Jenny Kujath graduated from the University of Missouri at Kansas City with a degree in music in 1998. She taught voice and piano lessons for a few years until she found her love—teaching children’s choir! She has coordinated her church’s WAM (Worship Arts Ministry) program for 18 years. She writes and teaches a music camp for 3-year-olds through 5^th grade every summer and has done several music camps in Kenya. For the last three years she has directed a men’s choir at a homeless shelter and finds that a lot of her children’s choir tricks work well in men’s choir!

Jenny and her husband, Scott, live in Kansas City, Missouri and have been married for 28 years. They have two daughters and a son who were involved in children’s choir their whole lives—whether they wanted to be or not! Their daughters are in college and their son is a worship pastor. Now that Jenny is an empty nester, she plays pickleball every chance she gets!

Angela Leonhardt is the music specialist at Hidden Forest Elementary in San Antonio where she was the 2018 NEISD Elementary Teacher of the Year. She holds Masters degrees in Music Education and Administration with principal certification and is currently working on a DMA from Boston University. She received her Orff certification from Trinity University. Angela teaches Orff Level I Pedagogy courses in the summer and is an active clinician in the US and Canada.

She has served on the Board of Directors of the Central Texas Orff Chapter in the posts of Recording Secretary, Treasurer, VP and President and chair of the Curriculum Oversight and Review Committee for AOSA. Her service to NAfME-Texas a division of NAfME includes President, the council of chairs for K-12 Music and Music in Our Schools Month.

Publications have been included in The Southwestern Musician, TMEC Connections, AOSA Reverberations and General Music Today. She is a contributing author with Growing in Grace and directs children’s choirs at her church and school. She serves as an adjunct professor on the music education faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Trinity University teaching courses in music technology, diverse learners in the music classroom and music and related arts.

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Andrew Pressley is the creator and director of KidsCore Worship, a music and worship curriculum for children that emphasizes rich content and congregational involvement. He serves as an Associate Pastor at First Baptist Church in Lindale, TX. He also teaches music and worship at East Texas Baptist University. He is a Graduate of the Fine Arts Center of Greenville County (Jazz Guitar) and has a music degree (Classical Guitar) from Anderson University as well as a Master of Divinity in Church Music (Composition) from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Andrew married Meghan in 2016. They have one daughter, Eliza, and one son, Isaac.

3-Time Dove-Award Winning Children's writer, Christy Semsen has been writing children's musicals for twelve years. With over 24 published musicals, 5 Choral Collections and 10 Dove Award nominations, she has had over 150 songs published and performed by children across the world. She and her husband Daniel recently started a choral music publishing company, Semsen Music, and are thrilled to be able to creatively continue serving the church in new ways!

Traveling around the country, she teaches on drama, choreography and engaging both younger and older children through utilizing the most current musical styles, while teaching them a love of scripture and worship. She currently directs a choir of kids K-8^th grade in the Burbank Community Kids Choir and loves serving kids!

Christy has a M.A. in Pastoral Studies (Emphasis, Worship Leadership) from Azusa Pacific University’s Haggard School of Theology (2010), as well as a B.A. in Music Theory/Composition; Music Education from Azusa Pacific University (1998). She resides in Burbank, CA. with her husband, composer/arranger/orchestrator Daniel Semsen and has two sons in college, Nathaniel (21) and Noah (19).