Dr. Todd Ahrend graduated from Northeastern State University, has a Masters from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

He is the founder and international Director of The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement.  He and his wife, Jessica, have spent almost two decades traveling both nation-wide and abroad, speaking to thousands of people about involvement in world evangelization. Todd has exposure in over sixty countries and has lived in the Middle East.

 He is the author of The Abrahamic Revolution and In This Generation. Todd and Jessica have five children.

Todd has been a guest speaker in more than 400 churches across all denominations.

Claude Hickman is the Executive Director of The Traveling Team. After marrying his wife Rebecca in 1999, they spent seven years traveling and speaking about missions in universities and churches across the country.

Today Claude oversees the three teams that continue to tour the U.S. challenging people to become the next 100,000 goers and senders. Claude is a graduate and guest chapel speaker at Dallas Theological Seminary and teaching pastor at Sandals Church. He is also former professional bmx athlete, a Guinness World Record holder, and author of Live Life On Purpose, It's All Backward, and an evangelistic book Rebel.

He lives with his family in Southern California, and continues to develop leaders, speak, and awaken God's people to God's purpose.

Claude has over two decades of public speaking experience. Speaking to crowds of all sizes, including those of 5,000 + listeners.

Seth has been on staff with The Traveling Team since 2018. He is a graduate of Illinois State University and is currently serving as the Office Director for The Traveling Team. He has a degree in communication and has spent the last three years traveling and speaking on college campuses across the country about God’s heart for the nations.

Prior to his time on staff with The Traveling Team Seth spent four years doing Youth Ministry before serving in East Asia. His passion is to mobilize churches to play a part in the Great Commission by encouraging them to Go and Send to the least reached places on the planet. He believes that the local church is the vessel that God will use to reach every tribe, tongue and nation with the gospel and his desire is to play a part in helping churches catch this vision.

SPEAKER HISTORY:

• Perspectives on the World Christian Movement

Will joined The Traveling Team in 2019, and over the course of five years, he traveled across 36 states, teaching on 350 college campuses and churches, impacting tens of thousands of college students and young adults. He now serves as the Church Partnerships Director while pursuing a Master of Divinity at Reformed Theological Seminary. Will and his wife, Ailee, currently live in Fayetteville, where they are working together to inspire and equip the Church to become the sending and going force that God has called it to be.

SPEAKING HISTORY:

• Chapel speaker at Union University

• Mary-Hardin Baylor Missions Conference keynote

• CRU Mobilization headquarters
  
  

SUMMER PROJECTS:

• Student Mobilization: Kaleo Missions Conference

• IT Project

MISSIONS COURSES:

• Perspectives on the World Christian Movement

• Discover the Mission of God

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