Tony Cook is the executive director of The Hopeful Neighborhood Project and has served as vice president of global ministries at Lutheran Hour Ministries. He has also served as associate professor of practical theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and has a PhD in curriculum and instruction from St. Louis University and an MDiv from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.

Don Everts is the senior pastor at First and Calvary Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Missouri, and has been serving in ministry for over thirty years—on campus with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and in the local church with the Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians. He is also an award-winning author who has published over twenty books including Jesus with Dirty Feet, I Once Was Lost, and The Spiritually Vibrant Home. An avid reader, frequenter of rocking chairs, and amateur chicken farmer, Don and his wife, Wendy, have three adult children and live in a home solidly built in 1887.