Speakers
Jack Graham is the pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, a 24,000-member church that this conference will be taking place. He has multiple ministries, including radio and television broadcasts, and authors many books that help Christians experience the Kingdom of God in every area of their lives. Each week, more than 250,000 people are touched by Graham’s radio and television programs that stretch to 12 stations in 29 cities and 17 states throughout the country and the world.
Dr. Jack Graham and his wife are committed to spreading the word of God not only in their own church, but beyond their walls into the ears of the world. His straightforward poise never ceases to encourage his listeners, whether new or mature Christians. Check out his website for more information! http://www.jackgraham.org
Zig Ziglar is an author and a speaker who has traveled over 5 million miles to spread the word of God since 1970. In his demeanor, Zig has the ability to transcend age, culture and occupation barriers that many speakers cannot accomplish. He has shared the gospel with many American presidents, congressmen and governors, and has been recognized three times from the Congressional Record to the United States for his work in the drug war.
Ziglar is especially gifted in communicating to his audience the value of hard work, common sense, fairness, commitment and integrity. His ministry which is centered in Dallas, offers public seminars, customized educational programs, workshops and speakers who focus on personal and professional development. He authors 25 books with 9 titles on the bestseller lists, which have all been translated into 38 languages and dialects. Check out his website for more information! http://ziglar.com/
Shannon is a writer, author, speaker and counselor with a Masters Degree in counseling. Her passionate and empowering words focus on sexual purity and integrity. Her ministry is not only devoted to young people, but children, middle age and the elderly as well. Her ground breaking series, consisting of Every Woman’s Battle, Every Single Woman’s Battle, just to name a few, have encouraged women all over the world. Ethridge has been on national radio and television, and has also been featured on Today’s Christian Woman magazine. She is a mother of two and married to her husband for 16 years.
Don Colbert, M.D.
Don Colbert bases his plan for healing on God’s word, nutrition, exercise and common sense. Dr. Colbert works intently with patients to discover the source of their problem and strategizes healing methods without using invasive antibiotics, pain medications or mood altering drugs. Colbert has been board certified in family practice since 1984 and has seen over 30,000 patients. Colbert’s profound methods of healing have touched the lives of people all over the world, and consistently speaks at churches, health conferences and television programs, while continuing to author numerous health related books.
Many of his books have reached best selling status and have sold well over 4 million copies. Colbert’s famous Bible Cure series won him the Christian Retailer’s Choice for best booklet series. Check out his website for more information! http://www.drcolbert.com/
Dennis Jernigan
Dennis Jernigan’s music is known and heard all over the world. With songs like “You are my all in all”, “Great is the Lord Almighty” and hundreds of others as well. Honesty, truth, and relationships are most important to Jernigan, and this is very apparent as you listen to him fervently worship. He leads worship at New Community Church in Muskogee, Oklahoma and resides with his wife and 9 children. Check out his website for more information and to listen to his music!http://www.dennisjernigan.com/
Nicole Nordeman
Nichole Nordeman is the two-time Dove Award-winning Female Vocalist of the Year and critically acclaimed songwriter who helped put the words "intelligent" and "introspective" back into the Christian music dictionary. - the past 24 months as a new mom have left her both dazed and amazed, with little time for thinking, much less writing. On any given day, she’s standing on the ledge of the unknown, daring to trust herself and her God enough to step off and try out her new fledgling wings. Check out his website for more information! www.nicholenordeman.com
Thomas is the Executive Worship Pastor of Gateway Church. He has served in various ministries as worship pastor, minister of music and youth pastor. Thomas holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from West Virginia Tech and a Practical Theology degree from CFNI. Before coming to Gateway Church in 2000, he was the Founder and Director of the full-time School of Worship at Christ For The Nations Institute (CFNI) in Dallas.
Thomas’ passion for the presence of God and his zeal for true, authentic worship are evident in his leadership and in his life. Thomas is the blessed husband of Mary Beth and the proud father of Harrison.
David H. McKinley is teaching pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas and author of The Search for Satisfaction. He has also served as senior pastor of Boca Raton Community Church and First Baptist Church in Merritt Island, Florida. He is a graduate of the University of Memphis, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, and Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. David shares life with his wife Connie and their two children, Joe and Lizzi.
He is standing bolt upright, his lean grame a corded mass of sinewy tension as he commands the attention of an appreciative and teary-eyed President Bill Clinton. As he sang, so breathlessly uninterrupted by a pause, the dignitaries who packed the pews of the storied sanctuary would have been excused for believing the singer was born with three lungs. This is Wintley Augustus Phipps gloriously in song. Phipps is more than just a two-time Grammy Award-nominated gospel and inspirational singer. He is also a spirit-filled preacher, songwriter, and a veritable mover and shaker.
Phipps has sung for and befriended every sitting American president since Ronald Reagan. Phipps has been a frequent guest on Robert Schuller's Hour of Power television program. He has sung at Billy Graham's crusades in Moscow, San José, New York, and Philadelphia. In 1981 he sang at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II. A decade later Phipps was part of the welcoming crowd as Nelson Mandela took his first steps out of Victor Verster Prison, located on the outskirts of Cape Town, after nearly 30 years in prison for opposing White domination.
In a singing career spanning nearly 30 years, Phipps, an ordained minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has seen his influence grow exponentially. Like a rainbow whose arc can link disparate territories, Phipps found common cause with both Democrats and Republicans at the highest levels of the political food chain. Phipps is quick to laud Oakwood College, in Hunts-ville, Alabama, where he not only earned a bachelor's degree in theology, but had his first encounter with Black gospel music. He continued his education at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, where he earned a Master of Divinity degree.
