Speakers and MusiciansSeminar
 


Mac Brunson
Dr. Mac Brunson is the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, FL. Brunson holds degrees from North Greenville College, Furman University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His speaking engagements include colleges, church growth and pastor's conferences.

His works of writing include: The God You’ve Been Searching For (January, 2004), The Miracle You’ve Been Searching For (published October, 2004), Why Churches Die (co-written with Dr. Ergun Canner - June, 2005), and The New Guidebook for Pastors (co-written with Dr. James Bryant - published, June 2007).

Greg Buchanan
A world-class harpist, Buchanan has played the harp since age 9. Although he now only plays Christian-oriented music, he has played jazz, pop and classical. A finalist for Album of the Year three times, his superb musicianship is combined with an enthusiastic attitude toward the Christian life. Greg presently resides in Santa Ana, California, with his wife, Becky, and their three children.
Greg Buchanan Ministries
The Burchfield Brothers
The Burchfield Brothers combine Gospel, Classical and Celtic music with Smokey Mountain Jazz to produce the stunning arrangements that they have become famous for. Known as the “Mannheim Steamroller” of Gospel Music, the duo was recently nominated for the prestigious Dove Award (for Best Instrumental CD). Across the country, the brother’s storytelling, humor, and musical virtuosity have delighted audiences of all ages.

The Burchfield Brothers motto is “When words alone cannot describe the passion, the heart, or the love of Christ, music becomes an expression of that love.”

Composer Ovid Young calls their recordings “first class” and comedian Chonda Pierce calls their music “rich in variety and fills the room with laugher and wonder.”

If you have not had the pleasure of hearing The Burchfield Brothers, don’t miss this inspiring opportunity!

“The chords they strike are not only on their instruments, but in the hearts of us all, returning us to each other and to our Maker.” - Gloria Gaither
The Burchfield Brothers

Scot R. Cameron
With a voice that is uniquely stirring and evangelistic, Scot R. Cameron has quietly earned a national reputation for excellence in Christian music. Since 1995, Scot has traveled the United States and abroad, singing with orchestras and community choruses as well as being featured in sacred performances at churches, denominational conferences, and workshops. Highlights of his ministry include Focus on Family, Swan’s Place for Daystar television, Texas Evangelism Conference, National Religious Broadcasters, Hallelujah Chorus of Singapore, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Carnegie Hall.  Noted as a “polished performer with a rich, expressive voice” (Dallas Morning News), God continues to use Scot’s varied talents as a contemporary Christian vocalist, music evangelist, and classical artist.
Cameron Ministries
Thomas Elliff
Thomas Elliff is a third generation Southern Baptist pastor currently serving as the Senior Vice President of Spiritual Nurture and Church Growth for the International Mission Board in Richmond, VA. He has served in the pastorate and multiple leadership positions within the Southern Baptist Conference.

Thomas has participated in conferences and crusades throughout the world. He and his wife, Jeannie, are sought after speakers and have appeared on Family Life Today, Focus on the Family, and Kingdom Family Conferences in addition to many other conferences. Thomas is also a prolific author of ten books, the most recent being 10 Questions Every Husband Should Ask His Wife Every Year (2004).

Tom and Jeannie have four married children and twenty two grandchildren. Tom is currently pursuing a Doctor of Ministry degree at Southern Seminary.
International Mission Board

Paul & Marjorie Ferrin
Paul Ferrin has had well over 300 published arrangements and compositions including choral octavos and collections, trumpet trio arrangements, piano and organ duets. The Gospel Music Association nominated his musical entitled ‘A Morning Like This,’ published by Word, Inc. for a Dove Award soon after its release.

In addition to composing and arranging, Paul has traveled extensively with some of the greats in Christian music, conducted seminars, taught classes at the Nazarene Bible College, hosted his own television program, ‘Young at Heart’, served for 6 years as Director of the National Music Department for the Assemblies of God.

He and his wife, Marjorie, now travel full time conducting ‘An Old Fashioned Hymn Sing’ ministry. They have 4 children, 9 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren, and continue to live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Marjorie Ferrin, native of Denver, CO attended Central Bible College and Studied organ at Texas Christian University and Santa Clara University. She has served churches as organist, Bridal consultant, and Bible teacher. She is a speaker for various Christian organizations and women’s groups with seminar focus on ‘How to Teach the Bible Effectively’ and ‘Heritage of Hospitality.’
An Old Fashioned Hymn Sing
Lori Gasper
Lori Gasper has served as a church pianist, organist, and vocalist for the past 27 years. She has taught piano, accompanied student and professional instrumentalists and vocalists, and accompanied civic and church choirs since 1970. Lori also enjoys leading children’s worship and playing hand bells. She received her BA in music education with an emphasis in organ from the University of Southern Colorado.

Currently, she teaches elementary school in Colorado Springs, where she lives with her husband, Allen, and their four children.

Jeannette Clift George
Best known for her starring role in The Hiding Place as Corrie ten Boom, Jeannette Clift George has a background in professional theater, including off-Broadway and tours with the New York Shakespeare Company. The Houston, Texas resident is founder of After Dinner Players, a Christian drama company that offers Bible-based plays, and she is equally well known as a writer, speaker, and monologist. Jeannette has authored several books, including Daisy Petals, Travel Tips from a Reluctant Traveler, and Some Run with Feet of Clay, offered through her publishing company, Manor of Grace. She is a Staley Foundation Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecturer and travels extensively, speaking for conferences, schools, and professional workshops.
A.D. Players
Johnny Hall
Johnny Hall is one of today’s most versatile artists with a repertoire which includes hymns as well as contemporary, pop and country gospel. Nominated for a Dove Award, he has been soloist with Billy Graham Crusades, the 700 Club and National Religious Broadcasters. He has also appeared at the Christian Artists Music Seminar, Southern Baptist Convention, Christian Booksellers Association, International Christian Education Association, Gospel Music Association Spectacular and Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Johnny Hall Ministries
Carol Kent
Carol Kent is a popular international public speaker, a former radio show cohost, frequent guest on Focus on the Family and featured speaker at Women of Faith, Time Out for Women and Heritage Keepers arena events, as well as Praise Gathering for Believers, Vision New England’s Congress and Women of Virtue events. She has appeared on Dateline NBC, CNN LIVE, Deborah Norvill Tonight on MSNBC, Prime Time America, as well as other nationally syndicated radio and television broadcasts. Kent is the author of eight books and has co-authored several others. Her articles have been published in a wide variety of magazines.
Carol Kent
Ian Leitch
Ian Leitch and The Heralds Trust is known throughout Christian circles. He has a unique personality and pulpit style that appeals to people of all ages. His enthusiasm for the Gospel and Godliness are contagious. For the past 32 years Ian has been an Evangelist and Bible teacher. Ian has pioneered a traveling Bible School called the New Life Seminars. Over nine thousand have now been through these seminars. He has the heart of an evangelist and is happiest when he is presenting the Gospel throughout the world. Ian and his wife, Morag, reside in Edinburgh Scotland.
The Heralds Trust 
Erwin Lutzer
Dr. Erwin Lutzer was born and reared near Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He became Senior Pastor of the Moody Church, Chicago, IL, in 1980.
Dr. Lutzer is the author of numerous books, among which are One Minute After You Die, Who Are You to Judge, and Why Good People Do Bad Things.  He is also the featured speaker on “The Moody Church Hour” and the popular evening program, “Songs in the Night.”
He and his wife, Rebecca, are the parents of three children.
Joseph Martin
Joseph Martin is recognized throughout the United States for his choral compositions, both sacred and secular, Joseph Martin has performed solo piano recitals and been the featured artist with symphony orchestras in the U.S. and Mexico. As winner of the Nina Plant Wideman Competition, he performed with the Guadalajara Symphony Orchestra. His solo recital in Ex-convento del Carman was broadcast nationally throughout the country. His first solo piano recording, ‘American Tapestry,’ was nominated for a Dove Award.
Joseph Martin Music Products
Mary Peckham
Mary and her husband run the International Revival and Conference Ministry in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her unique and powerful testimony to revival has been given on numerous occasions to congregations large and small around the world - with great blessing and challenge. It has been published three times in book form.

At first a singer in secular Scottish folk-music competitions, Mary turned to using her voice to praise the Lord, and her solo singing has been used of God as part of her ministry. She is still a familiar voice on the BBC's Gaelic request programs. She also was a missionary in South Africa for fourteen years. Colin and Mary have three adult children, two of them married.
Revival and Conference Ministry

Huw Priday
Huw Priday is a classically trained tenor who has always delighted in taking opportunities to use his God-given gifts to minister to others. In 2002 he followed God’s calling into full-time ministry. Huw's versatility as a tenor enables him to sing contemporary as well as classical Christian music and his ministry is always  a blessing to others. Huw has joined together on a number of occasions this past year with gospel pianist Peter Jackson. From this relationship, Huw produced an album of gospel songs along with his wife, Elizabeth, called “The Wonder of it All”.

Huw sings at many churches and Christian events throughout Europe and America. He was privileged to sing behind the Iron Curtain at a Billy Graham Crusade before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Huw regularly ministers with: Dr Henry Blackaby; Dr. Ravi Zacharias; National Coalition of Men's Ministries;  Dr. Crawford Loritts; Dr. Bill Bright, Director of Campus Crusade for Christ; Rev. Dr. Billy Graham; Dr. Jim Henry, Pastor of F.B.C. Orlando; Dr. Charles Price, Peoples Church, Toronto; Rev. Dr. R. T. Kendal, Westminster Chapel, London; and Dr. Tony Campolo.

Huw has appeared on many UK television broadcasts celebrating the Centenary of the Welsh revival, often singing the love song of the revival, “Here is love vast as the ocean.” Huw and his wife, Elizabeth Woollett, have also made numerous radio and TV appearances in the UK, America, and Canada. Their most recent appearance was on the Canadian Christian programme 100 Huntley Street singing live to over 6 million viewers in Canada.

Huw’s operatic and concert career has taken him all over the world. He has given performances with all the major British Opera Companies and for heads of state including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Princess Diana and the young Princes, The Sultan of Oman, and The Kings and Queens of Denmark and Sweden. Venues have included The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Royal Albert Hall London. Sydney Concert Hall and The Royal Opera House Stockholm. Huw has also shown his versatility by singing the role of 'Piangi' in Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Phantom of the Opera” at Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West End.
The Huw Priday Website

Ray Pritchard
Dr. Ray Pritchard, former pastor of Calvary Memorial Church of Oak Park, IL is now an itinerant minster for Bible conferences, revivals and seminars. A graduate of Tennessee Temple College and Dallas Theological Seminary, Dr. Pritchard received his Doctor of Ministry degree in 1989 from Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, CA.

A graduate of Tennessee Temple College and Dallas Theological Seminary, Dr. Pritchard received his Doctor of Ministry degree in 1989 from Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, CA.

Dr. Pritchard has ministered extensively overseas in India, Nepal, Paraguay, Columbia, Haiti, Nigeria, Switzerland, Russia and Belize. He has served as a conference coordinator, appeared on numerous TV and Radio programs and was featured in the video series: “GriefShare” and “Facing Forever.”

Dr. Pritchard’s book An Anchor For The Soul was introduced at the Christian Booksellers Association in 2000 and sold nearly 60,000 copies in the first six months. Over 250,000 free copies of the book were given to prisoners in cooperation with Prison Fellowship.

Among his many published works are The Road Best Traveled and What A Christian Believes and his most recent The Healing Power of Forgiveness. Ray and his wife Marlene have been married 29 years and have three sons.
Keep Believing Ministries

Carolyn Reed
Carolyn Reed was born in New York. Her father and mother were opera singers who taught voice and drama. She served for seven years in the U.S. Navy as a vocalist and instrumentalist with the Navy Band. Carolyn is married to Pastor Danny Reed. They have a daughter, Victoria, and a son, Joshua, and reside in Nashville, Tennessee.
Linda Skaret
Linda Skaret Linda Skaret has enjoyed involvement in music her entire life. Linda is a member of the Music Teachers Association, and teaches a full compliment of piano students. She is founder and director of the ensemble ENTOURAGE. The group has ministered to thousands of inmates in state and federal prisons, and has performed for many national and local ministries and organizations. Linda received her music degree from Evangel University, Springfield, MO. She and her husband, Dean are residents of Colorado Springs and they have one son, Brian (Valerie) and a new grandson, Wiley.


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Faith Promise Dinners
It’s a time when old friends get together, meet new friends, learn more about MEF ministries and are entertained by some of the best. If you have never been to a dinner, you are in for a real treat. It is an evening that is relaxed, enjoyable and entertaining, with good food and fellowship. Make plans now to attend one of the dinners near you. It will be worth your time and effort.

April 4 ~ Faith Promise Dinner
Location: First Baptist Church, Lamesa, Texas
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Contact: Cindy Williams at 806/462-7668

April 11 or 12 ~ Faith Promise Dinner
Location: Your Area
Time: To Be Announced
Contact: Jamall at 719/591-7481 to schedule

April 25 ~ Faith Promise Dinner
Location: First Church of the Nazarene, Bethany, OK
Time: 6:30p.m.
Contact: Carolyn Honeycutt at 405/632-6715

May 2 ~ Faith Promise Dinner
Location: Crown Plaza, Colorado Springs, CO
Time: 6:30p.m.
Contact: MEF office at 719/591-7481

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