michael crane
Dr Michael Crane loves cities and the church. Michael has lived in Taipei, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and San Francisco.
He serves as faculty of two seminaries and is a co-director of Radius Global Cities Network, an urban research think-tank that assists the church in seeking the welfare of the city.
He serves as a board member for Gospel City Network and is involved in training and equipping church planters through City to City. Michael has contributed to a number of books and articles on topics related to the city.
LINDA BERGQUIST
Linda Bergquist has been involved in church planting for over 40 years among over 20 different ethnolinguistic groups, mostly inn urban areas. She is currently a church planting catalyst with the North American Mission Board and has served as an adjunct professor in several seminaries. She co-authored the books Church Turned Inside Out, The Wholehearted Church Planter, and City Shaped Churches, as well as two e-books and numerous articles.
NAME WITHHELD
Our guest trainer was born and raised in the United States in a devout Hindu home and came to Christ through the Fellowship Christian Athletes. He is married to his college sweetheart and they have two kids. After planting two churches with the PCA, he worked with Redeemer City to City to help local leaders around the world to plant churches in Urban environments. During his tenure with CTC, he was instrumental in initiating a gospel-centered church planting movement in India and developing a new training paradigm that is presently being used all over Asia and Africa. His passion is for leaders to experience the power of the gospel and apply it to all aspects of their lives. Recently, he has started a new organization to empower indigenous leaders to multiply disciples & churches in closed countries in the “10/40 Window” and for obvious reasons we are keeping the names confidential.
