The key contributors to the 2010 event announced so far are:

Rev Dr Joel Edwards, the International Director for Micah Challenge, of which he has had a long history with since its inception in 2000. He was part of the team that created the Challenge campaign partnership between Micah Network and the World Evangelical Alliance, and was instrumental in forming the Micah Call. Joel was also co-Chair of Micah Challenge from 2004-2007. Joel is committed to harmonise matters of faith, justice and equality in the public square, and to advocate on behalf of the world’s poor. Joel continues to hold a number of other roles, including serving as a Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission for the UK and as an Advisory Member of Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation. A regular broadcaster with the BBC and other UK and international media channels, Joel is often asked to bring a Christian perspective to current issues. He is an Honorary Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and has an honorary doctorate from St Andrews University, Scotland. He is married to Carol and they have two adult children. Prior to his role within Micah Challenge, Joel was General Director of the Evangelical Alliance UK, a post he held for over 10 years.

Jonathan Edwards, the General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. “It’s an amazing role”, reflects Jonathan. “I find it an incredible privilege to represent Baptists in different national settings and I love the opportunity to get to know our Baptist family better. It has been a privilege to see at first hand what God is doing across the country. These are amazingly creative days and it is deeply inspiring to see what’s happening.” Jonathan was born in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex and his parents still live in the house in which he was brought up. He is married to Sue and they have three children – Hannah, Thomas and Bethany. Jonathan graduated from Regent’s Park College in 1979 and since then has had ministries in South India, Bury St Edmunds, Orpington and the South West.

Rev David Kerrigan, the General Director of BMS World Mission. He first joined BMS in 1983, having first qualified as an accountant in industry. After training in the UK, he and his wife Janet and their two small children worked in Bangladesh where David was Treasurer of a large General and Leprosy Hospital. On learning Bengali, David also had opportunity to teach and preach in the area, and returned to UK in 1988 for full-time theological studies at Spurgeon's College. David was then called to the pastorate at Pinhoe Road, Exeter before rejoining BMS in 1995 as Regional Secretary for Asia, living this time in Sri Lanka and responsible for BMS work in Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia and India. In 1997 David visited Afghanistan for the first time, then still under Taliban rule, and negotiated the beginning of BMS work there. During this period also, he served for four years as President of the United Mission to Nepal. David returned to the UK in 1999 to become BMS Director for Mission, before being appointed as General Director in January 2009.

Tracy Cotterell, the director of the Imagine Project, part of the The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Tracy spent a number of years working in marketing and advertising, engaged in research and strategic planning with a wide range of clients. She now directs the Imagine Project at LICC, having completed a theology degree at London Bible College (now the London School of Theology). The Project provides a context for Tracy to pursue her passion for envisioning, equipping and supporting Christians for whole-life discipleship and mission wherever they are.