Mat Staver is the Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and also serves as Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action, Chairman of Freedom Federation, and Chief Counsel and Executive Vice President of the N...

Mat Staver is the Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and also serves as Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action, Chairman of Freedom Federation, and Chief Counsel and Executive Vice President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference/CONELA, representing over 500,000 churches in America and Latin America. Mat has the highest AV rating given to attorneys by Martindale-Hubbell and is board certified in Appellate Practice. Liberty Counsel is an international nonprofit litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989, by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topics. With offices in Florida, California, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., Liberty Counsel has hundreds of affiliate attorneys around the country and has a presence in Israel. Heard on over 500 radio stations each day, Mat Staver hosts Freedom’s Call, a 60-second commentary as well as Faith & Freedom, a 15-minute daily radio program, focusing on topics of cultural and political interest from a Christian worldview. He serves on the Board of Reference of the Christian Film & Television Commission, the Board of National House of Hope, and the Board of Trustees for The Timothy Plan, a New York and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Family of Mutual Funds. As a former pastor and one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional attorneys, he appears frequently as a guest on national network and cable TV and radio programs and also appears in several thousand print articles each year.

Matt Arnett is the Community Pastor and Director of Business on Mission & Church on Mission for The Bucket Ministry, a nonprofit organization that works to provide the love of Jesus and clean water so...

Matt Arnett is the Community Pastor and Director of Business on Mission & Church on Mission for The Bucket Ministry, a nonprofit organization that works to provide the love of Jesus and clean water solutions to communities in need around the world. He has been with the organization since 2019 and is passionate about investing in the ministry’s team and global partners. Matt is a graduate of East Texas Baptist University and earned his M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary. He first learned of The Bucket Ministry while serving as Pastor of Membership & Young Singles at Lake Pointe Church in Rockwall, Texas. Observing the ministry from a distance, he was impressed by how God continued to bring gifted and passionate people to the team who are skilled to fill specific needs. When he witnessed the ministry’s bucket filter in use and heard about its practical ability to be used in sharing the gospel, he formally joined The Bucket Ministry staff. In his role at The Bucket Ministry, Matt works to identify the unique gifts on The Bucket’s Ministry’s team and help them maximize and deploy those gifts for God’s glory. He also works alongside leadership to ensure that the organization's work is grounded in faith and values, and that it remains focused on its mission to share God’s love through the gift of safe, clean, drinking water. Matt is married to his wife Sarah. Together, they live in Rockwall with their son.

Matt Cassady, a retired Army chaplain, is the Director of Chaplaincy Ministries for the Military BibleStick, an outreach of Faith Comes By Hearing. Cassady, who served two tours as a chaplain in Af...

Matt Cassady, a retired Army chaplain, is the Director of Chaplaincy Ministries for the Military BibleStick, an outreach of Faith Comes By Hearing. Cassady, who served two tours as a chaplain in Afghanistan, suffered wounds to his legs and hips from an explosion during a Taliban ambush in 2005 and received a Purple Heart. He soldiered on for 10 years despite the lingering effects of his wounds, then retired as a major in November 2015. His other military honors include the Combat Action Badge, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal (two oak leaf clusters), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (one oak leaf cluster), Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Ribbon, Afghan Campaign Medal (two campaign stars), Army Service Ribbon, Korean Defense Service Medal, Overseas Service Ribbon (Numeral 2) and the NATO International Security Assistance Force Medal. Cassady, whose father served in the Air Force, grew up in Ohio, Alaska, Texas and Illinois, where he graduated from high school in 1992. He earned a bachelor’s degree in pastoral studies from Christian Life College in Mount Prospect, Illinois, and a master of divinity degree from Lincoln Christian Seminary in Lincoln, Illinois. Cassady went on active duty with the Army in 2005 and served with the 82 nd Airborne in Fort Bragg, North Carolina and in Afghanistan; in military intelligence in Korea; at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California; and at a combat support hospital in Fort Carson, Colorado. A few months after his retirement, Cassidy began serving at Faith Comes By Hearing, where he works with chaplains from all branches of the services who distribute the Military BibleStick to the men and women in their units. Cassady and his wife, Rachel, have three daughters and three sons and live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Matt Chandler serves as lead pastor of The Village Church in Highland Village, TX. He describes his seven year tenure at The Village as a re-planting effort where he was involved in changing the theol...

Matt Chandler serves as lead pastor of The Village Church in Highland Village, TX. He describes his seven year tenure at The Village as a re-planting effort where he was involved in changing the theological and philosophical culture of the congregation. The church has witnessed a tremendous response growing from 160 people to over 5000 including two satellite campuses (Denton and Northway). Alongside his current role as lead pastor, Matt is involved in church planting efforts both locally and internationally through The Village and various strategic partnerships. Prior to accepting the pastorate at The Village, Matt had a vibrant itinerant ministry for over ten years where he spoke to hundreds of thousands of people in America and abroad about the glory of God and beauty of Jesus. His greatest joy outside of Jesus is being married to Lauren and being a dad to their three children, Audrey, Reid, and Norah.

Matt has been blessed with a fruitful career both in front of and behind the camera and mic. As a writer/director, Matt has produced hundreds of TV commercials and promotional videos in his 20 year ca...

Matt has been blessed with a fruitful career both in front of and behind the camera and mic. As a writer/director, Matt has produced hundreds of TV commercials and promotional videos in his 20 year career in marketing and advertising. He made a name for himself around the world as an on-camera host but it’s his voice that’s most well-recognized, having voiced national radio spots for mega brands like Dunkin Donuts, Subway and the Milwaukee Brewers. Matt feels a bit odd writing his own bio since it was made clear above that he’s the guy actually writing all these. Matt does not enjoy referring to himself in the third person.

The Afters are a Christian pop rock band founded by Joshua Havens and Matt Fuqua. Havens and Fuqua first worked together in a Starbucks coffee shop in Mesquite, Texas, where they played for customers,...

The Afters are a Christian pop rock band founded by Joshua Havens and Matt Fuqua. Havens and Fuqua first worked together in a Starbucks coffee shop in Mesquite, Texas, where they played for customers, before deciding to form a band. They added Brad Wigg and Marc Dodd, who were also employed at the same Starbucks, under their original name of Blisse. Their song "Never Going Back to OK" was the most-played song on R&R magazine's Christian CHR chart for 2008.

Matt is a producer, writer, and director who began his career working on music videos in the late 1990s. This led to producing the live-to-tape concert series of the widely popular United We Funk All-...

Matt is a producer, writer, and director who began his career working on music videos in the late 1990s. This led to producing the live-to-tape concert series of the widely popular United We Funk All-Stars, hosted by nationally renowned radio personality Tom Joyner. He produced the award-winning inspirational film No Greater Love, which was released by Lionsgate worldwide. Other than THE MAN FROM NOWHERE, Matt also has two feature films in pre-production: RECKONING, a faith-based western, and the suspense film THE LADY IN THE TUNNEL. With a BA in Business and an MA in Communication, he oversees the Cinema & Digital Arts emphasis at a liberal arts university in Los Angeles, where he has overseen the first practical media arts degree online in the country.

Matt Kibbe has been with FreedomWorks for over 17 years. An economist by training, Kibbe is a well-respected national public policy expert, bestselling author and political commentator. He also serves...

Matt Kibbe has been with FreedomWorks for over 17 years. An economist by training, Kibbe is a well-respected national public policy expert, bestselling author and political commentator. He also serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Austrian Economic Center in Vienna, Austria. Newsweek has called Kibbe “one of the masterminds” of Tea Party politics, expertise which has led to frequent appearances on national news shows including FOX News, NBC, ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, FOX Business, PBS, The Blaze TV and CSPAN. Kibbe’s New York Times bestselling book, Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto offers a clarion call for the modern freedom movement that is fed up with business as usual in Washington. As Americans are seeing their basic rights threatened, it is now more important than ever that individuals be willing to stand up for liberty. Kibbe lays out the six Rules for Liberty and how to follow them, a vision of a free society built on civility and mutual respect, not coercion and compulsion. In 2012 Kibbe authored Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America, revealing how the centralized bureaucracy of government is eroding our hard-fought freedoms and how the Tea Party movement can return America to the decentralized vision of our Founders.

Matt Krause, a Texas State Representative, was born in Tyler, TX, where his father was a youth pastor at Green Acres Baptist Church. He is a constitutional attorney, college professor of American hist...

Matt Krause, a Texas State Representative, was born in Tyler, TX, where his father was a youth pastor at Green Acres Baptist Church. He is a constitutional attorney, college professor of American history and government, and public speaker on America's Founding Fathers with WallBuilders. Rep. Krause is also the executive director of the Torch of Freedom Foundation, where the next generation of leaders is trained through Patriot Academy. Patriot Academy is held at the Texas Capitol and other states every summer where students learn the political process and how to make a difference in the culture whether through politics, the law, the media, or whatever area into which they have been called. He has received an A+ rating from Empower Texans, 100% from Texas Eagle Forum, and a "Top 5" Courageous Conservative Award from Texas Conservative Coalition during his Freshman Session as a Texas State Legislature. Matt and his wife, Jennie, reside in Fort Worth with their four children.

Matt Lockett is the Executive Director of the Justice House of Prayer DC located right on Capitol Hill in Washington. From the governmental gate of the nation, Matt leads prayer and intercession that...

Matt Lockett is the Executive Director of the Justice House of Prayer DC located right on Capitol Hill in Washington. From the governmental gate of the nation, Matt leads prayer and intercession that appeals to a holy hill that's higher than Capitol Hill—to a heavenly court that’s above the Supreme Court. Matt, along with his wife and children, have served as full-time missionaries in the nation’s capital since just after the founding of JHOP DC in 2004. His passion is to help father a young, consecrated generation that will usher justice into the earth. Matt travels and speaks on the topics of prayer, fasting, governmental intercession, and reconciliation. Matt also oversees Bound4LIFE International, a pro-life prayer movement universally recognized by the red tape worn over the mouth with the word “LIFE” handwritten on it. “It’s not a protest. It’s a prayer meeting.”

Matt Mackowiak (Mack-o-VEE-yack) is an Austin and Washington, DC-based political and communications consultant and President of Potomac Strategy Group (PSG), LLC, which provides political consulting t...

Matt Mackowiak (Mack-o-VEE-yack) is an Austin and Washington, DC-based political and communications consultant and President of Potomac Strategy Group (PSG), LLC, which provides political consulting to conservative campaigns and media relations and crisis communications assistance to companies, groups and individuals. He has served in senior roles for two U.S. Senators and a Governor, in the Bush administration, and in winning campaigns, and has developed a deep network of media and political relationships nationwide. Matt consultancy, PSG, which he founded in 2009, provides corporate communications services, including public affairs, media relations, writing, opposition research, digital strategy and other services and has been actively working in the energy, health care, transportation and tech sectors, among others. In addition to offering counsel to individuals and corporations, Matt appears regularly on MSNBC, Fox News, Sky News, BBC News and CBC-TV, and provides political analysis three times a week for KTBC Fox 7 in Austin. He is an exclusive weekly columnist for The Washington Times and periodic columnist for The New York Observer and The Hill. His weekly national politics podcast, “Mack On Politics,” which is produced in partnership with The Washington Times, has surpassed the 80,000-download mark and has featured interviews with U.S. Senators, members of Congress and a Cabinet Secretary, best-selling authors, diplomats and top journalists. He is a judge for professional awards through the AAPC Pollies and the Goldies, given to top performing campaign operatives and vendors annually. Matt is currently serving as Chairman of the Travis County Republican Party, where he manages three staff and an annual budget of over $350,000. He is a Director of the Center for Public Policy and Political Studies at Austin Community College. In 2016, he was named a finalist for “Austin Under 40” in the Public Affairs category and he is a graduate of Leadership Austin’s 2017 Essential Class. After raising over $54,000 in ten weeks for cancer research, he was named 2016 “Man of the Year” runner-up for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and serves as a member of their leadership committee. He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Texas Cowboys and for the Veterans non-profit Luke’s Wings and on the Board of Directors for Balcones Country Club. He serves as Vice President of the Texas Delta Chi Housing Foundation. He was a 2016 delegate to the British-American Project, and now serves as U.S. Vice Chair, and is a member of the Council for National Policy and the Headliners Club in Austin. A native of Austin, Matt graduated with a B.S. in Political Communications from the University of Texas in 2003. Aside from his professional work, he owns and manages the popular blog site www.PotomacFlacks.com, which the Washingtonian Magazine has called “one of the best political blogs.” In 2012, Matt started a bipartisan political blog for Texas politics, MustReadTexas.com, which aggregates the top news and opinion from across the state and delivers a daily email newsletter to more than 3,000 subscribers. Matt and his wife Suzanne live in Northwest Hills in Austin and have three spoiled dogs, Ginny, Jasmine and Ella.

Matt Markins is the president and chief strategy officer of Awana. Prior to joining the ministry’s executive leadership team, Markins served in leadership roles with Randall House and Thomas Nelson pu...

Matt Markins is the president and chief strategy officer of Awana. Prior to joining the ministry’s executive leadership team, Markins served in leadership roles with Randall House and Thomas Nelson publishers and is the co-founder of the D6 Conference, a discipleship and family ministry community. He’s a public speaker and the coauthor of three books: RESILIENT: Child Discipleship and the Fearless Future of the Church, Leading KidMin: How to Drive Real Change in Children’s Ministry and The Gospel Truth About Children’s Ministry. Markins and his wife, Katie, have been local church volunteers for more than 20 years and spend their time in Nashville and Chicago with their sons Warren and Hudson.