Erick Schenckel recently began a new role as Executive Team member in Global2033, an evangelical alliance serving in and through the Catholic Church. Shortly after his graduation from Harvard College, Erick led a church-planting team that had experienced revival while on campus to establish a church and an elementary school in Massachusetts. While leading this church and earning two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from Harvard in the Study of Religion, Erick and his wife, Elizabeth, heard God’s call to work among unreached people.  They moved with their family to Central Asia in 1996 to establish churches alongside JESUS Film teams. While in Central Asia, Erick also worked as a professor in the state university, founded a non-profit organization specializing in education and economic development, started a Bible school and served as director of a movement of nationally-led churches.  After eleven years in Central Asia, he served as strategy director for North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia for Campus Crusade for Christ, International® and one year as CCCi Area Team Leader for Persian and Turkic countries, before serving as executive director of Jesus Film Project from 2012-18.

Elizabeth Schenckel has been actively involved with Erick at every stage of their ministry. From 1974 to 1996, she worked alongside Erick as a teacher in the church and the elementary school. When the Schenkels lived and worked in Central Asia and then in the wider Middle East, Elizabeth served as a mentor to young Muslim women who became followers of Jesus. Elizabeth was also writer and co-producer for Jesus Film Project’s RIVKA film series, a discipleship curriculum for Muslim-background women. When the Schenkels returned to the USA, Elizabeth served Jesus Film Project as a film writer, a director of short films and leader of Women’s Strategies. She is currently active on the writing team for an animated feature-length film on the life of Jesus.

Fr Rob Galea is an ordained Catholic Priest and is currently serving in Sandhurst Diocese, Victoria after moving to Australia from Malta, his home country. He is the founder and executive director of FRG Ministry, a charity organisation that ministers to over 1,400,000 people each year across the world.

Fr Rob is an internationally acclaimed author, singer, and songwriter with one book (Breakthrough), a reflective journal, and eight album releases. After being selected to sing and write the English and International versions of the official 2008, 2016, 2019 and 2023 World Youth Day songs, Fr Rob entered the realm of the cast of musicians having performed in some key events before an estimated single live audience of over 1,000,000 people. He has been featured in newspapers, magazines and TV shows worldwide, and was a contestant in Australia’s 2015 The X Factor.

Fr Rob’s book Breakthrough is intended to be released as a Hollywood movie in 2025. Fr Galea has a significant evangelistic and outreach ministry as a speaker to students and teaching staff, as well as speaking and singing at conferences and churches around Australia and the world.  In all this, whilst greatly appreciating his gifts, he recognises that before everything he is a follower of Christ, a priest and only then, a speaker, musician and artist.