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
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
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
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
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
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
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