Instructors

Our instructors are accomplished, successful men and women who will help you rise to a new level in life to live the dynamic ministry call on your life.

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    Pastor Bill Scheer

    Senior Pastor – Guts Church

    Celebrating 30 years of Guts Church this year, Pastor Bill now endeavors to build a 100-year church with the School of Ministry and help the next generation understand the five-fold ministry gifts and be deployed in their purpose. 

    Courses: Game Planning the Devil

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    Pastor Tim Timberlake

    SENIOR PASTOR – Celebration CHURCH

    Tim Timberlake serves as the Senior Pastor of Celebration Church. Pastor Tim is a gifted communicator and teacher who has the ability to communicate to people from all walks of life. His sense of humor, combined with his in-depth Bible teaching, give students the tools to transform their lives from the inside out. 

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    Pastor Marcus Mecum

    Senior Pastor – 7 Hills Church

    Pastor Marcus Mecum is founder and senior pastor of 7 Hills Church. He has led 7 Hills in following Christ and loving their community for over 15 years. Pastor Marcus’ prayer is to see the body of Christ truly living out its call to be the hands and feet of Jesus to one another and the world around them.

    Courses: Leadership

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    Pastor Steve Kelly

    Senior Pastor - Wave Church

    Steve and Sharon have pastored Wave Church for 22 years in Virginia Beach, Virginia. They came to Virginia in 1999 to build a church of influence with a passion to help people live life well. Steve lives to make heaven party by winning people to Christ and developing leaders who can change their world one life at a time.

    Courses: Homiletics

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    Pastor Jeff Perry

    Senior Pastor - ST Louis Family Church

    Jeff Perry is Senior Pastor of St. Louis Family Church, a life-giving, Jesus-centered, Bible-based church in the St. Louis area. He is also the Founder of Service International, an organization that reaches out with compassion to people in desperate situations—such as floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and wars—all over the world with a goal of empowering individuals and communities to help themselves through crisis situations.The mission to Honor God and Help People motivates Family Church and Service International. The ministries endeavor to bring the hope-filled message of Jesus to the world in both the everyday and extraordinary aspects of life. Jeff Perry’s passionate and engaging teaching style is humorously punctuated by an appreciation of what it means to be sincere people living real life. Pastor Jeff and his wife Patsy have four children.

    Courses: Evangelism/Soul-Winning

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    Meghan Schaefer​

    Elder - Guts Church

    Meghan Schaefer has been at Guts Church for over 20 years. Meghan met her husband Shaun at Guts and are raising two daughters: Drew and Beau. Meghan loves the church. If the doors of the church are open, you will find the Schaefers there!

    Courses: Healed & Deliverance

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    Matt Swaggart

    Elder – Guts church

    Matthew Swaggart, born into a worldwide ministry family and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, grew up seeing an inside view of major ministry. He ​graduated from Oral Roberts University​,​ and has lived in Tulsa ever since with his wife Joanna and their three children. He is an Inventor with multiple patents, Designer, Entrepreneur​,​ and Creator of HoldFast Gear, an American​-​made leather goods company, shipping worldwide from Bixby, Oklahoma. ​Matt and Joanna serve as elders at Guts Church.

    Courses: Sheep to Soldiers

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    Pastor Jabin Chavez

    Senior Pastor – City Light Church

    Jabin Chavez Ministries is a multi-cultural and multi-generational ministry that is helping lead people to Jesus around the world. For years, Jabin has been a highly sought-after communicator and worship leader whose relevant, humorous and prophetic ministry has been a blessing to the body of Christ. He has a great passion for the local church and has worked in many dynamic positions on church teams including: Worship Pastor, Youth and Young Adult Pastor, Intern Director, Creative Director and janitor! Jabin and his wife Shanen lead City Light Church in Las Vegas, Nevada; a thriving, young church that began in early 2018. Leading City Light is their greatest love and passion, and they are honored to serve Las Vegas and reach the city with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

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    Pastor Robert Barriger

    Senior Pastor – Camino de Vida

    In 1983, Pastors Robert and Karyn Barriger moved to Peru with a desire to be used by God. Six years later and after seeing the necessity of an attractive church for the youth, they founded Camino de Vida in Lima, Peru. Since that time, Camino de Vida is one church in five locations, known as one of the most influential churches in Latin America with the mission of transforming lives and blessing generations.

    Courses: your mission is missions

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    Pastor Luke Barnett

    Senior Pastor – Dream City Church

    Luke Barnett is a charismatic pastor, husband, father, author, international speaker and visionary. Luke and his wife, Angel, have been married over 25 years and have two daughters, Aubrey and Annalee. Luke is Senior Pastor of Dream City Church (DCC), with eight campuses and a church body of over 30,000 people.

    Courses: Pursuing Your God-Sized Dream

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