Reverend Roosevelt Watkins III is the Senior Pastor of Bethlehem Star M.B. Church in Chicago. He is a son of Fellowship M.B. Church under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Clay Evans, where he was baptized. While at Fellowship, he accepted his calling into the ministry and was licensed and ordained to preach the gospel.

Watkins graduated from Western Illinois University with a Political Science Degree. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Public Administration at Governor State University.

Reverend Watkins' keen administration skills are demonstrated in his ability to serve in several capacities. He is the Founder and CEO of H.O.P.E. Organization, the leading organization in Chicago assisting low-income residents. He is also Founder and Chairman of Pastors United for Change.

As a leading community activist for inner city youth and violence prevention, Reverend Johnson has been the Pastor for Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church since 1992.

Reverend Johnson knows that education is the key to providing bright futures for inner city youth. As Co-Director for the Ministerial Alliance Against the Digital Divide, Reverend Johnson believes that equipping students in low income, urban communities with the appropriate technological tools will enable students to excel in academics and in life. Johnson's leadership has put these beliefs into action by implementing programs designed to provide tutorial support for youth and parents in the Chicago Public School system.

As Chicago Magazine's 1999 Chicagoan of the Year, Reverend Johnson has built a strong reputation for violence prevention in Chicago neighborhoods. His work as the Executive Director for the Alliance for Community Peace and as Co-Chairman for Clergy for Safer Streets, has allowed Johnson to partner with the Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Department of Human Services, and the Chicago Alternative Strategy (CAPS) to implement the Safe Schools, Safe Neighborhoods initiative.

Among other accomplishments, Reverend Johnson is the Past President of the AME Ministerial Alliance of Chicago and Vicinity, an organization that oversees thousands of church members in the Chicagoland area. Johnson also serves as a board member for the Protestants for the Common Good, the New City YMCA and is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the nation's first black fraternity.

Reverend Johnson holds a Doctor of Ministry and a Master of Divinity from the Chicago Theological Seminary. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Chicago State University. Reverend Johnson and his wife, Sandra, have three children and one grandchild.

Pastor/Founder of Praise Temple International Church. He received the vision of ministry at the age of twelve. After graduating from high school and attending Bishop College in Dallas Texas, he returned to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he pastored Corinth Missionary Baptist Church for seven years. In 1996, God instructed him to organize Praise Temple International, a Word of Faith Church.

Pastor Terrance Sims Sr. has been called by God to teach the gospel in a manner that enables believers to make practical application of the Word in daily situations.

Pastor Terrance Sims Sr. has been married to Pastor Faye E. Sims for twenty three years. They are the proud parents of Shawdey, Terrance Jr. and Jasmine.

Originally from Winter Garden, Florida where he became a church participant at the early age of five, Pastor McRae  has continued to be an active presence in the religious community. He has been blessed with a creative, energetic style of communicating the gospel.  After graduating from Florida A&M University in 1998, McRae returned to Orlando to the Malone Memorial Church of God in Christ where he expanded his ministerial development. He accepted his call to ministry in 1999 when he was licensed under the Church of God in Christ, and was appointed Youth Leader and quickly advanced to the position of Youth Minister.

In December 2003, McRae joined the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church and was officially named Youth Minister in May 2004 where he served until beginning his own ministry. In December 2009, McRae founded The Experience Christian Center, one of Central Florida’s fastest growing ministries.

Pastor McRae is married with three children.

A native of Boston, Massachusetts; Bullock was reared in Detroit, MI, in the home of Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Bullock. After graduating from high school (at the age of 16), Bullock entered Morehouse College in the fall of 1994. In 1998 Bullock graduated from Morehouse College with a degree in Philosophy and a minor in History. Bullock received a M. A. in Philosophy from Wayne State University. D. Alexander Bullock is the senior pastor of Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park, MI.

As a college adjunct professor, Bullock has taught Philosophy at the following institutions: William Tyndale College (Farmington Hills), Wayne State University (Detroit) and Saint Xavier University (Chicago, IL). In all this, he has remained committed to parish ministry, having served as Pastor of Greater St Matthew Baptist Church for the past five years. He has also worked in the following other ministries: Morehouse College Chapel (Atlanta, Ga.), Beulah Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.), The American Baptist Churches of Southeastern Michigan office and Brotherly Love Missionary Baptist Church (Chicago, IL).

He is the current President of the Highland Park Branch of the NAACP and the President of the Detroit Chapter of Rainbow-Push. As a preacher of the gospel, Bullock remains committed to the cause of Christ and as an educator, he stands firm in the conviction that no student is unteachable and no goal is unreachable.