Trevin Wax is vice president of resources and marketing at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor at Cedarville University.

A former missionary to Romania, Trevin is a regular columnist at The Gospel Coalition and has contributed to The Washington Post, World, and Christianity Today. He has taught courses on mission and ministry at Wheaton College and lectured on Christianity and culture at Oxford University.

Wax is a founding editor of The Gospel Project, has served as publisher for the Christian Standard Bible, and is currently a fellow for The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. He is the author of multiple books, including The Gospel Way Catechism,The Thrill of Orthodoxy, The Multi-Directional Leader, This Is Our Time and Gospel Centered Teaching. His podcast is Reconstructing Faith.

He and his wife, Corina, have three children. You can follow him on X or Facebook, or receive his columns via email.

J. Allen Murray is pastor of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Supply, N.C. and serves as the president of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. He and his wife, Hope, have two daughters. Murray is originally from Wilmington, N.C. and has pastored multiple churches in North Carolina prior to serving as lead pastor at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church. Murray is currently pursuing a master of divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. He has also studied at the College at Southeastern and at Fruitland Baptist Bible College in Hendersonville, N.C.

With a passion for the local church and the Great Commission, Todd Unzicker’s vision for North Carolina Baptists is focused on rallying them to be a movement of churches on mission together.

Unzicker was elected executive director-treasurer in May 2021. Before leading the work of the state convention, Unzicker served on staff at The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham from 2012 to 2021. He has also served as a director of missions in Florida and as a missionary in Central America.

Unzicker earned his bachelor’s degree from the Baptist Bible College of Florida and his master of divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological seminary. Prior to his salvation and his call to ministry, Unzicker worked as a sports reporter covering the nationally ranked University of Georgia football program.

A native of Fairfax, Virginia, Unzicker has been married to his wife, Ashley, since 2007. They have three children and reside in Wake Forest.

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