Rochelle Scheuermann (PhD Intercultural Studies, TEDS) is an ordained minister and former church planter and has been in higher education for over ten years. She currently serves as Associate Professor of Evangelism and Leadership and is the program director for three master's programs at Wheaton College. She has co-authored/co-edited three books and authored multiple articles, focusing on preaching and culture, disability and mission, and theology of mission.
Edward L. Smither (PhD, University of Wales-Trinity St. David; PhD, University of Pretoria) serves as the Dean of the College of Intercultural Studies and Professor of Intercultural Studies and History of Global Christianity at Columbia International University. His other books include Mission as Hospitality (2021), Christian Mission: A Concise Global History (2019), and Mission in the Early Church (2014). He served for fourteen years in intercultural ministry in North Africa, France, and the United States. Smither is married to Shawn, and they have three children.