Scott Kesterson founder and voice of BardsFM podcast, with an listenership in over 120 countries and over 1.4 Million downloads per month. His message is focussed on the warrior Christ, Faith and Knowledge.

Kesterson is a backpack journalist and documentary filmmaker. He spent 3 1/2 years in Afghanistan. He was the first embedded citizen journalist in the Department of Defense embed program and was awarded an Emmy for his videography shorts of combat in 2007. He has worked with Special Operations units in the area of information and narrative warfare, founded a cultural intelligence consulting company that has provided support for Defense and private companies, advised senior leaders on terrorism and information warfare, helped develop next generation programs for narrative warfare for emerging threats and has lead research and development efforts for Five Eyes nations R&D teams. His first film, Bards Of War: Fighting Is Everything was released in January 2019.

He is now Owner and Founder of Xpedition Cafe, a small production company that focuses on podcasting and audio and video documentaries that embrace the warrior mindset: conviction, righteousness and fearlessness.

A former pastor for 20 years, Brad is the CEO of Shiloh Road Publishers, the publisher and General Editor of The Founders’ Bible. He also co-authored and published the #1 NY Times bestseller, The Shack, which has sold over 22 million copies, was translated into 40+ different languages, selling the 1st million units out of his garage on $200 of marketing. The Shack was the first ever self-published title to debut on the New York Times Bestseller list at #1, where it stayed as such for over 172 weeks, 52 weeks at #1. He also produced “The Shack” movie (released by Lionsgate 2017) which grossed over $100M worldwide. They are currently turning The Shack into a TV Series.

He has co-authored several other books: The Butterfly Circus and A Man Like No Other – the illustrated life of Jesus, and is working on a trilogy of novels entitled “The King and the Dragon.” Brad is an author, screenwriter, film producer, publisher, editor, conference speaker. As a pastor to pastors, he continues to preach and teach, spending a lot of his time mentoring emerging leaders, serving as a primary counselor/advisor to a number of the leading voices within the Health Freedom Movement. He did his undergraduate work in Film/TV Broadcasting at Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA) and received his Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA). He and his lovely wife, Kelly, have 3 grown children, and are enjoying being young grandparents. They live in Southern California.

Nikki is the event and social media coordinator for BardsFM. A child of God, wife, mother, nana, nurse and homesteader. She enjoys helping others and giving back to the community to glorify God.

Nikki has a degree in nursing and has been in the medical field since 2002. In 2020 she transitioned to holistic and spiritual healing. Using what God gives us in nature and through prayer to heal instead of pharmakeia.

She raises rabbits, chickens, turkeys, geese and hogs along with her 3 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels with her husband, Jack. They enjoy time in the garden and preserving the harvests. In her free time she enjoys hiking, photography and traveling.

Victoria is a founding partner of Novel Rose Enrichment Experience with its vibrant program serving area residents of her hometown McMinnville, Oregon. A proponent of children and learning she strives to support others in their endeavor to home educate.

She has worked with children and families in some capacity her entire career. She’s a graduate of Portland State University with both a Bachelor of Science and a Graduate Certificate of Gerontology. A retired Army wife to a 23 year veteran Kevin, she has traveled the globe experiencing new cultures and people. An advocate of literacy and life-long learning; she is now a retired home educator of 16 years. She currently serves as both a science instructor for Novel Rose and a Challenge Director of Classical Conversations. Proficient in the classical method she desires others to discover truth, beauty and goodness in any subject.

A wife of 34 years and a mother of two; she enjoys writing, gardening, and cycling. “You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise (Deuteronomy 11:19).” Encounters with the Lord are only possible when we avail ourselves.  Instruction of his statutes are a natural procession of daily living.

Angela has been a dietitian in both conventional and consulting settings for over 30 years. While watching trends of disease in America, she became interested in the influence of our industrialized food system on our ill health. In 2011, started her own consulting business, Health Is Local, focusing on health and nutrition with a special emphasis on sourcing local and regeneratively raised agriculture. In 2013, she facilitated the start -up of the first food policy council in the southwest Missouri region. She was able to draw upon her passion for helping people maintain and improve their health and apply it the arena where food and politics interface.

Her desire to develop that deeper understanding into root cause of her client’s illness, led her down the path toward functional nutrition. In 2020, while consulting in functional neurology, wrote Neur-ish-ment, The Brain Tune Up Food Guide in cooperation with Sharlin Health and Neurology. Then this past year in 2023, she finished her passion project and published, Destination Real Food, Navigating Our Food System and Restoring the Soil to Improve Health. This book she considers a foundational understanding of issues with the food system and what we as consumers need to pay attention to in an effort to maintain our health, support the right food system and the health of our environment just by choosing real food. In 2023, started the Well Fed Neighbor Podcast that helps people understand how to navigate our food system and helps connect consumers locally.

She comes to the table illuminating the understanding that our current convenience-based society has left us disconnected from real food. Real food truly is medicine. Real food nourishes the body rather than degrades it. She enjoys teaching clients about how to reconnect with food by developing a lasting relationship with it, through small incremental changes over time, reconnecting with community but also being creative with it. Ultimately, this makes the right choice the easy choice.  She spends much of her days walking out, not just talking about, all things food. She spends a lot of time in her own garden, writing, cooking or working on a local, regenerative farm when she is not out wandering the Ozarks Mountains or streams with her dog, Remo.

With perseverance, love, and unshakable faith, CJ shares personal experiences and proven strategies to help survivors of trauma and abuse. sex trafficking, and satanic ritual abuse (SRA). Through this book and her ministry, she hopes to reach women everywhere who are looking to recover, along with family members and clergy interested in loving someone through an incredibly difficult process. CJ’s compassion and true understanding of what it’s like to make it out of an abusive situation shine through in everything she does, serving as a source of healing strength for others on similar journeys. She lives by Romans 5:5 (NIV): “And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.”

In addition to her work as a pastor, CJ serves as a dementia care specialist. Early in her career, she made ends meet as a professional make-up artist and skincare specialist. She studied practical nursing and worked as a medical assistant while raising her son-of whom she is very proud. Pastor Rick shares a piece of the intensely personal story written in this book with grace and honesty in hopes that it will inspire others to discover God’s healing love along their individual journey to wholeness. Involved in ministry for more than thirty-five years, Pastor Rick witnessed God grow the small church he attended as a teenager to a ministry of over 5,000 members, where he served on staff for over two decades. He’s driven by a passion for teaching the Word and mentoring fellow leaders.

A dad to seven children, Pastor Rick’s fatherly nature extends beyond his family to all he meets with an overwhelming desire to transfer God’s fatherly heart to them.  A lifelong student, Pastor Rick thrives on learning how God’s spirit moves, heals, and transforms people’s lives. Both Pastors, often work together ministering and counseling those in need of unconditional love and acceptance.

Lil’ Leia and Abigail Faith, known as the Revolutionary Revivalists, are here as the youth of both Resistance Chics and Bards Nation. As two young girls on fire for God, they represent the youth of America. Leia and Abigail’s passion is to bring forth that power and shine light to the world that seemingly has fallen so far short of his glory! With everything they do, they long to bring forth Holy Spirit fruitfulness and power to the world around them. To wear the armor of God through every single thing we do, to never take it off, and to be in the fight. As they’re number one motto, faith plants the seed and love makes it grow, Leia and Abigail truly believe with a passion that God’s love has that ability to break the yoke off of our nation, and to bring hope, hope for a new day, joy in life and a new light just beyond the horizon, for we are the Revolutionary Revivalists!

Stephen Prouse founded the Fourth Watch and The Fifth Horsemen after spending years engaging and leading others in prayer intercession, spiritual warfare and Missionary work.  As an adventurous child born to a Pentecostal Preacher and Law Enforcement officer, Stephen experienced and saw things that put him on a collision course with the message he conveys online, mostly geared towards exhorting, equipping and edifying men to become the sons of God they were called to be.

Having spent years moonlighting in training and executive protection while building a career in FinTech, God has seen fit to merge all facets of Stephen’s past into connecting and working with NGO’s, Ministries and Companies spanning the Firearms, self-defense and anti-human trafficking organizations.

The Fourth Watch and Fifth Horsemen Ministries have messaging that fills a void within the Christian community and paints a clear message as to its mission and purpose:
Spiritual Warfare for the Masses / Revival on the way down
A shield for the hopeless and hurting, and a Sword for the Lord of war.

Stephen recently married his wife Lacey in Scotland, and they both currently travel for ministry as media missionaries. For more information please visit www.Fourth.watch (http://www.fourth.watch/), Youtube: @FifthHorsemen, IG/TikTok: @fifth.horse

Apostle Marilyn Mills Gray is an anointed Apostle, Prophet, Teacher, Pastor, and Evangelist. She is especially gifted in the equipping of the remnant and interpreter of dreams and visions. Before going into full-time ministry, she served the military servicemembers of Camp Lejeune, NC & Quantico, VA as a Dental Assistant. The Father called her into a place of isolation in February of 2012, which resulted in a three-year sabbatical. During this time she had many dreams and visions. Holy Spirit taught her how to interpret them. Holy Spirit then led her to start The Beginning Trumpet’s Ministry. This ministry teaches dreamers the importance of daily repentance, renouncing, and relocating. It teaches Prophets to posture themselves to hear heaven’s declarations and to obey. It teaches how to understand and interpret dreams and visions, which are major communication tools between the Father and his trumpet blowers.

The Beginning Trumpets Ministry soon evolved into another ministry, The Trumpets. The weekly Trumpets gathering was designed specifically for graduates of the Beginning Trumpets, but has since evolved to include others hungry to hear what Holy Spirit is saying. In 2021, Apostle Greg J. Davis, her spiritual father, and the founder of the Ascension Hub Network International, sat her in her seat as his right hand. In 2022, O2 Alliance, Supernatural Advance Academy, and Global Prayer Alliance were birthed, and Apostle Marilyn became the Executive Apostle over those ministries as well. Apostle Marilyn is a seer. She is unafraid to trumpet heaven’s instruction, correction, and declarations. While she has yet to travel outside of the United States to minister, her reach is global in her position as Executive Apostle of the aforementioned ministries undergirded by Apostle Greg J. Davis. She is a kainos son, someone never seen before. She is teaching others how to live their new creation life, in the new world heaven has created for them. She continues to teach people out of this planet.

Duncan is a broadcast and video director. He has worked as a video producer and live game director for the San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Stars. In the last 8 years he has focused on political and Christian content under the name Pains Angels. His primary focus was waking up the masses to political corruption and example the  importance of a relationship with Jesus.

Other than video work, Duncan has spent 8 years doing podcasts.  Patriot Transition Voice had roughly 2000 episodes focusing on exposing conspiracy, corruption, child trafficking, and other important current topics. Duncan is currently hosting a collaborative show called Kilted Christian with 800 episodes focusing more on scripture and how it relates to our world’s state of affairs.  As well as directing and cohosting scripture based shows called Church by the fire, The Book of Heaven, and The Official Godcast.

Duncan teamed up with Scott Kesterson from BardsFM 5 years ago and has directed multiple BardsFests around the country that’s purpose is to bring family together in revival and prayer in the name of Jesus Christ our savior.

Jonathan Woolley, also known as J Woo, has been a member of this great, God-fearing family for over five years now, and he often says that he’s never known a greater family. He was an automotive technician for 15 years, working for Honda, Subaru, and Chevy dealerships, as well as an independent shop for four years. Although he hasn’t been wrenching professionally for the last eight years, his love for the craft remains.

Currently, he co-hosts two podcasts with Jim Warren, a 97-year-old gentleman who has been leading Bible studies for over 50 years. Together, they host The Book of Heaven, a Bible study podcast every Monday at 6:00 pm, and Church by the Fire, an open discussion podcast on Saturdays at 3:00 pm. They are joined by a panel of other family members, and the podcasts are hosted by the Kilted Christian, Duncan MacGregor, on the Kilted Christian family of podcasts.

Church by the Fire was inspired by the deep conversations held around the fire at Bardsfest in Kentucky last year. In addition to the podcasts, there is also a daily prayer call on Signal, which has been going on since Bardsfest in Yuba City. Jonathan is grateful to be part of this family, one that is knitted and knotted together by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He also extends a special thanks to Scott Kesterson for his great podcast and the life-changing chat that touched so many lives.