Phillip H. Duran
Phillip H. Duran of Tigua Indian heritage is a former faculty member and dean of Science and Mathematics at Northwest Indian College. His main interest is in linking indigenous worldviews with science and the teachings of Jesus. He has M.S. degrees in physics and computer science and nearly completed a Ph.D. degree in computer science and theoretical physics.

Darrell Fields
Darrell Fields is an Every Nation pastor who moved to Pennsylvania in 1995 with his wife and three children. His first edition of The Seed of a Nation sold out quickly and has lead to this highly anticipated second and revised edition. In addition to pastoring, Darrell, along with his wife, Lorrie, are asked to speak across the nation regarding William Penn’s contribution to the founding of the United States of America.

Robert Francis
Robert Francis is consultant/helper for Mid American Indian Fellowships, a network of American Indian contextualized ministries in Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. He is a Cherokee Indian with ancestry in Missouri and Arkansas going back to before the forced Cherokee removal or “Trail of Tears.” An ordained minister, Robert holds a B.S.Ed. in Speech Communications from Ohio University and a M.Div. from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. After serving as a pastor in Baptist churches for 13 years, Robert has served with Mid American Indian Fellowships since the first fellowship began in January 1999. Robert lives with his wife Janet and their children Peter, Sarah, John and Luke on a small farm in Bates County, Missouri.

Anita Keith
Anita L. Keith (Mohawk/Algonquin) is the Administrator for the North American Institute for Indigenous Studies and the Vice Chair of the Canadian Bible Society. An ordained minister, she works closely with ministries such as Youth With a Mission (YWAM), Youth Mission International (YMI) in a training capacity, teaching on cultural issues such as social, traditional and Christian. She also works closely with the Manitoba Association of School Superintendents and various school divisions in Manitoba delivering workshops to educators on education to Native youth. Anita travels internationally speaking to various groups, organizations and churches on Native issues and Christianity. She has three adult children and four grandchildren and resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Elizabeth Lévesque
Elizabeth Lévesque’s writings bring out heartwarming insights from the lives and words of native leaders in North America. In the same way that she crafts blankets and beadwork, she weaves together the highest values of her First Nations heritage with scriptural passages learned in years of ministry.

Liz earned her Master of Theology degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and looks forward to the day when Native spirituality will be embraced by mainstream Christianity for the deep and abiding truths that it contains.

Ray Lévesque
Ray is director of the First Nations Center, and is a moderator for 1000 Tipis and Round Dance. He publishes the daily teaching email from "Our Daily Frybread" and is the editor of the Talking Circle Journal.

Ray works in reconciliation efforts, which combines relationship-building along with native-based events.

Jamie Arpin-Ricci
Jamie Arpin-Ricci has been part of YouthWith A Mission (YWAM) since 1994, serving throughout Canada, with ministry trips throughout the world. Jamie currently serves as Executive Co-Director of YWAM Urban Ministries Winnipeg with his wife Kim, in Canada. They attend Riverwood Community Church (www.riverwood.cc).

Suuqiina and Qaumaniq
Suuqiina and Qaumaniq travel across North America and internationally conducting Protocol and Healing the Land seminars. As equal partners in this ministry, it is their calling as believers to stand for justice and release believers from the effects of oppression. They model through their partnership in ministry, oneness and equality between the genders. Suuqiina and Qaumaniq serve as directors of Indigenous Messengers International, a restoration ministry. They also serve as the North American Representatives for Emmaus Way, a Messianic ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, and are founding members of The Coalition of North American Indigenous Ministries. They reside in Alaska and Tennessee and have 4 children, 18 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Dwayne Thomas & Gordon Buck
Dwayne Thomas lives in Squamish, BC, but is a native of Lillooet, BC, Canada. He works among PAOC churches in the Squamish/Whistler/Pemberton area and describes himself as a “second-generation” or “residential-schools-affected” survivor who watched his mother slowly erode her health with prescription narcotics as a result of the abuse she withstood at the Kamloops residential school.

Gordon Buck is a residential school survivor from the William’s Lake school and joins with Thomas to give talks on the realities of residential school abuse at churches throughout the Squamish/Whistler/Pemberton area.

Randy Woodley
Randy Woodley (Keetoowah Cherokee) has been involved for for nearly two decades in cultural contextual ministry among Native Americans. Randy and his wife Edith (Eastern Shoshone) founded ‘Eagle’s Wings Ministry,’ and are currently developing Eloheh Village, a Native Ministry Training Center, near Nicholasville, Kentucky. Innovators when it comes to building God’s Kingdom, they are a necessary and welcome prophetic voice.