Sherwood has three campuses covering 130-plus acres—the main church campus, the lower school campus and the upper school campus. The church is currently developing an 82-acre sports complex using Upward sports to reach the community.  Sherwood operates a 24/7 cable channel.  Path to Truth, their weekly service, is currently seen in over ninety markets around the nation on FAITH TV, many FamilyNet stations in the southeast, and by webcast on sherwoodbaptist.net.

Michael has been interviewed by Leadership Journal and has appeared on The Fox News Channel, CNN Headline News, The Glenn Beck Show, Janet Parshall’s America, American Family Radio, The 700 Club, Richard Land Live! and Citizen Link.  Sherwood’s media and movie ministry, Sherwood Pictures, has been featured on The Drudge Report, Baptist Press, AP radio, American Family Radio, Focus on the Family, Good Morning America, Agape Press, Christianity Today, CNS News, National Public Radio, The Laura Ingraham Show, The Michael Reagan Show, The Conservative Voice and The LA Times.

Michael is the author of several books, including: I Left My Mind in Mississippi…But I Still Have My Ministry, I May Be Wrong…But I Doubt It and Reflections on the Gospels by Vance Havner (editor).  His newest book, Prepare for Rain, is the story of how a church positions itself spiritually and creatively to impact their world.

He is the editor of www.2ProphetU.com, a resource website for pastors developed with Warren Wiersbe, as well as the official Vance Havner website, www.VanceHavner.com. He served as Executive Producer of Flywheel, Facing the Giants and Sherwood Pictures’ latest film, Fireproof, set for release in the fall of 2008.

He was elected in 2007 to serve as President of the 2008 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference to be held in Indianapolis.  He has served the Southern Baptist Convention as an IMB trustee, president of the Georgia Baptist Convention Preaching Conference and vice president of the Georgia Baptist Convention, as well as numerous committees.  He is the recipient of The Martin Luther King Award, The MLK Unity Award and a Georgia Senate Resolution in recognition of his work in the community and in racial reconciliation.

Michael is the founder of ReFRESH, a conference on revival and awakening and a co-founder (with Warren Wiersbe) of Bridge Builders, a conference for pastors.  He has been a coach for John Maxwell’s equipping ministry and has preached in churches, conferences and revivals in sixteen states.

Michael and his wife, Terri, have been married since 1974 and have two grown daughters, Erin and Hayley.

He also was a manager at Lancaster (A) in 2006 and the first base coach on Bob Melvin’s coaching staff in 2005. Prior to joining the D-backs, Butler managed the New York Mets’ Gulf Coast League affiliate to a 36-24 record and first-place finish in 2004 and was the Mets’ minor league outfield and baserunning coordinator in 2003 and a spring training instructor with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2002.

Butler, 50, owns a lifetime .290 batting average over 2,213 career games totaling 1,359 runs, 2,375 hits, 277 doubles, 131 triples, 54 home runs, 578 RBI and 558 stolen bases with the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants, Dodgers and Mets from 1981-97. He is one of only 26 players in Major League history to compile at least 500 stolen bases and 2,000 hits.

Prior to joining Wal-Mart, Susan worked for 14 years with Hallmark Cards Inc.  She was the director of applications development at Hallmark before beginning her career at Wal-Mart in 1999.  Susan trained for six months in the field as a Store and Club Manager before accepting senior positions across multiple corporate functions, starting in the information systems division.  There, she served as a Vice President for Applications and Development-Merchandising and then as a Senior Vice President, CMI and Benefits.  She was then promoted to the role of Executive Vice President of Risk Management and Benefits Administration, with additional responsibilities in Global Security and Aviation.  In 2006, Susan was promoted to her current position as Executive Vice President of the Global People Division, reporting directly to Wal-Mart’s CEO H. Lee Scott.

Today, Susan oversees recruiting, training and retention initiatives for more than 2 million Wal-Mart associates.  Additionally, Susan’s responsibilities include human resource technology, culture change, regulatory issues, benefits and the Office of Diversity- a group of professionals dedicated to promoting inclusion within the company and in the communities it serves.

Susan’s role at Wal-Mart also extends well beyond traditional human resources responsibilities.  Her position at the world’s largest private employer allows Susan the opportunity to be involved in multiple arenas, including workforce development and education.  She is a firm believer that human resources issues – like training, compensation and opportunity – are issues with a real social, financial and economic impact.

Susan is part of a growing team that is involved in many of the changes underway at Wal-Mart.  The retailer’s continuous company-wide transformation has led to the company working to bring about solutions to some of the toughest challenges facing businesses and the nation, like healthcare, job creation and environmental sustainability.  From the company’s launch of a $4 prescription program to its work to bring affordable, environmentally-friendly products to consumers, Wal-Mart’s transformation is about making a real difference … and helping people save money so they can live better.

A native of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Chancellor Gearhart was born and raised in the shadow of Old Main.  An alumnus of the university whose name is twice inscribed on Senior Walk for the law degree (J.D.) and doctor of education degree (Ed.D.) he earned, Gearhart feels that his entire adult life has prepared him for this singular honor and challenge.

“I believe the ultimate success of the University of Arkansas will be measured to a large extent on how it demonstrates its usefulness to society,” Gearhart says.  “Of all of the rich contributions that America has bestowed on the world, American higher education is among the most important.  Our colleges and universities have become, perhaps, the most vital expression of the American political and social philosophy.”

The path that would lead him back to his alma mater began in 1976, when Gearhart became assistant to the president at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., where he received his baccalaureate two years earlier.  In 1977, he was appointed the director of development at Westminster and led fundraising efforts for The Winston Churchill Memorial and Library.  Thus was launched a nationally respected career in university advancement.

In 1978, he returned to his native state to become vice president for development at Hendrix College.  After four years at Hendrix, Gearhart returned home for the first time when he was selected to be the director of development at the University of Arkansas.  In this role, he spearheaded the Campaign for Books, which added more than 100,000 volumes to the University of Arkansas Library.

In 1985, Gearhart took another career leap in being appointed vice president for development and university relations at The Pennsylvania State University.  Three years later, he was promoted to senior vice president, responsible for the external relations programs for 23 campuses statewide.  While at Penn State, he launched a major capital campaign, which raised in excess of $352 million.  Total private gifts to Penn State during his 11 years at the university surpassed $950 million, and Gearhart’s division was cited three times by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) with its grand gold medal, awarded to the nation’s top advancement program.

In 1995, Gearhart joined the international consulting firm of Grenzebach, Glier, and Associates as senior vice president and managing director, but stayed closely connected to advancing the mission of higher education.  The Chicago-based philanthropic management firm has hundreds of clients in the United States, Canada and Europe, and fundraising goals in excess of $40 billion.  Clients managed by Gearhart included nearly two dozen non-profit organizations, colleges and universities, among them American University, Brigham Young University, Rutgers University, University of Alabama, University of Connecticut, University of Miami (Fla.), University of Pittsburgh and University of Washington.

In 1998 Gearhart once again returned to his native state as vice chancellor for university advancement at the University of Arkansas.  He was responsible for development, alumni relations, constituent relations, special events and university relations programs.  Arguably, his most significant impact in this role was the stunningly successful Campaign for the Twenty-First Century, a billion-dollar capital campaign that concluded in June 2005 with the University of Arkansas taking its place as one of only 13 public universities at that time to have exceeded a billion dollars raised.

The centerpiece of this campaign was a $300 million gift from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation, the largest gift ever made to a public university.  The direct results of Gearhart’s leadership in this effort included the creation of 132 new endowed faculty positions, 1,738 new student scholarship and fellowship funds, dozens of new and renovated facilities and classrooms, and growth of the overall endowment from $119 million in 1998 to nearly $900 million by the time he assumed the chancellorship.

In every imaginable way, the university was transformed by this campaign.

“At the University of Arkansas our ultimate purpose is to improve the human condition, to make life better for our citizens and our state and to contribute to the general welfare of our nation,” says Gearhart.  “Thanks in part to the Campaign for the Twenty-First Century, we’ve become recognized as a rising star as a major public research university in a state where higher education must play an increasingly larger role in the lives of its citizens.  Working with our sister public institutions and in partnership with our own university system, we must work hard and smart to increase the college participation rate and to strengthen the quality of Arkansas’ higher education.  We must be seen as enthusiastic leaders in this venture, all in a time of diminished public resources nationally that will not make it easy, but a challenge that we at the university must embrace.”

Gearhart was named a distinguished alumnus of his undergraduate alma mater, Westminster College, in 1992, and the same year was named a Fulbright Scholar and studied at Oxford University, Merton College in Oxford, England.  In 1996, he was named an honorary alumnus of Penn State, where he finished his doctoral coursework in higher education administration.

In addition to his responsibilities as chancellor, Gearhart is a tenured member of the faculty in the College of Education and Health Professions, holding the rank of professor.  A nationally respected expert in capital campaigns, he is the author of two books, The Capital Campaign in Higher Education and Philanthropy, Fund Raising and the Capital Campaign, as well as numerous  articles.

Among his current professional affiliations, Gearhart serves as vice president of the University of Arkansas Fayetteville Campus Foundation, is a member of the board of advisors for the Arkansas World Trade Center, chair of the board of directors for the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, and is a member of the advisory board of the Pryor Center for Oral and Visual History.  He also is a licensed attorney in the state of Arkansas.

Gearhart is married to the former Jane Brockmann, whom he married in 1974.  They have two children: Katy, who is a graduate of Penn State University currently working as a speech pathologist; and Brock, a graduate of the University of Arkansas who is now a vice president for Merrill Lynch.

Gearhart’s late father, George A. Gearhart, was publisher of the Northwest Arkansas Times in Fayetteville.  His mother, Joan Gearhart Havens, lives in Fayetteville.

“I have many dreams and aspirations that I’ve long held for the University of Arkansas,” Gearhart says, “and I look forward in the months and years ahead to sharing that vision and working with our outstanding students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends, and certainly the board of trustees, on reaching our lofty goals and realizing the full potential of our university.”

Asa became the first Under Secretary of Homeland Security in January 2003, shortly after the department was created in the wake of the 9-11 attacks.

Prior to his tenure with DHS, Asa served as an Arkansas Congressman from 1997-2001 and was a prominent member of the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees.  He was appointed by President George W. Bush as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), where he combined tough law enforcement initiatives with advocating increased investment in treatment and education programs.

Asa received his bachelor’s degree from BJU in Greenville, S.C., and his J.D. from the U of A School of Law, Fayetteville.  He practiced law in Arkansas for 21 years and, at the age of 31, was appointed as the youngest U.S. Attorney in the nation by President Ronald Reagan.

Asa has appeared on many major news shows from “Meet the Press” to “Politically Incorrect” with Bill Maher.

Hutchinson also serves as an independent member of the Board of Directors of Fortress International Group (FIGI) and Saflink (SFLK).

Asa resides in Little Rock, Arkansas and continues to be involved in politics.  He is a former state Chairman of the Arkansas GOP and continues to be a voice for change in the state.

ServiceMaster provides services to both the commercial and the consumer markets, specializing in management services for the healthcare and education markets, and home services for the residential market under such well-known brands as Terminix, TruGreen, American Residential Services, Merry Maids and American Home Shield.  The Company serves more than 12 million customers in the United States and 44 foreign countries, with customer level revenue of $7 billion.

In 1999, Bill returned as CEO and served for sixteen months until the process of electing his successor was completed. During his leadership, ServiceMaster was recognized by Fortune magazine as the #1 service company among the Fortune 500.  ServiceMaster was also identified as a “star of the future” by the Wall Street Journal and recognized by the Financial Times as one of the most respected companies in the world.  In 2004, Pollard received the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Business Ethics at Notre Dame.

Bill is a graduate of Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, and he received a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.  From 1963 to 1972 he was engaged in the practice of law, specializing in corporate finance and tax matters, and from 1972 to 1977 he served on the faculty and as a Vice President of Wheaton College.

He is the author of a best selling book, The Soul of the Firm and also has written for or contributed to other books and magazines including The Leader of the Future, Leading People, “The Quest for the Entrepreneurial Spirit,” and “The Leader Who Serves.”

Bill and his wife, Judy, have been married for over 40 years.  They have four adult children and twelve grandchildren

Kim’s academic background include a Baccalaureate Degree in Psychology from East Central Oklahoma State University and a Masters Degree in Business Management from the University of Dallas.  Recently retiring as a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Officer, Kim completed 32 years of active and reserve duty.  His most recent assignment was as a strategic and tactical advisor to the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon in Washington D.C.  He served over 3-1/2 years in combat zones in Southwest Asia, Central America and Southeast Asia and over 1 year at sea duty.

He is a graduate of the Naval War College, National Defense University, the NATO Joint Warfare College in the U.K., the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the Royal Marines Commando School in the United Kingdom.  Kim has served as Chairman of Deacons and Chairman of the Personnel Committee for First Baptist Church of Euless, Texas (13,000 members), as well as numerous other corporate and philanthropic boards.  Kim is an active public speaker for Leadership Seminars and Workshops for the National Student Leadership University, YPO (Young President’s Organization, the Department of Defense, the National Press Club, and many companies and churches.

Kim and his wife Ruthie reside in Keller, Texas.  They have 2 children and 4 grandchildren.  A few of his favorite past times include: being active in community affairs, church involvement, reading, martial arts, fitness, and collecting antique western antiques.

In addition to her regular segments on ABC’s Good Morning Texas ad NBC5i, Ms. Weaver is nationally published and appears regularly to discuss etiquette issues on numerous television and radio shows.  Ms Weaver has also been featured nationally on ABC’s “The View,” and The Early Show, Family Net, in the Associated Press, Southern Living Magazine, and USA Today.

Ms. Weaver is also the author of the book, “Just Ask Joy . . . How to be Socially Savvy in All Situations.” Her book, which is highly endorsed by Zig Ziglar, provides easy to read lists of “Power Tips and Faux Pas to Avoid” for a wide variety of common social and business situations.  If you have an etiquette question, “Just Ask Joy. . . The Etiquette Expert.”

Ms. Weaver is a corporate etiquette and international protocol consultant certified by the Protocol School of Washington DC.  Her training also includes years of research and study as well as certification from Leticia Baldrige’s Business Etiquette Program.

Protocol Enterprises Inc./Just Ask Joy is based in Dallas, Texas. The company has been serving clients across the country since 1999.