Join the Colson Center as we host the "Pray with Me: A Time of Guided Prayer" focus during lent. This week, Brett and Erin Kunkle join us to encourage us to pray for our community, sharing how prayer unites us.

Brett is the founder and president of MAVEN. He has more than 25 years of experience working with junior high, high school, and college students, as a youth pastor and as the Student Impact Director at Stand to Reason. Brett was an associate editor for the Apologetics Study Bible for Students, wrote the Ambassadors Guide to Mormonism and co-authored A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today’s World. He received his bachelors degree in Christian education from Biola University and his masters degree in philosophy of religion and ethics from Talbot School of Theology.

Erin is a full-time stay-at-home homeschooling mom of five. She has a bachelors degree in sociology with an emphasis in political science from Biola University. She has served in a variety of church ministry positions, from junior high and high school ministry to women’s ministry and children’s ministry leadership.

Brett and Erin live in Southern California with their five children and recently welcomed their very first grandchild. They have been married for 20 amazing years.