Conference Summer Schedule - Cannon Beach Christian Conference Center

Summer Family Conference with Jerry Benjamin
June 21-28, 2008
Jerry Benjamin travels extensively in the United States, Canada, and other parts of the world as an Itinerant Bible Teacher proclaiming the message of the living and indwelling Lord Jesus. Emphasis is given to the centrality of Christ in all of Scripture. His Jewish upbringing prior to salvation adds rich insights, while interweaving themes and practical applications, all concentrating on the Person and work of Jesus Christ.

Summer Family Conference with Harvey Powers
June 28-July 2, 2008 (half week)
Harvey Powers is founder of the Redimere Group—Center for Counseling and Leadership Development. He demonstrates compassion and understanding of everyday life as he addresses important issues from a sound, biblical perspective. Harvey is insightful and discerning from years of ministry experience with an engaging speaking style that creates a positive audience experience.

Summer Family Conference with Mike Vanlaningham
July 2-5, 2008 (half week)
Mike Vanlaningham is Professor of Bible at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois where he has taught since 1998. He earned a doctorate from Trinity International University, and before coming on staff at Moody, pastored churches in California, Nebraska, and Illinois. Often quoted and published, Mike brings a wealth of biblical knowledge to his speaking engagements where audiences find him personable, interesting, humorous, and able to apply scripture to everyday life.

Summer Family Conference with Ian Leitch
July 5-12, 2008
Ian Leitch and his publication The Heralds Trust is known throughout Christian circles. He has a unique personality and pulpit style that appeals to people of all ages. His enthusiasm for the Gospel and Godliness are contagious. For well over 30 years Ian has been an Evangelist, Bible teacher, and has pioneered a traveling Bible School called the New Life Seminars. He has the heart of an evangelist and is happiest when he is presenting the Gospel throughout the world. Ian and his wife, Morag, reside in Edinburgh Scotland.

Summer Family Conference with Bill Farrel
July 12-19, 2008
Bill Farrel has been impacting lives for twenty years as a Senior Pastor, Youth Pastor and conference speaker. He has co-authored with his wife, Pam, Men are Like Waffles, Women are Like Spaghetti (Harvest House), Pure Pleasure: Making Your Marriage a Great Affair (co-authored with Jim and Sally Conway), Marriage in the Whirlwind: Seven Skills for Couples Who Can’t Slow Down (InterVarsity Press), Love, Honor and Forgive (InterVarsity Press) and their newest book Red Hot Monogamy. Bill has also written Devotions for Men on the Go (co-authored with Steven Arteburn).

Bill came to know Christ at age 16, after watching the film “The Exorcist”, and has since discovered freedom in life...freedom from fear, freedom from guilt and freedom to achieve God’s best. Bill then attended Talbot Seminary at Biola University and graduated with an MDIV in Practical Theology with an emphasis in counseling. His “LifeCoaching” method of helping people achieve their God given potential has helped thousands. Bill thinks that God has designed life to be a great adventure. In fact, his favorite theological word is “WOW!”

He is a frequent guest on radio and TV including. His practical teachings, sprinkled with humor and real life illustrations, challenge and encourage all audiences. Bill is a powerful role model. He is the father of 3 active boys, who all love football, along with various other sports. Bill and his sons have spearheaded an annual Father/Son Fishing trip, an annual TurkeyBowl, and his oldest son, Brock, was named San Diego Citizen of the Year in 2002. Click here for Bill Farrel's website.

Summer Family Conference with Ray Pritchard
July 19 – 26, 2008
Ray Pritchard serves as president of Keep Believing Ministries. He has ministered extensively overseas in Columbia, Paraguay, Belize, Haiti, Nigeria, Switzerland, Russia, India, Nepal and China. He is a frequent conference speaker and guest on Christian radio and television talk shows. He has written 27 books, including The Healing Power of Forgivement, An Anchor for the Soul, The Incredible Journey of Faith, The ABCs of Wisdom, Leadership Lessons of Jesus, and Why Did This Happen to Me? His most recent book is Credo: Believing in Something to Die For.

For 26 years he pastored churches in Los Angeles, Dallas and most recently in Chicago sixteen years. He is a graduate of Tennessee Temple University (B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.) and Talbot School of Theology (D.Min.). He has been married to Marlene for 33 years. Their three sons (Josh, Mark and Nick) have spent time in recent years teaching English in China. Josh and Leah were married in July 2006. His hobbies include biking, surfing the Internet, anything related to the Civil War, and playing with Dudley, their basset hound.

Summer Family Conference with Ron Cline & Jim Burns
July 26-August 2, 2008

Ron Cline, board chairman at HCJB Global, is a man gifted in communicating the gospel of Jesus Christ. His background as a pastor, educator, counselor and missionary gives him credibility and rapport with the many groups and individuals around the world to whom he and his wife, Barb, minister each year.

Ron is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University (APU) in California. He also attended Fuller and Talbot seminaries and studied counseling and guidance at Pasadena Graduate School, all in California. In 1982 he received a doctorate of divinity from Azusa. He is an ordained minister and a licensed marriage, family and child counselor, as is his wife, Barb.

The Clines split their time between Quito, Ecuador (home of the ministry’s primary shortwave broadcasting and health care facilities), and Colorado Springs, where the ministry’s international headquarters are based.

Jim Burns is President of HomeWord and host of Homeword's 30 minute daily radio broadcast, 30 minute weekly broadcast, and the 1 minute daily broadcast. Each weekday in cities across America over a million people hear Jim through his radio ministry to families. His passion is communicating to adults and young people practical truths to help them live out their Christian lives.

Jim is a three time Gold Medallion Award winning author and has written books for parents, youth workers, and students. His resources include Confident Parenting (May 2007), Creating an Intimate Marriage book, also on audio, and Creating an Intimate Marriage Kit, The 10 Building Blocks for a Happy Family; and The Youth Builder. He speaks in-person to thousands of people each year around the world with a message of hope for families.

Jim and his wife, Cathy, and their daughters Christy, Rebecca, and Heidi, live in Southern California.

Summer Family Conference with Luis Palau
August 2-9, 2008

More than four decades after arriving in America from his native Argentina, Luis Palau is more intent than ever to follow his calling to spread the powerful word of God throughout the world. He has preached the Good News to more than 1 billion people worldwide through radio, television, print, the Internet and festivals. He has spoken in person—“face to face” before live audiences—to more than 25 million people. Whether on stage; through his radio messages heard daily in over 40 countries; or in counsel and prayer with leaders from the local church to the White House, Palau consistently remains one of the world's most effective and compelling spiritual communicators.

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Summer Family Conference (half week) with Tom Schrader
August 9-13, 2008
Tom Shrader was born and raised in Davenport, Iowa. After graduating from St. Ambrose College, he migrated to Phoenix, Arizona. In 1978 he began a successful career in the fast-paced, highly-competitive, commercial real estate industry. Eventually he joined a colleague in forming their own real estate brokerage firm. Tom's life was changed forever in March of 1980 when he met Christ for the first time. He is now the senior pastor of large Phoenix church. Since 1991 he has also been involved in a teaching ministry under the banner of Priority Living of Arizona. He currently leads three weekly study groups, targeted primarily at business men and women. Tom's studies also make up the content of the daily radio broadcast Exploring the Truth. Tom has a refreshing straight-forward style of teaching that offers sound biblical answers to practical, everyday questions.
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Musical artist: Mila Polevia (contemporary/inspirational)

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Summer Family Conference (half week) with Bruce Fong
August 13-16, 2008
Bruce Fong has served as President of Michigan Theological Seminary in Plymouth, Michigan since 1999. Previously he was professor of Homiletics, Bible, and Pastoral Ministries at Multnomah Biblical Seminary. He also speaks at Promise Keepers, Family Life, and Bible conferences in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to Seminary employment Bruce has been a pastor and missionary. He has authored Racial Equality in the Church (University Press of America), and contributed to several periodical publications. Bruce and wife Yvonne have three children. Bruce is an excellent communicator masterfully using illustrations and humor to enhance his in-depth Bible teaching.

Musical artists: The Beene Family (Southern Gospel/inspirational)

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Summer Family Conference with Ed Underwood
August 16-23, 2008
Ed Underwood enjoys teaching the Bible for life-change, training and equipping leaders, and leading a church with the faith to ask God for big things. “I did not grow up in a Christian home,” Ed says. “This has marked me with a deep appreciation of the Lord’s power to transform lives, families and cultures. When Jesus Christ steps in, nothing should be the same.” He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and “in this younger years” served as an officer in the United States Army and a firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service. Ed and his wife Judy have three children and five grandchildren and pastor in Southern California.

Musical artists: RESCUE (acappella/contemporary)

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Summer Family Conference with
Bob Kraning & Bob Vernon
August 23-29, 2008
Formerly Director of Forest Home Conference Center, Bob Kraning joined Chuck Swindoll’s staff as Pastor of Men’s Ministry and Evangelism in 1988. Founder of Good Word Ministries, Bob now travels full time teaching and preaching. An excellent and enthusiastic communicator, Bob radiates his love for the Lord. His teaching has been featured by Focus on the Family, Priority Living, and numerous other ministries across the United States.
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Bob Vernon is president of Pointman Leadership Institute and has recently completed the book Eight Ethics of Highly Effective Leaders: The Foundation of Character. During his 38 years in the Los Angeles Police department, Bob has come to be known as a Christian willing to stand up for his faith under difficult circumstances, speaking across the United States and around the world with a message of Christian ethics and need for moral change. He is a popular speaker with great cop stories to illustrate biblical truth.
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Musical artist: Diane Susek (Inspirational)

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Labor Day Family Conference with Ron Allen
August 29-September 1, 2008
Ron Allen is Senior Professor of Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary. He has spoken many times in Cannon Beach as one of our most popular conference speakers, a great story teller, and able to expand greatly on current topics. Ron is an articulate writer with many books and articles to his credit plus a collaboration with Nelson Publishers on the Nelson Study Bible. An Old Testament scholar, Ron draws from a background in archaeology and many trips to the Middle East, to enhance his Bible teaching.
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Musical artist: Johnny Ray Watson (inspirational/gospel)