Keynote Speakers for T4A 2010 in Austin
Keynote Speakers for T4A 2010 in Austin
by Dan ~ March 17th, 2010
God has provided us with a fantastic lineup of keynote speakers for our upcoming October 1-2 conference in Austin, Texas. We could not be any more grateful to God for the people he has provided us. Our conference theme is “The Gospel, the Church, and the Global Orphan Crisis.” Conference details and the opportunity to begin registering are forthcoming. Below is our list of keynote speakers (our breakout session list will be added shorly). For more information about T4A 2010 in Austin, visit our conference page. It will be updated regularly.
Darrin Patrick – Topic: “The Trinity as Model and Motive for Church-based Orphan Care.”
Darrin founded The Journey in 2002 with a desire to plant a church in the heart of St. Louis, Missouri. Darrin is Vice President of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network, and also serves as the executive director for another church planting movement called 360-St. Louis, a network joining the church and the business community in planting gospel-centered churches. Darrin’s passion is to equip the church to live the gospel in the world. Darrin’s first book, Church Planter: The Man, The Message, The Mission, will be released in August 2010. Today, The Journey runs seven services across four campuses, while continuing to be aggressive in church planting in St. Louis and beyond. Darrin is married to his high school sweetheart, Amie, and they have four beautiful children: Glory, Grace, Drew, and Delaney. Darrin enjoys vacations with his family, basketball, good food, good books, good movies, and weightlifting.
Dave Gibbons -Topic: “The Church as the Answer to the Foster Care Challenge.”
Dave is the founding pastor of Newsong, a multi-site international third-culture church. He is an in-demand speaker, innovative strategist, and cultural specialist with global experience in the arts, business, church and community development. Dave is on the board of World Vision US. He’s also founder and chief visionary officer of Xealot, a strategic innovations groups, creatively connecting resources to leaders around the world. Dave is also Creative Catalyst and Founding Partner of The Awaken Group, a global leadership development consulting firm. Dave is the author of a new book called The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for Third Culture Leaders. He’s also contributed to such books as Unchristian.
Bryan Loritts – Topic: “The Church as the Theater of Transracial Adoption.”
Bryan is the Lead Pastor of Fellowship Memphis- a multicultural church ministering to the evolving community of urban Memphis. Bryan has also served as an adjunct professor at Crichton College, and is on the board of trustees for Presbyterian Day School, and Memphis Leadership Foundation. In addition to serving the community of Memphis, Bryan’s ministry takes him across the country as he speaks to thousands annually at churches, conferences and retreats. He is also the author of the book God on Paper; as well as a contributing author for the book entitled Great Preaching. Bryan is a graduate of Philadelphia Biblical University, Talbot School of Theology and is currently working on his Doctorate of Philosophy from Oxford Graduate School. Bryan and his wife Korie have their three sons Quentin, Myles and Jaden. For more on Bryan and Fellowship Memphis, visit fellowshipmemphis.org.
Matt Carter – Topic: “The Church as the Champion of Social Justice.”
Matt serves as lead pastor at The Austin Stone, which he planted in 2002. The first meeting of 30 people now encompasses 5000 worshippers on Sundays, making The Austin Stone one of the 100 fastest growing churches in America. Matt’s vision is to foster the churches passion for Christ, love for each other, and outreach to their communities – ultimately planting churches throughout America and the nations, supporting missionaries who are loving the peoples of the world and bringing them the hope of the gospel. In addition to pastoring at The Austin Stone, Matt is a cancer survivor, author and speaker for camps and conferences nationwide. Matt holds an MDiv from Southwestern Seminary and lives in Austin with his wife Jennifer and their children: John Daniel, Annie, and Samuel.
Dr. Karyn Purvis – Topic: “Counting the Cost: Preparing Churches for the Adoption Journey.”
Dr. Karyn Purvis is the Director of the Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, Texas. During the past decade, she and her colleagues at the Institute have invested their efforts towards developing biblical and researched-based interventions for at-risk children. Throughout her life, Karyn’s personal and professional calling has been to create a welcoming, loving environment for children who come from “hard places”.
Aaron Ivey – Worship Leader.
Aaron Ivey, a husband and adoptive father, believes that all worship is a response to a creative and compelling God. Serving as one of the worship pastors at The Austin Stone, Aaron now views touring ministry as an extension of what goes on within a vibrant, healthy local church. With a passion for living out God’s word, compassion for God’s children, and a deep, abiding love of God, Aaron and his bandmates are challenging a generation of believers to take their experiences in corporate worship out into the world, to marry song with service.
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