Made for Work

Jeff worked for many years as a hospital chaplain before founding Apologia Church. Jeff leads Apologia Church's ministry End Abortion Now and co-hosts Apologia Radio and Apologia TV. He is a world champion martial artist with five Black-Belts. Pastor Durbin and his wife, Candi, have five children.

Michael has served as a youth pastor, church planter, and associate pastor. He studied history at NKU and graduated from Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and is the co-author of It's Good to Be a Man. He and his wife, Emily, have seven kids.

Joe Rigney (PhD, University of Chester) serves as a fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College. Dr. Rigney was most recently the President of Bethlehem College and Seminary, where he was associate professor of Theology and Literature. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Association of Classical Christian Schools. He is a husband, a father of three, and the author of a number of books, including The Things of Earth; Strangely Bright; and More Than a Battle: How to Experience Victory, Freedom, and Healing from Lust.

Tom has pastored Grace Baptist Church since 1986 and served as pastor and associate pastor of churches in Texas. He studied sociology at Texas A&M and earned his MDiv and PhD from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He serves as president of Founders Ministries and the Institute of Public Theology. He also hosts the Sword and Trowel podcast. He and his wife, Donna, have eleven children.

Chris Wiley is pastor, author, and a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine.

David Schrock is the pastor for preaching and theology at Occoquan Bible Church in Woodbridge, Virginia. David is a two-time graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a founding faculty member and professor of theology at Indianapolis Theology Seminary. He is the editor-in-chief for Christ Over All, an online ministry. And he is the author of Royal Priesthood and Glory of God and The Business of Is-ness, along with many journal articles and online essays.

Michael and his wife, Laura, worked as missionaries to college students before Michael sensed a call to urban church planting. This sense of calling grew while Michael was attending the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. The Clary’s made it official by moving to Cincinnati in 2008 to plant Christ the King Church. They live in Uptown with their four kids and dog. Michael recently authored God's Good Design: a biblical, theologiocal, and practical guide to human sexuality.

Emily Foster is a pilgrim traversing the through this world to the Celestial City, her parchment roll clutched to her heart. Married almost 22 years to her high school sweetheart. Homeschooling mother of eight, plus one in heaven. Lives on a farm in Batavia, OH with two dogs, five cats and about 50 chickens. Her favourite color is orange, prefers coffee over tea and bleeds Skyline Chili.

Future-Proof Motherhood will be about a few things Emily has learned over almost twenty years as a mom as well as a few she aspires to learn over the next twenty.

Betsy has been a member of Christ the King Church for several years where her husband, Nathan, serves as a deacon. Betsy previously taught this women's seminar on fertility awareness to help women better understand how their bodies were designed to work, especially as a woman's cycle interacts with her emotions, diet, fertility, and more.