Speakers
H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles Jr.
Eric Bancroft
Eric Bancroft
Matt Moorehead
Matt Moorehead
Daniel Gillespie
Daniel Gillespie
Kurt Gebhards
Kurt Gebhards
Dan Dumas
Dan Dumas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Speakers
H.B. Charles is the Pastor and Teacher at the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church of Jacksonville and Orange Park, Florida, where he has served since 2008. He is primarily responsible for preaching-teaching, vision casting, and leadership development. Outside of his ministry with his congregation, he regularly speaks and teaches at churches, conferences, and conventions around the country. He has contributed to several books and journals. Pastor Charles is the author of It Happens After Prayer, On Preaching, On Praying, On Worship, The Difference Jesus Makes, Getting Right With God, and Reaching God’s Goals for Your Life. Pastor Charles and his wife, Crystal, have 3 children: H.B. III, Natalie, and Hailey.
Eric has lived all around the country, including Minnesota, Colorado, South Carolina, Florida, California,and Indiana. He served as senior pastor at Castleview Church in Indianapolis and associate pastor at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles under Pastor John MacArthur. Eric has a B.A. from Trinity International University (Miami campus) and a M.Div. from The Master’s Seminary (Los Angeles). In addition to pastoring, Eric helped start the Indianapolis Theological Seminary, the Indianapolis Chapter of The Gospel Coalition, the Indy Sr. Pastors Network, and has served as a Fellow at The Mathena Center for Church Revitalization at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Eric’s passions include preaching and discipling, dating his wife of 22 years, raising his teenage sons (18, 16, 15), and helping serve other pastors. His hobbies include CrossFit and anything outdoors
Kurt was saved out of a home where there was no gospel influence. God rescued him and gave him light for his darkness, hope for his despair, and Christ’s righteousness for his sin. The beauty and power of the gospel of grace overwhelm him to this day. For his ministry training, Kurt had the privilege of studying at The Master’s Seminary and serving at Grace Community Church under John MacArthur. The 15 years he spent at Grace were amazing and a gift of shaping grace to him. In recent years, he have pursued a doctorate at Southern Seminary and he has served with ministries in North Carolina and Chicago. He now makes his home in Central Florida, where his roots run deep and where he pastors The Grove Bible Chapel of Tampa. He is most passionate about: 1) Making disciples 2) Training leaders and 3) Doing all things for the sake of the gospel. As for his favorite things, Julie and his six kids are tremendous gifts from God and he loves time with them, doing ministry with them, and seeing God’s goodness through them. When Kurt is not holding his wife’s hand, he’s probably holding a Puritan biography.
Daniel serves the Lord as the Lead Teaching Pastor of Eastwood Community Church, after Cornerstone Baptist and College Acres Baptist Church merged in 2023. Daniel and his wife Lisa came to Cornerstone on Easter Sunday April 2006. Both originally from Wilmington, they moved from California where Daniel was on staff at Grace Community Church. Daniel graduated from NC State with a BS in Math Education and received his Masters of Divinity from The Master’s Seminary in Sun Valley, CA. Additionally, he has completed a Doctorate of Ministry from Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. Daniel and Lisa have four children, Jacob, Josiah, Ellie and Judah.
Will Thomas accepted his role as pastor and elder of Berean Community Church on June 1, 2006. He graduated from North Carolina State University with a BA in Horticulture before experiences as a youth minister at Manteo Baptist Church confirmed Will’s desire to serve the church in pastoral ministry. God provided the opportunity for Will to attend The Master’s Seminary in Sun Valley, California. He graduated in 2005 and began attending the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in pursuit of a Master’s in Theology. A long-time friend and fellow Master’s Seminary graduate asked if he would consider full-time pastoral ministry in New Bern and he first took the pulpit at Berean on Easter Sunday of 2006. Will met his wife, Melia, at NCSU and they were married the weekend after graduation. God blessed them with their son Beau during their time in California. God later blessed them with their son Benji, daughter Kinsey, and son Luke. Will is a survivor of Burkitt’s Lymphoma and God has graciously chosen for him to be cancer free since September of 2007.
Matt has been married to Haley for 17 years and they have six beautiful daughters — Taylor (16), Ashlyn (14), Hope (12), Aubrey (10), Payton (7) and Shelby (4). His family has salt water in their veins and they love spending time at the beach. He has embraced being the “lone testosterone” in his household. Matt enjoy’s all things sports, music (from classical to hip-hop) and spending time with his queen and 6 princesses! Matt played football and basketball in high school and college. After two years at the University of Evansville he transferred to the University of Northern Colorado (the “other” UNC 
) where he graduated with a finance degree. Shortly after surrendering His life to Christ in college, Matt and Haley became a part of Mountain View Community Church (the first Crossway Chapel) in Fort Collins, CO. Matt served in student and small group ministry before being recognized as one of the pastors of Mountain View in 2006. Matt completed a two-year pastoral training program at Mountain View Community Church and is a licensed pastor with Crossway Chapel International. He and his family were part of the initial leadership team who planted Crossway Chapel of Wilmington. Matt worked for State Farm Insurance from 2001-2016 and served as a pastor bi-vocationally for ten years. In 2016 he went into ministry full-time and assumed the lead elder role at Crossway.
Dan Dumas is a leader committed to gospel transformation . Dan currently serves as COO of California-based Family Tree Farms and President of Planted. As an advocate for vulnerable children he was Special Advisor for Foster Care and Adoption to the Governor of Kentucky. He is passionate about all things leadership, strategy, adoption, expository preaching, biblical manhood and being an idea-generating organizational leader.
He is the author of Live Smart, and the co-author of A Guide to Biblical Manhood and the editor of A Guide to Expository Ministry. He also blogs regularly at dandumas.com.
Dan served as a Senior Vice President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 2007 – 2017. In addition he continues to serve as a special advisor to the President of Southern Seminary and Faculty member in the Doctorate of Ministry in Executive Leadership.. Dan actively writes on Leadership at Leaders Don’t Panic, and provides a variety of coaching and consulting for businesses, organizations, nonprofits, Universities, NGO’s, government agencies, churches, and their leaders. Dan has served in a variety of ministry capacities in many local churches, including Executive Pastor at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. Prior to his time in ministry, Dan served in the US Navy as a search and rescue swimmer. Watch for his forthcoming book, Lead Smart coming in 2021.
Dan is married to Jane and has two children: Aidan (17) and Elijah (11). He loves all things sports (especially lake sports) and is an avid outdoorsman who loves hunting and fly fishing.