Steven Britt holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University (2015). He was baptized into the Body of Christ in 2007 and ordained into the ministry of the United Church of God in 2018. Before moving to Georgia in 2022, he served as pastor to United Church of God congregations in Columbia, Maryland; Northern Virginia and Richmond, Virginia for 3 years.

Aaron Dean was born on the Feast of Trumpets 1952. At age 3 his father died, and his mother moved to Big Sandy, Texas, and later to Pasadena, California. He graduated in 1970 with honors from the Church's Imperial Schools and in 1974 from Ambassador College.

At graduation, Herbert Armstrong personally asked that he become part of his traveling group and not go to his ministerial assignment.