Christmas Conference – December 7-9, 2012
with Art Azurdia

Dr. Arturo Azurdia III is Senior Minister of Word and Worship at Trinity
Church and Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Director of Pastoral
Mentoring at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.
He is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, having attended the California
State University at Hayward where he received a B. A. in Music Performance.
His M. Div. was earned from The American Baptist Seminary of the West in
Berkeley, California, and his D. Min. from Westminster Seminary in
Escondido, California. He was the founding minister of Christ Community
Church in Fairfield, California, where he subsequently pastored for 19
years.
Art is the author of Spirit Empowered Preaching (Christian Focus
Publications) and a contributing author in two additional volumes: The
Compromised Church (Crossway) and Reforming Pastoral Ministry (Crossway).
He is a frequent speaker at various national and international
conferences.
His interests include film, literature, baseball, and the music of Arturo
Sandoval.
Art and his wife, Lori, have two children, Katherine and Jonathan.
This is generally an adult only conference. No children's program is
included.
