Meet the Authors

Kathy Callahan-Howell	Kathy is an ordained elder in the Free Methodist Church. She earned her Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary. She is the founding pastor of the Winton Community Free Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, an urban multi-cultural congregation. She has served on the Denominational Historical Committee and been Vice-President of the Free Methodist Urban Fellowship. Kathy writes the prayer column for Deeper Path in Light and Life Magazine. She enjoys free lance writing for publications such as Leadership Journal and wrote a book titled Spiritual Exercises for Couch Potatoes. Kathy and her husband Roger have four children, Nora and Junia at Wheaton College and Luke and Wesley in high school.
Greg Coates	Greg Coates is lead pastor of the First Free Methodist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary and Greenville College. He lived for one year in China where he taught English to college students. Greg is married to Courtney and they have two daughters, Lydah and Eve. Besides studying theology, Greg enjoys playing ping pong, eating black licorice, and trying to teach his little girls to dance.
Joanna DeWolf	Joanna DeWolf has an insatiable appetite for learning. She’s had her nose in a book since she first started to read. That reading has served her well through the years. She has a B.A. in Sociology and Psychology from Spring Arbor University, an M.A. in Educational Ministries from Wheaton College, and is an ordained elder. That desire to learn also serves her well as wife to Matt and mom to Lincoln and Madeleine. She’s served as editor for the Catalyst Groupzine and for Fermi Words www.fermiproject.com exploring topics of culture, future, gospel and church. Nothing gives her greater joy than walking alongside those who are actively following Jesus.
Maureen (Knudsen) Langdoc	Maureen Knudsen Langdoc serves as the Pastor of Discipleship at Light and Life Free Methodist Church in Escondido, California. Prior to arriving to sunny Cal in the summer of 2007, Maureen and her husband Bryan spent three years at Duke Divinity School, studying in the Master of Divinity program and watching lots of college basketball. Maureen is particularly interested in theological ethics, considering how the church faithfully receives the gifts God has given. She is most herself when she's writing, reading, discussing theology, drinking coffee, eating Indian food, dancing with her husband, traveling to new places...and as of February 25th of this year, spending time with her daughter Clare.
Matt McEwen	Matthew is pastor of the Holt Free Methodist Church in Mount Albert (north of Toronto). One of his many passions is studying Scripture and helping people to apply it to their everyday lives. He also is an avid student of the theology of John and Charles Wesley, having completed a Th. M. degree with a thesis on the communion hymns of the Wesley brothers. He and his wife Joy, who met while studying at Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto, started their ministry together at the Bracebridge Free Methodist Church prior to their move to Holt. They enjoy collecting books, spending time with their young daughter, Naomi, and being out in nature. Creation care is an important issue to both of them. As a member of the denomination’s Study Commission on Doctrine, Matthew played a major part in shaping the church’s new statement on our responsibility for the environment (cf. http://www.fmc-canada.org/who/papers/The_Environment.pdf).
Moderators
Gerry Coates	Gerry is an ordained elder in the Free Methodist Church. He earned his Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary. Gerry serves as Executive Director of Communications for the Free Methodist Church of North America. He is vice-chairman of the Committee on History and Archives. Gerry teaches Free Methodist History and Polity for JT/XL ordination classes and serves as the Dean of Biblical Studies and Free Methodist History for Ministerial Credentialing in the Free Methodist Church. Gerry is married to Jan. They have three sons: Stephen, Jonathan and Benjamin.
Mindi Grieser Cromwell	Mindi Grieser Cromwell was introduced to Jesus at an early age by her Grandma Grieser. Following Jesus from that early age has led her to Greenville College, Saint Louis University, and Free Methodist churches in Illinois, Missouri, and Michigan. Along the way, she has been ordained in the Free Methodist church, earned a PhD in historical theology, married Bruce Cromwell, and became a mother to Levi and Bennet. In whatever spare time her boys allow, Mindi enjoys exploring Schuler's books with Bruce and sharing her lifelong love of Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden and the Hardy Boys with Levi.