Brian Blount has dedicated over 25 years to equipping individuals, teams, and churches in Jesus' mission of healing and power evangelism, both nationally and internationally. He is the head of Serve the Nations, the missions outreach of Crestwood Vineyard Church, where he previously served as senior pastor. Based in Oklahoma City with his wife Jeanine and their six children, Brian's passion is to empower everyday believers to demonstrate Jesus' love and power. Since 2013, he has ministered in South Africa, witnessing hundreds of conversions and numerous miracles, including the blind seeing, deaf hearing, and crippled walking, across various public spaces and churches.
Ken Fish is the founder of Orbis Ministries and is a widely regarded expert in prophecy, healing, and deliverance. He travels extensively, teaching on topics that also include spiritual formation, leadership development, and church growth and governance. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history and philosophy of religion before earning a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary. He also holds an MBA in finance and strategy from UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management. Ken spent more than twenty-five years as a senior executive with Fortune 500 companies. Throughout his life, he has worked with parachurch ministries and in the church. In the 1980s he worked full-time for John Wimber for several years at Vineyard Ministries International (VMI). Additionally, he has served as an advisor to political leaders in several nations. Since 2010, Fish’s work has included vision-casting for spiritual awakening and equipping people to embrace their life’s calling as Christians. This work has taken him to over sixty nations on six continents. He and his wife Beth have three adult children and live in the Los Angeles, CA area.
In the process of obtaining a Ph.D. in theoretical quantum physics, Putty Putman ran headlong into the power and reality of the Holy Spirit during a supernatural encounter in China. Following the leading of Jesus to sell everything he had to purchase the pearl of great price, Putty terminated a successful career in physics to pursue learning, leading and training others to move in the power of the Holy Spirit. Putty founded the School of Kingdom Ministry and spent eleven years as a pastor on the staff team of The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois, followed by a year and a half as an interim pastor at The Chapel. In February 2023 he moved to Phoenix, Arizona to church pioneer by planting a new “kingdom ecosystem.” Putty is the author of two books, and lives with his wife and three children in Tempe, AZ.
Tim has been in the Vineyard movement since the beginning. He has pastored on staff at a couple churches and has been part of a few church plants. He also worked for Promise Keepers in the mid 90’s. For the last 24 years he has owned his own business. Tim has always believed in the “everybody gets to play” model of ministry, but now believes that “everybody should play”. Tim and his wife Sharon have been married for 45 years and live in Southern California. They have 11 grandchildren!
Dave has been a business man for 42 years. He and his wife Debbie have done ministry in and out of the Vineyard for over 42 years. They planted a church in Yorba Linda, CA five years ago.
Billy came to Southern California in 1973 and started attending Calvary chapel Costa Mesa, where he began to prophecy. He started attending John Wimber’s church in 1979; John became his spiritual father and friend and considered Billy a prophet. Billy moves in prophecy and word of knowledge. He has a heart for people to find their gifts and callings and to be empowered by the Holy Spirit. Billy has been married to his wife Donna for 44 years and lives in southern California where he has been pastoring two small Vineyard churches for 24 years. He was a house builder for 37 years and loves old Harleys.
Jeanine Blount is a pastor, teacher, and mentor who serves as senior pastor of Crestwood Vineyard Church. Her passion is teaching kingdom theology and how that intersects with our current cultural moment. She also serves on the Vineyard USA Women’s Association leadership team where she heads a mentoring program for women who lead in churches. Jeanine has been married to Brian for 26 years, loves being mother to six growing teens and young adults, and also works bi-vocationally as a senior IT developer for the FAA.
Ed has been involved in the Vineyard movement since 1987. He and his wife Molly started a small group in the fall of 1989 that later grew into a Church plant that led to the Legacy Vineyard Church, in the Chicago area, in nearby Lockport Illinois. Ed enjoys training and activating people in prayer, healing, deliverance, prophetic and power evangelism ministry. Ed and his wife Molly have been married since 1988 and have four children from 25 to 33 years of age and a two new granddaughters.