Dr. Jerry Haag is the president/CEO of One More Child, guiding the organization in the mission to provide Christ-centered services to foster children, hungry children, trafficked children, single moms, and struggling families, serving 26 states and 19 countries. Under Dr. Haag’s leadership, One More Child has increased from serving 3,351 children and individuals in 2007 to 250,259 in 2023.

Dr. Haag serves on the Florida Faith-based and Community-based Advisory Council, chairs the board of directors of the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO), and has served on the President’s Advisory Council. He is a member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council, the National Foster Care Collaborative, and the Child Welfare Innovation Working Group through the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C.

Dr. Haag is passionate about long-term policy change to impact vulnerable children. He has authored, presented, and published academic articles relating to his business expertise, and has been honored several times for his business, professional, and civic achievements. He has been invited to share his expertise in global, prevention, and anti-trafficking programs with national and world leaders including the United States Health and Human Services, the White House, the President’s Office of the Dominican Republic, and the Office of the First Lady of Guatemala.

Christi is a renowned speaker, thought influencer and spokeswoman for One More Child. She is a trailblazer in Christian orphan care, anti child sex trafficking, humanitarian aid, and global ministry. Christi has led missions and traveled to countries around the world. She has eaten scorpions in China, fed children in Africa and ministered to sex trafficked children in leper colonies in Southeast Asia. She is passionate about spreading the Gospel and sharing inspiring stories of triumph and has been a guest on Christian television, radio, blogs and podcasts. Dr. Haag and Christi have been married for more than 3 decades and live in Lakeland, FL. They have two sons, Ben and Brady, and daughters in law, Maddie and Katie, who live in Texas.

Paul Azinger is a 12-time PGA Tour winner and Major Champion (1993 PGA Champion at Inverness). Azinger courageously battled cancer in the prime of his career, returned to the tour to win the Ben Hogan award, and eventually the winner’s circle at the Sony Open. Azinger was Captain of the 2008 US Ryder Cup team that led to victory at Valhalla. His strategy is featured in “Cracking the Code,” the GOLF Channel documentary, and his bestselling “Golfplan” and “Shotzoom” iPhone apps have revolutionized golf for the mobile generation. He is a veteran golf broadcaster providing PGA Tour coverage as well as The US Open, The Open Championship, and the Ryder Cup/President’s Cup.

Paul and his wife, Toni, are One More Child ambassadors. Toni serves as founding co-chair of One More Child’s Women of Compassion Council and represents the Florida Senate on the statewide council for the Florida Alliance to End Human Trafficking. Paul and Toni dedicated the Azinger Family Compassion Center in 2021 at the One More Child Bradenton, FL campus, bringing resources and hope to thousands of children and families right in their hometown.

Dr. Anthony George is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia. Having served as the church’s associate pastor since 2012, he assumed the lead role at the historic church in 2020 upon the retirement of the church’s pastor of over fifty years, the late Dr. Charles Stanley. Before coming to First Baptist Atlanta, George was the senior pastor of Aloma Church in Winter Park, Florida, a suburb of Orlando, for fifteen years.

Having preached and traveled extensively before coming to Atlanta in 2012, Pastor George’s time and energies have been almost exclusively focused on his administrative duties overseeing the staff, ministries, and global outreach of First Baptist Atlanta.

Under his leadership, First Baptist Atlanta launched a weekly live stream of its services at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since that time, the church’s online audience now claims viewers across the United States and its territories as well as in 110 countries of the world.

Anthony George is passionate about teaching the Bible and applying it to daily life. He is especially devoted to the study of Bible prophecy and the signs of prophetic fulfillment in today’s world. He is a graduate of Criswell College in Dallas, Texas, and earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Kari Wagner is an award-winning  journalist, author and philanthropist. The mother of two attributes her professions to her hometown spirit. She grew up in a small town in Kentucky where people took care of one another to not only survive, but thrive. Helping people and story­ telling were two key constant components in her life. Since graduating college, she has worked in television news across the U.S., interviewed world leaders, and traveled the globe. Kari has also brought attention to important causes by lighting the capitol of Tennessee pink for Breast Cancer Awareness, organized The Big Hug (spreading kindness worldwide), created  the America 4 Boston Prayer Canvas (displaying unity and support after the Boston Bombing), hosted a state-wide Blue Out for Adoption Awareness Day and responded to natural disaster events in multiple states (feeding and supplying thousands). Wagner is now leading a student movement to increase safe, consistent housing for foster children on Capitol Hill.

Kari Wagner has been featured in TEDx Talks, named one of Tampa Bay Magazine’s Women of  Accomplishment,  the  first  civilian  named Kappa Sigma’s Humanitarian of the Year, and the  recipient  of  the  Presidential  Volunteer Service Lifetime Achievement Gold Medal.

Bishop W. C. Martin founded Saving A Generation Pinewood Outreach Community Center, Inc., and pastors Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. He earned his Bachelor of Theology and Master of Religious Education from Union Baptist Bible College & Seminary in 1986 and 1988, respectively.

Leading Bennett Chapel since 1985 and serving Open Door Baptist Church from 1999 to 2001, Bishop Martin’s remarkable journey is depicted in the film “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot.” Between 1998 and 2000, 22 families from his church adopted 76 difficult-to-place foster children, igniting a national movement for vulnerable youth. The Martins, with two biological children, adopted four more during this period.

Bishop Martin has received accolades such as the National Fatherhood Initiative Award and has been featured on 48 Hours, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Reader’s Digest, and People Magazine. He and his wife, Donna, have been married for more than 30 years and cherish their six children and five grandchildren. Their devotion to family and service inspires a legacy of love, compassion, and hope for all.

Sara Mahoney, in collaboration with her friend and fellow anti-human trafficking advocate Toni Azinger, is the co-founder of the Florida Human Trafficking Victims Fund. This first of its kind initiative in the US, the Fund is designed to support the efforts of Florida’s law enforcement agencies in identifying, rescuing, and stabilizing victims of sex and labor trafficking. A privately created initiative, the Fund will be based out of the Florida Sheriffs Association.

For many years, Sara has been a part of the battle against human trafficking, both in New York and Florida. Prior to dedicating herself to raising her four children and pursuing humanitarian causes, Sara served as New York Governor George Pataki’s Press Secretary in New York City, following a tenure as Communications Director during Senator Pataki’s incumbency in the New York State Senate.

Sara has contributed over twenty-five years of service as a member of the Board of Directors for My Sisters’ Place, the largest agency in New York striving to eradicate domestic violence and human trafficking through multifaceted services, advocacy, and education. Presently, she serves as the Chair of their Honorary Advisory Committee.

Appointed by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody in 2019, Sara assumed the role of founding board member and vice chair of the Florida Alliance to End Human Trafficking, a direct service organization created by the state legislature to assist the statewide anti-human trafficking efforts. Sara currently chairs the Advisory Board of the US Institute Against Human Trafficking, a Tampa-based national organization dedicated to eradicating human trafficking by targeting demand, rescuing victims, and providing sanctuary to under-age male survivors.

Sara is also co-founder of Tampa Athletes Unite, a collective of athletes from the Tampa Bay region raising awareness of human trafficking and empowering those marginalized through sport.

Residing in Tampa, Florida, Sara shares her home with her husband, Kieran, and their four children.

Lynn Johnson is the President of ALL IN Empowering Futures, a non-profit agency that focuses on driving national initiatives to empower communities, non-profit agencies, faith-based organizations, government, and businesses to combat the crisis of children aging out of the foster care system, adoption, poverty, and human trafficking.

Prior to this work Mrs. Johnson was the Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families in the US Department of Health and Human Services. In this Senate confirmed position she led a large agency with a budget of over 59 billion dollars and over 60 programs to improve and enhance the lives of our most challenged children, individuals, and families. As Assistant Secretary, Lynn created the ALL IN for Foster Care and Adoption Challenge as a national call for every state, including governors, agencies, courts, churches, community organizations, foster alumni and the public to commit to being ALL IN for America’s children.

As the Executive Director of Jefferson County Department of Human Services in Colorado she used a comprehensive lens to provide dignity and respect for our most vulnerable members of the community to end poverty, eliminate abuse and neglect and stop the trafficking of children. Appointed to numerous committees, her expertise ranges from child welfare to welfare reform and criminal justice. Mrs. Johnson has won numerous awards for Excellence in successful transformations of Human Services and customer service.

Prior to this position, Mrs. Johnson ran her own firm consulting on issues pertaining to mental health, high risk youth, developmental disabilities, child welfare and early childhood education. She was Chief of Staff to Lieutenant Governor Jane E. Norton and was Deputy Director for Policy as well as Policy Advisor on Human Services issues to Governor Bill Owens.

Lynn has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado and a master’s degree in Social Work from Arizona State University.  She is a graduate of the Federal Judicial Center National Leadership Development Program and the Senior Executives in State and Local Government through the Harvard Kennedy School for Executive Education.  She has been married for 39 years, has three adult children, an amazing daughter-in-law, and a 1-year-old granddaughter. She and her husband also have more than 50 foster alumni adult children who live in their hearts.