Antonia Okafor is a media personality, gun rights activist and the founder and CEO of emPOWERed, a national student organization that seeks to equip young women to educate, train and advocate for their rights to defend themselves on and off campus and to let go of the modern feminist mindset that seeks to leave them as victims. Antonia is also a Sinclair Contributor and political commentator. She regularly speaks on college campuses around the nation about female empowerment and gun ownership. She is also the current Miss Dallas International 2018. Antonia is regularly on Fox News, CNN, and BBC as a commentator on the second amendment, feminism and immigration issues. Her video with Prager University has garnered over 10 million views. In the video she chronicles her journey from the Left to the Right. A born again Christian, Antonia believes that our God given right to Life and to defend that life must always be protected.

Prager U video (you can play audio on radio for audience) https://youtu.be/MydjXCHoLo0

Max Lucado’s childhood was both idyllic and simple. Max was raised in Andrews, Texas, a town with a population smaller than the current membership of Oak Hills Church. Max’s dad was an oilfield mechanic and his mother a nurse. He spent much of his childhood chasing or being chased by his beloved brother Dee. Once Max became a teenager, rebellion kicked in. After one specific drunken night, Max began to wonder if there was more to life than parties and chasing girls. He believes now that if Jesus hadn’t changed his heart, alcoholism would have been in his future.

During undergraduate studies at Abilene Christian University (ACU), Max grew to realize God was bigger—and better—than any rebellion. Max left ACU with two degrees and a heart for telling others about God and his faithfulness. Max’s first ministry assignment was as the associate pastor of a small church in Miami, Florida. In that position he developed his passion for people, ministry, and writing. He began writing when he was assigned a column in the church’s weekly newsletter.

While in Florida Max married Denalyn, now his wife of more than three decades. Max and Denalyn moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1983 to help plant churches. During their five years in Brazil, Max continued to write, updating friends and family back home about their ministry. Eventually Max gathered the Brazil newsletters and Florida columns into a manuscript and sent it off to fifteen publishers. After multiple rejection letters, one publisher finally said yes. In honor of his four decades of pastoring and publishing, Abilene Christian University has become home to the Max Lucado Collection. A curated collection of Max’s manuscripts, journals and personal correspondence are archived and displayed at ACU’s Brown Library.

Max and Denalyn live in San Antonio, Texas, and have three grown daughters, two sons-in-law, and two grandchildren.

Kent Parks is President and CEO of Beyond. Kent and his wife Erika worked among Muslims in Asia for 20 years. They regularly lead church planting movement trainings around the world. He also equips people to better understand mission strategy, biblical theology, and the biblical
basis of missions. Previously, he served as a strategy coordinator for launching movements among unreached people groups (UPGs) in Southeast Asia. He has also developed trans-national, trans-denominational networks at various levels. Kent is Co-Facilitator for Ethne—ethne.net—(a global network of UPG-focused leaders), is a part of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission, and is Senior Associate for Least Reached Peoples with the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization.
Kent pastored in Texas for seven years before going to the mission field. He has been a seminary professor and the academic dean of a seminary and has also taught internationally in graduate schools. He earned his B.A. in English and History from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas as well as his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Kent and Erika have two adult daughters also serving the Lord.

Justin Long is a global missions researcher. He presently serves with Beyond as Director of Global Research, maintaining the Global District Survey and the Global Movement Index. He helps compile movement case studies and people cluster forecasts, and edits The Long View weekly missions trends analysis.