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Todd Johnson
Todd E. Johnson is the William K. and Delores S. Brehm Associate Professor of Worship, Theology and the Arts at Fuller Theological Seminary. Todd, whose ministry experience includes hospital chaplaincy, inner-city youth work, campus ministry and parish ministry is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Covenant Church.Todd has a PhD in Liturgy from the University of Notre Dame with a concentration in Liturgical and Sacramental Theology. He has served as a liturgical consultant for numerous churches and denominations. He has authored numerous essays and articles, and most recently edited the book, The Conviction of Things Unseen.
Chris Oberg
Chris Oberg is the Senior Pastor at Calimesa Seventh-Day Adventist Church, just east of Loma Linda, Ca. Chris describes her assignment at Calimesa one of life’s grandest blessings, “to be among people for whom Church, and worship, matters. Chris is a double-alumnus of La Sierra University, School of Religion, completing both a BA and an MA in Religion, with an emphasis in New Testament Studies and Ethics. Chris, and her husband Kerby, have two college age daughters.
Gregg Strawbridge
Gregg Strawbridge, Ph.D. is the pastor of All Saints Presbyterian Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and the Presiding Minister of the Augustine Presbytery of the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC). His publications include Music in the Bible and Music on the Radio (WordMp3.com), Worship and Worship Services (Audubon Press), Classical and Christian Education (Veritas Press), The Case for Covenant Communion (Athanasius Press) and numerous other books, booklets, and articles on biblical studies, theology, music, worship, education, and philosophy. He has directed and composed music in a variety of styles and led worship in charismatic, independent (Bible church), and Presbyterian churches. He and wife Sharon and three daughters are all avid music lovers and musicians.
Ed Willmington
Ed Willmington is the Director of the Fred Bock Institute of Music, Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts, at Fuller Theological Seminary. Previously his professional career has included serving at Scottsdale Bible Church in Scottsdale, Arizona for twenty-two years, Professor of Music at Point Loma University, and Worship Pastor at College Avenue Baptist Church in San Diego.Ed is the composer/arranger of more than 100 published works and served on the Advisory Board for The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration. Ed has a BA in Church Music and Conducting, MM in Composition and DMA in Composition both from the University of Arizona.
Scott Arany
A life-long Southern Californian native, Scott Arany recently joined the staff at the Hollywood Adventist Church (Artist and Webmaster). He is responsible for making things look pretty, keeping the website functional, designing bulletins, and agonizing over the legibility of type in worship. Scott is pursuing his MA in Worship, Theology, and the Arts at nearby Fuller Theological Seminary in addition to working as a graphic designer. He’s also been known to sing and cook occasionally.
Ryan Bell
Ryan Bell is the Senior Pastor of the Hollywood Adventist Church and lives in the community of Los Feliz with his wife, Elysabeth, two daughters, Zoe and Sophie, and dog, Sizzles. In 2000, he received his Master of Divinity degree from Andrews University and he is currently pursuing his Doctor of Ministry in Missional Leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary. Ryan has an insatiable love for the city and a passion to see God's "kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven."
Dave Gemmell
Dave Gemmell is the Associate Director of the NAD CHURCH RESOURCE CENTER, a service of the North American Division. His role at CRC is to be a vervent resource catalyst for growing healthy congregations. He also serves as a volunteer Associate Pastor for New Hope Seventh-day Adventist Church in Burtonsville.He received his Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminar in 1992, Master of Divinity at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary in 1981, and his Bachelor in Theology from Pacific Union College in 1978. He began pastoring in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1978, continued pastoring in Maui, and served for ten years as Senior Pastor of Las Vegas Mountain View Church. He began his service at the NAD in 2002.
Robert K. Johnston
Robert K. Johnston is Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and Co-Director of the Reel Spirituality Institute. Professor Johnston has published in a variety of fields including play and leisure, evangelical theology, Old Testament wisdom literature, and over the last decade, theology and film. Three of his recent books are Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue, 2nd edition (2006), Finding God in the Movies: 33 Films of Reel Faith (with Catherine Barsotti, 2004), and Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Faith (2004). Rob is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Lloyd Kauffman
Lloyd Kauffman has been a music instructor at Sarasota Christian School (FL), Rosedale Bible College (OH) and Daystar University (Kenya). He holds a BA in Music Education from Eastern Mennonite University, and an MA in Music Education (choral-vocal focus) from Ohio State University. He directed the Rosedale Chorale during his 24 years at RBC, and continues periodic choral activities ranging from weekend choral events and festivals to overseas tours. He is active in choral arranging, enjoys classical and other music listening, leading congregational singing and worship, aviation, motorcycling, mechanical tinkering, antique tools, travel, and more.He is currently a self-employed painter, handyman and choral/vocal resource person. He and his wife, Mary, live in West Jefferson, Ohio.
Midnight Oil - Jason Moore
An award winning digital artist, Jason continues to establish new styles for visual imagery in worship that he hopes will help the church reach the culture we live in. Known for his pioneering work in digital images for worship, he has devoted the last six years to developing professional, highly emotive graphics, animation and video that are being emulated in churches throughout the country.Jason's passions include designing worship, production, acting and teaching. He leads seminars across North America on creating cutting edge worship, with an emphasis on demystifying the productions process. Believing in the power of the story, he likes to pepper his projects and teaching with humor.
His book, co-authored with best friend Len Wilson, is Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel in Worship (Abingdon Press, 2002). Jason was also the lead designer for the CD-ROM of the best selling book The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry and has completed projects for such organizations as The Fuller Institute, Easum Bandy and Associates and Abingdon Press. In addition, he has designed worship alongside such leaders as Tony Campolo and Len Sweet. As animator/illustrator and member of the worship design team at Ginghamsburg Church from 1997-2000, Jason brought a fresh approach to the use of digital media that raised the bar for artistic standards in worship.
In 2000, Jason co-founded Lumicon Digital Productions, a non-profit arm of UMR Communications whose purpose is to be a comprehensive teaching center for assisting churches in the ministry of digital culture. After 2 years of casting vision and producing high quality worship resources for churches through Lumicon, Jason and Len established Midnight Oil Productions.
In addition, Jason and Len have been featured in several articles for publications including The Ooze, Homiletics, Next Wave, Rev., Technologies for Worship, Wired, Worship Matters, Your Church, Church and Worship Technology, and various newspapers around North America.
Jason graduated from the School of Advertising Art. He has been awarded Hermes, UMAC, and Telly Awards for his innovations in animation, design and illustration.
Midnight Oil - Len Wilson
Len is a pioneer in communicating the gospel to digital culture. His passion is high-quality, theologically grounded, experiential media in worship that goes far beyond an "audio-visual" approach to meet people at a human level using the digital language of film, television and computers.A frequent seminar leader, Len has spoken to thousands of church leaders since 1996 on harnessing digital media for ministry. His newest book, authored with best friend Jason Moore, is Design Matters: Creating Powerful Imagery for Worship (Abingdon Press, 2006). He has also authored Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel in Worship (Abingdon, 2002) and The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry (Abingdon, 1999).
From 1995-2000 Len served as media minister of Ginghamsburg Church. During this time, Len was part of a worship design team whose efforts almost tripled attendance to over 3000 people a weekend in worship. By mixing theory and practice in a weekly "living lab," he created an effective model for media ministry, as well as the empowerment of a team of highly committed volunteers trained on technical systems he oversaw. Currently, Len consults with a variety of churches in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
In addition, Len and Jason have been featured in several articles for publications including Clergy Journal, The Ooze, Homiletics, Next Wave, Rev., Technologies for Worship, Wired, Worship Matters, Your Church, Church and Worship Technology, and various newspapers around North America. Their digital productions from Ginghamsburg and Lumicon have received several Telly Awards for excellence in video production.
Len holds a M.A. in Religious Communication, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH 1995; a B.A. in Communication, McMurry University, Abilene, TX 1992 (summa cum laude); and did Master's course study at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 1992-1993.
