The Rev. Dr. Byron Spradlin is founder and president of A.C.T. Canada, a missions & ministry sending board for artists and creatives. He is a musician, published songwriter, Bible teacher, church planter, pastor and professor; and an international specialist on worship, imagination and arts leadership. He regularly disciples artists and encourages pastors and missionaries concerning innovation in ministry and missions.

As of December 31, 2022, there are in association with A.C.T. Canada 39 ministry departments and 40 people doing ministry across Canada. A.C.T. Canada is also a sister ministry to A.C.T. International which has a total of 515 ministry departments comprised of almost 700 people doing ministry in 54 countries around the world.

His ministry experience ranges through some 50 nations from arts-in-missions and ministry to church planting, worship ministry and coaching, and the theology of worship, imagination, and the arts. His wife, Pam, and he have been married since 1974; and their two grown children are married, and they have four amazing grand children. His heart is to see people find forgives and rightness with God through Jesus Christ, and grow in a companioning worship walk with HIM daily.

Dr. Warwick Cooper is an experienced communicator and Pastor with over 30 years of experience in Christian ministry. He and his wife served as missionaries in Asia for many years before returning to Canada to begin a pastoral ministry. He has traveled broadly and spoken in many churches throughout North America. For many years he also directed a Marriage and Family Counseling Service. He conducts seminars across Canada with Walk Thru the Bible Ministries as well as the Association of Christian Schools International in Canada and Haiti.

Doug McKenzie is a 30+ year veteran of the Entertainment Media industry having founded and built one of Canada’s largest, multi-award winning television / film postproduction studios, and having co-founded an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning technology group based in Toronto and Los Angeles.

In 1988 Mr. McKenzie received the Certificate of Merit in Canada’s Awards for Business Excellence from Industry Canada. Later Mr. McKenzie served as President of divisions of Maclean Hunter Ltd. and Rogers Communications Inc. respectively, and as Vice Chair of the Task Force for the Implementation of Digital TV as commissioned by Heritage Canada. In 1998 he created and forged a partnership with Sheridan College, Sony of Canada, and SGI in the establishment of Sheridan's Advanced Television Program. In 2007 Mr. McKenzie was the Producer of the live, theatrical stage production, out of Israel, at Toronto's Centre for the Arts called, THE COVENANT.

He is a former member of the Maclean Hunter Broadcast Executive Committee. From 1998 to the present, through Advanced Media Group Corp., Mr. McKenzie served as an industry advisor and as interim CEO to organizations such as Visual Bible International of Nashville, and Crossroads Christian Communications Inc. (NFP/Charitable) of Burlington.

Among other charitable groups, he is currently a director on the board of governors of Amazon Focus (Chairman / serving Amazonian Tribal Peoples), Visionledd (Treasurer / serving victims of HIV/AIDs in Africa), and Tyndale University College & Seminary (14 years, now as Honorary Director). More recently he has served as Strategic and Development Advisor in the establishment of the Christian Performing Arts Centre in association with Church on the Queensway, and as a Production and Strategic advisor to Trillennium Media Group at the CHCH TV studios in Hamilton, ON. Late 2012: Appointed to position of CEO, The Voice of the Martyrs Inc., (Canada)

Steve Cohen is Jewish believer in Jesus who has served on the front lines of Jewish missions since 1976. He dounded the very first Jews For Jesus foreign ministry in Toronto in 1981. He is currently serving as founder of The Apple of His Eye, a Recognized Service Organization with the LCMS. He has authored six books, written numerous devotionals for Portals of Prayer and crafted over 150 Gospel tracts with a distribution of over 1 million. He is married to Nancy since 2008 and has five children and 13 grandchildren.

Born close to Toronto, ON, Jess grew up in Jerusalem, Israel, as the son of a pastor and media personality. He is a fluent Hebrew speaker with a Masters Degree in Theology and has ministered in interdenominational contexts between Israel and Canada for over 20 years.