Mike Hilson is the Senior Pastor of New Life Church. Starting out in 1999 in La Plata, Maryland, with a congregation of less than 100 attendees, New Life Church has grown tremendously multiplying into several churches and video venues with now morethan 5,000 in regular attendance. In addition, New Life Church has had a significant presence in local and international relief work. Mike currently serves on the Board of Trustees at Southern Wesleyan University, and he was recently elected to the General Board of Administration of the Wesleyan Church. He lives in La Plata with his wife, Tina. They have three sons, Robert, Stephen, and Joshua, who have taken this journey of ministry with them.Robert Watson holds a bachelor's degree in social work from Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland, and a master's degree in nonprofit administration from the University of Marylandin Baltimore. He is the Executive Director of DateAble Inc.

, a nonprofit dating service for people with and without disabilities. He also is President of Independence Now, an independent living center in Maryland and advises many other disability-advocacy organizations. Robert is married to Lynn, whom he met through DateAble. Robert has delivered many presentations all over the United States, Canada, Cuba, Australia, and the Philippines on a variety of topics, including disability awareness, advocacy, sexual-intimacy issues, and dating with a personal-care attendant present.