SPEAKERS

	Joe Beam is an internationally-known inspirational speaker and best-selling author. He founded Family Dynamics Institute in 1994 and in 2008 he founded LovePath International, and serves as its chairman. He has spoken to millions of people worldwide in personal appearances as well as appearances on television and radio, including ABC's Good Morning America, Focus on the Family, the Montel Williams Show, NBC's Today Show, The Dave Ramsey Show, The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet and magazines such as People and Better Homes and Gardens. After earning his bachelor's degree (Magna Cum Laude) from Southern Christian University, Joe did graduate studies in Clinical Psychology at the University of Evansville. He is currently involved in research to complete his Ph.D in Biomedical science at the University of Sydney.
	Chris has served in Ministry since 1991. He has served in places including, Gateway Church of Christ in Pensacola, FL, Richland Hills Church of Christ in Ft. Worth, TX and Southern Hills Church of Christ in Abilene, TX. He has been the Senior Minister at the Branch in Dallas, TX since January of 2001. He met his wife Tara during the time they were both attending Abilene Christian University and married her in 1992. They have 3 children, Skyler, Garrison & Cooper.
	Dr. Tim Elmore, the author of the Habitudes® series, is the founder and president of Growing Leaders, an Atlanta-based non-profit organization created to develop emerging leaders. Through Growing Leaders, he and his team provide public schools, state universities, civic organizations, and corporations with the tools they need to help develop young leaders who can impact and transform society. Elmore has spoken to more than 250,000 students, faculty and staff on hundreds of campuses across the country. Elmore has also provided leadership training and resources nationally for the National FFA Organization and multiple athletic programs including, the University of Texas football team and the Kansas City Royals Baseball Club. In addition, a number of government offices in Washington, D.C. have gone through the Habitudes curriculum. From the classroom to the boardroom. He teaches leadership to Chick-fil-A, Inc., The Home Depot, HomeBanc, Gold Kist, Inc., Home & Garden Party, Oti Consulting, Network TwentyOne International, and Purofirst, among others. He has also taught courses on leadership and mentoring at nine universities and graduate schools across the U.S. Committed to developing young leaders on every continent of the world, Elmore also has shared his insights in more than 30 countries. Elmore has written more than 20 books, including the best-selling Habitudes: Images that Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes, Life Giving Mentors and Nurturing the Leader Within Your Child. His newest book Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future was released in August 2010.
	Gabe Lyons is the author of The Next Christians: The Good News About the End of Christian America and the founder of Q—a learning community that mobilizes Christians to advance the common good in society. Additionally, he is the co-author of UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity and Why It Matters, a bestselling book based on original research that revealed the pervasiveness of pop culture's negative perceptions of Christians. Prior to launching Q, Gabe co-founded Catalyst, a national gathering of young leaders. His work represents the perspectives of a new generation of Christians and has been featured by CNN, The New York Times, Fox News and USA Today. Gabe, his wife Rebekah, and their three children reside in Manhattan, New York.
	Donald Miller grew up in Houston, Texas, in the shadow of the Astrodome. He left Houston at 21 in a Volkswagen van, and later wrote a book about his trip called Through Painted Deserts. In his travels, he ran out of money in Portland, Oregon where he audited classes at Reed College, then selected as the most godless campus in the country. He wrote a book about that experience called Blue Like Jazz that eventually became a New York Times Bestseller and is now being made into a movie. Don then followed up with the best-selling Searching for God Knows What. After thirty-years of no interaction with his father, Don found his biological dad and wrote about it in a book called Father Fiction. About that time, he started The Mentoring Project, an organization that seeks to respond to the American crisis of fatherlessness by inspiring and equipping faith communities to mentor fatherless boys. Don's work with The Mentoring Project led the Obama administration to invite him onto the Presidential Task Force on Fatherhood and Healthy Families. In 2009, along with the Ride: Well Team, Don rode his bicycle across America in an effort to raise money to drill wells in Sub-Saharan Africa. This experience, along with the writing of the screenplay for Blue Like Jazz, provided material for his newest book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (also a New York Times Bestseller) for which Don spent the fall of 2009 promoting on a 65 city national bus tour. He is a sought-after speaker; frequently addressing audiences about the nature of story, helping people find more meaning and impact by structuring their lives and organizations within a clear, defined narrative. He has appeared at such diverse events as The Democratic National Convention and the Vertias Forum at Harvard. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his dog Lucy.
	David Fraze holds a Doctor of Ministry from Fuller Seminary, currently works as the Director of Student Ministries and a member of the Senior Staff at The Hills church of Christ in North Richland Hills, Texas. He is a frequent presenter at youth conferences, public school trainings and various student ministry events across the country. He has served as a post-doctoral fellow with the Fuller Youth Institute and continues his work with the Sticky Faith initiative (www.stickyfaith.org). He has contributed articles for Youth Worker Journal, Youthspecialties.com, ENGAGE, the quarterly journal of the Center for Parent and Youth Understanding and the Fuller Youth Institute. David and his wife Lisa have two children, Braeden and Shelbee.
	Mark A. Holmen is a husband, father, pastor, consultant, speaker and author of the new release Impress Faith on your Kids,  as well as the Church + Home DVD, Faith Begins At Home – The Family Makeover with Christ at the Center, and Building Faith At Home—Why Faith At Home Must Be A Church's Top Priority.  Mark is also the leading voice behind the new 607 Curriculum that can be found on http://www.D6family.com.  607 gives parents a skill, an experience, and a tool to drive faith at home.  From October of 2002 through February of 2009 Mark served as the Sr. Pastor of Ventura Missionary Church and during those years he developed and implemented a model for becoming a Faith At Home Focused Church that gained so much attention and recognition that is has grown into a national and international Faith At Home movement supported by the Willow Creek Association and Focus on the Family.  Mark, his wife Maria and daughter Malyn currently live in Ventura, California where they now serve as full-time Missionaries for the Faith At Home movement.  www.faithathome.com.