Jerilyn Cochran has had a varied career and is currently serving as Capacity Building Manager at World Vision, a global Christian humanitarian organization. partnering with children, families, and their communities to reach their full potential. Jerilyn works on helping project staff throughout the world by providing high quality facilitator and grants training programs. 

Jerilyn comes from California, USA, where before World Vision she worked for a city government, a charitable foundation, for a US domestic Christian NGO, the US Senate and for USAID. She served as a grant maker, grant donor and grant manager of government and private-funded community revitalization, affordable housing, childcare, emergency food, health and shelter programs.She currently attends Refuge Fellowship and has volunteered in English as a Second Language, domestic violence prevention and community arts programs. 

As co-founder of the Christian Adoption Project, she traveled extensively throughout Russia since 1991 and adopted her then 13-year old (now 38-year old) son, Alexander, from St. Petersburg in 1995. She has a nearly 40 year-old daughter, Kelley, and is also the proud “Baba” to three grandsons.She holds an MPA in Public Policy from the University of Southern California and a BA in Political Science from the University of the Pacific. She also holds a Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) certification from Biola University and certifications in management of government grants issued from various federal agencies. Her love of words and of explaining has led her to lead bible studies and as teacher and author, to write published articles and try new technologies for communicating God’s word to others.

Mary Neely taught in women’s ministry since the nineties when she began Women’s Bible Fellowship at Warehouse Christian Ministries, Sacramento, California, where her husband pastors. She has mentored others as Bible teachers and discussion leaders.

Through the ’70s and early ’80s, she taught a weekly Tuesday night college fellowship with scores of young people attending.  She says ministering to women is where her heart is now. “Most work outside the home, many raise children alone, some have difficult marriages.  Statistically, they will spend many years of their lives solo—through divorce, widowhood, late marriage, if at all.  Life is hard, and I see them as heroic.”

When women understand how much God loves us, our faith will grow, and we will learn to lean on Him. We’ll understand why God created us and his plan for us. This series of lessons, “in the image of God…female", is a companion to a book she’s currently writing on this subject.

Kathy has been a faculty member at Calvary Chapel University since 2011. She currently serves as the Chief Academic Officer for CCU.  She also teaches a variety of courses at CCU including women’s ministry courses and general education courses. Kathy is married to Pastor Jimmy Morales and they serve the Body of Christ at Calvary Chapel Lone Mountain in Las Vegas, NV. 

Kathy is the Women’s Ministry Director at her church and loves teaching the Bible, counseling, and leadership development. She holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Liberty University (LU), a post-graduate degree as an Educational Specialist, and a Master’s degree in Business Management & Leadership all from LU. Kathy is grateful to God for the privilege of teaching at Calvary Chapel University. 

Her favorite scripture is Galatians 2:20: For I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.