Speakers

Coming to Honolulu 2012:

Honolulu 2012 general session speakers:
Tony Campolo, Dave Gibbons, Shane Hipps, Jessica Jackley, John Ortberg, Nancy Ortberg, Peter & Geri Scazzero.

Also at Honolulu 2012:
Brandon Ahu, Elwin Ahu, Hale Akamine, Ron Arnold, Dave Barr, Erik Burklin, Jim Burns, John Bryson, Bart Campolo, Memrey Casey, Thomas Cheong, Don Cousins, Barry Davis, Shaunti Feldhahn, Sim & Mimi Fulcher, Kiaka Gaughen, Joe Grimes, Denee Hamilton, Jason Harper, Jay Hewitt, Megan Hutchinson, Jon Irving, Adam Jackley, Carl Jones, Mike Kai, Guy Kapeliela, Veronica Lamb, LeCrae, Carole Lewis, Nick Love, Karen Makishima, Janine Maxwell, Earl Morihara, Norman Nakanishi, Noel Pabiona, Mike Palompo, Cliff & Joyce Penner, Christy Pierce, Steve Rex, Sumo Sato, Jeff Schulte, Jordan Seng, Barbara Tengan, Tex Texeira, Waxer Tipton, Shawn Welcome, Jim White, and Danny Yamashiro.

BRANDON AHU
Brandon Ahu is the young adults pastor at New Hope Leeward in Waipahu, Hawai‘i. A graduate of Kamehameha Schools, he went on to college at the University of Southern California, where he received a bachelor’s in communication. Brandon returned to Hawai‘i and served as high school pastor at New Hope Leeward for 6 years. Later, he helped start Fuse Young Adults Ministry as pastor of the West Campus. Brandon has been married to his wonderful wife Jamie for 4 years and enjoys surfing, motorcycles, playing with his dogs, and inviting people over for football games and barbeques.

HONOLULU 2012 Topics:
• “There’s No Comparison” (Going Deeper) • Friday, 10:30 am, Rm 303 AB
• The Desert Session • Friday, 3:30 pm, Rm 328

ELWIN AHU
Elwin is senior pastor of New Hope Metro, located on the waterfront at Honolulu’s historic Aloha Tower Marketplace. In 1995, while sitting as a judge for the State of Hawai‘i, Elwin experienced a radical transformation in his heart and accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, the defining moment in his life. On January 1, 2000, he resigned from his promising judicial career to respond to God’s higher call and stepped into full-time ministry. Elwin is pursuing an MA in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. He has a passion to surf and can’t live a week without riding the swells of the South Shore of Oahu. He and his wife, Joy, have two children, Brandon, young adults pastor at New Hope Leeward, and Jared, who loves baseball and football.

HONOLULU 2012 Topic:
• Discovering Your Life’s Journey • Friday, 10:30 am, Rm 320

HALE AKAMINE
Dr. Hale Akamine, is founder and executive director of Family Ministries Center, Inc., a non-profit, professional, Christian counseling organization. His more than twenty years as a clinical psychologist has provided him with extensive experience helping families, couples and individuals. His expertise in treating infidelity has helped thousands of couples redeem their lives. Along with being a regular media guest, seminar leader, consultant and author, Dr. Akamine leads an annual mission team to Fiji, helping churches strengthen their ministries.

HONOLULU 2012 Topics:
• When Leaders Fall: Looking from the Inside Out • Friday, 3:30 pm, Rm 323 C
• Piercing the Darkness: Delving into the Soul of Infidelity • Friday, 8:30 pm, Rm 323 B

RON ARNOLD
Ron has served in ministry since 1974 and as senior pastor of Kaimuki Christian Church (KCC) in Honolulu since 1993. KCC has a big vision and has seen God move powerfully to impact the community and the world as it has reached out with the tangible love of Jesus. Ron serves on the boards of the Hawai‘i Pastors Roundtable, Common Grace and the Kaimuki Business & Professional Association. He and his wife, Dee, have been married for 41 years, and have two sons and three grandchildren.

HONOLULU 2012 Topic:
• Putting the “OUT” in Outreach • Friday, 10:30 am, Rm 318 B

DAVE BARR
Dave is senior pastor of New Hope Windward Christian Fellowship in Kane‘ohe, Hawai‘i. Founded in January 2000, New Hope Windward has become a multi-site church. As a motivational speaker for businesses and civic organizations, Dave teaches about time management, building healthy marriages, parenting, team building and navigating teams through difficult changes. Prior to full-time ministry, Dave led a multi-million dollar international company in Hawai‘i. He lives in Kane‘ohe with his wife, Lisa, and three daughters. He enjoys watching movies, golfing, riding motorcycles and spending time with his family.

HONOLULU 2012 Topic:
• Time Management for the Time-Starved Schedule • Thursday, 8:30 pm, Rm 318 B

JOHN BRYSON
John is co-founder and pastor of Fellowship, Memphis, a multi-cultural church ministering in the evolving urban core of Memphis, Tennessee. John is also a leadership coach and consultant with Fellowship Associates and author of College Ready. He holds an MBA from the University of North Texas, an MDiv from Dallas Seminary, and a DMin in redemptive and organization leadership from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. John served in college ministry at Denton Bible Church in Texas and did a Church Planting Residency Program at Fellowship Associates in Little Rock, Arkansas. John and his wife Beth have enjoyed over 16 years of marriage and are the proud parents of five kids. John travels the country consulting and investing in churches, leaders and great ideas wherever he can find them.

HONOLULU 2012 Topics:
• Understanding Authentic Manhood • Thursday, 8:30 pm, Rm 323 A
• Raising Sons and Raising Daughters • Friday, 8:30 pm, Rm 324
• College Ready: Flourishing and Excelling at College • Saturday, 10:30 am, Rm 328

ERIK BURKLIN
www.chinapartner.org
President of China Partner (CP), Erik is a third-generation missionary whose grandparents served with China Inland Mission, taking the Gospel to China before it closed to foreign missionaries in 1950. In 1989, his father, Dr. Werner Burklin, founded CP after realizing that China’s greatest need was in training and equipping emerging Chinese Christian leaders. An ordained minister, Erik received his MDiv from Denver Seminary. He travels regularly to China, organizing and teaching pastoral training seminars where future Chinese pastors and lay pastors learn about evangelism, evangelistic preaching, pastoral care, Christian leadership and discipleship.

HONOLULU 2012 Topic:
• Jesus Never Left China • Friday, 8:30 pm, Rm 305 AB

JIM BURNS
Jim is president of HomeWord and host of HomeWord’s 30-minute daily, 30-minute weekly, one-hour weekly, and one-minute daily radio broadcasts. Each weekday in cities across America, over a million people hear Jim’s radio ministry to families. His passion is communicating practical truths to adults and young people to help them live out their Christian lives. Jim is a three-time Gold Medallion Award winning author whose recent books include Teaching Your Children Healthy Sexuality, Confident Parenting, and Creating an Intimate Marriage. He speaks in person to thousands of people each year around the world with a message of hope for families. A long time friend of HIM, Jim and his wife, Cathy, and their daughters Christy, Rebecca, and Heidi, live in Southern California.

HONOLULU 2012 Topics:
• Creating a MediaSafe Home • Thursday, 8:30 pm, Rm 310
• Understanding Teens (and Pre-Teens) • Friday, 3:30 pm, 323 B
• Parenting Adult Children • Saturday, 10:30 am, Rm 320

BART CAMPOLO
Bart is founder of Mission Year, a Christian ministry that recruits young adults to live and work among the poor in urban neighborhoods across the US, and leader of Walnut Hills Fellowship, an interfaith community in inner-city Cincinnati. Born and raised in suburban Philadelphia, Bart graduated from Brown University, then went to work with young people in South Minneapolis, where he met his wife Marty. In 1989 the Campolos moved to West Philadelphia to found the ministry that later became Mission Year. In 2005 they moved to Cincinnati to serve again at street level. Now, through the Abraham’s Path Initiative, Bart is actively pursuing peace on a global level as well.

HONOLULU 2012 Topics:
• Sharing Your Faith, Not Your Theology • Thursday, 8:30 pm, Rm 301 B
• Building Authentic Loving Relationships Across Race, Gender, Age and Cultural
Boundaries • Friday, 10:30 am, Rm 301 A
• Lessons from the Front • Saturday, 10:30 am, Rm 324

TONY CAMPOLO
www.tonycampolo.org
Professor emeritus at Eastern University, Tony is an internationally recognized speaker and prolific author. A former professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Tony holds a PhD from Temple University and is an ordained Baptist minister. Founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, he has provided leadership to create, nurture and support programs for at-risk children in cities across North America, and has helped establish schools and universities in several developing countries. Highly sought after as a media commentator on religious, social and political matters, Tony has authored 38 books, including his latest releases: Choose Love Not Power, Connecting Like Jesus, and Stories That Feed Your Soul.

HONOLULU 2012 Topic:
• Overcoming the Barriers to Faith in King Jesus • Thursday, 8:30 pm, Rm 315
• Addressing the Critical Political Issues of Today from Christian Points of View • Friday, 8:30 pm, Rm 315
• Red Letter Christians and King Jesus • General Session No. 5 • Saturday, 8:00 am, 4th Floor Ballroom

EVAN CARMICHAEL
Evan pastors Sure Foundation Hilo with his wife Shinobu. Involved in ministry from the age of 10, he served as a worship leader at his parents’ church for many years prior to becoming senior pastor of Sure Foundation Hilo. Evan and Shinobu together continue to build a church that will lead people into deeper, more committed relationships with Jesus Christ.
HONOLULU 2012 Topics:
• Finding Balance • Friday, 3:30 pm, Rm 319 B
• Navigating the Seasons of Life • Saturday, 10:30 am, 319 A

MEMREY CASEY
Memrey Casey is director and co-founder of In His House Hawai‘i (IHHH), a nonprofit, healing retreat center in Kane‘ohe, Hawai‘i. Memrey moved to Hawai‘I at the age of 21, and received a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Hawai‘i. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who provides private practice counseling services operating in the power of the Holy Spirit. She is a member of Hope Chapel Kane‘ohe Bay. Memrey and her husband Carl Jones have been married for 27 years and have 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren.

HONOLULU 2012 Topics:
• Healing Traumatic Emotional Wounds • Thursday, 8:30 pm, 317 B
• Fighting Fair Without Burning the House Down (with Carl Jones) • Friday, 10:30 am,
Rm 324

DON COUSINS
www.doncousins.org
President of Team Development, Inc. (TDI), Don consults, coaches, speaks and writes. He is a native of Chicago and received his BA in Biblical Studies from Trinity International University. He helped Bill Hybels launch Willow Creek Community Church in the fall of 1975, and spent 17 years serving on the staff there. In 1992, he began TDI, a ministry designed to guide Christian leaders and organizations in transforming their vision into action. His books include Walking with God (a disciple-making curriculum for small groups), Experiencing LeaderSHIFT, which presents a biblical definition and application of leadership, and Unexplainable: Pursuing a Life Only God Can Make Possible.

More on Don:
Video: Unexplainable

SHAUNTI FELDHAHN
www.shaunti.com
Shaunti Feldhahn began her career as an analyst on Wall Street and today is an author, speaker, and groundbreaking researcher investigating eye-opening truths that many of us tend to miss — like what women don’t “get” about men! She holds a master’s in public policy from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s in government and economics from The College of William & Mary. She recently concluded six years as a nationally syndicated columnist in 50 newspapers. The books in her popular “Only” series, including For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men, and For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women, For Young Women Only, and For Young Men Only, have led to great life-change — and fascinating conversation — for men, women, parents and teens around the country. Her newest book The Male Factor is a startling exploration of what men privately think in the workplace but rarely share perceptions that often fundamentally affect their female colleagues. Her bestselling books have sold more than one million copies and have been translated into 18 different languages.

More on Shaunti:
Video: The Male Factor

DAVE GIBBONS
www.newsong.net
Dave Gibbons loves to invest his life in atypical leaders throughout the world: the fringe and the misfits, the outsiders and the under-resourced. Dave is an activist for cultural innovation. He incorporates entrepreneurial mindsets, creative ethos and ancient wisdom from spiritual frameworks to socially active endeavors primarily through XEALOT, which creatively resources (human, knowledge and financial capital) passionate, third culture leaders to radically flow with the Holy Spirit in and out of multiple domains and cultures. Dave is author of The Monkey and the Fish, an award-winning book on culture and the church. He has served on the board of World Vision U.S. and helps to guide a group of third culture faith communities called NEWSONG, based in Los Angeles, CA.

More on Dave:
Video: Third Culture
Video: The Monkey and the Fish

DENEE HAMILTON
Denee has spent the last 19 years as a devoted wife and mom. Ask her about children’s ministry and you will see the passion and compassion for Christ & kids come alive (you’ll probably get a tear or two also). Denee has served in children’s ministry for the last 15 years as a teacher, worship leader, prop creator, VBS Director (co director, co-co director), administrator, organizer, communicator, advocator, mentor, budgeter, manager, and many other “ors” along the journey. But, most important, she has been a close friend to those she served while maintaining a calm focus on thriving and not just surviving.

SHANE HIPPS
www.shanehipps.com
I used to have a career in advertising where I worked on Porsche cars. Eventually I felt compelled to leave it all and attend seminary in California. After graduating, I became the lead pastor of a small Mennonite church in Arizona. Today I’m a teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids MI. Despite my vocational whiplash, I have always been driven by one thing– I want to be a catalyst in people’s movement towards God. These days I do that through teaching, speaking, and writing.

More on Shane:
Video: Forming Faith in the Digital Age Pt. 1
Video: Forming Faith in the Digital Age Pt. 2

JESSICA JACKLEY
www.kiva.org / www.profounder.com
Jessica is a Cofounder of Kiva, and served as Kiva’s first Chief Marketing Officer. She is currently Founder and CEO of ProFounder, a platform providing new ways for small business entrepreneurs in the U.S. to access start-up capital through crowd funding and community involvement. Jessica has also worked with the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Amazon.com, Potentia Media, the International Foundation, World Vision, and others. Jessica is an active advisor and board member on a number of organizations championing microfinance, women’s issues, tech, and the arts. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Certificates in Global Management and Public Management, and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Bucknell University. She teaches Global Entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business at USC, and is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society.

More on Jessica:
Video: How KIVA Works
Video: Poverty, Money — and Love (TED Talk)

CAROLE LEWIS
www.firstplace4health.com
Carole is the national director for First Place 4 Health, a Christ-centered healthy living program and a ministry of Houston’s First Baptist Church. A warm, transparent and humorous communicator, Lewis is a popular speaker and author of ten books including First Place, Choosing to Change, The Divine Diet, and First Place 4 Health. Carole leads conferences, Christian spas, workshops and seminars with an emphasis on personal and spiritual balance, fitness, encouragement and temperament analysis. Her audiences know her as warm, transparent, honest and humorous. Carole and her husband, Johnny, have three children (one deceased) eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. They live in Houston, TX.

More on Carole:
Video: Carole Lewis on The Good Life

KAREN MAKISHIMA
Karen Makishima currently serves at First Presbyterian Church Honolulu at Ko’olau as the Director of Children’s Ministry. She has 10+ years of experience as a Children’s Director developing teams that strive to make a difference in the lives of children and their family. Lord willing she will complete her Masters degree in Children and Family Ministry through Bethel Seminary this June.

JOHN ORTBERG
www.johnortberg.com
John Ortberg, is passionate about “spiritual formation,” which is how people become more like Jesus. His teaching brings Scripture alive and invariably includes practical applications and warm humor. John is the author of many books, including “If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat” and “The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Growth for Ordinary People”, and his latest book, “The Me I Want To Be”. He has recently partnered with Monvee, an online spiritual assessment tool that helps individuals and churches create hand crafted spiritual growth plans. John is Senior Pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, a 4,000-member church Northern California with campuses in Menlo Park, Mountain View, and San Mateo. A number of John’s teachings are available here. He has three children and resides in San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Nancy.

More on John:
Video: When the Game is Over It All Goes Back in the Box
Video: The Me I Want To Be – An Interview with John Ortberg

NANCY ORTBERG
www.nancyortberg.com
Nancy served as a teaching pastor for eight years at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Il. She has been a consulting partner with the The Table Group and Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. She’s a founding partner of Teamworx2, a business and leadership consulting firm that provides fast-paced, practical, and compelling sessions to leaders and their teams. These days she provides leadership direction and oversight at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church. Nancy is a gifted communicator who is passionate about helping people connect what they believe with their everyday lives. A highly sought-after speaker, she has been a featured presenter at Catalyst and Orange conferences, and has been a regular contributor to Rev! Magazine. Nancy is the author of Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey through Tattoos, Tofu, & Pronouns and Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands, Lessons in Non-Linear Leadership. She has raised three grown children and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband John.

More about Nancy:
Video: Nancy Ortberg on Leadership
Video: aka: “Creator”

PETER SCAZZERO
www.petescazzero.com / www.newlifefellowship.org
Pete is author of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, a groundbreaking work on the integration of emotional health and contemplative spirituality. He has also authored The Emotionally Healthy Church, winner of the Gold Medallion Award for 2003, Begin the Journey with the Daily Office, and several best-selling Bible study guides. Pete is the founder and senior pastor of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York City. He holds a M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell and a D.Min. in Marriage and Family from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Pete and his wife, Geri, have four daughters, are co-founders of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.

More on Pete:
Video: Surrender, Silence, Sabbatical 2011
Video: Pete & Geri Testimony

GERI SCAZZERO
www.emotionallyhealthy.org
Geri is a Teaching Pastor at New Life and serves as Director of the Marriage Ministry. She is co-author of The Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Workbook for small groups and also speaks regularly to pastors, leaders and their spouses across North America. Geri and her husband, Pete, have four daughters, are co-founders of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.

More on Geri:
Video: Surrender, Silence, Sabbatical 2011
Video: Pete & Geri Testimony

Also at Honolulu 2012:

LECRAE MOORE
www.myspace.com/lecrae
LeCrae Moore is a Christian rap artist with a passion for impacting urban culture. He has recorded a number of albums including the January 2011 release Rehab: The Overdose, the sequel to his fourth album Rehab. He is the co-founder of ReachLife Ministries, a non-profit organization that partners with other organizations in equipping local leaders with culturally relevant tools and media projects designed to strengthen communities with the word of God. Currently, LeCrae resides in Atlanta, GA with his wife and children. He and his wife are small group leaders at their church. With a musically evolving and successful discography, nationwide tours along with the 116 Clique, and a generation of young believers around the world inspired to live unashamed; Lecrae is humbled by his position in the growing movement to spread the Gospel. His hope is that Reach’s impact will spread far beyond simply the music and into the lives of individuals across the globe, ultimately exalting Jesus Christ.

More on LeCrae:
Video: I Am Second
Audio: Hallelujah

SHAWN WELCOME
www.shawnwelcome.com
Shawn Welcome, a nationally known performance poet, is blessed with a gift to encourage, inspire, educate, and motivate! Shawn has more than 10 years’ public performing experience, which includes drama and acting. He has ministered to various churches across the Central Florida area and has also spoken in the corporate arena for companies, such as Nike, Johnson & Johnson, Hewitt Associates, Wycliffe Bible Translators, and much more. Shawn (former stage name, Willie Lowman) ranked 14 in the 2007 National Poetry Slam. Shawn currently hosts “Di-verse Word,” at Dandelion Communitea Cafe, a weekly open mic, held near downtown Orlando, Florida. In 2010, Shawn resigned a corporate position to pursue his passion as a full-time poet, educator, and public speaker, which he believes to be his purpose in life. Shawn’s goal is to use his gift with words as a light in a dark decadent world, thirsty for hope and hungry for change. He is married to his beautiful wife, Jannah, and is the father of two children, Qui’aurie and Qui’vonce. Today, along with performance poetry, Shawn Welcome is a student counselor at Oak Ridge and Jones High School for a non-profit organization called POPS which stands for Professional Opportunities Program for Students. Their mission is to prepare high school aged young people for college and career through a series of monthly workshops, a college tour, and summer internships!

More on Shawn:
Video: Shawn Welcome Interview – Samy Priso Show
Audio: Faceless