Love the Church 2010 Speakers
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Joel Beeke |
Dr. Joel R. Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics, as well as Academic Dean for students from the Heritage Reformed Congregations. He is currently a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a position he has held for 20 years. He is also editor of the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written, co-authored, or edited fifty books and contributed over fifteen hundred articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His Ph.D. (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary is in Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology. He and his wife, Mary, have 3 children: Calvin, Esther, and Lydia. |
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Doug Phillips |
Douglas W. Phillips is the founder and director of Vision Forum, a discipleship and training ministry that emphasizes Christian apologetics, world-view training, multi-generational faithfulness, and creative solutions whereby fathers can play a maximum role in family discipleship. He is a passionate communicator with a heart for home education and the restoration of Christian family and culture to the glory of God. As a constitutional attorney, Doug served six years at Home School Legal Defense Association and as Director for the National Center for Home Education. Doug and his wife, Beall, have eight children - Joshua, Justice, Liberty, Jubilee, Faith Evangeline, Honor, Providence, and Virginia Hope. They live in San Antonio, Texas. |
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Scott Brown |
Scott T. Brown is the director of the National Center for Family Integrated Churches and elder at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Scott graduated from California State University in Fullerton in History and received a Master of Divinity from Talbot School of Theology. He gives most of his time to local pastoral ministry, conferences on fatherhood, church reformation, and strengthening the family. He has been married to Deborah for twenty-six years and they have four children ages twenty-three, twenty-one, seventeen, and thirteen. |
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Andy Davis |
Dr. Davis was born in Boston, Massachusetts where he later earned his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1984. He then began his career as a Mechanical Engineer with Eaton-Nova Corporation in Beverly, Massachusetts. He was married to Christine Lee Rogers on May 14, 1988, and they have two sons and three daughters. Dr. Davis started his seminary training while working as an engineer and earned his Masters of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 1990. In 1992, Dr. Davis resigned from his engineering position to pastor the New Meadows Baptist Church in Topsfield, Massachusetts. In 1994, the Davis family followed the call of the Lord to Tokushima, Japan, where they were involved in church planting through the International Mission Board. In 1998, Dr. Davis graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, with a Ph.D. in Church History. In October of 1998, Dr. Davis accepted a call to be the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church, Durham, NC. |
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Paul Washer |
Paul Washer became a believer while studying at the University of Texas. He completed his undergraduate studies and enrolled at Southwestern Theological Seminary, where he received his Master of Divinity degree. After graduating, he moved to Peru and served there as a missionary for 10 years, during which time he founded the HeartCry Missionary Society to support Peruvian church planters. HeartCry's work now supports over 100 indigenous missionaries in over 20 countries throughout Eastern Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. An itinerant preacher, Paul also frequently teaches at the new church plant in Radford, Virginia, and is the author of The One True God: A Biblical Study of the Doctrine of God. Paul serves as the Director and one of the laborers with the HeartCry Missionary Society (www.heartcrymissionary.com). He and his wife Charo have three children: Ian, Evan, and Rowan. Their family resides in Radford, VA. |
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Josue Raimundo |
Josue Raimundo, pastor of Iglesia biblica Dela Gracia (Grace Bible Church) in Arlington, VA, is married to Terri, who grew up as a missionary's child in Peru. They have two children. Josue's first profession was in medicine and he participated in voluntary work in a missionary hospital and in clinics in Haiti from 1981-1984. Josue is a member of the Pastors for the Caribbean, an organization recently formed to train pastors in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and to channel aid to those countries. Josue has been sought after to speak or teach in both English and Spanish-language settings. His teaching reaches across generations and cultures, with depth of insight and a great love and respect for the Word of God. He teaches theology, Bible survey and in-depth studies of Josue is the head of the Spanish speaking division of Carey University Ministries (based in Ontario, Canada). He is in charge of training pastors in Latin America. Two countries with which he has has been involved through this ministry are Peru and the Dominican Republic. |
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Dan Horn
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Dan Horn is an elder at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He has been married to Kendra for twenty-one years and they have three children, Joshua, Rachel, and Stephen. He is also a computer programmer who has been president of Datatek, Inc., a small software firm, for seventeen years. |
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Jason Dohm |
Jason Dohm works in the Electronics Manufacturing Services industry, and is an Elder at Hope Baptist Church, Wake Forest, NC. He graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992 with a B.A. in education. He has been married to Janet for nineteen years, and they have six children ages fifteen to four. |
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Don Hart is a pastor, rancher, and licensed Texas attorney. As owner of the Law Office of Don Hart, his practice includes serving as General Counsel for Vision Forum Ministries. He holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from the University of Texas and a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Texas Tech Law School, where he was a member of state and national moot court teams and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Trial Advocacy. A significant part of Don’s practice involves fighting to defend Christian, homeschooling families against usurpatious government interference. Don is honored to serve as an elder in his local church. Above all, Don aspires to be a devoted husband to his bride D’Ann, faithful father to his seven children (Emalee, Katherine, Hannah, Valor, Victor, Jackson, and #7 on the way), and a humble bondservant of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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Craig Houston, Pastor of Westside Baptist Church in Bremerton, Washington was born and raised in Astoria, Oregon where he received his early education graduating from Astoria High School.
Being blessed to grow up in a fourth generation Christian home Craig was converted to Christ and baptized at a young age at Bible Baptist Church. Craig later joined Bayview Baptist Church where at the age of 19, he surrendered to the call to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. He graduated from the Bayview Baptist Bible Institute in December 1997 and was ordained to the gospel ministry by Bayview Baptist Church. Since then, he has continued his education, graduating from Sound Baptist Bible College with a Bachelor of Theology. During Craig’s 12 years of pastoral ministry, he has served as a church planter in Oregon and since 2002 as the pastor of Westside Baptist Church in Bremerton, Washington. Pastor Houston has a heart and passion for the Glory of God, expository preaching, reaching the lost and restoring the Christian home. He and his beautiful bride Emily (Grogan) are the parents of ten wonderful children. |
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Boyd Dellinger is pastor/elder at Heritage Bible Fellowship in Fayetteville, NC. He graduated in 1990 from Liberty University with a degree in Youth Ministry. After years of seeing the pitfalls of "successful" youth ministry, the Lord led him to be a part of starting a family integrated church. He and his wife, Lori, have nine, (soon to be ten), children. |
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William Einwechter (Th.M.) is an ordained minister and an elder at Immanuel Free Reformed Church in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. He is vice president of the National Reform Association and editor of The Christian Statesman. He is also the author of Ethics and God’s Law, English Bible Translations, and A Conquering Faith, and the editor of the book, Explicitly Christian Politics. His essays and articles have appeared in Chalcedon Report, The Christian Statesman, and Patriarch. He and his wife, Linda, are the homeschooling parents of ten children.
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Pastor Morecraft has been Chalcedon's minister since its inception. Pastor Morecraft is a preacher of the gospel and a noted lecturer on contemporary political and historical trends in the United States. His published works include two books - How God Wants Us to Worship Him: a Defense of the Bible as the Only Standard for Modern Worship, and With Liberty and Justice for All: Christian Politics Made Simple. He has also published hundreds of articles and is currently the Executive Editor of the Counsel of Chalcedon, a reformed magazine, and the New Southern Presbyterian Review, a reformed theological journal. Pastor Morecraft was born in 1944 and is a native of Madison, West Virginia. Pastor Morecraft holds a B.A. in history from King College in Bristol, Tennessee, a M.Div from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and a M.Th. and Th.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary in Lakeland, Florida. Pastor Morecraft is married to the former Becky Belcher of Haysi, Virginia, who is an accomplished singer and poet. Pastor Morecraft and Becky have four children and seven grandchildren. |
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By God’s grace Jeff Pollard was converted to Jesus Christ from a career in rock music in the early 1980s. Though religious from his youth, his true conversion at age thirty brought him to understand and then to preach God’s sovereign grace. God’s Spirit and Word awakened him to his responsibilities as husband and father as well as to God’s vision for families. He and his wife Myra home-schooled their children, Lacey, and Jordan. After years of conducting home and campus Bible studies, street and prison ministries, and interim pastoral work, he pastored Providence Baptist Church in Ball, Louisiana, for seven years. Jeff is now an elder of Mt. Zion Bible Church, Pensacola, Florida, the home of Chapel Library, which is a literature and tape ministry dedicated to reprinting Christ-centered literature from great authors and preachers of the past and distributing it free of charge. He is the editor of the Free Grace Broadcaster and author of Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America and Do You Know Jesus Christ? |
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John Latham |
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Tony Konvalin |
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Rob Tart |
