Dr. Brian Simmons is a Bible teacher, linguist, minister, and former missionary. As a missionary, he and his wife, Candice, pioneered church plants in Central America. As a linguist, Brian co-translated the Kuna New Testament for the Paya-Kuna people of Panama.

After a dramatic conversion to Christ in 1971, Brian answered a calling from God to leave everything behind, become a missionary, and bring the gospel to unreached tribes. Taking their family of three children to the jungles of Central America, he and his wife pioneered and shepherded church plants among the Kuna people group for many years. While serving as missionaries Brian witnessed firsthand God’s powerful gospel-movement among the nations through spiritual revival. As a linguist, Brian also served as a co-translator for the Kuna New Testament, providing this unreached people group with a copy of God’s Word for the first time.

After their ministry overseas, Brian and Candice returned to North America, where Brian began to passionately work toward helping people encounter the risen Christ and His story of redemption. Brian and Candice birthed numerous ministries, including a dynamic church in Connecticut. They also established Stairway Ministries under which they travel full-time as Bible teachers in service of local churches throughout the world with the gospel. Brian serves as U.S. director for Harvest International Ministries, which oversees a network of nearly 20,000 churches and ministries worldwide.

Brian is the author of numerous books that promote the redemption and reconciliation of the nations through Christ and extension of His kingdom. His best-selling book, The Journey of the Bride, has been translated into Korean and French and has now been reprinted as The Sacred Journey. Other titles include: The Wilderness: Where Miracles are Born, Prayer Partners with Jesus, The Dreamer, The Stairway, The Prophet of Zion, Moses the Deliverer, I Hear His Whisper volumes 1 and 2, and The Image Maker.

Brian and Candice have been married for over forty-five years and have three children, six grandchildren, and two precious great-granddaughters. Their passion is to be loving examples of a spiritual father and mother to our generation.

Keith Ferrante and his wife Heather has served many years in pastoral and prophetic ministry. They have planted supernatural schools and now run the Emerging Prophets ministry which is designed to help highly prophetic people discover and develop their prophetic call. Currently they reside in Vacaville, California where they have been apart of the leadership team for the last eight years.

Keith specializes in helping Emerging Prophets and Marketplace Leaders get breakthrough. Keith helps people know where they are and where they are supposed to be, and helps give them the tools to get where they should be going. People's personal lives are transformed and as a result the world they live and work in is transformed.

Steve Backlund is an encourager, leader developer, joy activist, and a revivalist teacher. He travels extensively throughout the world encouraging churches, leaders, and organizations into catalytic levels of hope. He has a unique anointing to release hope and joy paired with a revelatory teaching gift that creates new wineskins for greater dimensions of God (both personally and corporately).

Pastor Tony Krishack is the founding and senior Pastor of Victory Christian Center, a multi-cultural congregation in Houston, Texas, that ministers to more than 1100 people weekly on Victory’s own 25-acre campus. This spacious facility includes the main auditorium, River’s Edge Bookstore, Holy Grounds Coffee Shop, as well as a Life Center and gymnasium. The Life Center facilitates youth, children, and adult ministries, Victory School of Supernatural Ministry, workshops, family events, and fellowships. Pastors Tony and Sandy have a deep passion for the Presence of God, the Word of God, and the people of God, which is evident through the extraordinary worship services, the uncompromised teaching of the Word of God, and the love, compassion, and training shown throughout the various ministries of the church. Pastors Tony and Sandy are deeply committed to training and releasing spirit-filled and biblically sound leaders, and empowering the body of Christ to reach the community and the harvest. Victory Christian Center is known throughout Houston as a place to find acceptance, caring, healing, and equipping for works of service. We are so happy you visited our website, and our prayer for you is that you will experience the Love of God, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.