Ed Young is a straightforward communicator who uniquely connects God’s unchanging truth with a diverse culture through compelling and creative teaching methods. He is the founding and Senior Pastor of Fellowship Church. The church has its main campus just north of the DFW Airport and operates four satellite campuses in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area and one campus in Miami, Florida. Ed’s books include The Marriage Mirror, Outrageous, Contagious Joy, In the Zone and The Creative Leader.
Ed is also known for his candor when talking about leadership and the inner workings of a growing church, and he provides resources for church leaders through CreativePastors.com and the C3 Conferences.
He and his wife Lisa have been married for twenty-seven years and have four children. More information about Ed and his various ministries can be found online at EdYoung.com.
Bishop T.D. Jakes is founder and senior pastor of the legendary 30,000-member Dallas-based church, The Potter’s House. In a short number of years, his motivating messages have reached the world through best-selling books, award-winning music, critically acclaimed plays and record-breaking events. Named by Time magazine as “America’s Best Preacher,” Bishop Jakes’ message of healing and restoration is unparalleled, transcending cultural and denominational barriers within the church and beyond. His weekly television outreach, The Potter’s Touch, is a favorite throughout America, Africa, Australia, Europe and the Caribbean.
Dr. H. Edwin Young was born and raised in Laurel, Mississippi, and attended the University of Alabama, Mississippi College, and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. His first pastorate was in North Carolina, and he pastored in North and South Carolina until 1978 when he moved to Houston, Texas. There he became the pastor at Second Baptist Church where he continues to pastor today. The congregation has grown from 2,000 members in 1978 to over 49,000 members at five church locations presently. Dr. Young was also elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1992 and again in 1993. Dr. Young's broadcast ministry, The Winning Walk, can be seen and heard across North America and throughout the world.
Jentezen Franklin is the Senior Pastor of Free Chapel, one of the top thirty churches in America (Outreach Magazine) with locations in Gainesville, GA and Irvine, CA. Through his experience as a pastor, teacher, musician and author, Jentezen Franklin seeks to help people encounter God through inspired worship and relevant application of God’s Word in their daily lives. Kingdom Connection, is broadcast weekly on primetime television through various national and international networks.
Jentezen Franklin is a popular speaker at numerous conferences across the country and around the world, including Free Chapel’s annual Forward Student Conference. He has also written several books including New York Times best-seller Fasting: Opening the door to a deeper more intimate, more powerful relationship with God, best-seller, Right People, Right Place, Right Plan and his newest release, Believe That You Can.
Jentezen Franklin, his wife, Cherise and their five wonderful children, reside in Gainesville, GA.
Dino Rizzo is the founding pastor of Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana – a church with over 7,200 people in 11 campuses and 18 weekend services. HPC has been named one of America’s Top 25 Most Innovative Churches – a reflection of his overwhelming drive to reach the unreachable and to engage with others to show God’s love to the poor and hurting – wherever they are. His book, SERVOLUTION, exposes his passion to see believers join together in a revolution of serving others - Jesus style. Dino and his wife DeLynn have three children. Visit his blog at www.dinorizzo.com to learn more.
Dr. Samuel R. Chand serves Pastors, ministries and businesses as a Leadership Architect and Change Strategist. Dr. Chand has served as senior Pastor, college President, Chancellor and President Emeritus.
He personally consults, mentors and coaches some of the country's largest church Pastors, speaks regularly at leadership conferences, churches, corporations, Leadership Roundtables, Minister's Conferences, seminars and other leadership development opportunities. He was named in the top-30 global leadership Gurus list.
Being raised in a pastor's home in India has uniquely equipped Dr. Chand to share his passion — that of mentoring, developing and inspiring leaders to break all limits—in ministry and the marketplace.
John Cross has served as Senior Pastor of South Biscayne Church for the past 18 years. During this time, the church has experienced tremendous growth and has seen thousands of lives changed. His vision for South Biscayne has always been to do “whatever it takes” to reach people in Southwest Florida and around the world with the life-changing love of Christ. To carry out of this vision, John has skydived, ridden his motorcycle in the worship center, climbed a rock wall, and much more to creatively and compellingly communicate Christ’s love. He has a heart for this community and this generation.
While leading this exciting church, John earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in December 2006. He has also had the privilege to speak and be involved with churches and church leaders around the world. His desire is to communicate the love of Christ with as many people as possible. In his rare moments of free time, John enjoys jogging, reading, and traveling.
Leon Fontaine is passionate about people and deeply committed to helping others find fulfillment, significance and purpose in their own lives. He is a senior pastor at Springs Church, one of Canada’s fastest-growing churches, and is devoted to empowering people to achieve a greater destiny. Based in Winnipeg, Canada, he and his wife Sally have garnered worldwide recognition for building a spiritually contemporary church that teaches the powerful word of God in a practical and relevant way.
With over 26 years in leadership and ministry, Leon is a much sought-after speaker. He travels around the world teaching and training business and church leaders, as well as equipping individuals with skills for family, career and success in life. Leon and Sally and their five children believe the home and the church should be a thriving place of laughter and joy.
David Hughes is the Lead Pastor of Church by the Glades in greater Ft. Lauderdale, a multicultural fellowship in a part of Southeast Florida that is 93% unchurched. Hughes has been part of a church resurrection, seeing a declining congregation of less than 500 soar to over 5,000 average worship attendance during his decade of leadership. Innovative, creative, very contemporary worship with a passion for intentional evangelism, Church by the Glades is an annual leader in baptisms among Florida Baptist Churches. A graduate of Baylor University and Southwestern Theological Seminary, David is a homegrown South Florida product, sensitive to the diversity and unique opportunities of the region.
David and his wife, Lisa, have 3 children: Charlie age 9, Victoria age 8, and Zane 9 months.
Ed Young is a pastor, author and speaker with a passion for communicating God’s unchanging truth through culturally compelling and creative teaching methods. He is the founding and Senior Pastor of Fellowship Church, with four locations in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, and one in Miami, Florida and a camp and retreat center in East Texas known as Allaso Ranch.
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