Nicholas Warnes (Masters of Divinity, Fuller Theological Seminary, Emphasis in Worship Theology and Art) is the Founder and Executive Director of Cyclical. He enjoys the regular pattern and rhythm of being both the Executive Director of Cyclical Inc and Director of Cyclical LA in Los Angeles. Nick is also a recognized speaker on church planting, international church planting coach, and the president of the board of the Church Planting Initiative at Fuller Theological Seminary. Nick finished his first book in 2014 with Dr. Mark Lau Branson called Starting Missional Churches: Life With God in the Neighborhood. More recently, Nick edited Faithful Innovation in 2020 and authored Deconstructing Church Planting in January 2022. Nick lives with his wife, Whitney, and son, Lee, in Los Angeles, CA.

Ruth Schmidt (she/her) is a marketer turned pastor. She has been in ministry for 25 years serving on staff at SBC, PC(USA), UCC, and nondenominational churches and church plants. She is the Interim Associate Pastor at Claremont Presbyterian Church in Southern California. She also preaches occasionally at Altadena Community Church, a United Church of Christ congregation. Before seminary, Ruth worked in advertising agencies as a copywriter and content strategist—while also doing bi-vocational church planting in Kansas City. She loves merging the business savvy from her corporate career with her heart for nontraditional spiritual communities. Ruth earned her BA in journalism from the University of Missouri—Kansas City, and her MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. If you stop by her house on a Saturday she will most likely have dirt, flour, or paint on her hands and she'll invite you to share a beer on the front porch.

Jaime Lázaro serves as a coach and Hispanic Strategy Coordinator for Cyclical LA. His work is focused on facilitating systems to find leaders and support them in their development processes. Jaime is a Theologian, Journalist and Pastor Planter with a broad understanding of the Hispanic ministerial reality in the United States. He is a skilled communicator in the midst of Latino ethnic/cultural and denominational/religious diversity. He has been Director of the interdenominational newspaper El Inter in Los Angeles and has participated as co-founder of the main pastoral alliances in Southern California. He is currently a professor at the Hispanic Center for Theological Studies (CHET) and is pursuing his Doctorate in Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary. Jaime is married to Patricia, with whom they have three children and 6 grandchildren.