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Doug Slaybaugh is the Executive Producer of the Living Like You Were Dying campaign. He has spent 25 years working with pastors and the local church, developing, organizing, facilitating, and implementing church leadership training and resources, and witness thousands attend conferences that he has produced. For the last 14 years, he has served with Rick Warren as pastor, executive pastor, co-founder and President of Purpose Driven, a ministry of Saddleback Church. Most recently, Doug was involved with the development and launch of the popular program, 40 Days of Purpose, based on the best selling book, The Purpose Driven Life. His passion i s seeing the church healthy, transformed, engaged, and awakened.
Doug has been married for 29 years to his wife Fay, and has three adult sons and one new daughter-in-law, residing in Orange County, California.
Craig Wiseman, a multi Song of the Year award winner and Grammy Award winner for “Live Like You Were Dying”, has always had a spiritual side to his life. His passion for the Lord began while attending church camp at the age of 8 in Mississippi.
In 2003 Craig wrote “Life Like You Were Dying” along with Tim Nichols, about friends who had received mis-diagnosis from the doctor and responded as they hoped we all would respond. Although Craig had experienced many big hits up to this point, nothing had the impact of this song. The moment it came to life it has won awards and hearts like nothing seen before.
Craig is a multi CMA, ACM and ICM song of the year award winner. He has also won the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year award multiple times and won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year with “Life Like You Were Dying”. Craig has recorder well over 300 songs, over 100 singles, fourteen #1 singles and sold over 50 million albums.
Craig’s dream is to share his passion with churches across the nation, using the message of the song to lead people to find meaning and relevance in their lives.
Lance Witt is committed to the church and passionately believes in the transformational power of the local church. He served 20 years as a senior pastor before serving 6 years as an Executive/Teaching pastor at Saddleback Church in Southern California. His broad spectrum of ministry experience blended with gifts of leadership, strategic thinking, and organizational development give Lance a unique perspective into the world of pastors and church leaders.
Lance also has a heartbeat for small groups and spiritual formation. He had the responsibility of leading Saddleback’s Spiritual Growth Campaigns, such as 40 Days of Purpose and 40 Days of Community. He also led the way in developing the training tools and resources that thousands of churches used in their own implementation of these campaigns.
Lance is the founder of a new ministry called REPLENISH. This ministry is dedicated to helping pastors live spiritually healthy lives and build spiritually healthy teams.
John Fischer, as Senior Writer with PurposeDrivenLife.com, specialized in a daily devotional that now reaches an audience of over 400,000 people five times a week. John's career spans over thirty-five years of distinctive ministry, first as a singer/songwriter, recording artist and pioneer of Jesus Music, then as a best-selling author, and currently as a popular speaker at conferences, retreats, churches and colleges/universities nationally.
John's body of work includes 12 albums, 15 books, and numerous articles for a variety of publications. His early songs such as “Love Him in the Morning” (“All Day Song”), and “Have You Seen Jesus My Lord?” have become standard youth and camp favorites. His books include the best-selling Real Christians Don't Dance and his popular novel, Saint Ben. For over 23 years, he was a clarion call for the growing Christian music industry from his regular award-winning monthly column in Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) magazine. In addition to his writing with PurposeDrivenLife.com, John also writes for Chuck Colson's Breakpoint.org and for Relevant magazine. John's fifteenth book, Confessions of a Caffeinated Christian, was released in 2005 by Tyndale House Publishers.
Michael James Murphy has served for the past seven years as the Executive Pastor of Worship at Central Christian Church in Las Vegas, NV, a thriving and innovative multi-site church that impacts more than 12,000 people weekly. As a part of his role in leading Central’s worship ministry, Michael led out in the creative development of the weekend service programming for Central’s highly successful spiritual growth campaigns Developing a Servant’s Heart, Why>, Together…40 Days of Community, and Freedom…the Road to Recovery from Our Habits Hurts and Hang-ups.
Michael James’ career spans for more than 25 years as a recording artist, songwriter, musician, worship leader and ministry leader. He has recorded seven solo projects and has appeared as a guest artist on numerous other CD releases such as Songs From the Loft with Amy Grant, Sing Me to Sleep Daddy, Promise Keepers…A Life That Shows and others. Michael has been awarded four Dove Awards: Country Song of the Year, Country Album of the Year, Praise and Worship Album of the Year and Children’s Album of the Year. Michael has also produced two worship projects for Central: Central Worship, Live at First Wednesday 10.05.05 and the 2007 release, Central Worship, Live From Las Vegas.
Andrew Accardy is a partner of Canterbury Partners, a marketing and management consulting firm based in the Boston area. Canterbury Partners seeks to build brands that have strength, strategies that make sense, content that is compelling and solutions that get results. Prior to joining Canterbury Partners, Andrew led a staff of 120 as Executive Vice President for North America at Purpose Driven (Saddleback Church) in Lake Forest, California. With Rick Warren and Doug Slaybaugh, he pioneered satellite training in 1999 when over 35,000 pastors viewed the first national Purpose-Driven Church seminar. Later, he managed the national launch of 40 Days of Purpose, a church-wide spiritual growth campaign that impacted over 30,000 churches in North America. Andrew gives the credit for any success that he’s had to God the teams that have surrounded him. “I’ve been fortunate to be involved in some significant God-moments, not Andrew-moments. And the teams I’ve been a part of are the true champions.”
Special thanks to the Live Like You Were Dying team for all your contributions:
Zeal Media Group, www.zeal.com
Pearpod, www.pearpod.com
Frank Gamble,
Gary Smalley, www.smalleyonline.com
Lisa Keyes – administration
Shelley Leith – editorial
Kathy Camarillo – editorial
Cathi Workman – editorial
Wally Grant – video/audio
Mark Driscoll – finances
Derek Crownover – legal
Thomas Nelson Publishing
AND SPECIAL THANKS TO THOM BLACK FOR YOUR DREAMS AND INSPIRATION
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