Charles
R. (Charlie) Wear,
is the Editor, Publisher and Webmaster of Next-Wave Web Magazine.
At 51 years of age, Charlie is a lawyer living with his wife
Loretta, in Bakersfield,
California.Raised in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, he has served
on the staff of a denominational church.
He was the Senior
Pastor of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Moreno Valley from
1995-1998. From 1996-98 he served as an Area Pastoral Coordinator and
Church Planting Coordinator in the Association
of Vineyard Churches. From 1998-to the present he has been working
with a team reaching out to teens to twenty-somethings and their parents
through the extreme sport of skateboarding (see If
you build it, they will come &
If you
build it, they will come, part 2)
His passion is to see young leaders released in ministry, ready and
well-equipped. He has four children and one
grandson. You can e-mail him at publisher@next-wave.org.
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David
Hopkins, age 24
[http://monkhouse.org/david]
is a contributing editor for Next-Wave. He recently graduated
from Texas A&M University at Commerce with a degree in English
and Philosophy. David has enrolled to Fuller Theological Seminary's
distance learning program. David was raised in the Methodist
tradition. Although currently, he is a community pastor at
Axxess, an emerging congregation
within Pantego Bible Church. In his "spare time," David is
a high school English teacher. E-mail him at david@next-wave.org.
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Eric Stanford,
age 37, is a contributing editor for Next-Wave Web
magazine. He runs an "e-lancing" business
from his home in
Colorado Springs, mostly doing editing for book publishers and writing
for magazines. His great desire is to help the Christian publishing
industry learn to serve postmoderns more effectively. Eric studied
English at Judson College and theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary. Write to eric@stanfordcreative.com.
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Leslie
Ramusack
is the Community and Outreach Liaison for Next-Wave
magazine. Currently, she lives in Columbus, Ohio and attends the Vineyard
Christian Fellowship and Joshua House. Her music picks of the month are Mars
Hill Worship Volume One and Audible Sigh by Bill Mallonee & Vigilantes
of Love. She loves receiving email…so write her at leslie@next-wave.org
if you have any cool ministry stories or really good lasagna recipes.
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Roger
Bos, age 30, is the founding editor
of Next-Wave Web Magazine. He and his wife, Sophie (27, British) have three kids.
After a three-year internship at Desert Springs Church in Palm Desert,
California,
they have returned to Europe to be involved in church planting and leadership with
Christian Associates International. They come from Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
where Roger (or Rogier, as his name is in Dutch) and Sophie were on staff at Crossroads
International Church. Rogier's Masters Thesis was titled 'Strategies to
Reach Postmodern People,' He was graduated from Tyndale
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