LCMC Annual Gathering Keynote Speakers
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- David Kinnaman
- Bill Hull
- David Witt
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President and Strategic Leader, The Barna Group
Since joining Barna in 1995, David has designed and analyzed nearly 500 projects for a variety of clients, including Campus Crusade for Christ, Columbia House, Compassion International, Easter Seals, Focus on the Family, Habitat for Humanity, Integrity Media, InterVarsity, NBC-Universal, Salvation Army, Sony, Thomas Nelson, Time-Life, Prison Fellowship, World Vision, Zondervan and many others. As a spokesperson for the firm’s research, he is frequently quoted in major media outlets He is also in demand as a speaker about ministry trends, today’s teenagers, the profile of young leaders, and generational changes. He is the author of the best-selling book, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity, and the Barna report, Ministry to Mosaics: Teens and the Supernatural.
The son of a lifelong pastor, David has served in various capacities within congregations he has attended, including working with teenagers, teaching, and providing strategic consulting. He graduated summa cum laude from Biola University (La Mirada, California), where he served as Student Chaplain. David and his wife, Jill, live in Ventura, California, with their three kids.
- Founding Director and President, Choose the Life Ministries
Bill’s passion has been to help the church return to its disciple making roots and he considers himself a discipleship evangelist. This God-given desire has manifested itself in twenty years of pastoral service and the authorship of ten books. His first book, Jesus Christ Disciplemaker, is celebrating 20 years with a new edition. The Disciple Making Pastor and the Disciple Making Church are two successive books which make up his popular disciple making trilogy. These books have provided the church with a new paradigm for disciple making.
After a fruitful ministry with Athletes in Action and receiving a Master of Divinity degree from Talbot School of Theology, Bill pastored in the Evangelical Free Church 20 years, spent eight years as the U.S. Director for the Evangelical Free Church of America and creating T-NET International, a training network dedicated to local church transformation. He currently writes, teaches, and serves as adjunct professor at several seminaries, and is the Founding Director and President of Choose the Life Ministries. Bill and his wife, Jane make their home in Long Beach, California and are the parents of two grown sons. Bill is currently writing and teaching discipleship through the Choose the Life effort.
- Western Regional Mission Representative for The Voice of the Martyrs
Pastor Witt has spoken in over 1,300 churches and Christian ministries in the United States, traveled throughout Canada and Mexico, visited thirteen countries in Europe, and spent three weeks in Israel at the Holy Land Institute for Biblical Studies. His travels with The Voice of the Martyrs have taken him to 16 restricted nations. He has brought support and encouragement to believers in Laos, Sudan, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. He has preached in underground church meetings and taught in Bible schools in Vietnam, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia. In China, he met with house church leaders and personally witnessed their triumphant faith and courage. Most recently, he met with persecuted Christians in Egypt, Israel and Iraq. His heart has been touched, and his life changed, by their actions of love and faithfulness to Jesus, even when facing death. Pastor Witt desires to share their stories.
David was ordained a Pastor and Minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ in 1994, and spent a total of fourteen years in youth ministry. During this time he helped start a network of Christian youth ministries in his local area of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and participated in the Ministerial Alliance of Steamboat Springs. Pastor Witt was actively involved in Young Life, leading mission trips to inner city Denver and the country of Mexico, and was the Area Coordinator
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