RICHARD BRANN
For over 35 years, Richard Brann has represented management exclusively in all aspects of labor and employment law and is currently a Partner (Litigation) with Baker Botts. Mr. Brann has defended employers in a variety of employment lawsuits, including class actions alleging race and sex discrimination, and many individual lawsuits and EEOC proceedings under federal and state employment laws. He also represents employers in disputes with labor unions under the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act, and represents employers under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Mr. Brann counsels with and provides training to employers on how to manage workplace legal issues and prevent employment lawsuits.

BECKY BURNS
Becky Burns aspired to become a secretary at a young age following in the footsteps of her grandmother, who served a county judge for many years. She spent a week with her grandmother every summer at the courthouse. Through this mentorship, a desire was birthed within her to serve in a support role. Becky received her Associate of Applied Science in Legal Secretary and began working toward her career goals in the legal field. Very methodically, God reshaped her outlook on her career and focused her desire to serve in the church office, specifically assisting pastoral leaders. God used another powerful relationship with an ordained Assemblies of God mentor, her mother-in-law, to begin training her for her future area of ministry.

Since that time, she has served in church administration for 16 years and counting. She has worked in small, medium, and large churches. Discovering there was little training or teaching for church secretaries, she sought the Lord for inspiration, direction and guidance. God began to show her ways to combine her professional experience and ministry training to benefit the church office and offer a unique perspective on the church secretary's role. She combines humor and experience to reveal practical and strategic ways for church secretaries to partner with pastoral leadership for Kingdom impact.

Currently, Becky is serving Westover Hills Assembly of God in San Antonio, Texas, as Lead Pastor Jim Rion's Executive Assistant. In addition, she partners with several leadership organizations and area churches to equip and encourage church leadership through conferences, seminars, workshops, consulting, and mentoring. She attends Westover Hills Assembly with her loving and supportive husband, Louis, and their children, Ryan and Witney.

DREW DAWKINS
For the past nine years, Drew Dawkins has dedicated his energy to helping churches improve their ministry by utilizing new and developing technologies. Drew has personally assisted hundreds of churches in transforming their operations to become more effective in their ministries. Drew understands that the internet is a great conduit to reach people and he wants to help churches utilize these great new resources. Now in his ninth year at ServiceU, Drew still enjoys helping churches understand and utilize the technologies that are available to them.

MICHAEL EULISS
Michael Euliss is a motivational teacher. He serves as Director of Marketing and Customer Training for PhoneTree. He is also a certified Congregational Health Specialist with Plowpoint Ministries. In that role, he works with churches to help them learn how to live and thrive in healthy relationship with God and one another as they claim what it means to belong to Jesus Christ and to the Body of Christ, His Church. Churches learn the nature of conflict and how to handle conflict when it occurs by embracing new skills for relating honorably to God and one another.

Mr. Euliss also serves as a Senior Associate with the Gallagher-Westfall Group, Inc., of Indiana. In that role, he has provided leadership and supervisory training to hundreds of governmental, church, corporate, and civic groups across the nation. He is well known for practical but powerful motivational and inspirational learning experiences. He has been featured as a guest speaker at numerous venues including many television and radio shows, the Christian Management Association Annual Convention and the Robert Schuller Institute for Church Leadership at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

His expertise is in leadership development for paid and volunteer church staff as well as group dynamics. He uses a variety of methods to equip today's church leaders with the tools they need to excel as leaders of the most important organization in the world.

Mr. Euliss was married in 1984, is the father of three children, and resides with his family in North Carolina.

BRANDON HORNER
Brandon Horner is Associate Minister of Media at the First Baptist Church in Midland, Texas. Brandon has been working within the media world for his entire adult life. Brandon has a passion to reach the lost and to connect the local church to the current generation by telling relevant stories through video.

ALFRED E. JOHNSON, JR.
Alfred Johnson, Director of Customer Development, Shelby Systems, Inc., and Managing Editor of SSTips Newsletter, is known throughout the Southwest for his teaching and speaking ability. His past experience in church leadership and business management has equipped him to understand the complex problems facing today’s churches. He has a unique ability to grasp complex problems and focus on simple solutions. This expertise has made him a very popular consultant and seminar presenter.

Johnson is also known as an expert in computer systems and applications. He has coupled this knowledge with his natural teaching ability and is constantly sought to instruct special groups in the practical use of computers. Johnson’s past clients include corporate and private businesses, colleges, civic organizations, hospitals, local governments, labor unions, and churches. He was also an independent trainer for Shelby Systems for eight years prior to his current position. He has also served on the editorial review board for a national publication, authored several nationally published articles, and currently serves on the board of directors of a Bible college. Johnson has been a J.C. Penney store manager, owned his own businesses, served as a minister in Churches of Christ in three states, and been a college instructor. He holds a Master of Science degree in Bible from Abilene Christian University.

Johnson is currently the Director of Customer Development for Shelby Systems, Inc., and the Managing Editor of a newsletter for users of the Shelby v5 suite of programs.

SCOTT JOYCE
Scott Joyce works as a Senior Manager at Office Depot in their Houston, Texas, corporate office. He has worked for over 15 years in office environments, with management and operational responsibilities. In those roles, Scott has worked closely with the appointed environmental officers, helping to orchestrate "green" initiatives throughout the corporate structure. Most recently, he has received training from his current employer, Office Depot, on both their internal and external environmental efforts.

CHRIS KECK
Chris Keck is a Customer Account Manager with First Choice Power and is an expert in business development and retention, including daily cultivation of relationships with potential and current business customers. He also serves as a community leader in several areas served by First Choice Power. Chris has more than 20 years of combined industry experience in sales, transmission distribution service provider business, relationship building, negotiation, management and community involvement. He is actively involved in his home community of Nocona, Texas, serving as President of the Nocona Economic Development Corporation and as a board member for Nocona Rotary Club, the Nocona City Library, Nocona General Hospital and the Wichita Falls Texas Work Force Commission.

C.J. MALOTT
C.J. Malott is Minister to Students at the First Baptist Church in Midland, Texas. CJ has been serving students for 14 years in churches throughout Texas. He has learned the significance in using videos to creatively promote events, highlight ministries, and tell stories to enhance ministry opportunities.

WILL MANCINI
Will Mancini emerged from the trenches of local church leadership to found Auxano, a first-of-a-kind consulting ministry that focuses on vision clarity. As a “clarity evangelist,” Will has served as vision architect for hundreds of churches across the country including the leading churches within Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and non-denominational settings, and for notable pastors Chuck Swindoll and Max Lucado. Will’s style blends the best of three worlds: the process thinking from the discipline of engineering, the communications savvy as an ad agency executive, and the practical theology as a pastoral leader. His education includes a ThM in Pastoral Leadership from Dallas Theological Seminary and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Penn State. Will is the author of Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture and Create Movement, published by Jossey-Bass as part of the Leadership Network series (March 2008). He is also co-author of Building Leaders by Baker Books.

PHILL MARTIN
Phill Martin joined the staff of National Association of Church Business (NACBA) in June of 2000 and serves as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer. Known to many as "Deputy Dawg," for the past 25 years he has served in various positions of ministry in the local church. He was ordained to the gospel ministry by Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.

Phill is certified as a Fellow in Church Business Administration (FCBA) by the National Association of Church Business Administration and served on its board as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communication prior to joining the national staff. He developed the association's Web site and currently serves as Webmaster.

Phill served as Senior Educator/Staff Administrator at Houston's South Main Baptist Church for twelve years. Active in Baptist work, he has served as the past national moderator (chief elected officer) of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. He was certified by the Southern Baptist Church Business Administration Association and served as its president. He has served on the Business and Audit Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, as well as a number of other committees. Phill and his wife, Gloria, are currently involved in a new church start in Rockwall, Texas, Christ Church Rockwall.

Phill is a member of the American Society of Training and Development and the American Society of Association Executives and holds their Certified Association Executive designation (CAE).

GARY MILBOURNE
Gary Milbourne has served as the Administrative Pastor for the Lighthouse Baptist Church in Dickinson, Texas since 2005. Using 21 years of professional leadership experience, he has spoken to nonprofit organizations, church congregations, staffs, retreats, camps and numerous conferences on subjects such as "Time Management," "Stress Management," "The Organized Office" and many other topics.

Some of the organizations that Gary has spoken for include the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston, the Lutheran Education Association (National Conference keynote speaker), The Houston Church CO+OP Annual conference (keynote speaker), and the National Association of Church Business Administrators.

Gary is known for his ability to make life principles extremely practical in the work place while using humor as a tool to drive the point home. He is a 1986 graduate of the Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. There he earned a Graduate of Theology degree and Bachelor of Science in Bible.

GARY PATTERSON
Gary Patterson has over 25 years of experience in the Utility and Energy Industry, holding positions in Line Construction, Substation Maintenance, Safety Management, Public and Governmental Relations, and Retail Sales. Currently serving in the position of Director of Sales, Gary manages a team of Account Managers performing retail energy sales and account management to customers all across the state.

YVON PREHN
Yvon Prehn writes and teaches about church communication ministry, skills, and strategy at seminars, conferences and national conventions all over North America. Her purpose is to help churches intentionally create communications that will help them fully fulfill the Great Commission.

Yvon has worked in communication ministry for over 25 years. She was a free-lance newspaper reporter and religion writer for the Colorado Springs SUN for nine years. She was a top-rated, national trainer in desktop publishing for Padgett/Thompson, the nation’s largest one-day seminar company when desktop publishing was first invented. She worked as a communications consultant in Colorado Springs and was senior editor at both Compassion International and Young Life International. She has written for many of the major Christian magazines including Christianity Today, Discipleship Journal, Today’s Christian Woman, Youthworker Journal, Ministries Today, Computing Today, Clergy Journal, Church Office Computing, Pulpit Helps, and Your Church. She has been the communication columnist for Christian Computing Magazine for 13 years. Her most recent books include The Heart of Church Communications and Ministry Marketing Made Easy! In addition to these full-length books, Yvon has published a number of shorter booklets including, What Church Leadership Needs to Know About Church Communications, All about Logos: Church and Ministry Business Cards, a powerful tool for PR, outreach, information and caring, and many others available on her storefront at www.lulu.com/yvonprehn.

Yvon has a Master’s Degree in Church History and has done additional extensive graduate work in theology and communications. She has taught high school English and was an adjunct professor in church history at Regis University.

In addition to her formal experience in these areas, Yvon gets the opportunity to practice church communications in very practical ways. She is the wife of a bi-vocational pastor and does the majority of the secretarial and church communications work for her husband, Paul, as well as co-teaching in a county-wide single adult ministry in Southern California. Yvon’s seminars and written material have helped thousands of people in ministry maximize their church communications and enabled them to use their communication skills to help fully fulfill the Great Commission.

DOUG REED
Doug is a graduate of Texas A&M University with degrees in Marketing and Management. He has worked in the Human Resource arena for the past 16 years in various capacities including recruiting, employee relations, benefits, counseling and in leadership as a VP of Human Resources. Doug has facilitated literally thousands of people through successful teambuilding sessions. He currently serves as Vice President of Solerant, an IT services firm in Houston, Texas. Doug has been married 18 years, has five children and resides in Sugar Land.

ELAINE L. SOMMERVILLE
Elaine L. Sommerville is a licensed public accountant by the State of Texas. Seventeen of her 18 years of public accounting work have focused and centered around the tax aspects of religious nonprofit organizations. After spending 10 years with a local firm, she started her own firm in 1995 until the creation of Ratliff & Sommerville, P.C., in January of 2002. She has had the unique opportunity to assist in the representation of three large-case church IRS exams and examinations of smaller religious organizations and various ministers. Her time is devoted to handing various IRS issues including personal taxation issues for ministers and exempt organization issues for religious organizations. Elaine is a regular speaker for the Christian Management Association, the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Dallas and Fort Worth Chapters of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Houston Church CO+OP Annual Conference. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Church Business Administrators, the Christian Management Association, and a member of the teaching faculty for the AICPA CPE courses. She is the mother of four wonderful children and wife of well-known attorney, Frank Sommerville.

FRANK SOMMERVILLE
Frank Sommerville is a shareholder in the law firm of Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber, P.C., in Houston and Dallas, Texas. He received his Bachelor’s degree in business from Texas Wesleyan University and his Masters in Professional Accounting with an emphasis on taxation from the University of Texas at Arlington. His law degree is from the University of Houston Law Center, and he holds a license as a Certified Public Accountant. He is Board Certified in Tax Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and rated AV (highest possible) by Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory.

Mr. Sommerville has served nonprofit institutions of all sizes as a bookkeeper, accountant, auditor, tax advisor and advocate, litigator and legal advisor. He has presented seminars on nonprofit taxation since 1981. From 1985 to 1991, he was the featured speaker on the official clergy tax video produced by the Pension Boards of the United Churches of Christ. He is a discussion leader for the Texas Society of CPAs (TSCPA) on nonprofit tax issues. He has spoken at three Annual Nonprofit Organizations Conferences presented by the Houston Chapter of the TSCPA. He has presented lectures on nonprofit litigation at the University of Texas Law School's 8th, 9th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, and 24th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Conferences. He regularly assists churches in preventing litigation, including those that originate with accusations of sexual misconduct. He advised Texas Governor George W. Bush regarding nonprofit legislative issues, and advised Governor Rick Perry regarding the OneStar Foundation.

He is a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation and Tax Sections, member of the Exempt Organizations Committee), The State Bar of Texas (Litigation and Tax Sections, 2002 Chairman of the Tax Exempt Organizations Subcommittee), Tarrant County Bar Association (Litigation and Tax Sections), Christian Legal Society, and the TSCPA. For TSCPA, he served on the Relations with IRS Committee for three years. He served on the Texas Tax Institute Committee (Chairman in 2000) from 1996 until 2001 and currently serves on the Nonprofit Conference Committee. He was a member of the National Board of Directors for Christian Management Association ("CMA") from 1993 to 1999. He has spoken at numerous CMA national conventions. Due to his significant contributions to the church administration profession, he was inducted into the National Association for Church Business Administration Hall of Fame in 2003. He was named one of the Fifty Most Influential Christians in America for 2005, 2006 and 2007 by The Church Report.

Mr. Sommerville resides in the Dallas, Texas, area and has served on the boards of various nonprofit organizations. At various times, he has acted as Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer for nonprofit organizations. His volunteer activities serve a range of organizations from United Way agencies to the Center for Nonprofit Management to his local church.

KATHY TROCCOLI
Kathy Troccoli is an award-winning singer, songwriter, speaker and author of several books including Am I Not Still God, Live Like You Mean It and the bestselling Falling in Love with Jesus series, coauthored with Dee Brestin topping over a quarter of a million sales. Kathy has garnered numerous accolades with record sales reaching two million units. She has enjoyed 17 number-one radio hits, 19 Dove Award nominations, two Dove Awards, and three Grammy nominations, including her 2003 release, The Heart of Me. A highly sought-after conference speaker and singer, Kathy has ministered to 250,000 women each year at Women of Faith and various other national conferences. She was selected in 2003 by the readers of Today’s Christian Woman magazine as one of the “Most Influential Christian Women in America.”

GREG H. WALKER
Greg Walker has extensive experience in law enforcement, corporate investigations, risk management, and security management in both the public and private sectors exceeding 35 years, including the practice of law for over 25 years. He is Board Certified in Security Management (CPP, Certified Protection Professional by ASIS International (the American Society of Industrial Security). He also holds the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation from the Insurance Institute of America’s Center For Advanced Risk Management Education. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association and is admitted to practice in all courts of the State of Texas, to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is a registered Security Consultant with the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Private Security Board and is a licensed Risk Manager through the Texas Department of Insurance. Greg was the System-wide Security Manager for the Houston Airport System, as well as a former United States Postal Inspector and a former Special Crimes Investigator for a District Attorney’s Office. He is a frequent guest lecturer at both the Baccalaureate and Masters degree level university programs on security related matters and is presently an Affiliate Instructor teaching Security Law in the Masters Of Science in Security Administration, as well as Business Law in the MBA Online Programs at Southwestern College (a Methodist College established in 1875 in the Wichita, Kansas, area). He is actively involved in security- related organizations at both the national and local level, including the Anti-Terrorist Advisory Council of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas and the FBI’s Infragard Program. Greg serves as the Chapter Vice-Chairman and as the Public Safety & Law Enforcement Liaison Chairman for the Houston Chapter of ASIS, International. He was the original Chair of the Chapter’s outreach to the community of faith in their program for providing free security consulting services to small Houses of Worship in the Greater Houston Area. Greg was raised in the Christian Church, was married in and attended the Methodist Church prior to converting to Judaism, along with his wife, Becky, over 20 years ago, where they both served as Lay Clergy at Congregation Beth Yeshurun for approximately 13 years. He has served on the Board of Trustees of his Synagogue and the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, along with chairing numerous committees at both.