Eric has lived all over the country, including Minnesota, Colorado, South Carolina, Florida, California, and Indiana. He started in full-time ministry in 2002 as an associate pastor at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles under the leadership of Pastor John MacArthur. In 2008, he and his family moved to Indianapolis for him to serve the Lord as the senior pastor at Castleview Church. Then in 2018, with the elders blessing and the congregation sending, he moved back to Miami (after being gone for 20 years) to plant Grace Church in 2019.

Eric has a B.A. from Trinity International University, a M.Div. from The Master’s Seminary, and a Th.M. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to pastoring, Eric loves working alongside other pastors and helping start new ministries. This includes the Indy Sr. Pastors Network, Indianapolis Theological Seminary, and Practical Shepherding. He has also written for different publications including Ligonier, 9Marks, and The Gospel Coalition. He also serves with The Pillar Network as an Associate Director of Regions.

Eric’s passions include dating his wife of 28 years, doing fun stuff with his sons and daughter-in-law when they are in town, visiting his grandson in Colorado, preaching, discipling men, and helping serve other pastors. His hobbies include anything that involves outdoors or loud music.

Dan Dumas is a leader committed to gospel transformation. Dan is the author of Live Smart, a gospel resource for the next generation and Founder of Red Buffalo Ventures. As an advocate for vulnerable children he was Special Advisor for Foster Care and Adoption to the Governor of Kentucky. He is passionate about all things leadership, strategy, adoption, expository preaching, biblical manhood and being an idea-generating organizational leader. He is also the co-author of A Guide to Biblical Manhood and the editor of A Guide to Expository Ministry. Dan served as a Senior Vice President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 2007 – 2017. Dan has served in a variety of ministry capacities in many local churches, including Executive Pastor at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. Prior to his time in ministry, Dan served in the US Navy as a search and rescue swimmer. Dan is married to Jane and has two children: Aidan (17) and Elijah (11). He loves all things sports (especially lake sports) and is an avid outdoorsman who loves hunting and fly fishing.

Kurt was saved out of a home where there was no gospel influence. God rescued him and gave him light for his darkness, hope for his despair, and Christ's righteousness for his sin. The beauty and power of the gospel of grace overwhelm him to this day. For his ministry training, Kurt studied at The Master's Seminary and served at Grace Community Church under John MacArthur. He then received his doctorate from Southern Seminary. The Lord has sent him to serve with ministries in North Carolina and Chicago. And now, he and his family are home in Central Florida, where his roots run deep. He is most passionate about: 1) making disciples 2) training leaders and 3) Doing all things for the sake of the gospel. As for his favorite things, his wife Julie and their six kids are tremendous gifts from God. He loves time with them, doing ministry with them, and seeing his goodness through them.

Daniel pastors Eastwood Community Church in his hometown of Wilmington, NC. Daniel and his wife Lisa returned to Wilmington after a stint in Los Angeles where Daniel was on staff at Grace Community Church and studied at the Master’s Seminary. Daniel is a graduate of NC State and loves all things wolfpack. He then received his doctorate from Southern Seminary. Daniel and Lisa have four children: Jacob, Josiah, Ellie and Judah. If the sun is out, they can all be found in the water or on the ball-field.

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