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September 4-6, 2023

Doug Clay was elected chief executive officer of the General Council of the Assemblies of God at the 57th General Council in August, 2017. As general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, USA, part of the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world, he is a member of the denomination’s Executive Leadership Team and Executive Presbytery. The church has close to 13,000 congregations in the United States with nearly three million adherents. The U.S. Assemblies of God is part of a larger World Assemblies of God Fellowship with a membership of over 69 million. He and his wife, Gail, have two grown daughters and seven grandchildren.

James O. Davis, president of the Global Church Network and Cutting Edge International, is considered to be the leading Christian networker of our time. The Global Church Network (formerly Billion Soul Network) has become the largest pastors network on the globe, partnering with more than 2,400 ministries and 560,000 churches around the world. A prolific author, international speaker, and recognized expert on networking and leadership, Dr. Davis has ministered face-to-face to millions of people in more than 125 nations over the last 35 years.

David Sobrepeña is the General Superintendent and Corporate President of the Philippines General Council of the Assemblies of God (PGCAG). It was back in 1988 at the aftermath of the people power revolution where Pastor Dave left a career path in business and finance in Dallas, Texas and took up the mantle that his grandfather and father before him held. The mantle of answering God’s call in leading people to the Lord. A call that would bring him back to his country, the Philippines. Along with his wife, Lydia, Pastor Dave planted a seed in the old Paramount Theater that would eventually grow into one of the biggest churches in Metro Manila, Word of Hope Christian Family Church. To this day, he still leads Word of Hope as Senior Pastor which is one of the largest churches in the Philippines located in Metro Manila. Under his watch and with the Lord as his guide, Word of Hope grew and currently running more than 7,500 Life Groups (Cell Groups) within Metro Manila and was able to establish and maintains several institutions, namely, Hope General Hospital, Hope Christian Academy, Hope Leadership Institute, Paradise Prayer Garden and a microfinance enterprise called HOPE, Inc. Pastor Dave is Co-Chairman for Billion Soul Network, a movement that aims to lead 1 Billion people to Christ and to plant 5 million churches around the world. Along with this, he has also served in the past as Chairman of the Board of PCEC (Philippine Council of the Evangelical Churches) and as Member of the Board of APTS, a premier theological seminary in Asia. He also served the Philippine Bible Society as one of its board members. Pastor Dave is also the National Director for EQUIP Philippines and was the Head Coordinator for EQUIP Asia Pacific from 1999 to 2015. EQUIP was an organization that provides Christian leadership training worldwide and in 2012. In fact, he was inducted into the EQUIP Leadership Hall of Fame for his service. This was an award of the highest of honors which was handed to selected Christian leaders from around the world. His EQUIP team trained over 400,00 Christian leaders in numerous Asian countries including the Philippines.

Suliasi Kurulo is a Fijian Pentecostal minister and evangelist. He is the President and Founder of Christian Mission Fellowship International (CMFI), an international denomination based in Kinoya, Suva, Fiji and is also the senior pastor of World Harvest Center church, located in Suva. He also runs World Harvest Institute, a bible college based at the World Harvest Center in partnership with the world renowned Oral Roberts University from Tulsa Oklahoma. Students, past and present come from all around the Pacific, Asia, Africa and as far as Europe.

Doug Beacham is general superintendent of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. He previously served as a professor and chair of the board of trustees at Emmanuel College and as a chaplain in the U.S. Army Reserves. Beacham serves on the board of Christian Churches Together. He is a member of the National Association of Evangelicals, Pentecostal Charismatic Churches of North America, Pentecostal World Fellowship, and the Second Billion Soul Campaign. He holds an Associate of Arts from Emmanuel College; a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Georgia; and a Master of Divinity, a Master of Theology, and a Doctor of Ministry from Union Presbyterian Seminary. Beacham is Pentecostal.

Carla Sunberg was elected 43rd general superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene at the 29th General Assembly in Indianapolis, Indiana, in June 2017. At the time of her election, Dr. Sunberg was president of Nazarene Theological Seminary, where she had been serving since January 2014. Carla was born in Germany, the daughter of missionaries. She loves to teach and train leaders for the future of the church and has served as adjunct faculty for a number of institutions. Her heartfelt passion is a life of holiness and service for the Lord. Carla and Chuck are proud parents of two adult daughters, Christa, who along with her husband, Iain Maciver, lives in England; and Cara, who with her husband, Justin Shonamon, and daughters Mackenzie and Alice, lives in Shawnee, Kansas.

Tommy Barnett is the Global Pastor of one of the largest Assemblies of God churches in the U.S., Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona. The church has become known as “The Church with a Heart” because of its extensive ministry outreaches, and each year, thousands give their lives to Jesus Christ, and hundreds are baptized. In 1994, Pastor Barnett and his son Matthew also co-founded The Dream Center in Los Angeles, an inner-city church and outreach center that touches the lives of 50,000 people each month. Pastor Barnett has authored more than 50 church growth programs, including The Saturday Soulwinning Society, which has been used all over the world by thousands of churches and leaders to teach their people how to win souls to Christ.

Stanley Hofwijks is the senior pastor of Maranatha Ministries – Netherlands since 1975. Together with his wife Pastor Eveline they are devoted servants of the Lord Jesus. He and his wife want to reach as many people as possible in the Netherlands and the world with the good news: the gospel of Jesus Christ. For the past 40 years, he has shown enormous compassion for the needs of believers in Amsterdam and the surrounding area. He desires that the love of Jesus is visible in the congregation, and thus that the congregation once again plays an important role in society.

Timothy Hill is the General Overseer of the Church of God in Cleveland, Tennessee. Prior to his election in 2016, Dr. Hill served as the church’s Director of World Missions. He launched “The FINISH Challenge” within the Church of God and beyond to help network the Body of Christ toward the fulfillment of the Great Commission. A former pastor, he has written several books, penned 150 gospel songs, and traveled extensively around the world spreading the gospel. At present he continues to speak at major denominal and interdenominal conventions and conferences around the world spreading the word of God wherever he goes.

After studying at the St. Chrischona Theological Seminary (TSC), Christian Haslebacher worked as a pastor for several years. Since 2011 he has been responsible for 31 Chrischona congregations as Regional Manager East and is part of the management of Chrischona Switzerland. From 2004 to 2007 Haslebacher worked in the Chrischona project group “Women’s service in the community”. He wrote his master’s thesis on this very question.

Akil Pano had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ in December 1991 in a dramatic moment in his life.  Pastor Akil has served as the General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance in Albania for nine years He has invested his time with the process of making the Albanian Evangelical churches recognized by the government of Albania as a recognized religious community a process that was successfully accomplished in November 2010, He has worked hard to help build the unity of the churches in Albania a desire that has always been in his heart.

Gaetano (Guy) Sottile, is the President of Italy for Christ, Inc. The prefixed goal, since its birth, is to pierce into the Italian culture with the Christian values of the Gospel, through evangelistic crusades, conferences, retreats, literatures, TV and radio programs.

Kenneth Ulmer is the former President of The King’s University in Los Angeles where he also serves as a founding board member, adjunct professor and Dean of The King’s at Oxford; an annual summer session held at Oxford University. Dr. Ulmer received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Broadcasting & Music from the University of Illinois.

Leonard Sweet is author of more than seventy books and 1500+ published sermons. Len often appears on the “50 Most Influential Christians in America” listings, and in 2010 was selected by the top non-English Christian website as one of the “Top 10 Influential World Christians of 2010”. Len works with doctoral students at four institutions: Drew University, where he has occupied the E. Stanley Jones Chair, George Fox University, Northwind Seminary, and Evangelical Seminary (Kairos), where he currently holds the Charles Wesley Senior Professorship of Doctoral Studies. In 2015 he launched his own homiletics resource preachthestory.com. In 2020 he founded his own publishing house the Salish Sea Press. One of the most sought-after speakers in the religious world today, he resides on Orcas Island in the San Juans in the PNW.

Peter Wenz is the lead pastor of Gospel Forum in Stuttgart, Germany, the church that is hosting Hope Revolution, including the Code Red Conference and Holy Spirit Nights. Peter’s apostolic ministry is widely recognised, he heads up national networks and is on the board of the German Evangelical Alliance (DEA). His passion is to see people experience more of God’s presence, making way for the Holy Spirit to move in signs and wonders.

Bartholomew Orr is the Senior Pastor of Brown Missionary Baptist Church. Pastor Orr has served in this capacity since January 25, 1989. Under his leadership, the church has experienced tremendous growth, spiritually and numerically. Despite a large church setting, Pastor Orr works diligently to ensure that Brown maintains a “family-like” atmosphere. He is accessible to every member of his congregation and every member takes pride in receiving a yearly birthday call from their pastor. Pastor Orr received his Doctorate Degree in Ministry from Union University. He has always used his passion for education to train and empower other ministers. A humble and honorable man, Pastor Orr has had the opportunity to share the gospel with diverse audiences around the world. Pastor Orr is married to his lovely wife Valarie, his best friend of over 30 years. They have been blessed with four sons and four grandchildren.