David Cassidy
David is the Senior Pastor at Spanish River Church in Boca Raton, FL. Born in Illinois and raised in Indiana, David Cassidy grew up in the Lutheran Church under his Christian parents Patrick and Dolores Cassidy. He has been married to his wife Toni since 1980 and they have three children, Sean, Claire, and Anna. Sean and his wife, Jacquelyn, have two children and live in the Nashville area along with Claire and her husband Dean. Anna is twenty-one and attends Florida Atlantic University.
David met Toni in Oxford, England where he was engaged in studies in History and Literature, as well as student mission, beginning in 1979. David served as a church planter in London from 1981 to 1987. David has served churches in Britain, Kentucky, Texas, and Tennessee, sharing the Gospel of Grace with joyful clarity, and prophetic passion, all with a view to reaching non-believers, strengthening the faith of Christians, encouraging the renewal of the Church, and training future leaders for global mission. He has also authored the book Indispensable: The Basics of Christian Belief. He is a graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary and is working on a DMin in the Theological Foundations for Preaching at Knox Seminary.
Al Barth
On January 1, 2022, Al joined the staff of Spanish River Church as the Director of Church Planting. Prior to January 1, he served as the Global Church Planting Catalyst in the cities of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America for Redeemer City to City, a not-for-profit organization connected to Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York. Since 2001, in those four continental regions, he has been working with national leaders to start urban-center churches and trans-denominational church planting networks in leading cities, sub-continental networks, and continent-wide networks. His primary work involves recruiting, consulting, coaching, training, and resourcing church planters and city and regional network leaders. Al is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, but also serves as a consultant to many denominations and church networks helping them to devise strategies for the planting of new churches or the replanting of old churches in global cities.
Prior to his work the past twenty years with City to City, Al had planted four PCA churches, one in Sevierville, TN while serving on the staff of Cedar Springs PCA in Knoxville, two on the west coast of Florida in New Port Richey and Spring Hill and one just outside of NYC in Oyster Bay, NY.
Elliott Cherry
Elliott has been the Pastor of Midtown Fellowship, 12 South (PCA) in Nashville, TN since 2015. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, he is the middle son of ministry parents, and now considers Nashville home. He is passionate about seeing the gospel of the Kingdom take root in people and in places for the global mission of mending all things. He is married to his wonderful bride of 14 years, Britta, and they have 5 kids that keep them both very busy. In his very limited spare time he enjoys bourbon and basketball - although usually not at the same time.
Dr. Dhati Lewis
Dr. Dhati Lewis serves as the Vision and Multiplication Pastor of Blueprint Church as well as the Founder and President of MyBLVD, an organization focused on helping Christian leaders embrace presence, navigate division and lead with passion. Dhati is passionate about bringing contextualized resources to disciple makers through coaching, consulting, cohort training, and church planting. He is married to his best friend, Angie, and they live in Atlanta, Georgia with their children and church family. He is the author of Among Wolves: Disciple Making in the City and Advocates: The Narrow Path to Racial Reconciliation.
Dr. Carl Ellis, Jr.
In 1969, Carl Ellis began his ministry as a Senior Campus Minister with the Tom Skinner Associates in New York. From 1979 to 1989, Carl served as the Assistant Pastor of Forest Park Community Church in Baltimore, MD, served on faculty at Chesapeake Theological Seminary, and as a seminar instructor for Prison Fellowship where he developed and taught “in-prison” and “in-community” seminars for inmates and community volunteers. Between 1986 and 2009, Carl served as an adjunct faculty member at the Center for Urban Theological Studies (C.U.T.S.), and as Dean of Intercultural Studies at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA.
In 2015, Dr. Ellis was appointed Senior Research Fellow with Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS). He is also the Associate Pastor for Cultural Apologetics at New City Fellowship, and serves on numerous boards and as a consultant on cultural matters.
He has authored several books, including Free At Last? and Saving Our Sons.
Dr. Ellis studied under Francis Schaeffer at LÁbri in Hermoz sur Olon’, Switzerland, completed his Masters in Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, and holds a D.Phil from Omega Graduate School (formerly Oxford Graduate School).
Guy Mason
Guy is the founding and Senior Pastor of City on a Hill, a church that began in 2007 with a small team and a big vision. Today City on a Hill is a movement of many churches that gathers across multiple locations, in different cities and is united around the central mission of knowing Jesus and making Jesus known. Guy is a passionate communicator of the gospel who is committed to engaging culture with the beauty, truth, and relevance of Jesus. Guy graduated with a BA in Public Relations from RMIT University, has a Masters of Divinity from Ridley College and is currently completing a Doctorate of Ministry with Wheaton College. He is the husband to Vanessa and the father to four children. He is an ordained Anglican Minister and serves as an Archdeacon in the Diocese of Melbourne.
Luchrysta Caswell
Luchrysta is the oldest of five and grew up in a Christian home. She and Lyle met in college and after a few years of marriage, to her delight, God opened a door for them to plant a church in her hometown of Lakeland, FL and raise their 4 kids there. She has over 25 years of experience in ministry, including serving in the local church, leading groups and meeting one-on-one with people.
Luchrysta currently works for Parakaleo as a Florida Network Leader, a Local and Virtual Group Leader, a Trainer and a Coach. Luchrysta can get entangled in pride and unbelief, which expresses itself in grasping for the seat of honor, willfulness, self-righteousness and self-reliance, to name a few. She knows she needs Jesus and the gospel, applying it in the ordinary dailies of life. Doing life and ministry through prayer and community has become a tangible, personal, beautiful way for her to practically live out her dependence on and enjoyment of God’s presence.