Conference Speakers

Claude Allen has served the Lord in a wide variety of positions, ranging from prison inmate advocate, missionary trainer and Christian conciliator to Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in President George W. Bush’s Administration.

Claude currently serves as President of Volans Global, LLC, which provides global consulting services to corporate, government and not-for-profit organizations on executive, legislative and legal matters.

As an attorney, Claude has served as Deputy Attorney General for Virginia, Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in President George W. Bush’s Administration.

Claude provides pro bono legal counsel to the needy and to prison inmates in the DC/Maryland/Virginia through Good Samaritan Advocates ministry and a legal aid clinic he helped to establish. He also devotes time to train missions teams in cross cultural ministry.

Claude pursued conciliator training through Peacemaker Ministries so he could use his legal training and interpersonal relations experience to help others resolve conflict biblically. Claude has served on the Board of Directors of Peacemaker Ministries and has had the privilege of helping countless families (including his own), businesses, churches, organizations and leaders in conflict to resolve their differences biblically and experience the transforming power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Claude and his wife, Jannese, live in Maryland and have four children.

Paul is the co-founder of Crossroads Resolution Group and has over 30 years of ministry experience. He has planted two churches, served as the lead pastor of four congregations, and founded two ministries designed to equip and assist churches to resolve conflict biblically. Paul was a Senior Ministry Consultant for Peacemaker Ministries, where he led mediation efforts in conflicted churches and ministries and played a key role in upgrading training for resolving organizational conflict. He is a certified as Relational Wisdom Instructor and Christian Conciliator, and is passionate about using his gifts of faith, wisdom, teaching, encouragement and discernment to mentor church leaders, promote reconciliation, and help conflicted churches and organizations regain the unity they need to advance God’s kingdom.
Speaker: Vince Vitale

Rick Haluszka serves as Associate Pastor at Cornerstone Community Church. Born and raised on the Hi-Line, Rick went on staff in 2013 at CCC as a Pastoral Intern after graduating with a B.S. in HHP from MSU–Bozeman. Having completed five years of training and discipleship under the lead Pastor, including graduating from The Master’s University with an M.A. in Biblical Studies, Rick was affirmed as an elder at CCC in January of 2018. His primary focus is on Pastoral Care, though he also leads Music and Youth ministries. Rick is happily married to Julia and grateful to be Laura and Ian’s dad. He enjoys reading, sports, conversation, and anything BBQ.

James Long, Jr. is a Pastor, Certified Biblical Counselor, Board Certified Professional Counselor, and an Associate Professor at a Christian university. He is an Advanced Relational Wisdom Instructor.

James holds a Doctorate in Theology with an emphasis in Counseling and a Master’s in Social Work. James has maintained a license in clinical social work for the last 25 years.

He has counseled individuals, married couples, and families for over 30 years. He has also taught undergraduate and graduate students over the same time period. He often combines peacemaking and Relational Wisdom principles in his counseling and in his teaching. He educates those he serves on applying these principles personally and teaching them to the hurting people they serve.

James is passionate about the gospel of God’s amazing grace to us in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. He tackles some of life’s biggest questions and helps us find God’s solutions to life’s struggles.

James is a frequent speaker for church, collegiate, and professional audiences on the topics of relationships and conflict resolution.

He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, Amy, and his three children, Abby, Hannah, and Isaiah.

David King is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Program Director for the MSW program at Indiana Wesleyan University. Dr. King has been working in the social work field for 30 years providing services and leading programs in the church, community, and private practice settings.

Dr. King holds a Doctorate in Social Work, a Master’s in Social Work, and a Master’s in Pastoral Counseling. He is a licensed clinical social worker in Michigan.

Over the course of his career, Dr. King has worked with children, families, and individuals with mental health issues, including mood disorders, developmentally disabilities, chronic mental illness, substance use, and co-occurring disorders.

As a Christian and social worker, Dr. King is passionate about applying Biblical truth to personal and cultural issues and presents on issues such as healing from painful emotions, a Christian response to issues of sexuality, integration of social work and Christian faith, and Biblical responses to issues of diversity and race.

He lives in Michigan with his wife and two teenaged children.

Chuck Miceli is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice residing in Central FL. With over 30 years of experience, his practice serves individuals, couples, and families, and seniors. In addition to counseling, Chuck is an EAP Consultant for JPMChase Bank, a national and international speaker and trainer, and provides clinical supervision for therapists and coaches.
With specialty training in neuroscience informed and brain-based therapies, Chuck applies these techniques concurrent with traditional therapies when counseling people with depression, anxiety, PTSD, chronic disease management and trauma. Working in many different environments and various people groups over the years has provided Chuck the opportunity to serve pastors, missionaries, and clergy with a very confidential and private place to seek healing and emotional respite.
As a Certified RW Instructor for 6 years Chuck enjoys doing RW presentations, live or virtual, for small groups, Sunday School classes, and in the workplace. Most exciting for Chuck is when he brings RW into individual and couples counseling sessions.
When not working, Chuck enjoys family time with wife Trish and two young adult sons Stephen and Marcus. Chuck also loves being outdoors, is a long-distance runner, and relaxes by listening to a wide variety of music.

Dave Mikulsky is from Mitchell, IN and is currently serving as the Pastoral Care pastor at First Baptist Church in Mitchell, IN. He also works for Dave Ramsey Solutions of Franklin, TN as an Endorsed Local Provider in the Midwest. Dave has been a Certified Relational Wisdom Instructor since 2018 and currently serves on the RW360 Board of Directors. He has led RW seminars and workshops in small community groups, Sunday school settings, larger church gatherings and retreats throughout the United States. He has also presented this material in public schools and other business settings. Prior to vocational ministry, for 32 years Dave has enjoyed a successful career as both an agent, and later as the Midwest Regional Director of Marketing with a national insurance company. He is a certified biblical counselor through ACBC and a certified counselor with IABC. Dave has been married to Carol for 39 years and have three married children and eight grandchildren.
This workshop will show how the Christian & Missionary Alliance has developed and implemented a denomination-wide model for peacemaking that has trained 386 conciliation coaches and 48 mediators in local churches and districts who are available to assist church members and leaders in resolving conflicts quickly and personally. The prompt and effective assistance of these “in-house” volunteer conciliators has proven to prevent many personal and church conflicts from escalating into consuming disputes, divorces, church splits or pastoral burnout. The workshop will also explore ways that your district, presbytery or denomination can implement a similar training model and develop your own network of volunteer conciliators. The opportunities for God-honoring changes to the conflict culture of our churches are virtually limitless and consequently, so are the opportunities for a skeptical world to see that Jesus is indeed the Messiah.

David is an independent relationship and conflict resolution specialist who has worked with individuals, couples, families, and churches to build relationships and resolve conflicts in a way that is based on the Gospel. David has also dedicated many years to cultivating peace sowing teams within the church. It is David’s belief that the greatest responsibility of the church is to proclaim Christ and disciple their flock to apply the Gospel to their relationships, conflicts, and everyday life. David lives in Wake Forest, NC with his family and enjoys tennis, hiking, and exploring different parts of the world.

Frank D. Mylar is a licensed litigation attorney practicing in Salt Lake City, Utah for over 30 years. He graduated from Wheaton College in 1984, Seattle University Law School in 1987, and the University of Phoenix with an M.B.A. in 1990. He loves God’s people and has a passion to help Christians and churches resolve conflict in a Biblical manner that leads to Christ-centered growth. He began conflict coaching and Christian Conciliation in 2000 and was certified as a Christian Conciliator in 2005. He has helped Christians resolve conflicts in marriage and family issues, private and home school disputes, employment claims, and construction and real property issues. He has taught biblical conflict resolution in the United States and overseas. He and his wife, Debby, often work as a team in reconciling marriages and other disputes. He has taught Relational Wisdom to large and small groups in Utah and Nebraska. He is happy to travel for training or as a mediator or meet over Zoom. He loves to run, bike, play basketball, camp, and ride motorcycles. He and Debby have five adult children and four grandchildren.

Allison is a conciliator with Crossroads Resolution Group, serving individuals, marriages, families, churches and ministry organizations. She is a highly experienced conciliator, counselor, consultant, speaker and instructor of conflict resolution skills.

Background & Certifications
Allison’s work with very complex marriage, family, church and organizational conflict cases, gives her valuable insight into and experience in identifying key places that can move conflict resolution forward. Allison has a background of ministry experience which includes 18 years with an international campus ministry as well as serving in a key role on three church planting teams which contributes to her ability to understand the perspective of individuals in conflict as well as the structures and priorities of organizations and churches. She is certified as a Relational Wisdom Instructor and is also a Certified Christian Conciliator™.

Dennis Reiter has ministered in Connecticut and New England for 48 years. He is a graduate of Wheaton College (B.A.) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div., M.A., D.Min.). His ministries include the pastorate (two churches), seminary professor of pastoral theology, a prayer ministry leading churches in solemn assemblies, and Biblical peacemaking with churches, ministries and marriages. As a Certified Christian Conciliator and mentor with Peacemaker Ministries, he has been part of teams that have trained people all across America and in six countries overseas: Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia, France, Grand Cayman Island and India. Dennis and Judy have been married 50 years, and they have three children and eight grandchildren. His hobbies are reading in many fields and traveling in America and overseas.

Corlette has degrees in elementary education and counseling and is certified as a Relational Wisdom Instructor. She has specialized in counseling families and children and mediating child custody disputes.

Background & Certifications
Corlette authored the Young Peacemaker curriculum, which has been used to teach conflict resolution to parents and children around the world. She travels frequently with Ken, enhancing his teaching with her own insights and experience and providing personal encouragement and counsel to many of the people who attend RW360 events. She also focuses her energy on serving RW360’s donors, Board of Directors, Presenters and Instructors, conciliation clients, and ministry partners.

Dr. Vince Vitale was educated at Princeton University and the University of Oxford, and he taught philosophy and theology as a faculty member briefly at Princeton and then for several years at Oxford. It was during his undergraduate studies at Princeton that Vince was challenged to read the Bible by two soccer teammates and took an unexpected journey from skeptic to evangelist. He then completed master’s and PhD studies at Oxford, receiving a Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Scholarship (at the time awarded annually to one graduating Princetonian) and a Clarendon Scholarship (supported by Oxford University Press).

Vince most recently served as RZIM’s Regional Director for the Americas and Director of the Zacharias Institute. He has co-authored two books in apologetics—Why Suffering?: Finding Meaning and Comfort When Life Doesn’t Make Sense (2014) and Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ (2017)—as well as corresponding Bible studies with YouVersion and Lifeway Christian Resources.

While researching at Oxford, Vince developed a new response to the problem of evil. This response is discussed in Vince’s Philosophia Christi article, “Non-Identity Theodicy,” and in book form with Oxford University Press as Non-Identity Theodicy: A Grace-Based Response to the Problem of Evil (2020). For his work on Søren Kierkegaard, InterVarsity Press and Tyndale House selected Vince as IVP Young Philosopher of Religion of the Year 2013.

Vince has commended the Christian faith in numerous countries and on the campuses of many universities including Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, UC Berkeley, MIT, Johns Hopkins, West Point, and Oxford. He also has had the privilege of speaking at Google; Amazon; Facebook; Autodesk; The Brooklyn Tabernacle; and Passion City Church; and he was the keynote speaker at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast of Canada.

In addition to his focus on biblical and cultural questions, Vince has strong interests in the topics of interpersonal conflict resolution, reconciliation, leadership, and theology of work, as well as in the intersection of faith and sport. He played varsity soccer at Princeton, was a “double Blue” at Oxford (competing for the university in soccer and boxing), and has traveled with Athletes in Action mission teams to four continents. While teaching at Princeton, Vince served as Faculty Director of the Athletes in Action ministry on campus.

Vince is married to Dr. Jo Vitale, who most recently served as a speaker and Dean of Studies at RZIM. Vince and Jo have enjoyed teaming up for the Ask Away podcast, giving talks together, and trying (unsuccessfully) to keep up with their young children, Raphael and Jonathan.

He began his international work as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal during the 1970s. After graduating from law school, he spent six years as the Executive Director of the Christian Conciliation Service of Puget Sound in Seattle, then joined the U.S. State Department in 1990 and served in diplomatic posts in Africa and Latin America.
Background & Certifications
In 2001 Chip joined Peacemaker Ministries, eventually becoming Vice President of Global Ministries. Chip came to RW360 in 2015, where he continues to use his broad relational and cross-cultural experience to serve the global Christian community, receiving outstanding praise for his teaching. He also continues in his role as an Adjunct Professor in the Peace Studies doctoral program at the International Graduate School of Leadership in Manila, Philippines, a program he helped establish in 2007.