing in the Delaware and Philadelphia regions.

Lou Ann Sabatier is passionate about developing people, growing and fixing businesses, identifying new markets, products, and publications. During her 37+ years of experience as a publisher, trainer, and consultant, Sabatier has been deeply involved in strategic planning, business development, content strategy, business and financial management, audience development, revenue development, digital media, and operations management. As principal and lead consultant at Sabatier Consulting, she works with clients to diagnose their needs and offer creative and efficient solutions.

Jeff Raymond is a missionary using his 40 years of experience in photography and journalism to impact others with stories of God’s love. Jeff works closely with ABWE missionaries to train them to use visual storytelling as the basis of their communications strategies. He also has a passion to invest in others with creative skills and to create an avenue for them to serve the Lord in missions. His primary ministry is in leading trips to the mission field, offering high-level multimedia training through Storytellers Abroad: Missions Multimedia Workshops.

In 2014, Mariam Ibraheem of Sudan was sentenced by a Sharia court to 100 lashes for adultery because she had married a Christian man, and death by hanging for refusing to renounce her Christian faith and follow Islam. Mariam was imprisoned with her young son while she was pregnant with her second child, a daughter, to whom she gave birth while still shackled in the prison. After an international outcry, Mariam was eventually freed through the help of Pope Francis, the United States, Italy, and the embassies of various other governments. Today, Mariam advocates on behalf of others who are victims of religious persecution and also for women who suffer from the personal prison of abuse. She is the cofounder and director of global mobilization for the Tahrir Alnisa (“Setting Women Free”) Foundation, which serves women and children impacted by domestic abuse and religious-motivated violence. She also serves on the board of directors for Anti-Trafficking International. In March 2022, Whitaker House released Mariam’s autobiography, coauthored by Eugene Bach. Shackled: One Woman’s Dramatic Triumph Over Persecution, Gender Abuse, and a Death Sentence has brought this first-time author’s powerful story to a global audience.

Tami DeVine was born in a mud hut in Sierra Leone, West Africa. By the grace of God she was brought to the U.S. at a young age and has experienced adventures she could never have dreamed of as a little girl in a mud hut in Sierra Leone. Tami has worked in television and media for more than 25 years. Currently, Tami is the President/CEO of Divine Family Entertainment, considered to be the “Christian Netflix,” but it’s so much more. Tami formerly worked as a Producer and Content Producer for Focus on the Family. Tami is also a News Training Consultant for the media giant NTD, and for NTD’s sister media outlet The Epoch Times. Tami provides Broadcast TV consultation internationally. Tami has numerous success stories of launching many people into their dream TV, video and and production careers. Tami worked as President/CEO of Crown City Network, an independent Broadcast media outlet which reached 18 million viewers in 7 Southern California counties. With her unique life story, Tami is also a moving motivational speaker.

Esther Nyaga is publishing manager of Publishing Institute of Africa (PIA) a Nairobi-based organization specializing in trade, professional, and educational publishing. She is also the editor of Leadership Today Africa magazine and has edited a variety of books on prayer, marriage, money, strategic planning and other topics. Esther facilitated a writing workshop in Nairobi and was on the LittWorld 2012 organizing committee. Esther is a graduate of MTI’s Editing the Magazine course in Nairobi.

Jared Boggess is the Art Director for Christianity Today’s print magazine. In addition to an extensive background in design for churches and brands, he has illustrated, designed and art directed many projects for Fish Coin Press—a publishing studio that works with artists across the globe to bring academic rigor and visual theology to Bible illustration. As their founder, he has successfully crowdfunded a variety of comics, trading card collections, and books, including an ongoing series illustrating the entire Bible one book at a time.

Mike served for 16 years as one of the executive pastors at Sojourn Church, watching it grow from 12 people in an apartment to 4,000 people in four locations across the city of Louisville. In 2016, he started Narrativo, a company that serves individuals and brands by developing longform podcasts. He is the author of four books and regularly speaks on faith and culture issues. In 2020, he joined the staff at Christianity Today to further develop their podcast network.

Wade Mullen served ten years in pastoral ministry and then five years as a seminary M.Div. program director and assistant professor before transitioning to full-time research and writing, consulting, speaking, and advocacy. He earned a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies and conducted studies of public media reports and how evangelical organizations use impression management strategies in the wake of a scandal. He regularly consults with evangelical organizations facing the challenge of abuse allegations through his firm Pellucid Consulting. He also serves as an institutional response specialist for Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment, a national organization that provides safeguarding training and conducts abuse related investigations and assessments. He is the author of Something’s Not Right: Decoding the Hidden Tactics of Abuse and Freeing Yourself From Its Power, published by Tyndale House in 2020.

Keith Hammonds is a journalist and non-profit executive working at the intersection of news and civic engagement. 

Hammonds helped launch the Solutions Journalism Network, as president leading SJN’s emergence into a nationally recognized organization of 50 employees that is changing the face of news. He also owns and publishes the Boulder Monitor, a weekly paper and news site in rural Montana that is forging a statewide reputation for solutions-focused reporting that informs constructive community discourse. The Monitor was named Montana’s best weekly newspaper for 2021.

At Ashoka, the global changemaking organization, Hammonds founded and ran the News & Knowledge initiative, identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs whose innovations better inform, connect, and engage people around the world. 

Hammonds also was executive editor at Fast Company magazine, where he helped shape editorial strategy across the magazine. He has been a bureau chief and editor for BusinessWeek in Boston and New York; a writer for The New York Times in London and Johannesburg; a consultant to New Nation in Johannesburg; director of an emergency food distribution program in Namibia; and coach of the Firebolts, a fearsome girls soccer team.

Carol Pipes is director of communications for Lifeway Christian Resources and senior editor of LifewayResearch.com. Carol has worked in Christian publishing for 20 years, during which time she has written numerous magazine articles and previously served as editor of On Mission for the North American Mission Board. She served as EPA’s president from 2019-2021.

Nikolle has been the vice president and managing director of Metaleap since 2004. Nikolle earned a Master’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University. She served as a partner and consultant to Metaleap from the very beginning, providing key strategic and organizational advice to the growing start-up while simultaneously maintaining a career as an investment banker on Wall Street. Later, she made the jump from finance and began using her wide-ranging experience to serve Metaleap and its clients. She now gets to walk through projects with clients and explore the possibilities for their companies, and manages the “business of the business.”

Surinder Kaur is a journalist / writer based in India. She is presently serving as the South Asia Editor for Christianity Today and the consulting Editor for AIM Magazine of Evangelical Fellowship of India, the national alliance of Indian evangelicals.

She comes from a Sikh background and committed her life to Christ as a teenager, while still in school despite much persecution and family pressure. An army officer’s daughter, she has grown up in different parts of India and hence is very comfortable in cross cultural settings.

God has used her extensively, for the past 25 years, as a speaker, counsellor, trainer, and organizer of events.

She has worked as an Assistant Professor teaching Computer Science, Information Technology and Personality Development to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Punjab Technical University. She has also been a Corporate Trainer and has trained many corporate executives in the field of Information Technology.

She continues to serve as an organizer and resource person at many National and State level Pastors and Women Conferences in India. She has spoken in seminars and conferences in different settings in four continents. An active counsellor, she continues to counsel and mentor many women, young people, and married couples.

For the last 20 years, she has been writing on spirituality, religion, and politics with special focus on the persecuted church and religious freedom in South Asia. Her writings have appeared in Christianity Today, Compass Direct, World Watch Monitor, Morning Star News (South Asia Correspondent), Religion Unplugged, Indian Currents and AIM Magazine. She has also worked as Bureau Chief (South Asia) – Global Christian News, as Director – Communication and Research for Open Doors International and as Editor and Website Administrator for Evangelical Fellowship of India.

She and her husband, Rev. Vijayesh Lal have been married for the last 21 years and they live in Delhi NCR with their 3 sons.