Following an inspirational talk by Carl at last week’s CV Online breakfast, we are very pleased to say that he has agreed to host a City Vision Campfire.
Carl has produced several series’ of Christian TV programmes shown on TBN and have also aired in the UK on the God Channel (GOD TV) and here he shares the essence of his series on “Love Speaks” which is all about the different ways in which we can “hear God & recognise His multi-faceted voice!”
Bailey Marks and his wife Denise are from the States where Bailey's dad was the right hand man to Bill Bright who set up Campus Crusade for Christ (now Agape). They have lived in London for 5 years where Bailey coordinates Agape’s city work across Europe. Their goal is to serve 100 integrated city ministries across Western Europe by the end of 2020.
Bailey grew up as a “missionary kid” and has spent his entire career with Agape serving outside his home country of the United States.
Bailey shares his own testimony and talks about the work of Agape in cities.
Debra Green OBE is the National Director and Founder of Redeeming Our Communities (ROC), founded in 2004; a registered charity and Limited company.
Debra has 25 years of experience in bringing organisations together towards the goal of social transformation, starting with her home city of Manchester. Since 2004, this work has expanded and she has acted as a consultant to many other towns and cities with significant results. Such work has attracted interest from public services and local authorities. She received an OBE in 2012 in recognition of services to community cohesion.
She has written several books published. ‘City-changing prayer, ‘ROC Your World – changing communities for good’ in 2014. ‘Mountain Moving Prayer’ in March 2019.
Originally training as a Chartered Accountant with PWC, Stephen Gunning co-founded his first business in 1998 to develop computerized patient record systems for hospitals. After some serious trials, it became a market leader, before being acquired by the global giant, Philips, in March 2008. He then started a new mobile app business, Thrive.App, which has many international clients.
Stephen is full of inspiring stories from his own experience of God at work and has spoken extensively around the world at various conferences.
Stephen is also Chairman of The International Christian Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) UK and previously served on the ICCC International Board.
Dr. Brian Beattie is a husband, father, speaker, writer and visionary leader. He has been described as passionate, compassionate, courageous, direct and tenacious.
Brian is presently the Lead Pastor of Freedom House in Brantford, Ontario; the President of Freedom Training Centre and on both the National and International Teams of Transform Our World. While visiting the TOW conferences in Monterey in October 2019 and Santa Cruz in January 2020, Tony heard the story of Brantford, saw the video, was impressed by what Dr Brian Beattie and the team had achieved and deepened the fellowship with him.
Brian shares a mixture of testimony, teaching lessons learned from experience.
Tony Fitzgerald shares his testimony and what he has learned over the years about spiritual fatherhood.
Tony is an Australian who’s been in Christian ministry for 50 years. He worked with street people during the “Jesus People” era. He was also involved with the charismatic outpouring in the 70’s and saw many signs and wonders accompany his ministry.
He moved to England and, with a team of others, began planting kingdom communities, eventually seeing them relate under the banner of Church of the Nations. Their influence now extends to 50 nations.
Dennis Pethers, founder of The Rooftop, shares about how leaders can love and support other leaders.
Dennis came to faith in Christ having been an atheist. He now leads a global movement, ‘The Rooftop’, that is equipping churches across the world to Join Jesus in His Mission and make disciples who make disciples beyond the walls of the church.
Daniel Ghinn is the founder of Worship.Works, an organisation that equips followers of Christ to put their faith to work in their careers. He is passionate about seeing work as worship and he leads a team of ‘marketplace ministers’ who co-work with God to develop Holy-Spirit-led business practices.
Daniel is also CEO of an innovative insights consultancy to the global healthcare industry which he founded with his wife Jo in 1998. Daniel exemplifies what it means to build and run a Kingdom company.
Lloyd Cooke shares about the Covid-19 crisis from a City perspective and addresses some of the challenges that cities are facing at this time.
As CEO of Saltbox, Lloyd has oversight and leadership of a truly multi-faceted charitable organisation. As well as overall responsibility for the charitable services provided by Saltbox, Lloyd’s role sees him advising civic leaders and advocating for marginalised members of the community, working among church leaders, and bringing the two together to effect meaningful change in society.
Toby Isaacson is both a passionate Christian and an expert in the area of digital transformation.
We live in an age when the church is having to play catch up in so many areas about the possibilities that a digital approach offers.
Toby speaks into this situation to help us to understand how we may have to change our thinking about what digital channels offer. He discusses the mindset required to adapt to the digital age that has come upon the global church.
Piet Brinksma is an influential church leader based in Holland. He has a long history of seeing, and being involved with, church and city transformation in Amsterdam. He wrote his Ph.D on city transformation and speaks from both a marketplace and church perspective. He has been the national leader of the Four Square denomination in Holland and is connected internationally.
Ken Janke is the Director of Programs and Partnerships at Global Advance - www.globaladvance.org
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