Speakers

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  Wayne Cordeiro
  Wayne Cordeiro Wayne Cordeiro is the founding pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii with over 11,500 in weekend attendance. Wayne is a church planter at heart with over 124 churches planted in the Pacific Rim countries of the Philippines, Japan, Australia and Myanmar. Nationally, he has planted churches in Hawaii, California, Washington, and Nevada.
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  Dave Ferguson
  Dave Ferguson Dave Ferguson is the Lead Pastor of Community Christian Church, an innovative multi-site missional church which is passionate about "helping people find their way back to God." Community has grown from a few college friends to thousands every weekend meeting at fourteen locations throughout Chicagoland and was recognized as one of the most influential churches in America. Dave provides visionary leadership for NewThing whose dream is to be a catalyst for a movement of reproducing churches. He is an award-winning author whose books include The Big Idea, Exponential, On the Verge, Discover Your Mission Now, Keeping Score, Finding Your Way Back to God, and Starting Over.

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  Harris III
  Harris III Harris "the Third" is an award-winning illusionist, communicator and the founder of the Istoria Collective, a production company that champions the art of storytelling. He is also the director of the STORY Conference, a gathering designed by creatives, for creatives.
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  Jodi Hickerson
  Jodi Hickerson Jodi Hickerson serves as Teaching Pastor and Programming Director for Mission Church in Ventura, California. Jodi and her husband Mike, along with their three daughters, are a part of the team that planted Mission Church in September of 2011, which continues to be the adventure they cannot imagine missing.

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  D.A. Horton
  D.A. Horton D.A. Horton serves as Pastor of Reach Fellowship a church plant in North Long Beach, CA & as Chief Evangelist for the Urban Youth Workers Institute (UYWI). Prior to his current roles he served as an urban church planter/pastor in Kansas City, MO, a National Coordinator of Urban Student Ministries at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and the Executive Director at ReachLife Ministries, the non-profit ministry of Reach Records.
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  Will Mancini
  Will Mancini Will Mancini wants you and your ministry to experience the benefits of stunning, God-given clarity. As a pastor turned vision coach, Will has worked with an unprecedented variety of churches from growing megachurches and missional communities to mainline revitalization and church plants. He is the founder of Auxano, creator of VisionRoom.com, and the author of God Dreams and Church Unique.

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  Eric Mason
  Eric Mason Dr. Eric Mason is founder and lead pastor of Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Mason serves through the local church in helping coach and train families to plant churches in cities locally, nationally, and internationally. He is also the founder and president of Thriving, an urban resource organization committed to developing leaders for ministry in the urban context. Dr. Mason has written three books: Manhood Restored, Beat God to the Punch, and Unleashed.
  
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  John Ortberg
  John Ortberg John Ortberg is an author, speaker, and the senior pastor of Menlo Church in the San Francisco Bay Area. His books include: All the Places To Go; Soul Keeping; Who Is This Man?; The Life You’ve Always Wanted; Faith and Doubt; and more. Born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, John graduated from Wheaton College and holds a Master of Divinity and a PhD in clinical psychology from Fuller Seminary. John is a member of the Board of Trustees at Fuller Seminary, serves on the board for the Dallas Willard Center for Spiritual Formation, and is a former board member of Christianity Today International. John and his wife Nancy live in the Bay Area and have three grown children.

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  Efrem Smith
  Efrem Smith Efrem Smith is an internationally recognized preacher who also consults on issues of multi-ethnicity, leadership and community development. Currently, Efrem is the president and CEO of World Impact. As founding pastor of the Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis, he also served as president of the Sanctuary Community Development Corporation. Efrem is the author of the books Raising Up Young Heroes, The Hip Hop Church, and Jump.
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  Ed Stetzer
  Ed Stetzer Ed Stetzer holds the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College. He was previously the executive director of LifeWay Research. A prolific author, and well-known conference and seminar leader, Stetzer has planted, revitalized and pastored churches, trained pastors and church planters on six continents and has written dozens of articles and books. Ed is a contributing editor for Christianity Today, a columnist for Outreach Magazine, and is frequently cited or interviewed in news outlets such as USA Today and CNN. He is also the executive editor of The Gospel Project, which is used by more than 500,000 individuals each week. Ed is executive editor of Facts & Trends Magazine, a Christian leadership magazine with a circulation of 70,000 readers.

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  Danielle Strickland
  Danielle Strickland Danielle serves in The Salvation Army as an officer - currently doing grassroots community in a marginalized community in Edmonton, Alberta, and leading Stop The Traffik (an anti-human trafficking campaign) in Canada. A gifted evangelist, she is widely sought after as a speaker. She and her husband, also a Salvation Army officer, have three children.
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  Albert Tate
  Albert Tate Albert Tate is the founder and lead pastor of Fellowship Monrovia. Hearing the call from God, Albert and his wife LaRosa planted Fellowship Monrovia a Gospel-Centered, Multi-Ethnic and Intergenerational church in January 2012. Albert serves on the Board of Trustees at Azusa Pacific University & Fuller Youth Institute.

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  Muriithi Wanjau
  Muriithi Wanjau Pastor Muriithi Wanjau planted Mavuno Church in Kenya in 2005. The church has since grown to 5 locations in Kenya and 4 internationally. He is the author of Mizizi: Plugging into Your God Purpose, which has been translated into 6 languages and is used in churches across the world.