KALAMAZOO TO THE WORLD
Discover God’s heart for the nations
coming 02—03 FEb 2024
a multi-church event taking place at Kfirst
5550 Oakland Drive Portage, MI 49024
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
dr. todd ahrend
Dr. Todd Ahrend graduated from Northeastern State University, has a Masters from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
He is the founder and international Director of The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement. He and his wife, Jessica, have spent almost two decades traveling both nation-wide and abroad, speaking to thousands of people about involvement in world evangelization. Todd has exposure in over sixty countries and has lived in the Middle East.
He is the author of The Abrahamic Revolution and In This Generation.
Todd and Jessica have six children: Camden, Brody, Axel, Noble, Quincy and Cruz!
SEAN COOPER
Sean Cooper has spent the last 15 years traveling the entire Continental U.S. casting mission vision to the church at large. His wife Meredith and he have four kids, Haven 8, Harlie 6, Sullivan 2, and Cass (newborn). Sean graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Communication. He has short-term mission exposure in India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Ukraine. For 13 years he served on staff with The Traveling Team, a collegiate missions mobilization organization. Currently, he serves on staff with Global Serve International a mission-sending agency that works to plant churches among the hardest unreached language groups in the world. When not speaking he loves to cycle and spend time with his family. He has a passion for seeing men discipled and developed for Great Commission work. He is currently working on a Masters Degree from Reformed Theological Seminary.
TANNER & Amber CALLISON
Tanner Callison has been mobilizing college students toward global missions with The Traveling Team since 2014. Over the years Tanner has spoken to over 35,000 students at over three hundred private and public universities in the U.S. His work with Gen Z has led him to further study, writing, and engagement with Gen Z, including publishing Gen Z Misunderstood: Changing the Narrative on Today's Misfits and Dreamers. Tanner is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, and Western Seminary with a Masters in Global Leadership along with a Masters in Biblical and Theological Studies.
Amber Callison has been mobilizing college students with The Traveling Team since 2017. Amber graduated from Biola University with a degree in Communication and Bible. While at Biola she was deeply invested in the Student Missionary Union and has since longed to see all of God’s people engage with his global heart.
Amber and her husband, Tanner, both serve in leadership for The Traveling Team and live in Portland, Oregon.
inviting all jesus followers to labor with local and international efforts to share the gospel.
mobilizing believers in every church to their calling in the great commission and activating each individual to pray, send, go, and welcome the nations.
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