2005 NATIONAL CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Jhan Moskowitz is Chief of Station at the Chicago branch of Jews for Jesus. He is the son of refugees from Nazi Germany and was born and raised in New York City in Conservative Judaism. As a teen, he was involved with a Zionist youth group and went to Israel in 1967 to work on a kibbutz. After years of seeking God's purpose for his life, he says he came to terms with God through the Messiah, Jesus. Jhan is one of the founders of the Jews for Jesus ministry. He has directed the New York branch, led the New Jerusalem Players drama team and served in many other capacities. Jhan graduated from Long IslandUniversity and received his theological training at SimpsonCollege in San Francisco. He received his Masters in Missions from the School of World Missions at Fuller Seminary and is ordained through the Christian and MissionaryAllianceChurch. He also has had the privilege of speaking for Promise Keepers on several occasions. He and his wife, Melissa, live in Skokie, Illinois and have two daughters, Kayla and Jessie.
   
Alan E. Sears, Esq., President, CEO, & General Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund. It was 1993. Dr. James Dobson, the late Dr. Bill Bright, the late Larry Burkett, Dr. D. James Kennedy, and the other founders of the Alliance Defense Fund, were prayerfully seeking God’s direction for the right person to lead the fledgling organization. They selected Alan Sears, of whom Dr. Bright said God had uniquely prepared for this role. In 10 short years, God used Alan to grow ADF from an idea to the nation's largest religious liberty legal alliance.
Previously, he held numerous positions with the United States Government including the Department of Justice, under Attorneys General William French Smith and Ed Meese III, as an Assistant United States Attorney and Chief of Criminal Section; as Director of the Attorney General’s commission on Pornography; and the Department of Interior under Secretary Donald Hodel as an Associate Solicitor, with other not for profit public interest legal organizations, and in the private practice of law.
As a federal prosecutor, Alan was responsible for running regional and national task forces, prosecuted hundreds of complex federal crimes, and argued 22 cases before the federal court of appeals (with only one loss). Alan also wrote state and federal laws, testified before the committees of the U.S. House and Senate, and before 22 state legislatures. Twenty states adopted his recommendations. He has spoken before committees of the British Parliament and at the Vatican, as well as training hundreds of law enforcement officials from Australia to Scotland Yard.
As a result of his impressive record, the liberal American Bar Association’s magazine, Barrister, once recognized him as one of the outstanding young lawyers in America.
Alan has appeared on more than one thousand radio and television programs, including ABC’s 20/20 and Nightline, Fox's O'Reilly Factor, NBC’s Today, and media outlets such as CNN, PBS, and CBS News. He has also been featured on Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family program more than 25 times. He is the co-author of The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today with Craig Osten, published by Broadman and Holman in June 2003, and has written numerous other publications.
Alan has a rare blend of experience in administration, intense legal practice in both private and public sectors, and expertise in First Amendment issues. Under Alan’s leadership, the Alliance Defense Fund has a three to one success rate in cases litigated to conclusion.
A graduate of the University of Kentucky, with a Juris Doctor from Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, Sears is a member in good standing with the American, Arizona, California, District of Columbia, and Kentucky Bar Associations.

 Alistair Begg has been in pastoral ministry for 30 years; eight in Scotland following graduation from The London School of Theology, and 22 years at Parkside Church in suburban Cleveland.  He has written several books and is heard daily across the nation on the radio program, Truth for Life.  He was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from Cedarville University.  He and his wife, Susan, have been married 30 years and have three children.

 
Jamie Lash grew up as an atheist in Bethesda, Maryland. When two Christian college students reached out to him during his freshman year of high school, he was amazed by their kindness.  It was the first time he had ever heard anyone say it was possible to have a personal relationship with God.  After a spiritual search that lasted nine months, Jamie accepted Christ and began to grow spiritually.
Despite graduating from high school in the third fifth of his class, Jamie went off to college with high hopes of academic success.  He attended DickinsonCollege in Pennsylvania and met his wife-to-be, Marcy, on the third day.  They became engaged about seven weeks later.  His academic experience was not quite so successful.  During the second semester, he flunked every course except skiing.
He left college and began a housepainting business, but his business soon started to fail.  At this point God began teaching him two things: 1) to focus on Christ’s adequacy rather than on his own inadequacy, and 2) to live by the Word of God rather than by his feelings.  The results were dramatic.  He returned to college with diligence and ultimately graduated "magna cum laude."
During their college years, Marcy’s father relocated his family to Texas, so Jamie and Marcy both transferred to BaylorUniversity to study economics and math respectively.  After completing undergraduate and masters degrees, both were invited to join the Baylor faculty.  Jamie taught economics and finance at Baylor for ten years.  During his last four years at Baylor, he received three awards for excellence in teaching (including Baylor's "Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year" award).
Jamie says he can still remember his heart pounding during his senior year of college when he began to sense that God was calling him into a teaching ministry.  For over two decades he has shared the principles from God’s Word that have changed his own life.  The messages are Word-based, powerful, and practical.  A host of personal (often humorous) stories form the backdrop.  His seminars were aired on the radio in Dallas and Washington, D.C. for about six years, and free articles and audio messages are now available through the ministry of LifeGivingWords.com.
In 1987 he was so impacted by a video on the Judgment Seat of Christ that he watched it sixteen times!  He spent the next ten years co-authoring a book with Rick Howard that has become a bestseller.  This Was Your Life! was released in 1998 and is in its eighth printing; it has also been published in Germany, Great Britain, and Korea, with a Portuguese translations currently underway.
Jamie was hired by Dallas Baptist University sixteen years ago, attracted by the school’s mission of developing servant leaders.  After serving two years as Director of Admissions, he moved into his current position as Director of Student Development.  Jamie teaches Foundations for Excellence, Christian Leadership, Time Management and a course to help people double their reading speed.
Jamie and Marcy have been married twenty-five years and have three children:  twenty-year-old Jenna, seventeen-year-old Jessica, and fourteen-year-old Timothy.  The Lashes live in Grand Prairie, Texas and attend GraceCommunityChurch in Arlington.  (Family photos at www.lifegivingwords.com/our_ministry.htm )   Jamie enjoys racquetball and plays about three times a week.  He also has a soccer background and helps to coach his son’s team.

Sam Brownback was born September 12, 1956, and grew up on the family farm near Parker, Kansas, where his family still farms.  In high school, Brownback served as state president and as a national officer of the Future Farmers of America.  Later he received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University, and a law degree from the University of Kansas.  While at K-State, he was elected student body president.
In 1986, Brownback was chosen as the youngest Secretary of Agriculture in state history where he developed innovative programs which saved millions of taxpayer dollars and expanded markets for Kansas products.  He also served for one year as a White House Fellow in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
In 1994, he was elected to the U.S. Congress, representing the Second District of Kansas.  As a member of the House of Representatives, Brownback took a lead role among the freshman class of 1994 in pursuit of his philosophy to reduce the size and intrusiveness of the federal government, reform the Congress, and to help return the country to its traditional values.
In 1996, the people of Kansas elected Sam Brownback as their 32nd U.S. Senator, filling out the unexpired portion of Sen. Bob Dole's term.  In 1998, they elected him to a full six-year term and he was reelected to a second six-year term in November of 2004.
In the 109th Congress, Brownback serves on four committees.  He is the Chairman of the District of Columbia subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations; the Chairman of the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights subcommittee of the Committee on Judiciary; Chairman of the Helsinki Commission; and he serves on the Joint Economic Committee.
During his ten years in Congress, Brownback has fought for several key issues both domestic and international.  Economically, he is working to pay off the debt by growing the economy and to create jobs by providing permanent tax relief to working families, advocate for systematic tax reform to make the tax code flatter, simpler and fairer through the Enterprise Zones Act, and fundamentally reform the federal government with the CARFA Act.  He is also working to revitalize our rural heartland with tax incentives and job creation through the New Homestead Act.  He also works to stimulate trade by reopening the world beef and agri-business markets to U.S. products, by working with the WTO to level the field and grow the U.S. commercial aviation market, and by helping foster the new commercial space industry.
Additionally, Brownback fights to protect our children and our culture by protecting traditional marriage through the Federal Marriage Amendment, by nominating judges that strictly uphold the Constitution instead of activist judges bent on rewriting the law through his position on the Judiciary Committee, by holding the media industry responsible for violent and sexual content affecting our children through the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act and the CAMRA Act, and by protecting the unborn through the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, the Cloning Prohibition Act, and the Prenatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act.
Brownback has taken an active role in U.S. foreign policy.  As chairman of the Helsinki Commission, Brownback will continue to expand cooperation between the U.S. and Europe on human rights and trade issues critical to both continents and to the world.  He has taken an active role in fundamental reform and democracy building in Iran, North Korea, and the Ukraine.  He also advocates for strict adherence to human rights conventions in Sudan, Uganda and Vietnam, and strongly supports democratic momentum in the Middle East as a positive step toward peace and security.
Brownback also chairs the Values Action Team, co-chairs the Senate Cancer Coalition, and is a member of both the Army and Air Force Caucuses.
Through his career, Brownback has worked as an administrator, broadcaster, attorney, teacher, and author.  He and his wife Mary have five children, Abby, Andy, Elizabeth, Mark, and Jenna, and live in Topeka, Kansas.

Bill Hull’s passion has been to help the church return to its disciple making roots. This God-given desire has manifested itself in twenty years of pastoral service and the authorship of ten books. He is best known for his trilogy: New Century Disciple Making, The Disciple Making Pastor and the Disciple Making Church. These books have provided the church with a new paradigm for disciple making.
     In his latest book, Choose The Life, Exploring a Faith That Embraces Discipleship, he breaks new ground, challenging what we’ve made of the gospel. Jesus is calling us to choose the life of thinking as He thought, Living as He lived, loving as He loved, ministering as He ministered, and leading as He led. Anything less is Christ-less Christianity.
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. He spent eight years as the U.S. Director for the Evangelical Free Church of America and co-creating T-NET International, a training network dedicated to local church transformation. Bill is a writer who teaches on his writings in seminaries and conferences around the world. Information can be found at www.billhull.com and www.choolethelife.org. Bill and his wife, Jane make their home in Long Beach, California and are the parents of two grown sons.

Publishing History
Choose The Life, Exploring a Faith That Embraces Discipleship,Baker Books, 2004
Straight Talk on Spiritual Power, Baker Books, 2002
Jesus Christ Disciple Maker, Navpress 1984, Revell 1989 (republished in 1998 as New Century Disciple Making)
Right Thinking, Navpress
Anxious for Nothing, Revell
Disciple Making Pastor, Revell (Released again 2000 in paper back)
Disciple Making Church, Revell 1990
Seven Steps to Transform Your Church, Revell 1993
Building High Commitment in a Low Commitment World, Revell 1996
Revival That Reforms, Revell 1998