Six young preachers from 6 states have been selected for the Leadership Team. These join 10 remaining from the inaugural Leadership Team to constitute the 2010 Young Preachers Leadership Team.
John Jay Alvaro, a student at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina, and participates in the Gathering Church also in Durham. Willie Francois is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta and now attends Harvard Divinity School in Boston. Both of these young men have spiritual and vocational roots in the Baptist tradition.
Adam Graham graduated from Lipscomb University in Nashville and now attends Vanderbilt Divinity School also in Nashville. Krista Phillips hails from Louisville, Kentucky, attends Hanover College in Indiana, and is just beginning her search for a seminary. Adam comes from a Church of Christ background and Krista is a Presbyterian.
Daniel Rudy is a member of Glad Valley Church of the Brethren in Walkersville, Maryland, but attends Bethany Seminary in Richmond, Indiana. Darnell Tingle is associate pastor of the Wesley Center AME Zion Church in Pittsburgh, and attends United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.
These six, all preachers at the inaugural Festival of Young Preachers in January, 2010, join 10 other young preachers from the 2009 Leadership Team to form the new network of ministers shaping the mission and programs of the Academy of Preachers. These 10 are: Tanner White (now a student at Oxford University), CJ Childs (Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville), Scott Claybrook (McAfee Divinity School in Atlanta), Steven Harris (Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville), JC Campbell (Georgetown College in Kentucky), Christian Smith (Northern Kentucky University), Alex Williams (a graduate of Cincinnati Christian University), Jonathan Scott (Oakland City University), and Winterbourne Jones and Brandon Perkins (both of Fisk University in Nashville).
The Young Preachers Leadership Team will convene for the second Preaching Camp, June 6-11, in Atlanta, Georgia. Their role is to represent the Academy on campus and in public, to prepare for and assist with the national Festival of Young Preachers in January, and to advise the Academy staff on the mission and programs of the Academy.
The Academy may adjust the membership of the Leadership Team as needs demand. Those interested in serving on the 2011 Leadership Team may complete an application which will be posted on the Academy web site in early fall. Leadership Team members may serve up to 3 years.