Featured Speakers
| Alan Chambers | |
 Wednesday Evening General Session | Alan Chambers is one of world’s leading experts on homosexuality and is the president of Exodus International, the largest Christian organization dealing with this issue in the world today. Alan has shared his own story of breaking free from the unwanted same-sex attraction with audiences around the world and with countless media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsweek,TIME magazine, ABC, NBC, the Fox Network and CNN. Under his leadership, Exodus has expanded its outreach to include teens and young adults wrestling with their sexual identity as well as pastors and church staff desiring to help hurting individuals affected by homosexuality. Alan is the author of God’s Grace & the Homosexual Next Door and Leaving Homosexuality. He and his wife, Leslie, and their two children make their home in Orlando, Florida. |
| Dr. Kathy Koch | |
 Thursday Morning General Session | To meet Dr. Kathy Koch, Ph.D. (pronounced "cook") through a paragraph description doesn't do her justice. Of course, we're sure the same is true of you. In a paragraph, you can't experience Dr. Kathy's personal interest, enthusiasm, authenticity, and communication skills. In other words, her heart can't come through. When you do meet her, it won't take you long to agree with others, there's a refreshing realness to Kathy that will encourage and inspire you. Today, as the Founder of Celebrate Kids, Inc., Dr. Kathy teaches these important truths to parents, children of all ages, teachers, women, and missionaries nationally and internationally in seminars sponsored by schools, churches, and conventions. Dr. Kathy is appreciated for her practical, realistic, helpful, and insightful ideas about many topics. She is also known for her down-to-earth, upbeat, humorous, and forthright style. People report being both encouraged and challenged. Whether a group is small or large, those in attendance sense Kathy's love and respect for them. |
| Bob Hamp | |
 Thursday Evening General Session | Bob Hamp oversees Gateway’s Freedom Ministries. He has a passion to see the freedom provided for us through Jesus’ death and resurrection be available to all who ask and that believers learn how to help one another in that process. His desire is for the pathway to freedom be proclaimed as both powerful and practical. Bob and his wife, Jackee, have been married for over twenty years, and they have four kids. |
| Ann Kiemel | |
 Friday Morning General Session | Some consider Ann Kiemel to be one of the most authentic voices in the Christian Community. Others regard her as a best-selling author of seventeen books, many of which have been passed on as inspirational classics over the past three decades. Ann is the mother of four boys and lives on the West coast in close proximity to her children and twin sister, Jan. Excerpt from bio: |
| Ed McGlasson | |
 Friday Evening General Session | Ed Tandy McGlasson is a very big man with a very big heart for hurting people and a very big vision to reach them with the love – and the Blessing – of the Father. A five-year veteran of the National Football League, Ed details his life in his best-selling book The Difference A Father Makes – a book that has changed thousands of reader’s lives with nearly 200,000 copies sold since its release in 2004. Ed’s book has put him in great demand as a speaker and encourager to men and women all over the nation. Ed challenges them to understand how it feels to be truly blessed by your father, to be both fully accepted and altogether appreciated. To the millions of men and women who have never experienced the blessing of their own biological dad, he offers practical steps to receive the awe-inspiring blessing of their Heavenly Father. After his football career ended, Ed became the pastor of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Anaheim, CA. He and his wife Jill and their five children have lived in Southern California for 28 years. |
| Joe Dallas | |
 Saturday Morning General Session | Joe Dallas is a pastoral counselor, author and public speaker who directs a Biblical counseling ministry in Tustin, CA. He directs a men’s seminar on sexual purity titled “The Game Plan” and speaks regularly at churches, universities and conferences nationally and internationally. He and his wife Renee have two sons and reside in Southern California. |
| Mike Haley | |
 Saturday Evening General Session | As one of the nation’s leading experts on gender issues, Mike Haley has captivated and inspired millions with his overcoming testimony. Having been involved in homosexuality as a teen and young adult, Mike offers tremendous insight into the causes and recovery of same-sex attraction. As a Regional Director of Focus’ Community Impact Outreach, Mike oversees community initiatives round the country. In addition to being one of the creators of Focus’ Love Won Out conference he also speaks frequently to churches, colleges and universities, public schools and youth groups, and has appeared at national conventions including the 2004 Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastor’s Conference. He also authored the book, 101 Frequently Asked Questions About Homosexuality. Mike has a degree in Christian Education from Biola University and a Master’s degree in counseling from Liberty University. Mike and his wife, Angie, were married in 1994 and are the proud parents of two young sons. They make their home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| Nancy Heche D.Min. | |
 Love Won Out | In the past 15 years Nancy has earned her masters and doctorate degrees in pastoral counseling and psychotherapy. She has been a Bible teacher for more than 25 years and is the author of the book The Truth Comes Out, The Story of My Hearts Transformation, which has been translated into Spanish and German. She recently collaborated with Joe Dallas on a new book that will be published in 2010. Nancy is a university and seminary professor as well as a psychotherapist and family coach. She is a mother and grandmother and divides her time between Chicago and Naples, Florida with her new husband. |
| Janelle Hallman | |
 Love Won Out | Janelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor and clinical director of Janelle Hallman & Associates, a counseling clinic offering a wide variety of services and specialties (for more information click here). Although she has become an internationally recognized expert in the area of female homosexuality and emotional dependency, she works with a variety of other men and women seeking greater wholeness in their lives. She also serves as a consultant, educator, writer and dynamic speaker on issues related to same-sex attraction, gender, the human condition, redemption and healing and wholeness in general. Her passion is to share God's word in a way that speaks to some of the deepest needs of broken and hurting people. Janelle is an adjunct professor at Colorado Christian University and Denver Seminary. She is also the founder and director of a non-profit organization called Desert Hope Ministries and is the developer of the Restoring the Glory Conference, a dynamic conference exploring God's design for real relationships, meaningful intimacy, and authentic sexuality. She graduated with honors from Denver Seminary with a Master of Arts degree in Counseling. |
| Christine Sneeringer | |
 Love Won Out | Christine Sneeringer is the director of Worthy Creations, an interdenominational Christian ministry in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida dedicated to helping men and women find freedom from homosexuality and sexual brokenness. She is a frequent conference speaker and her personal testimony of healing from sexual abuse and victory over sexual immorality has appeared in numerous publications, including: Decision, Charisma, Spirit Led Woman, Campus Life, and Christian Single. She is pursuing her Master's degree in Christian Counseling and lives in Ft. Lauderdale with her two dogs, Maggie and Bailey. |
Other Special Guests:
Abortion, suicide, homosexuality, addiction, child slavery…Christ is the only hope for this depravity. Take No Glory, a non-profit musicianary band, sings about people dealing with these types of issues and being transformed by the love of Jesus. Download all their music FREE at www.TakeNoGlory.com.
Take No Glory will be joining us on Wednesday in the Evening General Session.
