Bible Teacher

For over 30 years Laurel has been a leader in fields of non-profit management, higher education, church and parachurch ministry. Laurel’s mission is to impact the lives of men and women through empowered teaching, training, mentoring and leadership development that builds character and advances organizational change. Laurel has held key positions in national organizations including Young Life, the YMCA, the Jeremiah Program, PULSE and the Council on Christian Colleges and Universities. She spent 14 years as a campus pastor and university administrator, until 2021, when she left to pursue and launch her LLC, The Boncouer Collaborative. She is a conference speaker, writer and preacher. Laurel and her husband Joshua, make their home in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) with their two college-aged daughters, Naomi and Camile.

Keynote Speaker

Evi Rodemann is from Hamburg, Germany. She loves interacting with and encouraging young people and has been involved with pan-European youth networks and events for many years. Evi is passionate about developing young leaders and creating events with long-lasting impacts. She serves on the leadership team of the Lausanne Younger Leaders Generation and the WEA Mission Commission as well as running her own organization LeadNow. She has worked for 18 years in Germany’s largest aluminum production 4 days/week and for the past several months has been concentrating on writing her PhD (theol.) researching on event impact.

MoveIner Keynote Speaker

Khevna lives in a MoveIn patch in Scarborough with her husband, foster teens, and two cats named Mango and Sticky Rice. She loves getting to know people over coffee or discovering new local food spots. Khevna is passionate about mobilizing for global and local missions in her role as the Director at the Missions Hub. She is an outgoing individual who has high-energy levels for getting multiple tasks done, and cares deeply about learning and engaging in different cultures. Fun fact: she’s spent time in nearly 30 different countries in the world starting with being born in Kenya!

Keynote Speaker

Nigel Paul grew up in Zambia, Pakistan and Kenya and studied Internet Business at the University of Waterloo. In January 2009, God gave Nigel the name “MoveIn” and the vision “to see thousands of regular people moving in among the unreached, urban poor.” Today, Nigel directs the MoveIn Vision Team, is part of a regular MoveIn team which is planting a church, speaks into various small businesses, and lives with his wife Jessie and two sons, Courage(4) and Christian(2), in a patch in east Toronto.

Keynote Speaker

Mpumi has been serving with OM for 14 years. He first joined OM in South Africa in his native country where he helped pioneer a youth ministry for several years. In 2011, he felt a strong call for Europe. He then worked in over 20 European countries with the sole purpose of preaching the Gospel. Mpumi has a passion for lost souls, mentoring, training, leadership, discipleship, and pastoral care. Ginny Mejia is originally from Colombia with more than 12 years of teaching experience both Online and face to face. She received her master’s degree in TESOL and Intercultural Studies in 2021 from Wheaton College, IL. For the past 10 years she has been serving with OM where she has worked as an ESL teacher (in the UK) and a Youth worker (in the Netherlands). Currently, she is serving part time with OM International teaching about Cultural Intelligence to the cross-cultural workers in the organization. Ginny is passionate about teaching, discipleship and seeing people grow in their relationship with God. Ginny also loves to learn about different cultures and to see how God manifests aspects of Himself through them. Ginny and Mpumi have served in Africa, Europe, and South America. In 2019 God called them to Canada to serve as Director of Mobilization with OM Canada. They enjoy the company and cuteness of their 3 year old daughter, Abby.