Speakers
At ECO, we appreciate and celebrate the privilege of learning from a variety of voices. Our speakers have been made aware of our Essential Tenets and we trust that our tribe will be blessed and encouraged by the opportunity to learn and grow from these trusted and wise leaders who will be sharing with us.
Faith has been a gospel preacher since she was 19-years-old. Currently, she is an international speaker, pastor, church planter, author, and CEO of a nonprofit. The mission of her life is for all to know and enjoy the gift of the gospel, which is the Presence of God. She holds a Masters of Divinity with a concentration in Global Studies from Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University. She has been ministering in the church for 19 years.
Faith is the CEO and founder of The Honor Summit, a nonprofit organization that equips and activates Asian American women for the mission of God. Alongside her husband, Pastor David Cho, she is also the co-founder and co-pastor of Mosaic Covenant Church of NJ.
Faith is a coach and collaborator for Propel, for which she has also been a contributing writer. She is also the author of Experiencing Friendship with God: How the Wilderness Draws Us to His Presence (published with Waterbrook in October, 2023). Faith has spoken on mission fields, churches, conferences, and stages such as Thinq Media and Exponential. She regularly appears on TBN’s Better Together. In addition, she has been a guest on The 700 Club and LIFE Today TV. In January 2023, she was mentioned in Outreach Magazine as one of, “20 Rising Leaders.”
Her most precious role, however, is being a mom to her 4 children— Moriah, Elias, River, and Adalynn.
Experiencing Friendship with God: How the Wilderness Draws Us to His Presence
Deepen Your Friendship with God: A 52-Week Devotional Journey
Rob and Michelle Wegner have served their whole adult lives in growing innovative, influential churches. During the last 25 years they have been directly involved in planting thousands of churches, both domestically and internationally. For example, during their time at Westside Family Church, Rob’s team trained leaders that planted more than 700 churches internationally in four years. Locally, the church planting network in Kansas City has planted more than 20 churches.
Rob is passionate about disciple-making, missionary formation, church planting, and leadership. Rob is the Global Catalyst for Relationships and Reproduction for the New Thing network of over 1,600 churches in 177 local networks. Rob is also on the Exponential Network Team, leading learning communities, like Future Travelers, where Rob coached more than 200 megachurches pastors alongside Alan Hirsch. Rob is also the author of:
Missional Moves: 15 Tectonic Shifts that Transform Churches, Communities and the World Made For More, which he coauthored with Todd Wilson. Find Your Place: Locating Your Calling through Gifts, Passions, and Story, which he co-wrote with Brian Phipps. The Starfish and the Spirit: Unleashing the Leadership Potential of Churches and Organizations which he co-authored with Lance Ford and Alan Hirsch.
The Wegners believe the call to plant The Kansas City Underground is something their whole life has prepared them for. Rob and Michelle have three girls – Madeline, Whitney, and Belle who are quickly becoming Kingdom revolutionaries.
Find Your Place: Locating Your Calling Through Your Gifts, Passions, and Story
The Starfish and the Spirit: Unleashing the Leadership Potential of Churches and Organizations
Missional Moves: 15 Tectonic Shifts that Transform Churches, Communities, and the World
Made for More: Six Essential Shifts for Creating a Culture of Mobilization
Dr. Derwin L. Gray and Vicki Gray are the co-founders of Transformation Church (TC), in Indian Land, South Carolina (just outside of Charlotte, NC) where he serves as Lead Pastor and she serves as Executive Director of Spiritual Formation and Staff Health.
After graduating from BYU, Pastor Derwin played professional football in the NFL—five years with the Indianapolis Colts (1993–1997) and one year with the Carolina Panthers (1998). During that time, he and Vicki began their journey with Christ and experienced God’s faithfulness and direction as He moved their hearts to know Him and make Him known. Pastor Derwin went on to graduate magna cum laude from Southern Evangelical Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree with a concentration in Apologetics. He was mentored by renowned theologian and philosopher, Dr. Norman Geisler.
In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Southern Evangelical Seminary. In 2018, he received his Doctor of Ministry in the New Testament in Context at Northern Seminary under Dr. Scot McKnight. In addition to his role at Transformation Church, Pastor Derwin speaks at conferences nationwide and is the author of several books, including bestsellers The Good Life, How to Heal Our Racial Divide, and Building a Multiethnic Church, and his forthcoming book, Lit Up With Love: Becoming Good News-People to a Gospel-Starved World (out Feb 18, 2025).
Lit Up with Love: Becoming Good-News People to a Gospel-Starved World
Building a Multiethnic Church: A Gospel Vision of Grace, Love, and Reconciliation in a Divided World
How to Heal Our Racial Divide: What the Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, about Racial Reconciliation
The Good Life: What Jesus Teaches about Finding True Happiness
Tish Harrison Warren is a writer and an Anglican priest. She is the author of several books, including Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, which won Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year, and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep, which won Christianity Today's 2022 Book of the Year and the 2022 ECPA Christian Book of the Year.
She formerly wrote a weekly newsletter for The New York Times, which focused on faith in public discourse and private life. She was also a columnist for Christianity Today and her articles and essays have appeared in Comment Magazine, The Point Magazine, Religion News Service and elsewhere. She is a senior fellow with The Trinity Forum.
Tish has worked in various churches and Christian non-profits for over two decades, serving as a parish priest, a campus minister, and with those affected by poverty and addiction. She now serves as Artist-in-Residence at Immanuel Anglican Church, and lives in Austin, TX, with her husband and three children.
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
