Dr. Jesse Middendorf currently serves as executive director for the Center for Pastoral Leadership at Nazarene Theological Seminary. He served for twenty-eight years as pastor in the Church of the Nazarene, ten of those years at Kansas City First Church. He served as district superintendent on the Northwest Oklahoma district for five years and spent twelve as a general superintendent, retiring in 2013. REV. STEPHANIE DYRNESS LOBDELL, MDiv, is a pastor and writer. She served as co-lead pastor with her husband, Tommy, for ten years in the Church of the Nazarene and is now the campus pastor at Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Ohio. Stephanie and Tommy have two children, Josephine and Jack.