Clint Tolbert has served as Senior Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Maumee, Ohio, since 2010. After graduating from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), Clint and his wife, Stacey, served with The Navigators at Purdue University. During that season, Clint sensed God’s call to pastoral ministry and went on to earn a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2005. He recently completed a Doctor of Ministry at Gordon-Conwell, with a focus on Leadership in a Changing Church Context, under the guidance of Rev. Dr. Jim Singleton.
With coaching support from Kevin Ford and Leighton Ford Ministries, Clint has led the Maumee congregation through the Transforming Church process, resulting in growth from the 48th to the 98th percentile on the Transforming Church Index. In 2020, the congregation’s missional impact was recognized by the greater Maumee community when the Chamber of Commerce honored the church for its “tangible, measurable impact in the community.” In addition to his work at First Presbyterian, Clint now leads a Transforming Church cohort with four Presbyterian congregations in Ohio. He also participates in a mentoring group with Rich Hurst and five other pastors from across the country. He and Stacey lead a mentoring group for Presbyterian pastors and spouses within Ohio.
Clint and Stacey are grateful to live as a “family on mission” with their four children—Isaac, Lily, Shannon, and Owen—who have been actively involved in serving both the church and Young Life at Maumee High School.
Kelly Dickson is a Senior Coach with Leighton Ford Ministries, where she walks alongside pastors and ministry leaders in seasons of discernment, leadership development, and soul care. She has served in pastoral ministry for more than 20 years in roles including Lead Pastor, Adult Ministries, Young Adults, Women’s Ministry, Small Groups, and Community Life.
Kelly also provides pastoral care within her presbytery and is the founder of Shalom Collective, a ministry dedicated to the holistic care of pastors and faith leaders across traditions. A trusted voice in spiritual formation, she regularly speaks at retreats and preaches throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Kelly holds a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Bachelor’s in Communication Studies from Westmont College. She completed two years of training in soul care and spiritual formation through Ruth Haley Barton’s Transforming Community at the Transforming Center. Her deepest passion is encouraging, strengthening, and caring for pastors and ministry leaders.
Rike Huettmann lives in Marburg, Germany and is a member of Star mentoring group. She lives with her husband and 3 foster daughters. Rike is in the leadership team of the Germany-wide Christian Coffeehouse Network. Her passion is creating spaces where people in cities can meet people and God. In the past, she has been involved in the Lausanne movement, leading and hosting Young Leaders gatherings in Europe and Germany.
Rike mentors the Stella mentoring group which includes 11 women. She speaks at evangelistic events for women and has been walking alongside younger women as a mentor for over 2 decades now.
In addition to being the Senior Pastor at Grace Community Church in New Canaan, Connecticut, Cliffe is the host and founder of Give Me an Answer. Cliffe loves to converse with skeptics and truth-seekers to explore the tenants of Christianity at colleges and universities throughout the United States. He has held open air discussions at a wide range of schools such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, the Universities of Florida, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maine, San Diego, Berkeley, Stanford, Hawaii, Washington and UCLA.
As an apologist for the Gospel, he has over 899,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel and a combined following of more than two million across TikTok and Instagram.
Born in New York City and educated at Davidson College in North Carolina, Cliffe later graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, just outside of Boston. He began working with Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship and various churches around the country upon his graduation from seminary in 1979. He has been the Senior Pastor at Grace Community Church since it began in 2001.
Cliffe is happily married to his best friend, Sharon. They have three children, and six granddaughters.
Leighton Ford describes these ongoing days of his ministry as “a friend on the journey and an artist of the soul.” After 30 years as Vice President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and 16 years as Chairman of the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization, Leighton has focused since 1985 on identifying, encouraging, and mentoring the next generation of Christian leaders. Through Leighton Ford Ministries, he has helped organize and sustain more than 30 ongoing mentoring communities supporting ministry leaders worldwide, facilitated many personal spiritual retreats for ministry leaders, and personally mentored or counseled a wide variety of pastors, ministry leaders, and lay leaders.
One of the great gifts God has given Leighton are his talents as an artist. Visit LeightonFord.art to learn more. Below are a few of his creations.
Anabel Riddell is the Director of Storytelling and Engagement at LFM. Originally from Charlotte, she now lives in Las Vegas, NV, with her husband, Chase, who serves in the Air Force, and their two cats, Charlie and Lucy. Anabel earned a B.A. in the Study of Religion from Wake Forest University, where she held leadership roles in various campus organizations and actively participated in worship at Carmel Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC. Her passion for ministry has taken her across the U.S. and abroad—she has served with Young Life in Colorado Springs and worked with Cáritas in Salamanca, Spain.
Carrie Boren Headington is an Evangelist and Apologist for the Christian Faith. Carrie is the Founder of the Good News, an author, professor, and Canon Evangelist for the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. Carrie is a graduate of Yale University (BA), Harvard University (MA), Oxford University (CTH, DipTH).
Bishop Claude Alexander is senior pastor for The Park Church in Charlotte, N.C. and serves on the governing boards of Christianity Today, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Wycliffe Bible Translators, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and Mission America Coalition. He is past president of the Hampton University Ministers Conference, the oldest and largest interdenominational gathering of African American clergy in the United States.
Bishop Alexander has served as senior pastor for The Park Church for 30 years. Under his leadership, The Park Church has grown from one local congregation of 600 members to a global ministry of thousands with three locations and weekly international reach. Leighton and Claude are members of the Leadership Breakfast Group in Charlotte and have served on several boards together.
Dr. Elizabeth Archer-Klein is an experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit and religious institutions industries. She has a Doctorate in Leadership and is skilled in Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, and Pastoral Counseling. Dr. Elizabeth Archer-Klein works to heal through beauty, sacred walks, life-coaching, and redevelopment walks. She is an ordained Presbyterian Minister.
