Summer Family Conference
with Ray Johnston and Sherwood Carthen

July 31-August 7, 2010

Ray Johnston, President of Developing Effective Leaders, is a twenty year veteran of both youth and adult ministry. Ray has served in churches in Duarte, CA and Marin County, CA. He has been Chairman of the Department of Youth Ministry at North Park College and adjunct professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago. Since 1988 he has helped coordinate the youth Ministries Program of the Evangelical Covenant Church where he was responsible for the support of youth pastors, youth ministry training and the development and promotion of national youth events. Ray's current ministry responsibilities are varied...he is currently President of Developing Effective Leaders, and organization that sponsors leadership training seminars. He is also founding Pastor of Bayside Church. Ray has served with Youth Specialties Ministries, writing, leading seminars and speaking at the National Youth Workers Convention.

Ray is author of four books: Developing Student Leaders, Developing Spiritual Growth in Junior Highers, Help, I'm a Sunday School Teacher: 50 Ways to Make Sunday School Come Alive, and What If It's True. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, leadership training events, family camps and national youth events.

Ray is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University and Fuller Theological Seminary. Ray and his wife Carol currently live in Granite Bay with their four children Mark, Scott, Leslie and Christy.

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Sherwood Carthen is the senior pastor of Bayside of South Sacramento and the founder and director of the Our Family Community Foundation, specializing in wellness, wholeness, and faith. He is active nationally in such causes as tobacco education and substance abuse prevention, and in the Sacramento community’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. He is also chaplain for the National Basketball Association’s Sacramento Kings. Bishop Carthen received a degree in theology and an honorary D.Div. in the field of interdenominational service from the Mount Zion Institute and Bible Seminary. www.bossonline.org

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Music will feature Mila Polevia

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