Family Conference with Arturo Azurdia
June 21-26, 2010
25% discount
Arturo Azurdia is Associate Professor of Pastoral and Church Ministry 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...

Family Conference with Ray Pritchard
June 26-July 3, 2010
15% lodging discount
Ray Pritchard serves as president of Keep Believing Ministries. He has ministered extensively overseas in China, Bolivia, Columbia, Paraguay, Belize, Haiti, Nigeria, Switzerland, Russia, India, and Nepal. He is a frequent conference speaker and guest on Christian radio and television talk shows. He has written 27 books including Stealth Attack, Fire and Rain, The Healing Power of Forgiveness, An Anchor for the Soul, The Incredible Journey of Faith, The ABC's of Wisdom, ...

Family Conference with Craig Barnes
July 3-7, 2010 (half week)
Craig Barnes is pastor and head of staff of Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is a professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Dr. Barnes became the Robert Meneilly professor of leadership and ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 2002. In addition to this teaching ministry...

Family Conference with Tim Kimmel
July 7-10, 2010 (half week)
Tim Kimmel is one of America's top advocates speaking for the family today. He is the Executive Director of Family Matters whose goal is to equip families for every age and stage of life. He has spoken for Promise Keepers, Focus on the Family, and is a speaker for FamilyLife Ministry's Weekend To Remember conferences. Tim has authored several books including: Raising Kids For True Greatness, Grace-Based Parenting, and Why Christian Kids Rebel...

Family Conference with Shane Womack
July 10-17, 2010
Shane Womack is currently the Senior Pastor at Knott Avenue Christian Church in Anaheim, California. Knott Avenue Christian Church is a non-denominational church of 2500 members. Shane graduated from Pacific Christian College and received an MA in Christian Doctrine from Emmanuel School of Religion in Johnson City, Tennessee. Shane planted and was the Pastor of Saguaro Christian Church (now Stone Creek Church) until 1995...

Family Conference with Ron Allen
July 17-24, 2010
Ron Allen is Senior Professor of Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary. In addition to his teaching responsibilities at Dallas Seminary, Dr. Allen ministers as a guest professor or lecturer in schools in North America and in numerous countries abroad. He preaches in churches across the country, speaks at Bible conferences, regularly leads study tours in Israel, Turkey, and Greece, and has been a biblical and theological consultant for Maranatha! Music...

Family Conference with Jim Burns and Ron Cline
July 24-31, 2010
Jim Burns, Ph.D., 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...

Ron Cline is gifted at communicating the gospel of Jesus Christ, challenging and edifying the body of Christ. His background as a pastor, educator, counselor, missionary and author gives him credibility and rapport with the many groups and individuals he and his wife, Barbara, minister to around the world each year. Dr. Cline received his doctoral degree from Azusa Pacific University, is an ordained minister and a licensed marriage, family and child counselor...

Family Conference with Ray Johnston
and Sherwood Carthen
July 31-August 7, 2010
Ray Johnston founding pastor of Bayside Church and president of Developing Effective Leaders, is a twenty year veteran of both youth and adult ministry. Ray has served in a number of churches, taught at several colleges, founded a large dynamic church, led seminars at the national level, and written a number of significant books...

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...

Family Conference with Walter Kaiser
August 7-14, 2010
Walter Kaiser is the Colman M. Mockler distinguished Professor of Old Testament and President of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary until 2006. A graduate of Wheaton, he earned his Ph.D. in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University. He was academic dean and Professor of Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he taught for more than twenty years. In 1977 he served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society...

Family Conference with Dennis Keating
and Randy Alcorn
August 14-21, 2010
Dennis Keating (14-18) was born in New York State into a family of nine, moving to California near the Pasadena area as a child. He placed his personal faith in Jesus Christ after hearing the gospel at Forest Home Christian Conference Center. He received his undergraduate degree from San Diego State University and a Master of Divinity from Talbot Seminary, joining the staff at Emmanuel Faith...

Randy Alcorn (18-21) is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching biblical truth and drawing attention to the needy and how to help them. EPM exists to meet the needs of the unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled and unsupported people around the world. “My ministry focus is communicating the strategic importance of using our earthly time, money, possessions and opportunities to invest in need-meeting ministries that count for eternity, I do that by trying to...

Family Conference with Luis Palau
August 21-28, 2010
World evangelist and author Luis Palau and his ministry have shared the Gospel with more than 1 billion people through evangelistic events and media. He has spoken in person to more than 25 million people in 72 countries with more than 1 million registered decisions for Jesus Christ. His radio broadcasts in both English and Spanish are heard by millions more on over 2,600 radio stations...

Family Conference with Bill Farrel
August 28-September 3, 2010 (6 days)
Bill Farrel has been impacting lives for well over 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...

Family Conference with Tom Shrader
September 3-6, 2010 (Labor Day Weekend)
Tom Shrader is Senior Pastor of a 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. He has a refreshing straight-forward style of teaching...