2006 NATIONAL CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Keith Phillips is President of World Impact, a Christian missions organization dedicated to ministering God’s love to the inner cities of America. He is a dynamic Christian leader and a forceful, thought-provoking speaker who has appeared on “The 700 Club,” the Trinity Broadcasting Network, “Focus on the Family,” “The Haven of Rest,” “The Heaven and Home Hour” and James Kennedy’s radio program. He is a Conference Speaker with Promise Keepers.

Dr. Phillips is the author of They Dare to Love the Ghetto, The Making of a Disciple, No Quick Fix and Out of Ashes, which chronicles the history of the urban poor in America and explores their present needs and future hope. It explains how middle-and upper-class Christians from all races can cross social, economic and racial barriers to walk in the footsteps of Jesus.

For 42 years, Keith has ministered to people from all walks of life. For six years, he served as a club director for Los Angeles Youth for Christ. He currently supervises World Impact’s innercity ministries in 11 cities and four camps. Dr. Phillips received his Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA and his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. He received the Doctor of Humane Letters from John Brown University, and the Doctor of Humane Letters from Sterling College. A nationally-recognized authority on inner-city ministries, Dr. Phillips serves on the Board of the Christian Community Development Association. A distinguished and inspiring speaker, he delivered the Commencement Address to the 1969 and 1991 graduating classes of Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, the 1990 graduating class of John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and the 2002 graduating class of Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas. As an approved Staley Lecturer, Dr. Phillips has preached at numerous colleges and universities and in many great churches of America.

Keith is the youngest son of Dr. Frank C. Phillips, a founder of Youth for Christ International (YFC), who, for 12 years, directed YFC in Portland, Oregon, and later co-founded World Vision International. Keith was ordained to the Gospel ministry at the First Baptist Church of Van Nuys and is listed in Who’s Who in Religion, Who’s Who in the West, and Who’s Who in America. He is Chairman of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast. Keith lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Katie. They have three sons, Joshua, Paul and David; and two grandsons, Nicholas and Jack.

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 Island University and received his theological training at Simpson College 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 Missionary Alliance Church. 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 and Becky Andrews were recruited to the Navigator ministry while Alan was a student at MarshallUniversity in their native West Virginia.  Alan and Becky have been on Navigator staff since 1970.  They were responsible for Collegiate and Community ministries in Illinois from1970 - 76 before moving to Toronto, Canada, to direct the Canadian national work.  In 1990 they returned to the U.S., and from 1990 until September 1995, Alan directed the ministries in the Established Countries of Asia, traveling to Asia from Colorado Springs.  In this role, he was responsible for shepherding the country leaders of Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan.  Another major focus was developing emerging national leadership, with the goal of enabling Asians to take full responsibility both for their own ministries, as well as ministry initiatives into the Frontier countries of Asia.  In 1995 Alan was appointed a National Field Leader with the U.S. National Leadership Team, overseeing the Business and Professional, Collegiate, Military, Women of Influence, and NavYouth entities in the U.S. ministry.
            Alan was selected in July 1997 to lead the U.S. work of The Navigators.  As the  U.S. Director, he oversees the work of more than 1,800 U.S. missionaries serving in the United States and overseas.  Alan’s selection was ratified by The Navigators U.S. Board of Directors in July, and he began his responsibilities September 1, 1997, as U.S. Director.
            Alan and his wife, Becky, have three daughters.  Amy and Jon Tamblyn, Nancy and Phillip Ruminski and Sandy and Chad Lorenc all live in Colorado Springs.   Alan and Becky are the grandparents of ten beautiful grandchildren.
            Alan's hobbies include reading, golf, and jogging.

   
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.

 
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 Baylor University 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.

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.choosethelife.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

Randy Singer graduated from Houghton College in 1978, married Rhonda Pursifull that same year, and began teaching and coaching at a local Christian high school.  For five years, he taught history and Bible, coached various sports, and acted as a surrogate dad for the boarding students at the school.  In 1983, he left teaching to pursue his dream of law school, graduating second in his class from William and Mary Law School three years later.

Following law school, Randy began an active trial practice at Willcox and Savage, a sixty lawyer firm in Norfolk, Virginia, eventually becoming head of the firm's trial section.  He tried numerous cases in state and federal court, and holds the ignominious distinction of participating in the longest bench trial in Virginia state court history (six straight months of trial and you thought his sermons were long!).  He also served as lead counsel in the first jury trial in Virginia that ever received gavel-to-gavel television coverage.  That case, arising out of a shooting spree by a student at the school attended by Randy's children, also became the subject matter of the book Fatal Passage. During his time as a trial lawyer, Randy began teaching trial practice at Regent Law School where he presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Visitors and as an adjunct professor teaching The Art of Advocacy.

In 1997, God called Randy out of the practice of law to serve alongside his good friend Bob Reccord in the leadership at NAMB.  Randy now helps lead an agency that is responsible for more than 5,000 missionaries and 2,500 chaplains, and helps facilitate more than 1,500 new church starts each year.  Randy also served as President of the Board's broadcast ministry a twenty-four hour a day Christian cable network called FamilyNet.

Recently, Randy began pursuing a passion to write.  Tapping into his courtroom experience and a desire to share the Gospel, Randy pens legal thrillers designed to entertain his readers while confronting them with biblical truths on controversial issues.  His first novel, Directed Verdict, was published by WaterBrook Press in October 2002, and won the prestigious Christy award for the best Christian suspense novel of the year.  In addition to his fiction books, Randy and Bob Reccord co-authored a book on God's calling to the workplace entitled Made to Count, along with a corresponding gift book entitled Live Your Passion.  His latest books are The Cross Examination of Jesus Christ and The Cross Examination of Oliver Finney.

Randy and Rhonda have two children.  Rosalyn, age twenty, is a junior at the University of Georgia and Joshua, age eighteen, is a senior at Providence Christian Academy.  Randy's interests are basketball, running, canoeing, hiking, reading and whatever activities the kids are pursuing at any given time.