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Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM), a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching biblical truth and drawing attention to the needy and how to help them. EPM exists to meet the needs of the unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world.
Before starting EPM in 1990, Alcorn co-pastored for thirteen years Good Shepherd Community Church outside Gresham, Oregon. He has ministered in many countries, including China, and is a popular teacher and conference speaker. Randy has taught on the part-time faculties of Western Seminary and Multnomah University, both in Portland, Oregon.
Randy is a best-selling author of over 30 books including Heaven, The Treasure Principle and the 2002 Gold Medallion winner, Safely Home. He has written numerous articles for magazines such as Discipleship Journal, Moody, Leadership, New Man, and The Christian Reader. He produces the quarterly issues-oriented magazine Eternal Perspectives, and has been a guest on more than 600 radio and television programs including Focus on the Family, Family Life Today, The Bible Answer Man, Revive Our Hearts, Truths that Transform and Faith Under Fire.
Alcorn resides in Gresham, Oregon with his wife, Nanci, and their dalmatian, Moses. The Alcorns have two married daughters, Karina and Angela, and are the proud grandparents of four grandsons.
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Alistair Begg
Alistair Begg is the senior minister of Parkside Church in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, where he has served since 1983. Following graduation from the London School of Theology, he served for two years as assistant to the Reverend Derek J. Prime and in 1976 was ordained to the Gospel Ministry at Charlotte Chapel in Edinburgh.
Alistair enjoys the privilege of leading the Parkside pastoral team and seeing a succession of young men settled in pulpits throughout the country. His teaching is heard daily across the nation on over 1000 radio stations that air the program, Truth For Life. He has written a number of books, including The Hand of God, Pathway to Freedom, On Being a Pastor (with Derek Prime) and a revision of Spurgeon’s devotional, Morning and Evening. He has been married to Susan for 35 years and they are the parents of three adult children.
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Ron Blue
Ron serves as President of Kingdom Advisors and on the Board of Directors of The Maclellan Foundation and The National Christian Foundation. Ron founded a financial planning firm in 1979 out of his conviction that Christians would better handle their personal finances if they were counseled objectively with the highest technical expertise and from a biblical perspective. That firm grew to manage over $2 billion in assets for its more than 5,000 clients nationwide with a staff of over 175 people in 14 regional offices (www.ronblue.com). Ron retired from the financial planning firm in 2003 in order to lead Kingdom Advisors. Ron is the author of seventeen books on personal finance from a biblical perspective, including the best-seller, Master Your Money, first published in 1986 and now in its 30th printing, Wealth to Last, co-authored with Larry Burkett, and Faith Based Family Finances.
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Steve Franklin, Ph.D.
Dr. Steve Franklin is the creative force behind the research, production and presentation of 100: Authentic Wisdom from America’s Centenarians. His book by the same title will be published in late 2010. Dr. Franklin is Chief of New Business Development at Wells Real Estate Funds. Prior to joining Wells in 1999, he was Associate Dean and a tenured Professor for the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University. Franklin has co-authored two college textbooks and more than 50 scholarly and practitioner articles on management and entrepreneurship. He continues to serve as a member of the Board of Regents for Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England and is Chairman of the Governing Board for the American University in Dubai. He earned a B.A. in Theology from Abilene Christian University, an M.B.A. from Georgia State University, and an M.A in Management and Ph.D. in Management and Marketing from the University of Oklahoma.
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Michael Hyatt
Michael Hyatt is the Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the United States. Michael has worked in the book publishing industry his entire career, as an author, publishing executive, owner of a publishing company and as a literary agent. Michael has written four books, one of which landed on the New York Times bestseller list where it stayed for seven months.
Michael is also well known for his blog, michaelhyatt.com, which is focused on intentional leadership. There you will find content by Michael on leadership, productivity, publishing and social media. As a sought after speaker, Michael has been speaking publicly for more than 25 years, and has appeared on more than 1,500 television and radio shows, including all three major networks.
He has been married to his wife, Gail, for thirty-two years and has five daughters, two grandsons, and three granddaughters. Michael resides near Nashville, Tennessee.
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Bob Reccord
Bob is a nationally recognized speaker, author, and consultant.
In the fall of 2009, Bob was selected as Executive Director for the Council for National Policy (CNP), a non-profit educational foundation based in Washington, D.C. CNP’s mission is to restore and sustain American freedom by providing a forum for business, civic, national, defense, educational, and religious leaders to deepen their understanding of the great spiritual, economic, constitutional, and national security issues confronting the nation. In short, CNP seeks to advance the “First Principles” of this nation’s Founding Fathers.
Since 2006, he has served as the Founder and President of Total Life Impact Ministries, challenging people from all around the world to "Live a Life that Matters." For nine years, Bob served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board and as a pastor. During that time, Bob hosted a national radio show, Strength for Living. He has authored eight books including Beneath the Surface, Forged by Fire, and Made to Count. He has spoken to approximately 165,000 men in the last 3 1⁄2 years alone.
Whether as a pastor, businessman, husband, or father, Bob has dedicated his life to helping people discover their calling and to effectively develop and exercise their passion for God and His mission to change the world. Bob and his wife, Cheryl, have three grown children and reside in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Richard Stearns
Richard E. Stearns is President of World Vision, one of the largest non-profit organizations in the United States. After a quarter-century business career serving as CEO of two different corporations, he joined World Vision in 1998, leading the Christian relief and development organization to unprecedented growth and calling on the American Church to respond to the global AIDS pandemic.
World Vision has more than 1,200 staff in the United States, and partners with U.S. corporations, government agencies, foundations, churches, and more than a million individual donors to help children and their communities reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty.
Stearns chronicles his journey from corporate CEO to advocate for those affected by poverty and injustice in his best-selling book, The Hole in Our Gospel, published in 2009 by Thomas Nelson. Named the 2010 Christian Book of the Year by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, The Hole in Our Gospel challenges readers in the faith community to rise out of apathy to meet the challenges of global poverty and injustice.
Stearns has traveled to more than 40 of the nearly 100 countries where World Vision works. His wife Renée, a lawyer by training, also travels and speaks on behalf of World Vision. The couple lives in the Seattle area and has five children. |
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Bob Doll
Bob Doll is Vice Chairman and BlackRock's Global Chief Investment Officer for Equities and a member of BlackRock’s Operating and Leadership Committees. Mr. Doll is also the head of the US Large Cap Series equity team and has primary portfolio management responsibility for these products.
Mr. Doll's service with the firm dates back to 1999, including his years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. At MLIM, he served as the President, Chief Investment Officer, and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Merrill Lynch Large Cap Series Funds. Prior to joining MLIM, Mr. Doll served as the Chief Investment Officer of Oppenheimer Funds, Inc. He received a B.S. in Accounting and a B.A. in Economics from Lehigh University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Doll is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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Dr. Robert Wolgemuth
CONFERENCE EMCEE
Dr. Robert Wolgemuth has been in the publishing business for thirty-five years. He is the owner and President of Wolgemuth & Associates, Inc., a literary agency exclusively representing the writing work of approximately fifty authors including Joni Eareckson Tada, Ravi Zacharias, John MacArthur, Ron Blue, Alistair Begg, R. Albert Mohler, Ellen Vaughn, James MacDonald, Patrick Morley, Dennis & Barbara Rainey, Carolyn James, Gordon MacDonald, Pam Tebow, Jeremy White, and Henry Blackaby.
Robert is a speaker and best-selling author of over twenty books. His books include She Calls Me Daddy, the notes to Dad's Bible, The Most Important Year in a Man’s Life, Men of the Bible, The Most Important Place on Earth and She Still Calls Me Daddy. He and his wife Bobbie have two adult daughters and five grandchildren.
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Marty Goetz
WORSHIP LEADER
Marty Goetz has been called a modern day psalmist. His songs are scriptures beautifully set to music, leaving listeners spiritually moved, inspired, and educated. With melodic and fresh acoustical/ classic arrangements, Marty Goetz has the ability to lead you into a place of true intimacy with God.
He has ministered before congregations as diverse as Jack Hayford’s Church on the Way, Greg Laurie’s Harvest Christian Fellowship and Harvest Crusades, Coral Gables Presbyterian, Chicago’s Moody Church, and David Wilkerson’s Times Square Church. Marty has been recording music steadily since 1985, and today lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Jennifer, and their daughter, Danyel Misha.
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