Justice is a garment, a billion threads, interwoven, interlocked, knit together with strength and integrity. Pull one thread from the fabric and the garment begins to fray. Pull ten million threads and justice unravels into injustice.
The work of justice is to mend the holes injustice inflicts upon the garment. It is a brave, challenging, courageous work and it does not begin with expertise or duty. It begins with love… and love is a thread.
The Justice Conference 2012 is the second annual international gathering of advocates, activists, artists, professors, professionals
prophets, pastors, students and stay-at-home moms working to restore the fabric of justice. For some it means speaking. For others it means singing. For some it means going. For others it means giving. For all, it means living with mercy and love.
You are invited to come weave your voice and gifts into the conversation. Join us, and discover that in the garment of justice,
your love is an irreplaceable thread.
Francis Chan
Francis Chan is the best-selling author of books, Crazy Love and Forgotten God, and the host of the BASIC.series. He has also written the children’s books Halfway Herbert, The Big Red Tractor and the Little Village and Ronnie Wilson’s gift. Francis is the founding pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California, and is the founder of Eternity Bible College. He also sits on the board of directors of Children’s Hunger Fund and World Impact. Francis now lives in Northern California with his wife, Lisa and their children.
Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann is the world's most important Old Testament scholar. In passionate prose best described as poetry, Brueggemann exegetes the Hebrew text and reveals God to be squarely on the side of the oppressed. Through countless articles, lectures and over 50 books, Brueggemann has inspired, enlightened and confounded. It takes courage to listen to Walter Brueggemann talk about the systemic injustice that threatens both the vulnerable poor and the shaky witness of the Church, and even more courage to invite this 21st century Jeremiah to speak at a conference titled Justice.
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John M. PERKINS
John M. Perkins grew up in New Hebron, Mississippi amidst dire poverty. Fleeing to California at the age of 17 after his older brother’s murder at the hands of a town marshal, he vowed never to return. However after converting to Christianity in 1960 he returned to Mendenhall, Mississippi to share the gospel of Christ. While in Mississippi, his outspoken nature and support and leadership in civil rights demonstrations resulted in repeated harassment, beatings, and imprisonment. Over the years Dr. Perkins and his wife, Vera Mae, have founded multiple important ministries. Having received many awards including 12 honorary doctorates, Dr. John Perkins and Vera Mae now live in Jackson, Mississippi.
Rachel LLOYD
A native of England, Rachel Lloyd is the author of, Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale, a Reebok Human Rights Award and Ashoka Fellowship winner. In 1998, with only a computer and $30, Rachel established GEMS: Girls Educational and Mentoring Services to support girls and young women victimized by the commercial sex industry. GEMS is now the nation's largest organization offering direct services to domestic victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. Rachel's trailblazing advocacy has led to ground breaking legislation in New York, Congressional briefings and is the subject of the critically-acclaimed Showtime documentary "Very Young Girls.”
Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf is the Director of Yale’s Center for Faith & Culture and the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University Divinity School. A native of Croatia, he has forged a theology of forgiveness and non-violence in the face of violence experienced in Croatia and Serbia in the 1990s. His research spans topics such as human work, the church, the Trinity, violence, reconciliation, gift-giving, and memory of wrongs. In 2002, his book Exclusion and Embrace was awarded the prestigious Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
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Richard L. Twiss
Richard Twiss is a member of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate from the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. His mother is Sicangu Lakota from Rosebud and his father is Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, SD. He's been married to an amazing woman since 1976 and the father of four remarkable sons. He is President of Wiconi International and is committed to pursuing a life of peace, justice and wholeness, inviting others in a journey to walk in meaningful relationship with Creator, creation and all others - in the Spirit of Jesus. Richard is a widely traveled and popular speaker, activist, educator, author and networker among innovative thinkers within the Native North American and Indigenous community internationally.
Ken Wytsma
Ken Wytsma is a speaker and creative leader known for his insight and entrepreneurial spirit. He is the founder of The Justice Conference and has served for several years as a creative advisor for World Relief. Ken is also the President of Kilns College where he teaches courses on Philosophy and Justice, and the Lead Pastor of Antioch – a community widely known for their creativity and focus on justice. Ken received a B.S. in Engineering from Clemson University and holds an M.A. in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics as well as an M.A. in Biblical Studies. Ken lives in Bend, Oregon with his wife, Tamara, and their four daughters.
Maddy deLone
Maddy deLone is the Executive Director of the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to freeing innocent people from prison and reforming the criminal justice system responsible for their unjust imprisonment. Before joining the Innocence Project, Maddy practiced law at the Legal Aid Society and at Children's Rights, Inc. She has focused her life's work on the pursuit of justice. Maddy is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, holds a Masters in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Fellow. She lives in New York City.
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Stephan Bauman
Stephan Bauman is the President & CEO of World Relief, an international organization with 4,000 staff and 40,000 volunteers who stand for the worlds most vulnerable. With previous experience as Vice President of Programs for World Relief, Director of International Programs for World Hope International and Program Director for Mercy Ships International. He holds an M.A. in International Development from Johns Hopkins University and a M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Wheaton College Graduate School.
SHANE CLAIBORNE
With tears and laughter, Shane Claiborne unveils the tragic messes we’ve made of our world and the tangible hope that another world is possible. Shane graduated from Eastern University, and did graduate work at Princeton Seminary. Shane is a founding partner of The Simple Way, a faith community in inner city Philadelphia that has helped to birth and connect radical faith communities around the world, and author of The Irresistible Revolution and Jesus for President.
BEN COHEN
Ben Cohen, along with childhood friend Jerry Greenfield, started Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream in 1978 in an old gas station on an investment of $8,000. Ben and Jerry's developed a unique values-led business model, went public, and grew to $300 Million before it was acquired by Unilever in 2000. Ben also founded Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities - a group that worked to shift federal spending from the Pentagon to investing in social needs. He is the recipient of the U.S. Small Businessperson of the Year Award, several honorary doctorates, and the author of several books.
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Rick Mckinley
Rick Mckinley is a church planter, Professor, and nationally recognized speaker. He is the author of four books including This Beautiful Mess, Jesus in the Margins and A Kingdom Called Desire. Rick spends most days in Portland, Oregon, pastoring the people of Imago Dei Community, “a missional church in the heart of the city.”
Lynne Hybels
In 1974 Lynne married a youth pastor named Bill Hybels and a year later they started Willow Creek Community Church. Convinced God has given the local church a mandate to address the needs of "the whole person in the whole world," Lynne has been active in Willow Creek's Compassion and Justice ministries. For years she engaged in under-resourced communities in Latin America and Africa, and more recently has traveled extensively in the Middle East. She is the author of Nice Girls Don't Change the World.
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Célestin Musekura
A native of Rwanda, Dr. Celestin Musekura is the Founder and President of African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries, Inc. (ALARM), a Christian organization dedicated to transforming African communities through Christian principles of peace and reconciliation. Celestin holds several graduate degrees as well as a Ph.D. in Theological Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has authored and co-authored several books, including Forgiving As We Have Been Forgiven: Community Practices for Peace.
Topic: Response to Genocide and Collective Evil: Lessons from Rwanda, Congo, and Darfur.
Micheline ishay
Micheline Ishay is Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Human Rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She is the author or editor of a half dozen books, including Internationalism and Its Betrayal, the Human Rights Reader and The History of Human Rights, which was chosen as one of the top ten non-fiction books of 2004. She is currently a visiting professor at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, teaching courses on politics and completing a manuscript on the march of human rights in the Middle East.
Topic: 2011 and Beyond: Contagious Uprisings?
A History of Human Rights
James Pond
James Pond is the Founder and Executive Director of Transitions, an organization building new lives for survivors of sex trafficking through innovative aftercare programs. He completed his master’s degree doing extensive research on global slavery issues and has consulted on anti-trafficking projects in Indonesia, Greece, India and the United States. He currently lives between Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and three children.
Topic: Trafficking, the sex trade, and how to restore freedom and dignity to victims of sexual exploitation.
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Lynne Hybels
In 1974 Lynne married a youth pastor named Bill Hybels and a year later they started Willow Creek Community Church. Convinced God has given the local church a mandate to address the needs of "the whole person in the whole world," Lynne has been active in Willow Creek's Compassion and Justice ministries. For years she engaged in under-resourced communities in Latin America and Africa, and more recently has traveled extensively in the Middle East. She is the author of Nice Girls Don't Change the World.
Topic: Following Jesus into the Complex World of the Middle East
Cyprien nkiriyumwami
Cyprien and his wife, Zeburia, have 4 children: Esther (22), Elijah (20), David (19) and Joshua (9). Cyprien trained as a teacher and served in that capacity for 10 years. Later he pursued university training in Regional Planning, Demography and Development Studies. He joined World Relief in 1999, where he worked in several positions in Rwanda: Training Coordinator in HIV/AIDS Program, Administrator, Church Mobilization Director, and then in Congo as Interim Country Director. Cyprien currently serves as a Director for World Relief in Africa.
Topic: Gender Violence in the Congo
Melissa McCreery
Melissa earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science from the University of Southern California and her Master’s Degree in Higher Education from Harvard University. She has experience as an admissions coordinator, communications liaison and academic researcher. Currently, she is the V.P. of Development at Kilns College in Bend, OR. Her pre-conference sessions will discuss the relationship between education and justice.
Topic: What is the Role of Education in a Just Life
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Linda Van Voorst
Linda Van Voorst graduated from Moody Bible Institute with a triple BA in Evangelism/ Discipleship, Communications, and Bible. She is currently the Director of Children’s Ministry at Antioch Church in Bend, OR. Mission Kids is a curriculum for life designed to help parents raise compassionate and mission minded kids. It is a tool designed to empower parents to utilize every days opportunities to instill value and virtue in their kids. This curriculum is being used in churches, non profits, and homeschooling programs across the nation.
Topic: Mission Kids
ALLISON SCHROEDER
Allison Schroeder has been a leader of World Relief’s Church Partnership efforts for seven years, cultivating relationships between North American churches, World Relief’s offices and local church partners in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. She obtained her Master’s degree in Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University and conducted social policy research for the city of Baltimore, MD. Allison is a worship leader and is studying to become a Marriage and Family Therapist.
Topic: Gender Equality in Development
SCOTT RAE
Scott B. Rae (PhD, University of Southern California) is professor of Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, La Mirada, California. His primary interests are medical ethics and business ethics, dealing with the application of Christian ethics to medicine and the marketplace. He has authored six book, he is a consultant for ethics for four Southern California hospitals, a fellow of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and a fellow of the Wilberforce Forum. His session is titled, “Ethics at the Edges of Life.”
Topic: Ethics at the Edge of Life
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ERIC KNOX
Eric Knox moved back to his native hometown of Los Angeles, California and is the lead pastor of an eclectic, multi-ethnic and multi-racial church called Sojourn Village which currently has two sites in Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA. Eric spent twenty years in ministerial and entrepreneurial service to the city of Portland, Oregon before moving back to Los Angeles. Eric holds a Master's of Divinity degree in pastoral studies and is well-known as a gifted teacher and communicator of the gospel.
HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME: An Interdisciplinary Exploration and Response to the Intersections of Race, Culture and the Spirituality of Black Males
ULF SPEARS, Ph.D.
Dr. Ulf Spears is president of Strategic Leadership International, an organization that seeks to fill the leadership vacuum in societythrough consulting, coaching, training, mentoring, and empowering emerging leaders and organizations from a biblical, academic, and practical perspective. Dr. Spears is a gifted seminar speaker, lecturer, educator, counselor, consultant, advisor, and entrepreneur, addressing issues affecting all areas of human, social, and spiritual development.
HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME: An Interdisciplinary Exploration and Response to the Intersections of Race, Culture and the Spirituality of Black Males
DAYMOND GLENN, Ph.D.
Dr. Daymond Glenn is the Vice President for Community Life and Chief Diversity Officer at Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon. In his role of Vice President for Community Life, Dr. Glenn oversees Student Affairs, Campus Ministries, and Athletics. Prior to his current administrative role, Dr. Glenn was an administrator and faculty member at other local colleges teaching graduate courses on multicultural education, educational theory, and race and education.
HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME: An Interdisciplinary Exploration and Response to the Intersections of Race, Culture and the Spirituality of Black Males
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Timothy Ringering
Timothy Ringering is a life-long recipient of and passionate advocate for social justice causes. His passion for justice arose from personal experience when, in 1967, he was born to teenagers from opposite sides of the proverbial tracks. His father, a poor black kid from the inner city, his mother, an aristocratic white girl, fell into forbidden love during the tumultuous zenith of the civil rights movement. Each family quickly denounced and vigorously rejected their interracial union and eventually, under the heavy strain of religious, racial and socio-economic pressure, their lives took radically divergent paths.
HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME: An Interdisciplinary Exploration and Response to the Intersections of Race, Culture and the Spirituality of Black Males
KORY MURPHY
As a native of Portland, Kory Murphy works as a human service system developer for the Oregon Department of Human Services. His current focus is aimed at developing community-based programs and partnerships among non-profit, public and private organizations to strengthening families, specifically within historically marginalized communities.
HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME: An Interdisciplinary Exploration and Response to the Intersections of Race, Culture and the Spirituality of Black Males
AMY HEWAT
Amy Hewat is the US Anti-Trafficking Specialist at World Relief, where she works with US offices to prevent human trafficking through outreach, awareness and case management activities. Amy is a member of the steering committee for the Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAAST), one of WR’s partners in the fight against human trafficking. Born in Ireland and raised in Baltimore, she enjoys traveling, and is an avid sailor, runner, and community activist.
Topic: The First Step in Ending Slavery – Addressing the Demand for Human Trafficking
World Relief Anti-Trafficking
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Rick Gerhardt
Rick Gerhardt is an ecologist and raptor specialist, and president of Sage Science, Inc. He has traveled much of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean conducting and presenting research on owls, hawks, and eagles. He has a keen interest in the history and philosophy of science, and his presentation at the 2012 Justice Conference will discuss the interface of justice, worldview, and the environment. Rick has a M.Sc. in raptor biology and a M.A. in Christian Apologetics, and teaches at the Kilns College in Bend, Oregon.
Topic: Justice and the Environment: a Worldview Perspective
Josh BUTLER
Josh Butler serves as Pastor of Mission at Imago Dei Community in Portland, Oregon. Josh oversees Imago Dei's international partnerships in East Asia and local ministries in Portland, working towards community transformation through the local body of Christ. His talk will focus on the surprising and strategic ways God has positioned local churches to establish justice in broken communities, and how the Western church and International NGO can reclaim a vision for the local church when working internationally.
Topic: The Indigenous Church: God's Secret-Agent for Global Transformation and How We Can Join Them
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Maddy deLone
Maddy deLone is the Executive Director of the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to freeing innocent people from prison and reforming the criminal justice system responsible for their unjust imprisonment. Before joining the Innocence Project, Maddy practiced law at the Legal Aid Society and at Children's Rights, Inc. She has focused her life's work on the pursuit of justice. Maddy is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, holds a Masters in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Fellow. She lives in New York City.
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MATTHEW SOERENS
Matthew Soerens serves as the US Church Training Specialist for immigration issues at World Relief. He previously worked as a Board of Immigration Appeals-accredited legal counselor for World Relief DuPage near Chicago and with World Relief’s microfinance programs in Nicaragua. Matthew is the co-author of Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate. He is a graduate of Wheaton College.
Topic: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate
Jenny YANG
Jenny Yang is the Director of Advocacy and Policy for the Refugee and Immigration Program at World Relief. She works with members of Congress, their staffers, and the Administration to improve refugee and immigration policy. She previously worked in the Resettlement section of World Relief as the Senior Case Manager and East Asia Program Officer focusing on advocacy for refugees in the East Asia region. She is a graduate of John Hopkins University and co-author of Welcoming the Stranger.
Topic: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate
Bethany Anderson
Bethany Anderson works as the Our Children Initiative Director for Solidarity, helping to build bridges between the mainstream evangelical church and the immigrant community. She lives in a small immigrant neighborhood in Orange County, CA with her husband Matt and foster son, Marlon, where they struggle daily to live in solidarity with their friends and neighbors.
Topic: "Who Is My Neighbor? Christian Perspectives on Immigration."
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Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
Rev. Alexia Salvatierra is an Pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with over 30 years of experience in ecumenical and community ministry, community organizing and legislative advocacy. For over eleven years, she was the Executive Director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice ,a statewide alliance for economic justice throughout California. She has taught at Biola University and Vanguard University in California and is the author of a forthcoming book from InterVarsity Press on her unique model of "faith-rooted" organizing and advocacy.
Topic: "Who Is My Neighbor? Christian Perspectives on Immigration."
Ricardo Zamudio
Ricardo Zamudio is a college student in Phoenix, Arizona. Originally from Michoacán, Mexico, he has been living in the United States for about ten years. He is majoring in Social Work.
Topic: "Who Is My Neighbor? Christian Perspectives on Immigration."
Max Finberg
Max Finberg has dedicated his career to serving others, especially hungry people. Currently, Max serves as Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships which works to build partnerships between USDA and faith-based and neighborhood organizations to better serve individuals, families and communities. Previously, he was the first director of the Alliance to End Hunger, a non-profit organization that engages diverse institutions in building the public will to end hunger, both in the United States and worldwide.
Topic: "Who Is My Neighbor? Christian Perspectives on Immigration."
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Dr. Paul Louis Metzger
Dr. Paul Louis Metzger is professor of Christian theology and theology of culture at Multnomah Biblical Seminary of Multnomah University. He is the Founder and Director of The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins. Integrating theology and spirituality with cultural sensitivity stands at the center of Dr. Metzger's ministry vision. Dr. Metzger has authored a great number of books and is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey. He and his wife, Mariko, a native of Japan, have been active in intercultural ministry in churches in the States, Japan, and England. Together they have two children.
Panel Discussion: Justice, Race, Gentrification and The Land
John M. PERKINS
John M. Perkins grew up in New Hebron, Mississippi amidst dire poverty. Fleeing to California at the age of 17 after his older brother’s murder at the hands of a town marshal, he vowed never to return. However after converting to Christianity in 1960 he returned to Mendenhall, Mississippi to share the gospel of Christ. While in Mississippi, his outspoken nature and support and leadership in civil rights demonstrations resulted in repeated harassment, beatings, and imprisonment. Over the years Dr. Perkins and his wife, Vera Mae, have founded multiple important ministries.
Panel Discussion: Justice, Race, Gentrification and The Land
Jeri Williams
Jeri Williams works for the City of Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement where she is a Neighborhood Program Coordinator and the project manager for Diversity Leadership Programs geared toward increasing the voices of all Portlanders through the funding of projects to underrepresented groups for Civic Engagement projects.
Panel Discussion: Justice, Race, Gentrification and The Land
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Randy S. Woodley, Ph.D.
Rev. Dr. Randy S. Woodley is Distinguished Associate Professor of Faith and Culture and Director of Intercultural and Indigenous Studies at George Fox Seminary in Portland. He is an author, teacher, poet, activist, former pastor and missionary, missiologist and historian. Dr. Woodley is a Keetoowah Cherokee Indian, leading a local indigenous gathering at his home in Newberg, Or.
Panel Discussion: Justice, Race, Gentrification and The Land
JOHN G. CANDA
John G. Canda was born and raised in Portland, Oregon where he grew up the youngest of 4 children to the wonderful parents of Julius and Ethel Canda in their North Portland home where his father currently resides. He attended Grace Collins Memorial Center, Humboldt Elementary School, Robert Gray Middle School and Jefferson High School. After Graduating in 1983 he attended the Northwestern College of Business in downtown Portland to become a travel agent. In 1986 John joined the United States Air Force where he served as a Security Policeman at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Mtn. Home, Idaho.
Panel Discussion: Justice, Race, Gentrification and The Land
REV. DR. LEROY HAYNES, JR.
Dr. LeRoy Haynes received his B.A. from the University of North Texas, Th.M. from Perkins School of Theology, and Ph.D. in ministry from Brite Theological Seminary. He is President Emeritus of North Portland Bible College and is a known scholar in Christian theology and church history. Dr. Haynes has served in various pastorates in Texas and Oklahoma and currently serves as Senior Pastor at Allen Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Northeast Portland.
Panel Discussion: Justice, Race, Gentrification and The Land
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Steve Hanamura
Steve Hanamura is president of Hanamura Consulting, Inc., a firm he founded in 1986. Steve brings over 30 years experience to the consulting, training and speaking profession. He is widely sought after in the areas of leadership development, managing and leading diversity initiatives, building effective teams, managing personal and organizational change and working with generational differences.
Panel Discussion: Justice, Race, Gentrification and The Land
Bob Harder
Robert F. Harder is a Professor and Chair of the Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering Department at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. He holds BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering. Since joining the George Fox faculty in 1988, Harder has helped build and direct the engineering program while establishing a community development internship program and a Servant Engineering course curriculum.
Topic: Engineering Justice: Bread, Water and Open Doors
Gerry Breshears
Gerry Breshears has been a professor of theology at Western Seminary since 1980. In addition to teaching and lecturing at a number of colleges and seminaries around the world, Gerry has written several books, including Vintage Jesus, Death by Love, Vintage Church, and Doctrine, which he co-authored with Mark Driscoll for the Re:Lit series from Crossway. He served three years with WorldVenture in the Philippines and is currently an elder and a member of the preaching team at Grace Community Church of Gresham, Oregon.
Topic: Prophetic Perspectives on Justice
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Michael Caba
Michael Caba holds an M.A. in Philosophy & Religion, an M.A. in Humanities, a B.A. in Biblical Education and an associate degree in Engineering. He is the Dean of Faculty for Kilns College, where he teaches "The History and Philosophy of Human Rights." He is also a member of the Appraisal Institute and specializes in the valuation and analysis of investment grade real estate. His breakout session will present some of the key distinctions between capitalism and socialism, and will also discuss some relevant Biblical principles.
Topic: Toward Just Economics: Capitalism, Socialism and the Bible.
Noel Brewer Yeatts
Noel is the vice president of World Help, a faith-based humanitarian organization, and the president of causelife—a movement of people dedicated to provide the most essential need to human life, clean water. Noel is the co-author of two books, and the author of Awake: doing a world of good one person at a time, scheduled to be released in 2012 with Baker Books. Her breakout session will include a brand new short documentary that she filmed on location in Guatemala - Operation Baby Rescue.
Topic: The Ripple Effect: Seeking Justice and Restoring Hope One Person at a Time
Mike Hogan
Mike Hogan is the Northwest Director of Church Mobilization for International Justice Mission, a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local governments to ensure victim rescue, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems. Prior to joining IJM, Mike was the Missions Director at The River Church in downtown San Jose, CA where he helped create a partnership with IJM that provided law enforcement training and aftercare for victims of sexual abuse in Huánuco, Peru.
Topic: Mobilizing your Church to do Justice
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Stan Patyrak
Stan Patyrak is Senior Director of Partnerships for Living Water
International, a faith-based implementer of water solutions in over 20 developing countries. Stan has traveled extensively with Living Water, having visited over 13 of the organization's programs within Africa, Central America, India and Haiti. Stan and his family recently moved to Portland to establish a Pacific
Northwest office for Living Water.
Topic: Clean water, Sustainability and Being a Good Neighbor: The Church's unique role in the world's largest crisis.
Mimi Haddad
Mimi Haddad, Ph.D. (Durham University) is president of Christians for Biblical Equality, an organization that advocates for gender justice from a biblical perspective. Because ideas have consequences, theological concepts regarding gender have a significant impact on the body of Christ and its ministry in the world. Mimi writes and speaks widely on topics of gender and faith, as well as serving as adjunct assistant professor at Bethel University and North Park Theological Seminary. She and her husband live in the Twin Cities.
Topic: Gender and Justice: What Every Christian Should Consider
Robin Stephenson
Robin Stephenson has worked for Bread for the World for the past four years speaking in churches throughout the west encouraging Christians to live out the Gospel call to speak for the least. Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation's decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. After a career in archeology was cut short by an accident, Robin now says she excavates justice instead of artifacts. Her topic will explore how the individual and church can move beyond charity and into transformational justice through the role of citizen-advocacy in discipleship.
Topic: Government, Global Poverty and God's Mission in the World: An Evangelical Declaration
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MARK KADEL
Mark Kadel, Director of World Relief Spokane, has over 20 years of experience working with refugees and victimized people suffering persecution and abuse. Working for nine years as missionaries in the Balkan area of Eastern Europe, Mark and his family assisted and provided humanitarian assistance to victims of civil war and trafficking in both Albania and Kosovo. After returning to the United States in 2002, Mark started working with World Relief as his experience overseas greatly enabled his world perspective to the needs of the oppressed from around the world.
Topic: The First Step in Ending Slavery – Addressing the Demand for Human Trafficking
World Relief Anti-Trafficking
Abraham HIMSIMTING
Abraham moved with his family into a Cambodian slum 5 years ago, using their life savings of $6,000 to plant a church and start a school. Since then, their church has spearheaded housing, clean water, sanitation and health initiatives leading radical transformation in the community. Abraham's church is now church-planting amongst former Khmer Rouge soldiers (from the 1970's genocide) in one of the last unchurched areas of Cambodia. He is married to his wife Sopoin and together they have three children who give him the foundation to make it all possible.
Topic: The Indigenous Church: God's Secret-Agent for Global Transformation and How We Can Join Them
DR. CHRISTINA CUMMINGS
Dr. Christina Cummings is a physician and surgeon, (MD Duke University). Her focus is on nutrition and a holistic approach to medicine that incorporates the mind, body and spirit. Her seminar and lecture series have been utilized by individuals, families, corporate groups and non-profit organizations to empower participants by providing information and skills that allow them to make lifestyle changes necessary to support their health and well being.
Topic: Junk Food and Justice: Who Do You Think Is Making Your Food Choices?
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Zeenat Rahman
Zeenat Rahman is the Acting Director of the Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Initiatives at USAID. She was previously the Director of Policy at the Interfaith Youth Core where she worked closely with the White House and various federal agencies including the US State Department, USAID, and the Corporation on National and Community Service to advance programs related to youth, religious identity, interreligious engagement and interfaith service. She has spoken extensively on issues related to Muslim identity, civic engagement, and international affairs.
Topic - The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships: Creating Partnerships for the Common Good
Max Finberg
Max Finberg has dedicated his career to serving others, especially hungry people. Currently, Max serves as Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships which works to build partnerships between USDA and faith-based and neighborhood organizations to better serve individuals, families and communities. Previously, he was the first director of the Alliance to End Hunger, a non-profit organization that engages diverse institutions in building the public will to end hunger, both in the United States and worldwide.
Topic: The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships: Creating Partnerships for the Common Good
Rev. David L. MyerS
Rev. David L. Myers is the Director of the Department of Homeland Security's Center for Faith-based & Neighborhood Partnerships. Appointed by President Obama in 2009, Myers heads one of the thirteen centers. Myers and his staff work to build, sustain and improve effective partnerships between DHS and faith-based and voluntary organizations. In this role, Myers has personally led Center efforts at major disasters, working closely with senior governmental, state, local, faith-based and voluntary groups. Prior to joining DHS, Myers served faith-based and neighborhood organizations as an executive director and minister for twenty-five years.
Topic: The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships: Creating Partnerships for the Common Good
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LEROY BARBER
Leroy Barber is President of Mission Year, a national urban initiative introducing 18-29 year olds to missional and communal living for one year of their lives, and is CEO of FCS Urban Ministries. He is co-pastor of Community Life Church, and on the boards of CCDA and Word Made Flesh. Leroy is the author of New Neighbor: An Invitation to Join Beloved Community, and Everyday Missions: How Ordinary People Can Change the World and was also chosen as a contributor to the groundbreaking book UnChristian. Leroy is married to Donna and together they have five children.
Topic: Community Development + Missions = Justice
David Bronkema PH.D
David Bronkema - Dr. David Bronkema is Associate Professor and Chair of the School of Leadership and Development at Eastern University's Campolo College of Graduate and Professional Studies. He currently serves as Program Director of the MA International Development and MBA Economic Development. Dr. Bronkema has a PhD and Masters from Yale in Anthropology and International Relations. His recent work has focused on social entrepreneurship and spiritual impact measurement while his publications, writings and talks have explored the intersection between religion and development.
Title: Social Entrepreneurship, Business, and Justice
Danny Bismark-Pettit
Danny Bismark Pettit was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He currently serves as Director of Advancement and Administration for the School of Leadership and Development at Eastern University. He is a creative strategist and entrepreneur and has worked in numerous consulting roles to build capacity in NGOs, Civic Society and Government. He has served as task force chairman for a political group in Zimbabwe fighting for social, economic and political rights and continues the fight for justice to prevail in that country. He lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife Cathy and their three children.
Topic: Social Entrepreneurship, Business, and Justice
PreConference
Speakers
STEVE CARTER
Steve Carter is the lead pastor of rockharbor fullerton. He works with a great team of staff and volunteers who are committed to helping this
young community become an actual family that works for the peace and
welfare of their city. He is a founding member of solidarity and currently serves on the board. steve lives with his wife sarah, their son emerson and their dog fenway in downtown fullerton, california.
Topic: Commonwealth: Unleashing Entrepreneurial Saints for the Public Welfare and General Good of the City
Dr. John Sowers
Dr. John Sowers is the president of The Mentoring Project, a movement existing to inspire and equip faith communities to rewrite the stories of fatherless youth through mentoring. He is also a founding member of the Formosa Theory and has been a part of the White House Task Force conversation on Fatherhood and Healthy families. He has a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and attended Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the crisis of fatherlessness. He is the author of Fatherless Generation: Redeeming the Story.
Topic: The Mentoring Project
fatherlessgeneration.com
MICAH BOURNES / SPOKEN WORD
Micah began rapping while attending Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. From there he began blending and bending genres as he incorporated spoken word poetry, rhythm & blues, and funk into his music.
Micah has performed at the University of Texas, is a two time 1st-place winner of the intercollegiate National Religious Broadcasters Competition, and has done quite well for himself in countless poetry slams across the country.
LAMONT HIEBERT / MUSIC
Lamont Hiebert is a Love146 Co-Founder and the Director of U.S. Prevention. Lamont is also a successful singer/songwriter, most notably as the front man for the band Ten Shekel Shirt. He has been the musical guest of GQ Magazine, the NBA, International Justice Mission and has performed at social action events with Dave Matthews Band, John Legend and Natasha Bedingfield.
As a seasoned Love146 spokesperson and performing artist, Lamont powerfully communicates the challenges and successes of the modern-day abolitionist movement through lectures, stories and songs.
GRACE LAXSON / MUSIC
A native of Southern California, Grace now makes her home in beautiful Bend, OR. Grace fronts multiple bands including 'The Heroes of Telemark' and 'Lo and Behold', as well as several cover bands in the region.
As a studio vocalist Grace has performed on at least 6 Albums since moving to Central Oregon in 2009. Grace has been commissioned to write music for several organizations both profit and non profit, and is in the process of recording her debut solo album. Grace performs regularly at Antioch Church in Bend.
ELLIOT / MUSIC
Elliot is a worship band from the Pacific Northwest playing energetic, acoustic and melodic rock with a heart for social justice.
Elliot has performed across the globe in order to inspire that kind of change. They have taken the stage for the benefit of World Relief numerous times, and their music was featured in TOM's Shoes "One day without Shoes Campaign" as well as the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta, GA. The members of Elliot were instrumental in forming "The Heart Campaign", an organization that mobilized over 5.000 people to serve their communities through acts of compassion.
carolyn BARRY / MUSIC
Carolyn Berry's worship ministry began in 1992 when she went on a missions trip to Haiti. Since then, she has grown in her love and passion for music. She holds a B.A. Degree From Life Pacific in "Ministry and Leadership." As a recording artist, she has just completed her debut solo CD called "Fall On Me."
JUBILEE / MUSIC
JUBILEE is a nonprofit band from Seattle whose motto is 'Do what you love to undo what you hate.' They use their microphone and all music sales to fight modern slavery. Their project Arts Aftercare brings the beauty and healing power of the arts to recovering victims at local and international safe homes.
ANNIE BETHANCOURT / MUSIC
Annie Bethancourt is a singer/songwriter with an arresting voice and a story to tell. The daughter of one-time traveling folk musicians, Bethancourt grew up memorizing all the lyrics to Paul Simon songs, singing little ditties into hand-held tape recorders, and playing a piano with a toothbrush.
Now splitting her time between the firs of Portland, Oregon and the palm trees of Costa Rica, Bethancourt lives a life of wanderlust, and her music is, just like her scenery, an ever changing mixture of people and places, strange scenarios, and quirky tales.
JUSTIN LAVIK / MUSIC
Justin received his Bachelor of Music in Trumpet Performance in 1998 from Biola University, and performed regularly with such groups as the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, The Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, The Disneyland Band, and others. Currently Justin is the Worship and Creative Arts director at Antioch Church, in Bend, and regularly performs in the community as a guitarist and vocalist for multiple bands.
As a songwriter and producer Justin has written or co-written on more than 6 albums. Justin currently resides in Bend, OR with his wife of 9 years and 3 children where he enjoys mountain biking, crafted malt grains, and powder days.
Pricing
Last Chance |
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| Public | $149 | $169 |
| Group (8+)* | $120 | |
| Student | $109 | $125 |
| Pre-Conference | $50 | $55 |
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Registration info
• Prices include registration fees and conference materials. Prices do not include transportation, lodging, or meals.
• Groups of 8 or more may contact our registration team to find out about group discounts.
• Student registrations will be required to fax or email a copy of a current student ID for either undergraduate, graduate, or high school enrollment.
• If you add individuals to your group after the rate increase, the new registrations will be charged according to the new rates.
• Individual pre-conference sessions are on a first come first served basis.
CANCELLATION POLICY
For registrations cancelled on
or before January 15, 2012:
Registrations cancelled on or before January 15, 2012, will be issued a credit for the full registration amount, less a $25/person cancellation fee.
For registrations cancelled after January 15, 2012: Cancellation credit will not be issued for registrations cancelled after January 15, 2012, or no shows at the event. Refunds will also not be issued for any cancellations after January 15, 2012, or no shows at the event.
To make a cancellation please contact info@thejusticeconference.com
The Justice Conference™ is a not for profit conference and all proceeds are reinvested into future conferences or dispersed to other non-profit organizations.
Schedule
Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 |
Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012 |
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| 7:00 – 8:45 am | Check In/Registration | 8:30 am | Session 2 | ||
| Pre-Conference | 10:30 am | Session 3 |
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| 9:00 – 10:15 am | Breakout 1 | 11:30 am | Lunch Break | ||
| 10:30 – 11:45 am | Breakout 2 | 1:15 pm | Session 4 | ||
| 11:45 am | Lunch Break Tom Perez / Lynne Hybels Lunch |
3:40 pm | Break | ||
| 1:15 – 2:30 pm | Breakout 3 | 4:00 pm | Session 5 | ||
| 2:45 – 4:00 pm | Breakout 4 | 5:15 pm | Dinner Break | ||
| 4:00 – 6:00 pm | Check In/Registration | 7:00 pm | Closing Session | ||
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Includes all silver level package features plus 14 conference passes and editorial content in conference program.
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Includes all value level package features plus 8 conference passes, distribution of material and promo time from stage.
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Includes one Exhibitor Booth, two Main Conference passes and your Organization logo and web link displayed on the Justice Conference website. Your Organization logo will also appear on the Main Screen video loop during the Conference and on promotional signage in the Conference main lobby area.
FORMS
Regular Exhibitors/$400
Includes one Exhibitor Booth, two Main Conference passes and your Organization logo and web link displayed on the Justice Conference website. Your Organization logo will also appear on the Main Screen video loop during the Conference and on promotional signage in the Conference main lobby area.
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