HEATHER HOLLEMAN (YOUR HOST)

Heather Holleman and her husband, Ashley, serve with Faculty Commons (Cru) with Ashley in the role of National Director, Cru's Graduate Student Ministry. She is a speaker, teacher, and author who loves helping people connect with Jesus, especially through scripture. People have called her a "walking exclamation point," and she's known as a lover of vivid verbs and semicolons. Heather currently directs the Advanced Writing in the Humanities courses at Penn State, and she devotes herself to building authentic writing communities and helping students gain confidence and joy in writing. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and earned her PhD in English Literature from the University of Michigan. She has received numerous teaching awards in the past 25 years and has written eight books, her most recent being Sent: Living a Life that Invites Others to Jesus (Moody Publishers). Heather and Ashley have two teen daughters and three cats. Her podcast is "The Verb with Heather Holleman," and she blogs daily at HeatherHolleman.com

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.