Foursquare Connection 2012 Main Speakers

Glenn Burris, Jr.

President Glenn Burris Jr. graduated from Mount Vernon Bible College in 1976. He served as youth pastor in Concord, N.C., for a year and, in 1977, became a senior pastor in Macon, Ga. He later pastored the Foursquare church in Cornelius, N.C., and has served as a divisional superintendent, a member of the cabinet, and a member of the board of directors where he currently serves on the Building Committee, Bylaw Committee, Executive Committee, Finance Committee, Governance Committee, and the Pastoral Formation, Education, and Nurture Committee.

In 1992, Glenn was appointed district supervisor of the Southeast District; in 2002, he was appointed general supervisor of the U.S. national church. In September 2008, Glenn began leading The Foursquare Church as interim president for a 13-month term. He was then appointed president by the convention voting body, and began serving a five year term on Oct. 1, 2010. His passions are planting churches and caring for pastors.

Appearances:
Tuesday Morning Session

Ed Stetzer

Ed Stetzer has planted churches in New York, Pennsylvania and Georgia and has transitioned declining churches in Indiana and Georgia.  He has trained pastors on five continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and is on the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.  Ed's primary role is president of LifeWay Research and LifeWay's Missiologist in Residence.

Appearances:
Wednesday Morning Session

Website:
www.edstetzer.com

Twitter:
@edstetzer

Mike Kai

Mike Kai describes himself as "a regular guy aspiring to God’s greatest goals." You might see him playing a pick-up game of basketball or cheering for his kids from the sidelines, but he also is the senior pastor of a thriving church in Hawaii, Hope Chapel West Oahu (HCWO). Mike replanted an existing church in 2001 to reach the 110,000 people who live within a three-mile radius of HCWO. Previously he was youth pastor at Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay, serving under pastor Ralph Moore. A native of the Big Island of Hawaii, Mike also speaks frequently on the West Coast to youth and young adults, acting on his passion to make disciples. Mike and his wife, Lisa, have three beautiful daughters.

Appearances:
Thursday Morning Session

Website:
www.hopechapel-westoahu.org

Twitter:
@Mike_Kai

Daniel Prieto

Daniel Prieto leads The Visión Alcance 2020 of Compañerismo Cristiano and the Hispanic ministry of the Gateway District of The Foursquare Church. He is also the founder and president of Conexión Pastoral, a ministry that aids, equips and cares for pastors, their families and their ministries by providing companionship, assistance, resources and training. In 2007 he began Compañerismo Cristiano church in San Antonio, and for 17 years, beginning in 1991, he pastored Compañerismo Cristiano Foursquare Church in Downey, Calif. Under Daniel's leadership and ministry, the Downey church grew to more than 1,000 members and planted churches in California, Arizona and Texas. Daniel is an author and holds several academic degrees, including a master’s in religion from Azusa Pacific University.

Appearances:
Thursday Morning Session

Jon Tyson

Jon Tyson is the lead pastor of Trinity Grace Church, which has five churches in New York City. Originally from Australia, Jon moved to the United States fourteen years ago with a passion to understand and help work out the future of the Western Church. He lives, works, and serves in one of the largest cultural and missionary contexts of the world—the global city. Jon is also on the board of City Collective, a network of incarnational churches committed to multiplying missional church networks in the urban centers of the world. Jon lives in Manhattan with his wife, Christy, and their two children. You can see more about their church at www.trinitygracechurch.com and the network at www.citycollective.org.

Appearances:
Monday Evening Session

Website:
trinitygracechurch.com

Twitter:
@JonTyson

Leslie Keegel

Leslie Keegel is the National Leader of The Foursquare Church Sri Lanka and founder-president of Colombo, Sri Lanka's LIFE Bible Institute, which has more than 1,000 students in training. Under his leadership, the number of Foursquare churches in Sri Lanka grew from two in 1983 to more than 1,700 meeting places today, and Foursquare Sri Lanka has become a missionary-sending organization to India, the Middle East, Europe and other locations. Leslie is also the chairman of the Eastern Council of Foursquare Churches, a fellowship in the Asia-Pacific Region that covers more than 30 nations and represents 26,000 churches. Leslie and his wife, Belen, have three daughters and pastor Living Way Church in Colombo, the headquarters of The Foursquare Church in Sri Lanka.

Appearances:
Tuesday Evening Session

Ted Vail

Ted Vail is the Foursquare Missions International regional coordinator for North America and the Caribbean.  He also has served as senior pastor of Summit Foursquare Church in Longmont, Colo., since 2005. Prior to the district consolidation in 2009, he was the superintendent of Hispanic churches for the Rocky Mountain District. Ted has a Master of Arts degree in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Dawn, have three children.

Appearances:
Thursday Morning Session

Rick Bezet

Rick Bezet is the founder and lead pastor of New Life Church in Conway, Arkansas. A former professional golfer, Rick set aside his career in golf to move his family and follow God's call to start the church in 2001. Today, New Life is a growing church with seven campuses and 18 services. Rick is one of the founding pastors of the Association of Related Churches, or ARC, an organization designed to plant churches and impact the world through missions. Currently ARC has planted almost 100 churches. Its DNA is relationship, and Rick speaks across the country and internationally, sharing his passion and vision for church planting and leadership. He and his wife, Michelle, have four teenage children.

Appearances:
Wednesday Evening Session

Website:
www.newlifechurch.tv

Twitter:
@rick_bezet

Kelly Tshibaka

Kelly Tshibaka co-planted and co-pastors Mount Vernon Foursquare Fellowship near Washington, D.C., with her husband, Niki. She is co-author of The Problem With the Problem With Women in Ministry Leadership and serves as co-director of the Women in Ministry Leadership team for the Mid-Atlantic District. With her husband, she leads Kingdom Ways & Means Conferences for emerging Foursquare leaders, seeking to identify, mobilize, equip and send out harvest laborers. Her passion for discipleship and leadership development is especially related to church multiplication and women in ministry. Kelly has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and also works full time as an attorney. The couple have four children, including one who is in heaven.

Appearances:
Thursday Morning Session

Website:
www.mountvernonfoursquare.org

A.J. Swoboda

A.J. Swoboda, with his wife, Quinn, serves Theophilus, a Foursquare church they planted in the Hawthorne district of Portland, Oregon. A.J. is also a professor of biblical studies, theology and church history at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, Life Pacific College (also known as LIFE Bible College), Canby Bible College, Eternity Bible College and Concordia University. His doctorate is on the never-ending relationship between the Holy Spirit and ecology. This fall his new book, Spirit Over Chaos: Finding God in the Mess of Christianity, is scheduled to release from Kregel. A.J. writes, wails on the guitar, runs (on treadmills), plays Risk, reads and relishes movies with Kevin Spacey.

Appearances:
Tuesday Morning Session

Twitter:
@mrajswoboda

Source: 

http://www.foursquare.org/convention_2011/speakers