The Church Attorney®

Erika Cole, known as The Church Attorney®, is the go-to resource for churches in legal matters. Having provided over 25 years of experience advising denominations and churches in their legal needs, including tax-exempt status, property matters, governance, and mergers, she has been relied upon by denominations and churches of all sizes. She was raised in the church and has a love and commitment to see that churches and their leaders have the legal and tax insights they need to avoid unwanted government scrutiny and the loss of precious resources.

CEO of The Church Network

Denise Craig, CAE, CCA, is the Chief Executive Officer of The Church Network, where she champions professional excellence in church administration. With more than 30 years of ministry leadership experience, she equips churches with practical tools, strategic insight, and Christcentered encouragement. A respected keynote speaker, Denise is known for empowering leaders to strengthen their ministries through healthy systems, wise stewardship, and missionaligned operational practices.

ECFA President and CEO

Michael is passionate about helping churches and Christ-centered ministries maintain high standards of integrity through ECFA. As an attorney and a CPA, Michael communicates his expertise and passion through his writing, speaking in conferences, workshops, webinars, videos, and podcasts. He and his family live in Winchester, Virginia.

Founder of Soul Care

Mindy Caliguire is the Founder and President of Soul Care , which emerged from her experience of church planting in Boston. She served in executive leadership at Gloo, and at Willow Creek Association (now Global Leadership Network), and engages organizations including Cru, Compassion International, ECFA, National Christian Foundation, and many churches and ministries across the US and beyond. Mindy’s books include Discovering Soul Care, Spiritual Friendship, STIR, and Ignite Your Soul.

Founder of Jude 3 Project

Lisa Fields is the CEO and founder of Jude 3 Project, a leading apologetics organization dedicated to equipping the Black community with the tools to know what they believe and why they believe it. As a renowned Christian apologist, speaker, author, and film producer, she has been a driving force in shaping conversations on faith, theology, and culture. She uses innovative content to engage diverse audiences and challenge them to think critically about their beliefs.

Founder of Creating Future Opportunities, LLC

Tim Samuel, CPA, serves as Chief Financial Officer of Bridgeway Community Church in Columbia, Maryland, and owns CFO: Creating Future Opportunities, LLC, providing fractional CFO services for churches. With nearly two decades of church finance experience, Tim helps pastors, executive leaders, and boards build budgets, forecast cash flow, create investment policies, evaluate reserves, improve reporting, understand giving trends, manage spending, and prepare for major ministry decisions. He has also helped guide two church building projects from multi-million-dollar debt to debt free.

Founder of L'OR Consulting Services

Bettyna Julien is a consultant, speaker, and founder of L'OR Consulting Services. She helps growing organizations align their people, processes, and technology so they can operate more effectively and scale with confidence.

Drawing on her experience leading system implementations and organizational transformation initiatives, Bettyna has seen firsthand how growth can create complexity, bottlenecks, and increased demands on leaders. Her passion is helping organizations use technology thoughtfully to strengthen operations, support their teams, and advance their mission.