Youth Conference Conference Speakers

Dave Overholt (Canada) Overholt is founding pastor of Church on the Rock, one of the largest and longest running Next Generation-targeted Baptist churches in North America. He is author of Reasons to Believe; Live What You Believe; and Soul Searching the Millennial Generation.

Edmund Chan (Singapore)

Chan leads the Covenant Evangelical Free Church in

Singapore. He has authored several books to include, Growing Deep in God; Mentoring Paradigms; Growing Deep in Faith; and Cultivating Your Inner Life.

Diana Francis (Bahamas) Francis is president of the Student Christian Movement of Bahamas and the host of a youth television

program, “U Gat Issues.” She is a song writer and the author of the book, Straight Up Youth Talk. She

is the co-pastor of the First Baptist Church in The Bahamas.

Thembelani Jentile (South Africa)

Jentile is senior pastor at the Mamelodi Baptist Church in South

Africa. He is a columnist for Sunday Sun, a national newspaper, as well

as a regular contributor of the Move Magazine. He has authored two

books, Repairing Broken Alters and Broken but Blessed.

Lucas Leys (Argentina) Leys is director of the Hispanic Division of Youth Specialists and the President of Publishing at Vida Publishers, the Spanish division of Zondervan. Lucas has authored fi fteen books including Effective Youth Ministry and 500 Ministry Ideas.

Youth

We are a part of the same movement of God in the world!

It is an opportunity to see so much diversity,

so many different things and people. It was also an opportunity to become aware of what God was

doing through people that were as young as I was. Denise de Vasconcelos Araujo, Brazil

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celebration from the beginning! — Dale O. Stairs, Canada

We were blessed by incredible times of worship. It was a

Christian Rommert

(Germany) Rommert serves as head of the German Baptist Youth Department and co-initiator of the “Safe Churches” campaign that deals with the question of child protection.

Rachael Tan (Taiwan) Tan is a former member of the faculty at the Taiwan Baptist Theological Seminary and served as associate dean of the graduate school at the Asian Baptist Graduate Theological Seminary. She also served as pastor for more than 10 years in the Philippines and was a member of the BWA Emerging Leaders Network.

The kind of fellowship and spiritual boost I experienced during that conference

charged my spiritual battery. There is a ceaseless flow of God’s blessings and

spiritual warmth in these conferences. — Brickson Sam, Sierra Leone

“so many young people eager to study more about Christ and anticipate God’s presence”

There is a song we sing that

says that people from every nation, race and background will come together to praise the Lord. In a Baptist Youth

Conference that is a tangible reality. — Cynthia Bollatti, Argentina