DR. HEATHER HOLLEMAN (YOUR HOST)

DR. HEATHER HOLLEMAN an associate teaching professor of advanced writing at Penn State, speaker, and author. She has written ten books, including the bestseller Seated with Christ: Living Freely in a Culture of Comparison, and an award-winning book on evangelism (cowritten with her husband, Ashley Holleman) called Sent: Living a Life That Invites Others to Jesus. Heather’s book, The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting in an Age of Isolation and Incivility, helps fight the loneliness epidemic by inviting readers to enjoy better conversations. Her most recent fiction series helps young readers discover they are already seated at the best table with Jesus. The first book in this series, This Seat’s Saved, won Christianity Today’s Book of the Year in the Young Adult category. The following books, The Disappearing Seat and The Elite Seat, explore the themes from Seated with Christ for middle school audiences. Heather also serves with Faculty Commons in the professor ministry of Cru. She and her husband have two daughters and three cats. When she’s not writing or teaching, Heather is growing plum trees, looking for turtles in the woods, or gathering with friends for dinner and a movie.

SHANNON COMPERE

Shannon joined staff in 1991 and has served in the Campus Ministry at the University of South Carolina, East Tennessee State as a Team Leader, then as the National Director of Field Missions for the Red River Region based in Austin, Texas. There she met her husband, Marc, who is now an engineering professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. They moved to Orlando in 2007 when Shannon accepted the role of Executive Director of Leadership Development for the Campus Ministry.  While working full-time, she earned her Masters in Leadership Development from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Worldwide. Currently, she serves as the Campus Ministry Executive Director.

Shannon and Marc are both passionate about reaching students and faculty around the world with the gospel and are committed to seeing people transformed. They love doing ministry together and especially enjoy participating in summer missions with students both in the US and abroad and have been to 18 countries together.