RECWEEK SPEAKERS

Libin Abraham

Libin Abraham was born in South India and spent most of his childhood in Chattanooga, TN. Libin comes from a family of pastors and has been in pastoral ministry since 2007. He received his M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Pastoral Ministry from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Libin serves as the Lead Pastor of Bent Tree Bible Fellowship near Dallas, TX. He is passionate about Bent Tree’s mission to experience and share the love of Jesus. Libin is married to Stacey and they have two wonderful children, Avery and Liam.

April Hanson

April Hanson began her involvement with InterVarsity as a student at UCLA. Upon graduation, she served the organization as a campus staff minister from 1999 - 2008, including pioneering a new chapter at California State Dominguez Hills and ministering at University of California Irvine and Santa Ana Community College. After transitioning out of her staff role with the organization, she has continued to be deeply invested in InterVarsity’s mission as a host of countless leadership retreats in her home, occasional teacher, and also by serving on the board of trustees for InterVarsity since 2015. April received her Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in June 2019 and enjoyed serving on the preaching team of her local church and teaching in the women’s ministry. In January 2022, April and her family moved from Southern California to the North Texas area. Thankfully, everyone is settling in nicely and flourishing in their new life in Texas. She and her husband, Jeff, have four children: Ryan (17), Julia (15), Chris (13) and Dean (10).

Jonathan Eng

Jon Eng, a former InterVarsity staff, currently serves as the Campus Pastor of Gateway Church Pflugerville, a multiethnic community that pursues God's justice, love, and healing. His experience includes church-planting, coaching culture change, pursuing diversity and justice, and training and equipping leaders. He and his wife, Gloria, live in Austin, TX, and they love running around with their two kids, Addie and Emmett.

RECWEEK WORSHIP DIRECTOR & WORSHIP TEAM

Jono Jacob
RECWEEK Worship Team Director

Jono Jacob is the music director and worship leader at Shoreline City Church in Dallas, TX. Jono has been in vocational ministry for 10 years and has a passion to see the Church become the forefront example for creativity and music. Jono and his wife, Julia, have been married for almost 3 years and are blessed with an incredible 1 year old named Zuriel. Jono and the Shoreline City Church music team will be leading students at RECWEEK into a time of diverse and communal worship experiences. This team helps lead the worship services at Shoreline City Church, a multi-site church in the greater Dallas area. 

Shoreline City Church
RECWEEK Worship Team

​Shoreline City Music is the worship ministry of Shoreline City Church. It consists of a community of believers that live on mission to make it on Earth as it is Heaven, led by Senior Pastors Earl and Oneka McClellan. Shoreline City Music is a collective of leaders jointly committed to creatively inspiring individuals to discover the life giving hope and freedom of the gospel, to cultivate an atmosphere of worship to encounter the presence of God, and to point people to Jesus.

RECWEEK PROGRAM DIRECTORS

Benzi George
Overall Director

Benzi serves as the Interim Regional Director for InterVarsity’s Red River Region and is the overall Recweek Director this year, his 12th year on staff. Benzi is excited about the new season of thriving, sustainable ministry God is calling us to as a region and the new mission He has given us. We want to witness God multiply holistic disciples of Jesus who desire to reach the unreached, together and this starts with being “Kingdom Disciples,” our theme for RECWEEK this year. As Benzi reflects on one of his favorite RECWEEK memories, he shares “I was the only student from my InterVarsity chapter and university to attend RECWEEK as a student in 2007. I experienced three life changing things: a loving multi-ethnic community, freedom to be vulnerable, and deep intimacy with Jesus. I was so motivated by RECWEEK that I became an InterVarsity leader at my school and brought 8 students back with me to RECWEEK 2008. Every year after that we kept bringing more and more students. I LOVE RECWEEK!!! ​I know you will too!”  

Elizabeth Barrera
Plenary Director

Liz currently serves the Red River Region as an Associate Regional Director and has been on staff since 2007. She loves how RECWEEK brings college students across 4 states together for a week set aside to be with Jesus, be in community, and be filled up to be sent out as God’s people. She shares, “This year I’m excited to welcome anyone who is open or curious about Jesus but is currently not following Jesus. RECWEEK is a place you can explore who Jesus is, enjoy building new friendships, and consider your next steps in your faith journey. RECWEEK has been a place where many could explore and leave with greater idea of who Jesus is! I always leave RECWEEK with greater clarity, and personally, my love has grown for Jesus in places like this. Join us!” ​​​

Jonathan Tran
Operations Director

​Jonathan Tran is the Senior Field Operations Director for InterVarsity's Red River region and holds that same role for RECWEEK as well. He is in his 11th year on staff and has held various roles within InterVarsity. Jonathan is looking forward to worshipping alongside hundreds of other staff and students at Lakeview. One of his favorite RECWEEK memories was the comradery of coming together as a campus to participate in All Camp Fun and the excitement of having a comeback win!  ​

RECWEEK TRACK DIRECTORS

Jacob Foor
Kingdom Life Track Director

Jacob is in his 14th year on staff and serves as the Area Director of Arkansas and the Regional Missions Coordinator. In the Kingdom Life Track, Jacob is looking forward to students experiencing the Kingdom of God in every aspect of their lives. He hopes students will not only trust in the eternal hope of Jesus, but also in the transformation, healing, and power he offers for their lives (and our world) today. His favorite memory of Recweek is when he came to faith and God completely transformed the direction of his life. His second favorite memory is the late-nights spent hanging out with friends after the semester was over.  ​

Kristina Crosetto
MarK Track Director

Kristina is our regional coordinator of Greek ministry and this is her 21st year on staff! She shares “I love Mark Track because we get to see the real Jesus up close and personal. It is such a great place to get connected to Jesus in a powerful and deeper way and to experience all of the wonderful things of his kingdom. The main thing I always look forward to in Mark Track is all of the moments wshere students wake up to how much bigger Jesus is and that his freedom and healing is available now just as much as it was then.” One of Kristina’s favorite memories of a Mark camp was when her own son, Noah decided to respond during the call to faith and gave his life to Jesus when her husband, Beau was preaching. It felt like an incredible blessing to get to watch such a holy moment with their own kid in the midst of all the college students!

Jason Philippose
Prayer Track Director

JP serves as the Regional Coordinator of Spiritual Formation and Prayer for the Red River region and is in his 16th year on staff. His passion is to develop staff and students in their desire to be transformed into the likeness of Christ! He is excited to raise the next generation of prayer warriors who want to see their lives and campuses transformed by Christ in the Prayer Track this year. Some of his favorite Recweek memories are giving students an education on the basketball court during our basketball tournament! ;) ​

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