Russell Moore is President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral concerns and public policy entity of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. He is a frequent cultural commentator, an ethicist and theologian by background, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister. Moore is author of several books, including Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel. A native Mississippian, he and his wife Maria are the parents of five sons.
Pediatrician, mother, and bestselling author of six books, Meg Meeker has spent over 25 years practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine while also helping parents and children to communicate more openly about difficult issues. Following the success of her acclaimed book Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, Meeker’s latest work, Strong Mothers, Strong Sons, looks closely at that powerful, essential relationship. Dr. Meeker is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics as well as the National Advisory Board of the Medical Institute, and a clinical assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, at Michigan State University.
As President and CEO, Roland leads Care Net’s work of supporting one of the nation’s largest networks of pregnancy centers and running the nation’s only real-time call center providing pregnancy decision coaching. Roland’s passion for protecting life and building strong families has helped shape Care Net’s expanded vision for not only saving the lives of the unborn, but ensuring that they live the abundant lives God has in store for them.
In 1993, Kevin emerged as a full fledged international TV star when he was cast as the lead role of Hercules in a series of TV films that would lay the groundwork for the immensely popular series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. In real life, Kevin leads "A World Fit for Kids”, a successful mentoring model that trains inner-city teens to use school, fitness, sports and positive role models for themselves, and then become the coaches and mentors for younger children. In 2004, the program was awarded the Governor’s Gold Star for the most successful after-school program in the state of California. Then in 2003, Kevin was named national spokesperson, successor to Arnold Schwarzenegger, for the Afterschool Alliance; a non-profit organization working to ensure that all children have access to safe, enriching afterschool programs. Most recently, Kevin co-starred in God's Not Dead, a Christian film in which he portrayed an atheist college professor. He is directing and starring in an upcoming Christian film, Let There Be Light, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Sam, and their three children.
As a husband and father of two daughters, Jeffrey Dean is passionately pro marriage and pro-life. An ordained pastor, evangelist and author, Jeffrey is the founder of Jeffrey Dean Ministries, whose mission is to help people know and grow in Christ. A 22-year veteran of evangelism and family ministry, Jeffrey is celebrated as a national voice for the unborn. He will be leading the morning devotions each day at conference.
NEW THIS YEAR! Don't miss the opportunity to learn all you can about Millennials, what drives their decisions, and how you can take this information and apply it to your center. A team from Axis will provide relevant information to equip you in how to effectively introduce and address life's toughest topics to Millennials. Then, you'll hear from popular speaker Dr. Kathy Koch as she takes this information and helps you apply it to your center.
John Parrott is the Worship Arts Director of Discovery Church in Orlando, FL. There he gives leadership to the worship and technical ministries of a one church, multiple venue model. His role consists of worship service creation and planning as well as leading worship in the various venue locations. With almost 20 years experience in leading worship, songwriting, and teaching, God has sent John all over the world to be a voice for His Kingdom. He and his team will be leading our conference praise and worship throughout the week.
