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Convergence Summit 2011 - Speakers
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Andy Taylor
www.justasyouare.com
Andy Taylor is the founder and leader of Trinity Fellowship in Sayre, Oklahoma, one of the largest and fastest growing churches in Western Oklahoma. He’s involved in giving apostolic oversight to a growing number of churches and ministries. The basis for all that Andy does is from an intimate relationship with the Father, as he promotes worship, prayer and “relationship” above all else, cultivating “family” in the body of believers. Andy’s profound ability to make complex scriptural issues simple and practical is his key to “equipping the saints for the work of the ministry”, and to have a living and powerful church that impacts the community, the state and the nations. He is fiercely protective of those called into the ministry, and his heart is to stand with and restore those pastors who have been wounded, fallen, or dropped out on the call for their life. Andy and his wife Julie have been married for 35 years and are proud parents of 5 children and 6 grandchildren.
Ben Fike
For twenty-two years Ben was a pastor and established churches in Central and Northern California. Since 1988 he has been traveling to churches in USA and several other countries as an itinerant minister. He ministers to leadership teams, pastors, elders and speaks into churches. He also speaks into the business community on leadership and vision. He teaches on the Kingdom of God, prayer and contemplation, arts and worship and other topics. He is also a writer and artist.
Ben, and his wife Roz, live in Westcliffe, Colorado.
Jack Taylor
www.coffeewithjack.com
Jack Taylor is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas. He was the pastor of several churches over twenty-five years and is the author of thirteen widely accepted books and several tape series.
For the last twenty-six years and currently, he travels extensively, ministering the word of God to the Body of Christ at large. With a visit to Toronto in August of 1994 during which a significant healing took place both physically and spiritually in Jack Taylor, his ministry took a dramatic turn with increased manifestations of the power of the Holy Spirit.
Continuing to preach predominantly in the United States in churches of many denominations, with trips to Canada, England, Africa, India, and Taiwan, he added Renewal circles and “Catch the Fire” Conferences to his ministry. Jack has spoken often at Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship where Renewal began in 1994, has been a guest multiple times on TBN’s “Praise the Lord” television program, and has participated in many radio broadcasts around the country.
The Lord has gifted Jack with an apostolic insight into the word of God and the heart to communicate the fullness of His Kingdom to any who will hear. Jack is the President of Dimensions Ministries in Melbourne, Florida. Jack was married to Friede Taylor on December 28, 2004. They both enjoy traveling together. When Jack and Friede are not traveling, they enjoy spending time with their grandchildren on the beach.
David & Janice Vancronkhite
www.bloodnfire.com
Seventeen years ago the call of God came to David VanCronkhite in a promise: “If you will go to the poor, I will bless you.” As a result of saying yes, David and his wife, Janice, founded Blood n Fire, an outreach to the poor that evolved into a church and ministry. God repeatedly showed that “when you give to the poor, you lend to the Lord and He rewards.”
In 2007 God gave a fresh promise, requiring every risk, success and failure of the past to establish it: “I will teach you two new values: faith and love.” Spiritual gifts, callings and causes suddenly became secondary to David as he began learning the reality of Paul’s most provocative declaration: “The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.”
David continues the journey from the “the lowlands of salvation” into daily exploring the mysteries of a relational and supernatural Kingdom. His statement, “If the Kingdom of God is anything -- and it is everything – it’s relational, supernaturally relational,” has become the foundation of his life message.
David’s walk with God as a young man began with a hunger for evangelism, evolving into a ministry of power evangelism with signs and wonders. Years later, after discovering God’s preferential option for the poor with the supernatural impartation of compassion, he was awakened to the Kingdom of God at hand.
It was at this point that God took him “to the sea,” a most painful time learning, as did Nebuchadnezzar, that He is a jealous God desiring all our love. David rediscovered His love, His grace and His mercy as the essential foundations in relationship and community life together.
David authored a weekly series called Pondering the Journey that re-evaluates the perspective of life in His Kingdom. He is also the author of TWELVE, a look at the relational call of community; I Want a Story, highlighting the lives and miracles from the years among Atlanta’s poor; and Redux, a photo journal of sixteen years on the streets with the homeless of Atlanta.
Now in the process of redefining vision, values, focus and goals of Blood n Fire, David’s greatest testimony to God’s challenges and the changes in his life remains: “He is faithful.”
David Kula
Growing up in metro Chicago as a self-described ‘cultural Catholic’ with absolutely no relationship with the Lord, David Kula became one of the most shrewd and feared corporate lawyers in his field. But his head on collision with the Lord in 1982 abruptly changed it all. David soon left the corporate scene behind to work serving the homeless in the most poverty-ravished area in inner city Atlanta for a number of years. At the clear direction of the Lord he then relocated to North Carolina where he would spend the next season loving and serving the hippies and new agers migrating in and out of the Asheville area. David’s keen insight into the kingdom of God and his intense desire for authentic relationships cause him to be an extremely valuable asset for the Summit. David now spends his time as a speaker, consultant and life coach. He and his wife Val still reside in Asheville, NC.
John Wallace
http://www.kingdomculturedallas.org/
John left a successful dental practice in Oklahoma to attend the Dallas Theological Seminary. It was during that time that he attended a Vineyard Conference hosted by Vineyard founder, John Wimber. In that meeting he was confronted with the reality of signs and wonders and the supernatural power of God and he would never be the same. John began leading the Vineyard Church in Garland, Texas, just outside of Dallas and would do so for the next nine years. His heart for the poor led him to the Deep Ellum district of Dallas where he directed Blood n’ Fire Dallas for the next twelve years. Among many projects, he operates The Father’s House, a relational community working to rehabilitate society’s fallen. He’s the author of “Kingdom Come, Tales of a Supernatural God” a book of actual life stories of how the Father has intervened miraculously in the lives of people. John and his wife, Suzanne, continue to reside in Dallas where they operate Kingdom Culture Ministries.
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