Dr. Will Ryan is the president of The King’s Commission School of Divinity (tkc.education) and a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School. He is the founder of the TOV (collective) church and co-host of a Theology YouTube channel called expedition 44 with over 130,000 subscribers. Dr. Ryan has authored several works, the latest of which is entitled, “Principalities, Powers, and Allegiances” which made the Amazon top 10 best-selling list when it was released in April of 2025. He has also authored a trilogy series called “This is the way” which also made best-selling top 50 list of Christian Theology books of the year on Amazon in 2023. 

Dr. Ryan has been a licensed ordained minister (Non Denominational & Free Will Baptist) for over 25 years and has successfully planted three churches, as well as taught in more than 30 countries. He serves on the boards of several mission organizations and has been a large part of the Abundant Life Tres Dias community since its inception.

Dr. Ryan lives in Lake Geneva Wisconsin with his wife and four boys. The family is into skiing, soccer, hunting, shooting, and anything outdoors. 

Dr. Ryan Received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Bible and Education from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago where he also attended the Art Institute of Chicago and studied Ancient History and the Arts. He went on to receive master’s degrees in Recreational leadership, Curriculum and Instruction, and Administration from the University of Wisconsin as well as entered into the Ph.D program for Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies where he studied Hebrew and worked closely with the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religion until they closed in 2016. He also holds a Th.D from Covenant Theological Seminary and began directing the Theology and Biblical Studies Department for Covenant Theological Seminary after which he became the President until 2024 when he then transitioned to become the next president of the King’s Commission school of Divinity where he currently serves. 

Matt Mouzakis & Dr. Will Ryan, Co-Hosts of the Expedition 44 YouTube and podcast sites

matt@expedition44.com & Ryan@expedition44.com

STATEMENT OF FAITH

Expedition 44, TOV, Dr. Will Ryan, and Dr. Matt Mouzakis hold to a historic orthodox Christian confession that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and Jesus came to rescue humanity by living and dying for the world’s sins and was raised on our behalf to offer life both here and now and eschatologically. We believe that the Scriptures are an authoritative divine and human word that give us wisdom about the salvation that comes through life and devotion in Jesus.

I. By God’s revelation, we know God to be the living and true God, perfect in love and righteousness, one in essence, existing eternally in the three persons of the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

II. God, who speaks to humankind through creation, has done so savingly in the words and events of redemptive history. This history is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the incarnate Word, who is made known to us by the Holy Spirit in sacred Scripture and personal relationship.

III. Scripture is an essential part and trustworthy record of this divine self-disclosure. All the books of the Old and New Testaments, given by divine inspiration, are the written word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice. They are to be interpreted according to their context and purpose.

IV. By God’s word and for God’s glory, the world was freely created out of nothing. Made in the divine image, men and women are the crown of creation, created for fellowship with God.

V. The only mediator between God and humankind is Christ Jesus our Lord, God’s eternal son, who, being conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, fully shared and fulfilled our humanity in a life of perfect obedience. Having redeemed us from sin, the third day he rose bodily from the grave, victorious over death and the powers of darkness. Our risen Lord ascended into heaven where, at God’s right hand, he intercedes for his people and rules as Lord over all.

VI. The Holy Spirit, through the proclamation of the gospel, renews our hearts, persuading us to repent of our sins and confess Jesus as Lord. By the same Spirit we are led to trust in divine mercy, whereby we are forgiven all our sins, justified by faith through the merit of Christ our Savior, and granted the free gift of eternal life.

VII. God graciously adopts us into his family and enables us to call him Father. As we are led by the Spirit, we grow in the knowledge of the Lord, freely keeping his commandments and endeavoring so to live in the world that all may see our good works and glorify our Father who is in heaven.

VIII. God, by Word and Spirit, creates the one holy church, calling sinners out of the whole human race into the fellowship of Christ’s body. By the same Word and Spirit, God guides and preserves for eternity that new, redeemed humanity, which, being formed in every culture, is spiritually one with the people of God in all ages.

IX. The church is summoned by Christ to offer God acceptable worship and to engage in God’s service by making disciples of all nations and by the shepherding of the royal priesthood of believers.

X. God’s redemptive purpose will be consummated by the return of Christ to raise the dead, to judge all people according to the deeds done in the body, and to establish God’s glorious kingdom. The wicked shall be separated from God’s presence, but the righteous, in glorious bodies, shall live and reign with Christ forever.