Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan, a volunteer fireman, and he works with a garage door company. He and his wife, Sonja, have four children: Colton is an active 13-year-old; he has an older sister, Cassie; a younger brother, Colby; and a very special sister he met in heaven, yet to be named.
Lynn Vincent is the New York Times best-selling collaborative writer of Heaven Is for Real, Same Kind of Different As Me, and Unsinkable, and she was the collaborator for Sarah Palin's Going Rogue. The author, coauthor, and collaborative writer of ten books, Lynn worked for eleven years as a writer and editor at the national news biweekly WORLD magazine. A U.S. Navy veteran, Lynn lives in San Diego, CA.