Jace Rabe // lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Sarah. He owns Universal Commodities and co-founded Projects for Progress with Sarah. He connected with Benin during his time in the Peace Corps there, where he worked with agricultural financing and the development of Benin’s cashew industry. He is currently working on Cashew Benin, a sustainable for profit project that uses Benin’s natural resource of cashews and the construction of processing plants to provide sustainable employment for the Beninese. He is a small group leader and children’s church leader at Victory World Church, as well as very involved with the homeless population throughout Atlanta.

Chris Brown // is originally from Norcross, Georgia and currently lives with his wife Laura in Tucker, Georgia. He has been involved in inner city ministry in Atlanta for over 10 years and has been a children’s/youth pastor since 2003. He is currently the Executive Director of the newly formed Bright Futures Academy in Northwest Atlanta, an inner-city Academy set up as a home-school network for children of the North West Atlanta area, and the Children’s Pastor at Stonemill Church in Suwanee, Georgia. Chris is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 with a BS in Physics and also has a Masters of Divinity from the Church of God Theological Seminary in 2009.

Andrew Hicks // has lived in Decatur, Georgia for 3 years and is originally from Greensboro, North Carolina. He received two degrees in Marketing and in Management from Appalachian State University in 2006. He currently works as an Operations Manager for the Chemical Coating Division of Sherwin Williams Paint. Since moving to Atlanta, Andrew’s heart has been turned toward the lost and hurting with in the inner city. He has been building and fostering relationships with various homeless men for over two years at SafeHouse Outreach in downtown Atlanta. In addition, he has also been a mentor with SafeHouse’s mentoring program for the last two years. Another area of outreach that Andrew is involved with is through YoungLife, a faith based high school ministry, in Tucker, Georgia.