Angela Beise

Campus Pastor

The Crossing @ Grant's Trail

Angela is the campus pastor at The Crossing at Grant’s Trail. She has been married to Jim for forty years. Together they have 5 children and 6 incredible grandchildren. The Beises have been involved in local church and outreach ministry for as long as they have been married. Thirteen of those year were in France as part of a mission initiative. They founded La Fonderie, a community for professional artists, as well as a gallery in the heart of Paris, Le Pavé d’Orsay. Together they continue in missionary respite care and global missionary mental health. In addition to leading the Grant’s Trail campus, Angela occasionally preaches and speaks at conferences. She was published in Christianity Today in an article outlining some of the many insights from her years of parenting her son with a rare genetic disorder. Pastoring the local church and walking with families living with loss, and especially ambiguous loss, is her passion.

Rev. Rodrick Burton

Pastor

New Northside Missionary Baptist Church

Darren Casper

Executive Director

St. Louis Metro

Darren and his wife Dr. Kelli Casper of St. Louis Public School have been doing Kingdom work for many years. Darren is the Executive Director of St. Louis Metro and the Senior Director of the George Liele Center in Ferguson, Mo. His passion is creative partnerships among diverse peoples to see the never changing Gospel of Jesus advanced.

John Chung

Sr. Director Enrollment Management

Covenant Seminary

John Chung is the Senior Director of Enrollment Management at Covenant Theological Seminary. He has served across various ministry contexts and churches across cultures and denominations. His heart is for local church revitalization and city renewal through the gospel of Jesus. He is husband to Saras and father to Karis and Jaron.

Tom Kraeuter

Founder JeffCo United

BiblicalUnity.com

Tom Kraeuter has ministered in hundreds of churches from over forty different denominations. He is the author of more than twenty books, translated into multiple languages around the world. Tom currently leads a coalition of Christian churches in Jefferson County, Jeffco Christians United, and is the founder of BiblicalUnity.com.

Keisha Mabry Haymore

Owner

Heydays

Keisha Mabry Haymore is a connector, convener, and social entrepreneur on a mission to change the world one connection at a time. She is the owner of Heydays, a creative and collaborative workspace that provides a safe place for women and BIPOC entrepreneurs to connect, create and curate anything. Keisha has been featured on National Public Radio, The Daily Show, Success Magazine, Huffington Post, Essence, Black Enterprise, Fox 2 News, Nine Network, The Business Journal and more. In addition, Keisha is the Grow With Google Digital Coach for Missouri—a free program that provides digital skills training for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs to close the digital divide gap. Keisha is also a guest lecturer at the Washington University, an Aspen Ideas Scholar, a Hatch Fellow, a TEDx speaker and her book Hey Friend: 100 Ways to Connect with 100 People in 100 Days is a movement to make the world friendly again, or at the very least, friendlier than it’s ever been. Learn more atkeishamabry.comand heydayshq.com.

Chrissy Stergos

Chesterfield Counseling Associates

Founder, A Seat at the Table

With 20+ years of experience as a pastor and licensed counselor Chrissy Stergos is also co-founder of a non-profit organization, A Seat at the Table. There she partners with her husband (Bob) in helping to meet the needs of at-risk young people transitioning into adulthood. As a practicing therapist, Chrissy’s clients include a wide variety of people, including individuals, couples, and families. In addition to counseling, Chrissy is available for speaking engagements, consulting, and conversation. To schedule, contact her at christine.stergos@gmail.com.

Marco van Raalten

Network Facilitator

Gateway Metro St. Louis

Originally from Holland, Marco van Raalten, his wife Kari and their four kids have been in St. Louis since 2018. Besides supporting the team as chaplain at Bitrode, he works with Evangelical Free Churches of America as a City Missionary for Gateway Metro St. Louis working to accelerate government, civic and business collaboration for the spiritual and social well-being of the whole metropolitan community.

Brandon Wilkes

Executive Director

St. Louis Reconciliation Network

Brandon Wilkes has been married to his high school sweetheart, Dorothy, since 1997 and is the father of 3 outstanding children: Brandon II, Isaiah, and Keilah. He has been in full time ministry since 2004 and is the executive director of the St.Louis Reconciliation Network (STLRN). STLRN seeks to heal the broken race relations in St.Louis by harnessing the potential collective power of our diverse faith communities.