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.
Anabel Riddell is the Thriving Ministries Coordinator 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.
Anne Grizzle is an author, spiritual director, family therapist, and retreat leader who serves as Chaplain of the Boys Home of Virginia. These experiences enrich her work with Leighton Ford Ministries, where she serves on the Board of Directors, oversees mentoring communities for global ministry leaders, and provides coaching for pastors.
She regularly hosts spiritual retreats at the Bellfry near Lexington, Virginia, which she envisioned and created as a place of welcome, rest, renewal, and solace. Anne is associate faculty for Shalem Institute for Spirituality, where she offers workshops on group spiritual direction and young adult leadership. She also serves on the board of Bittersweet Creative and is co-chair of World Vision’s Every Last One campaign to end extreme poverty.
Anne received her B.S. (Magna Cum Laude) from Harvard College with a concentration in Psychology and Social Relations, her M.S. from the Columbia University School of Social Work, and her Post Masters Certificate in Advanced Clinical Social Work and Family Therapy from Hunter College of New York. She is a member of the American Family Therapy Association, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and National Association of Social Workers.
She has authored two books, contributed to two more, and been a featured speaker on national television, including Oprah and Donahue. Anne and her husband, David, have three sons, two daughters-in-law, and seven grandchildren. They live in Lexington, Virginia.
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.
Gernot Elsner is married to Sabine and has three children. After three years at the Bible school in Bad Gandersheim, he worked for two years in a Pentecostal church in Karlsruhe and at the same time studied English and history at the University of Teacher Education. In 2002 he went to the United States for a little over two years, where he graduated from Regent University with a master’s degree in practical theology and intercultural studies. After spending time in various countries in South America, Gernot founded GOSPELTRIBE in January 2006. In the past few years the ministry has participated in short-term missions, evangelizations and conferences in over 40 nations. Gospeltribe sends youth on short term trips around the globe and also has a two year residential Bible College and local ministries focusing on refugees, homeless people, secular high schools and victims of human trafficking.
