Empowered: Moving with The Spirit
The single command that Jesus gave his followers before igniting a movement was “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised…” He was telling them to wait for and then move with the Spirit. In 2022, we’ll discover a growing awareness of the Spirit’s work and leadership while also realizing that we will always be more effective if we move with the Holy Spirit.
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Speakers
Hear from Today’s Top Church Multiplication Practitioners
10+ national speakers in 5 main sessions!
Brett Andrews
Brett Andrews
Brett is the founding pastor of New Life Christian Church in northern Virginia. A multi-site church, NLCC has started over 300 churches. NLCC’s church planting ministry, Passion for Planting, prepares planters and resources churches and movements on every continent (with the shameful exception of Antarctica). NLCC is also one of the founding churches of Exponential. In NoVA, NLCC reaches her community through the nZone (thenzone.com), a 7-day a week community exercise facility that the church uses for daily ministry and weekly worship.
Brett’s wife, Laura, has managed not to leave him for over 30 years. None of his four children is currently listed among the FBI’s Most Wanted.
Jon Ferguson
Jon Ferguson
Jon is the co-founding pastor of Community Christian Church in Chicagoland where he provides leadership in new ventures. COMMUNITY has grown from a handful of people to a church with hundreds of leaders and thousands of people celebrating at locations throughout Chicagoland. Jon is also one of COMMUNITY's Lead Teaching Pastors.
In addition, Jon led in the launch of NewThing, a church-planting movement, whose mission is to be a catalyst for movements of reproducing churches that includes over 1000 churches and sites in the US and abroad. Jon continues to lead in NewThing as one of the North American Apostolic Leaders.
He has co-authored Finding Your Way Back to God, with his brother Dave, which was recognized as a Resource of the Year by Outreach Magazine for 2016. Their follow-up book, Starting Over - Living Beyond Your Regrets, was released September 20, 2016. He has also co-authored The Big Idea: Aligning the Ministries of Your Church Through Creative Collaboration and Exponential: How You and Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement.
Léonce Crump
Léonce Crump
Pastor Léonce B. Crump Jr. is an author, international speaker, and co-founder—along with his wife Breanna—of Renovation Church in Atlanta. Originally from Louisiana and raised Catholic, Léonce began following Jesus at age 16. Before committing his life to pastoral ministry, and civil rights activism, Léonce was a collegiate All American in wrestling, nearly made the World Team in wrestling, and a professional football player. The former professional athlete has strong transcultural appeal and connections in the world of professional sports and hip-hop music, as well as church planting and leadership circles. He has been in ordained ministry for nearly20 years, and holds multiple graduate degrees.
In 2008, Pastor Léonce answered God’s call to relocate from Tennessee to Atlanta and begin the process of planting Renovation Church. He details the obstacles he and his family faced and the revelations he uncovered during this process in Renovate: Changing Who You Are by Loving Where You Are. A champion for the Church’s participation in focused and intentional cultural renewal, Pastor Léonce is the leading voice of a generation committed to operating as God’s redemptive agents in the earth.
A prodigious reader and engaging speaker, Pastor Léonce regularly speaks and preaches across the country at conferences and churches of all denominations. Pastor Léonce enjoys boxing, MMA, studying theology, history, leadership, church structure and poetry. He like ssoul music like Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, and Jimi Hendrix (the blues albums), working out, watching football, UFC, and rugby, and playing with his children.
Pastor Léonce and his wife Breanna live in Atlanta with their son and three daughters.
Noemi Chavez
Noemi Chavez
Noemi Chavez pastors Revive Church, a multisite church in Long Beach, CA and the greater Los Angeles area. She is a speaker and cofounder of Brave Global, an organization which focuses on reaching out to girls that are on probation and in the foster care system. Noemi also serves as chair of the board for Exponential Español, and with Biola Church Relations Advisory Board. She is committed to raising leaders and bridging generations to serve the future of the Church and their communities.
Kelvin Walker
Kelvin Walker
Kelvin was born and raised in Oyster Bay, Long Island. He has been a licensed official worker with the C&MA since 1988, having been ordained in 1990, and served on staff at churches in Pennsylvania and Virginia and as the campus pastor at Nyack (New York) College’s Rockland campus.
Currently, Kelvin is superintendent of the C&MA’s Metropolitan District, which encompasses New Jersey and the portion of New York that includes New York City, Long Island, and the counties of Rockland, Orange, Putnam, and Westchester.
At Alliance Council 2019 in Tampa, Florida, Kelvin was elected Corporate Vice President of the U.S. Alliance—the first African-American to serve as a C&MA corporate officer. Because no other nominations were forwarded from the Council floor, balloting was waived, and Kelvin was elected by acclamation—a strong affirmation of the Alliance family’s confidence in his leadership.
Kelvin holds a bachelor’s degree in sacred music and a master’s degree in professional studies in church development; he is currently working on a doctor of ministry at Alliance Theological Seminary.
Kelvin and his wife, Doni, have six adult children.
Todd Proctor
Todd Proctor
Todd Proctor serves on the Executive Leadership Team of Alpha USA, journeying with pastors of key churches across the nation to explore the Alpha course within their own context. He also serves as the interim Lead Pastor of Rock Harbor in Costa Mesa, a community he planted and pastored through past seasons of multiplication that birthed new campuses and churches across Orange County. Through regional “One Table” pastors’ gatherings, the national “Searock Sessions” emerging leaders cohort, and other initiatives - Todd’s passion is convening and envision those who will take the Church forward to lay new foundations for the future together.
