Paul Dirks is a husband, father of five, and lead pastor at New West Community Church, where he has served for fourteen years. He has been highly involved in sex and gender issues, advocating for women's sex-based rights and against child-medical transition, appearing before the Senate on Bill C-16, and organizing public rallies. Recently he has helped launch a classical Christian school: COMPASS Community Learning Centres, and a classical Christian liberal arts college, New Antioch Institute. He is the author of Is There Anything Good About Hell? and Deep Discipleship for Dark Days.

André Schutten is a lawyer, called to the Ontario bar in 2011. He serves as Senior Counsel and Director of Training & Development at Christian Legal Fellowship. He researches and writes on law and public policy, particularly from a Christian perspective, and conducts regular analysis on the impact of different government bills and court judgments. He has represented Christian groups in various court interventions, having made arguments before the Supreme Court of Canada in four cases and written and oral arguments in Superior and Appellate courts in five provinces.

John Patrick studied medicine at Kings College, London and St. George’s Hospital, London in UK, holding appointments in Britain, the West Indies and Canada. He came to Canada in 1980 and served at the University of Ottawa as Associate Professor in Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Biochemistry and Pediatrics for 20 years. Today, John speaks around the world on medical ethics, culture, public policy, and the integration of faith and science. He is currently President and Professor of the History of Science, Medicine and Faith at Augustine College, and he manages the Hippocratic Registry of Physicians whose focus is the practice of medicine as a moral activity requiring authority beyond themselves, an absolute commitment to the sanctity of life, and freedom of conscience for physicians.

As a second-generation homeschooling mom, Hester is passionate about setting others up for success. Hester wants everyone to understand that homeschooling is not just about checking off boxes or finishing a book or curriculum; it’s about relationships, character building through literature and community, and discovering the good, the true, and the beautiful in all things. Good books can pierce the soul in the best of ways, and she is committed to passing that love on to others by first asking, ‘Have you read this one?’

Joshua Claycamp is a husband, father of three, and lead pastor at First Baptist Church in Kamloops, where he has served since 2008. He is an advocate for Christian education and homeschooling. When faced with the reality that many families cannot homeschool and were helpless before the mandatory public school curriculum of SOGI123, Joshua resolved to establish a Christian school where everyone would be free from the corrupting influences of the public curriculum. This led to the establishment of First Baptist Classical Academy in 2018. Above all else, Joshua is a man who loves Jesus and believes in the beauty, inerrancy, authority and sufficiency of God's Word. He hopes to stir a love for the Bible everywhere he goes.

Dustin was born and raised in the Kamloops area. He first took an interest in Classical Christian Education while expecting the birth of his first daughter, and has read whatever book on Classical Education he can get his hands on since that time. He is a founder of First Baptist Classical Academy, and his children were some of the first students enrolled. Dustin currently teaches Mediaeval English Poetry and Ancient Greek History at First Baptist Classical Academy.