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Rob Fairbanks, D.Min.

Rob has spent the majority of his adult life pastoring and planting churches in Spokane and around the world. Rob was the founding pastor of New Community, a large church in the Spokane area that has been involved in launching six other churches. After several years working with the mission organization Communitas International, Rob returned to full-time pastoring with the founding of Immanuel Church in the West Central neighborhood in Spokane. He holds a doctoral degree with an emphasis in missional church leadership and serves as an adjunct professor at Whitworth University where he teaches on the subject. His life goal is simple – to start churches for people who don't like church; ones that are beautiful expressions of the Kingdom of God, churches that actually understand the missional orientation of their existence.

Rev. Terry McGonigal, Ph.D.

Mcgonigal has worked at Whitworth University for 26 years as a Bible teacher, dean of spiritual life (20 years) and director of church engagement (26 years). Terry's passion is to apply the Scriptures in such a way that followers of Jesus are inspired and challenged to live faithfully and courageously as witnesses to the truth, grace and love grounded in the Gospel. He has taught a course in the Psalms many times with special emphasis on the 73 Lament Psalms.