Speakers
BISHOP VASHTI MCKENZIE
Monday at 6pm
Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie is the first woman to be elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Prior to her historic election in 2000, she served as pastor of Payne Memorial AME Church in Baltimore,Maryland, for ten years, where she pioneered successful efforts to bridge the gap between the church and its surrounding community. In 2005 she made history again when she became the first woman president of the Council of Bishops in the AME. Bishop McKenzie continues to serve as the presiding prelate of the 13th Episcopal District of the AME church.
L. GREGORY JONES
Tuesday through Thursday at 9 am
L. Gregory Jones is senior strategist for leadership education at Duke Divinity School and vice president and vice provost for global strategy and programs at Duke University. Between 1997 and 2010 Jones served as dean of Duke Divinity School. He is widely recognized as a scholar and church leader on such issues as forgiveness and reconciliation, Christian leadership, Christian vocation, and strengthening the church and its ministry. Jones, an ordained United Methodist pastor, is author or editor of more than 100 articles and fourteen books, most recently Forgiving As We’ve Been Forgiven: Community Practices for Making Peace, which he wrote with Célestin Musekura.
JOHN TETER
Tuesday at 7pm
John Teter is the founding pastor of Fountain of Life Covenant Church, a multiethnic and multi-class church in Long Beach, California, where he and his family live in the inner city to incarnate God’s love and make disciples. He also serves as the evangelism team leader for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for twelve years at University of Southern California, Cal State Dominguez Hills, and Compton College. Teter has written two books, Get the Word Out and Jesus & the Hip Hop Prophets, co-authored with Alex Gee. He loves learning and leading evangelism from the mission field.
MARK LABBERTON
Thursday at 7pm
Mark Labberton joined the faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary in 2009 as Lloyd John Ogilvie Associate Professor of Preaching and director of the Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching. Previously he served for sixteen years as senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California. In 1982 Labberton co-founded the Christian International Scholarship Foundation where he served on the board for seventeen years. He has also worked closely with John Stott Ministries and continues to contribute to the mission of the global church as a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission. Labberton, an author of numerous articles and texts, recently published The Dangerous Act of Loving your Neighbor: Seeing Others through the Eyes of Jesus.
GARY WALTER
Friday at 9am
Gary Walter is serving in his fourth year as president of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). Walter began his seminary training at Fuller Theological Seminary and transferred to North Park Theological Seminary to complete his master of divinity degree. He was ordained in the ECC in 1981. He served within the Department of Church Growth and Evangelism (CGE), first as director of church planting, and later as executive minister of CGE with three emphases in particular, which were church planting, multiethnicity, and revitalization. Reaching back to the founding principles of our denomination, Walter has issued the call and the exhortation that we are all “in it together” in our work for the kingdom.
