Alan Cross is husband to Erika for over 13 years and they have 4 children aged ten and under. Alan serves as pastor of  Gateway Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. All things missional drive Alan and Gateway as they are getting serious about reaching their community, engaging in global missions, and in being an agent of racial reconciliation in a city that still struggles with division of all kinds. He is also currently writing a book on the theological legacy of racism in the evangelical church and the potential for the gospel to bring healing to division in our society. Alan likes jazz and blues music, LSU football, and reading just about anything related to theology, missions, history, politics, or social issues. He writes at www.downshoredrift.com.

Marty Duren is the Lead Pastor of New Bethany Baptist Church in Buford, GA, where he has served for the past 11+ years. The founder and first editor of the now defunct SBCOutpost.com blog, he was an early independent voice in a loose knit group of writers, known generally as “the SBC bloggers,” providing commentary, reporting and critique of politics and activities in the Southern Baptist Convention. More recently he blogs randomly and less frequently at iemissional.com.  He is also the co-author of JOURNEYS: Transitioning Churches to Relevance.

Paul Littleton has pastored the Faith Baptist Church in Sapulpa, OK since 2004.  He has been involved in various blogging projects including his own personal blog at www.paullittleton.com.  He also contributed to SBCOutpost.com 2.0 and 3.0, which means he occasionally hangs out in bad company (or maybe he is bad company)  .  Paul loves “missional” conversations about the church, but he believes that implementing those ideas in a traditional church setting can sometimes leave one feeling a bit like Jeremiah.  To compensate he sometimes delves into satire.

Todd Littleton is the pastor of Snow Hill Baptist Church in Tuttle, OK, where he has served for the past 15 years (1994). He is the husband to Patty since 1983 and “Daddy” to KImberly and Tommie who decided it is best to live with their respective husbands. Lifelong learning ventures whet Todd’s appetite from the setting of the local church to wide ranging start up projects – some successful, some not so much. He enjoys the occasional adjunct professor for online courses at Biblical Seminary where his personal appetite for learning puts him in contact with a variety of Christian thinkers and practitioners. Todd may be the more theologically venturesome of the group of editors. He writes and links at www.toddlittleton.net and previously participated in the group blog SBCOutpost versions 2.0 and 3.0. Todd finds the missio dei, the mission of God, the narrative of choice for thinking about life and faith – and the local church.

David Phillips is the pastor of Mission Fellowship Church in Middletown, DE, where he has served for the past 5+ years. David is also the President of Missional Press, a hybrid missional-focused publishing company and Missional Strategy, a missional coaching company. In addition, David serves as the Missional Pastoral Coach for Life Counseling Center, a Christian Counseling group in Easton, MD. David writes on missional topics as well as the integration of theology and other disciplines. He is the author of Kept, a devotional commentary on Jude, and is the author of two forthcoming books: Holy Rewired: Science, the Gospel, and the Journey Towards Wholeness, and The MIROR Church, a book about missional theology from a trinitarian perspective. David blogs at wdavidphillips.com.

Art Rogers is Lead Pastor of Skelly Drive Baptist Church in Tulsa, OK, where he has served since July of 2006.  Prior to that he was a Youth & Children’s Pastor in various churches in Texas, Kentucky and North Carolina.  Skelly Drive called Art to lead them through a transition from a traditional church to one that is more missional in mindset and structure and that process is still ongoing.  Having participated in the SBC Blogosphere along with the other editors, Art contributed to SBC Outpost 2.0 and still maintains his personal blog, 12 Witnesses.