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Pastor Chuck Bomar |
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Dr. Michael Boyland Michael hails from England. He has a degree in Economic from UC Berkeley where he met and married Patti. In the turbulent '60's they dropped out & built a cabin the woods of Mendocino, where they lived without electricity for 5 years. During this time they followed a spiritual path from Hinduism to faith in Jesus Christ and became active in Mendocino Presbyterian Church. After his ordination, Michael served as a Pastor in Presbyterian churches for 16 years. As Associate Pastor for Missions and Evangelism in Bakersfield he worked with Mandarin Chinese, Cambodians, Hispanics and Native Americans. From 1996 through 2003 he served as Executive Director of the Presbyterian Center for Mission Studies at the US Center for World Mission in Pasadena. He has a D. Min in church growth from Fuller Theological Seminary. Since 2003 Michael serves as Senior Pastor of Irvington Presbyterian Church in Fremont. |
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Lee Bridges Lee is a Professor at William Jessup University and International Speaker. |
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Nick Breitbart Nick is a Facility Supervisor at Koinonia Family Services and lives here in the Sacramento area. He is married to his beautiful wife Sheri for over a year. He graduated from William Jessup University and for the last three years have been working with juveniles in their fight against addiction. |
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Michele Bryant Michele is currently employed with the State of California Attorney General's Office as an analyst; Law Enforcement Community Chaplain; Bachelor's Degree in Christian Theology; Licensed / Ordained Minister. Current ministry involvement: prayer / intercession (global networks); leadership / coach / mentor; Elijah House Prayer Ministry; Chaplain for Courage to Be You, Inc., an organization that provides homes and restoration resources for minors recovered from sex trafficking. Her life purpose is described in Psalms 96:3, "Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples." |
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Randal Broadhurst Randal is Director of REMEDY, a college-age and young adult ministry under Youth for Christ: dedicated to the souls of 18-29 year-olds. With his 33-year spouse and ministry cohort, Nancy, their calling is to partner with local churches & Christian organizations to assist them in reaching the postmodern, mosaic generation. He has worked in Sacramento area youth ministry for 17 years (10 with young adults); he is a chaplain at Juvenile Hall, recently started a gang intervention ministry (G.A.P.), helps church plants thrive. He led groups to Africa, Kazakhstan, India & inner cities throughout California. Randal also has directed Global & Local Outreach teams for local churches. A graduate of the University of Kansas, recently earned Masters degree in Youth Ministry and Evangelism at Western Seminary. |
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Renee Burkhalter Renee has a deep love for people and a love of adventure that has led her from zip lining across canyons, to racing horses into Petra, to weeping with people broken from the evil, to joining the battle against the injustice of child sex trafficking. Renee has served as an Executive Pastor at a large church and was serving as the Connections Pastor of a mega church leading a ministry of 500 people when she followed God's call join Agape International Missions and dedicate her life to fighting the injustice of child sex trafficking. She volunteered for three years with Agape starting in 2005, during which time she provided administrative support to the ministry, spent the summer of 2006 in Cambodia assisting with program development for Agape Restoration Center, and in August 2007 developed initial programs for Rahab's House in Svay Pak and sponsored the first community outreach to the village. In 2008, Renee resigned her position at the mega church and joined Agape International Missions full time as the Director of Development. |
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Mike Burnam Mike is an MK who grew up in the jungles of Colombia. His parents have been missionaries for the last 45 years and he himself is a missionary with WEC International working in Mexico for the last 15 years. He is mainly involved in networking with the Mexican church and in the area of mobilizing Mexicans into cross-cultural global missions. In the past he has been a youth Pastor, has coordinated camps, has led a mens ministry to the Mexican church in Mexico. He has been married to Bonnie and has two children Daniel who is a Junior at Temple University and Rachel his daughter who is a senior in High School in Turlock California. At present he is a missions representative for WEC International in the region of Northern California while he settles his children into college. |
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Clayton Butler Clayton has a Masters of Theological Studies from Liberty Theological Seminary, Bachelors of Business Ethics from William Jessup University, spent 3 years working in Cambodia with Agape International Missions as Director of Svay Pak Ministries and is currently working in Sacramento with Agape International Missions as Director of US Prevention. Since a young age I have felt a call on my life to live out the pure religion described in James 1:27, to take care of the orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep myself from being polluted by the world. This call has lead me to serve the oppressed and disenfranchised around the world in places like Peru, Nicaragua, India, and Thailand. Most recently God has stirred my heart for the plight of the modern day slave and He has allowed me to serve in Cambodia helping to bring transformation to some of the darkest corners of the planet where the slave trade still thrives. I have a passion to see the same transformative power that I witnessed in Cambodia come to every city, town, and country where slavery and child abuse exists. |
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Robert Carpenter Robert has spent his career putting ideas to work … in business, ministry and now missions. He's dad to three teens and husband to Jaci — his bride of 19 years. Over the years, he's served full time in ministry and missions. Currently, he is COO for a commercial real estate firm. All other waking hours go to his family and MissionMakr.com - a cool web-based app to help churches make more out of missions and leading teams. Rob also provides training for church short-term missions teams serving overseas, and popular missions topics speaker at conferences throughout the United States and abroad. |
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Rob Carter Rob has served as Director of Missions with JARON Ministries International for the past twenty years. Rob grew up in a large Southern California Bible church that had exceptional youth and missions ministries. He's been involved in church leadership since Jr. High and spent 17 years in High School and young adults ministries before going into missions full-time. With a lifetime of Short-Term Missions experience he has been active in team leadership training and conference speaking. He has served as Chairman for the Fresno/Clovis Missions Network for the past ten years. |
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Brad Dacus Brad founded Pacific Justice Institute, where he serves as President to defend religious liberties, faith, justice issues and parental rights. Brad has been a guest speaker on numerous radio talk shows and TV programs such as "ABC's Good Morning America", "The Today Show", "CNN", Hannity & Colms", "News Talk TV", "MSNBC", "NBC News", NBC "Dateline" and "O'Reilly Factor" many times. |
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Mikel Del Rosario Mikel has equipped believers from the West Coast to the Far East, challenging both young people and adults to be better-prepared ambassadors of Jesus Christ. Mikel earned his M.A. in Christian Apologetics with highest honors from Biola University in 2003. He's lectured alongside expert apologists like J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig and recently appeared in Focus on the Family's Citizen Magazine. Mikel is also an Adjunct Professor of Religion at University of Phoenix. Find out about his ministry at ApologeticsGuy.com |
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Rob Dirkse Rob has been in full-time ministry for over 20 years. He was a ministry director with Youth for Christ for 16 years and was on staff with Love INC (Love In the Name of Christ) before founding Serve Partnerships Unlimited in 1998. He serves as the Executive Director and is passionate about and committed to SPU's Mission: "To establish Christian Church Partnerships that equip, mobilize, and deploy Followers of Jesus to serve families in need physically and spiritually." |
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Dr. Daniel Gluck Daniel has served as William Jessup University's Director of Campus Ministries since August 2004. He has a B.A in Music Education and an M.A. in Organizational Leadership from Azusa Pacific University in Southern California. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Nonprofit Organizational Leadership at Eastern University in Philadelphia. He brings a wealth of experiencing to Jessup, having served with university chapels for 15+ years, traveled to over 20 countries, >ministered in numerous church parachurch capacities and taught as an Adjunct Instructor. In addition, Daniel has extensive experience in worship leading, recording and songwriting and is an ordained minister. |
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Jerry Helman Director of the Metamorphosis Project and International Sutdents Inc. at the Watrous House Sacramento, CA |
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Gabrielle Jackson Gabrielle has been called to be a voice to her generation. At the age of 17, she authored her first book, NOT ANOTHER TEEN RALLY a practical handbook for how to reach this generation with the Gospel. While a student at William Jessup University, she helped start a house of prayer on campus as well as served as a prayer surrogate to colleges throughout the Sacramento region. Gabrielle was the first National Day of Prayer State Youth Coordinator in the nation and wrote a student prayer guide to be used on campuses throughout the state. Gabrielle was crowned Miss Christian California 2009 as well as Miss Christian United States 2010 and is currently a Senate Fellow in the California State Capitol. |
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Bruce Koch Bruce has been serving at the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena, CA since 1987. He has contributed to the Perspectives study Program as a class coordinator, author, editor, and speaker. Currently he is serving as the International Director for Program Development helping launch Perspectives study programs in strategic settings and languages worldwide. |
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WALLY MAGDANGAL A Filipino Evangelist who was a large underground Church Pastor in Saudi Arabia, before, during and after the Gulf war. Because of the impact he was having among the Muslims, Pastor Wally became a target of Islamic fanatics; becoming number one most wanted on their list. He was eventually abducted, jailed, tortured, and sentenced to death by the High Court of Arabia. Chirstians prayed and President Bush interceded with the King and Wally was released. Seen and heard by millions around the world, his testimony continues to challenge and stir the hearts of his liteners. He is the founder and president of Christians In Crisis; a prayer and advocacy ministry on behalf of the persecuted church worldwide. |
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Bryce Naylor Bryce and wife Kara reside in Fresno CA, where for the last five years they have been involved in Hope Now For Youth (www.hopenow.org), a full time ministry to gang members and street youth. Before their involvement with Bryce and Kara ministered together at Forest Home Christian Conference Center. A graduate of Simpson University in Redding CA, Bryce has been involved in short term missions trips ranging from orphanages in Ukraine to theological training centers in India, as well as to the lost in Salt Lake City, UT, and Nauvoo, IL. Bryce's involvement at Hope Now For Youth has also led him to be a part of a church plant in Fresno, where as a co-pastor, Bryce leads worship for Hope Now Bible Church (www.hopenowbiblechurch.com). Bryce's passion and gift for the dramatic presentation of scripture was birthed in him at the Urbana missions conference in 2000, when at the time he was studying scripture at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio. |
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Diane Parnell Diane serves with her husband Nick, as Directors of the Rock House of Prayer in Roseville, CA. In addition, they oversee Song of the Lamb Ministries, traveling and speaking on friendship and intimacy with God. Diane has over 25 years of ministry background, serving with Christian Equippers International in Lake Tahoe, CA as well as two years at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, MO, where she taught the Song of Solomon at the Forerunner School of Ministry. Diane's life message is to be an extravagant lover of God and to call a generation of young people into this same passionate pursuit through encountering Jesus. She has ministered both nationally and abroad and is an excellent communicator who teaches from a place of revelation and deep personal experience. |
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Nick Parnell Nick spent over 35 years in construction, many of those as a business owner. Although immersed in "Christianity", he found his heart to be weak and cold, yet desperate for change. It was then that God encountered Nick with the revelation of His thoughts and affections for him and his heart was ignited with a new understanding of how God really felt about him. Nick now serves as director of The Rock House of Prayer in Roseville, CA along with his wife, Diane. In addition, they oversee Song of the Lamb Ministries, releasing the message of friendship and intimacy with God. |
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BOB SJOGREN Pronounced "show-grin," is the president of UnveilinGLORY, a ministry geared toward awakening the church to a new awareness of God's glory in all areas of life and to see that glory go to all peoples of the world. Much of Bob's teaching is in audio, video, and book form. He has co-authored "Cat and Dog Theology" with Gerald Robison as well as authored "Unveiled At Last" (which has been translated into Russian and Korean and Japanese). He has also co-authored "Run With the Vision" with Bill and Amy Stearns. Bob had been instrumental in starting the Caleb Project as well as Frontiers (an interdenominational faith mission agency geared toward church-planting in the Muslim world). His heart has always been toward raising up laborers to help fulfill the Great Commission in order that God's greatest glory would be revealed among all nations! |
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Billy Scanlan Billy hadn't finished high school before he was serving in short-term missions: building shelters for low-income families in Mexico, hurricane reconstruction in the Dominican Republic, and housing for Christian teachers in Tanzania. With a love for evangelism and photography, for the last five years, Billy has served as DTS staff with YWAM-Alaska, Maui and Kona, helping lead outreaches to Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Brunai, and Nepal. Called to use photography to build bridges between need and resource and to highlight issues of injustice but with a focus on God's redemptive stories, Billy has recently been staffing the Photogenix DTS in Kona, while developing a web-portal /mission gateway for photo journalists that he hopes will showcase for their transformative stories of hope. |
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Jason Squires Jason is a singer, songwriter, and worship leader. Since 2005, Jason has released three CDs, Here Am I, Send Me, and Renewed. In addition, Jason is a World Vision Artist. Becoming a World Vision artist gave purpose to Jason's music; he travels around sharing his music, expressing the need for children to be sponsored, and challenging others to become a child sponsor. |
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Kristen Tilotson Kristen is a "Pastor's kid," and a freshman majoring in Theatre Arts at Modesto Junior College. She plays the drums for the worship band at EQUIP Church of Turlock. Kristen will be demonstrating a creative method of teaching the books of the New Testament. This method is an effective tool when teaching both children and adults alike, and no singing is required! |
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Jon Talbert Jon is a Pastor at WestGate Church but prefers the title of "soul artist… kingdom entrepreneur" He currently serves as the architect behind the national Compassion & Justice movement called Beautiful Day and speaks to groups around the country. Jon also is a doctoral student at George Fox University and serves as the Team Chaplain for the MLS San Jose Earthquakes. In his spare time you can find Jon moonlighting as a professional stand up comic in and around comedy clubs. Read more from Jon on his personal blog at www.compassionunleashed.blogspot.com |
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Rev. Larry Walker Larry is from Turlock, CA and has degrees from CSU Stanislaus, and Dallas Seminary. He, his wife, and four young daughters served in a Mayan Village in Guatemala at the height of the civil war in the late seventies. In the eighties he was a missions pastor and missions mobilizer in Dallas, TX. Since 1989 he has served as a missions coach with Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment. He has four married daughters, ten grandchildren, and lives in San Diego with his wife, Kathy. He loves hiking, backpacking and ice cream. |
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PC Walker PC is a speaker, writer, and pastor from Sacramento. His love for the Church and faith in this generation was sparked by a friend's challenge: "Don't you think if you are so passionate about these things in the Church that you are the one who most needs to be involved in the Church?" He presents a very raw and vulnerable insight into faith, church and Christianity, cutting through all the expected normalities we grow comfortable with in our Christian subculture. His ability to present a challenge to audiences with humility and brokenness is rare. PC has spoken and performed all over the country at state youth conventions, college chapels, camps, retreats, conferences, concerts, and churches; as well as written articles for small publications, newspapers, magazines, journals, and blog spots. |
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Angel Warrior Angel was an R&D Project Manager for Hewlett-Packard in Roseville, CA. She now serves as the Executive Director of SEED, a ministry that reaches the 'unreached peoples' of India by connecting churches in the U.S. with missions fields in India. Having lived in India and in the U.S., God has uniquely prepared her to reach the Hindu in Sacramento and in India. |
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Pastor Paul Weissenborn Paul is the Lead Pastor at River Oak Grace who is focused on making the Great Commission and Great Commandment living realities in the church. Paul's great motivation is seeing lives transformed by and for Christ whether it is amongst groups of thousands in India, in Thailand, at a doorstep in an Indian reservation, or your apartment. Paul is working on his Doctorate in missions from Columbia Biblical Seminary and School of Missions where he also received his Masters in Theology. Paul took a twenty year course in ministry preparation through a rewarding career in the geosciences and crisis management after receiving Masters and Bachelors degrees in Geology and Environmental Geology. |
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Dr. Bev Wiens Bev is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Northern California Graduate University in San Mateo. She chairs the Psychology department at William Jessup University and oversees the Counseling Psychology major in the School of Professional Studies. Her research interest is in the area of human attachments and how those attachments are replicated or renewed in attachment to God. Her workshops for this conference feature the sexual bond and its reflection of our bond with Christ. |
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Dr. Derek Zahnd Derek is the Outreach / Mission Pastor at First Baptist Church of Elk Grove. With his family, he planted and pastored the Miramar Christian Church in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. He then transitioned the church to a national pastor who leads it today. Derek's doctor of philosophy degree is in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Seminary. His research and writing interests are in globalization, ecclesiology and leadership. |