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Impact And Influence
October 20-23, 2008
Grand Rapids, MI

Keynote Speakers | Devotional Speakers | Internet Evangelism | Internet Discipleship |
Internet Marketing / Strategy | Internet Design / Technology

Internet Evangelism

Eric Celerier, GODREV.COM

Eric Celerier is married with Muriel and has 3 children. He is French, 43 years old and livesin France,near Paris. Born-again Christian since the age of 18, he was called very early by God to serve Him. He started in ministry in 1986 in the Billy Graham team in France and received a vision for the lost.

Pioneer in evangelism with New Technologies, Eric Celerier is the founder of Topchretien.com,an internet portalfor Christians, which receives one million visits every month. He is also the founder of ConnaitreDieu.com, a website for non Christiansnow existing in 7 languages. Everyday, 1500 people i.e. one person every 60 seconds, are indicating a decision for Christ on these websites. Eric Celerier is known as a visionary who sees Internet more as a mission field thanjusta tool. He is managing a team of 17 full time people and more than 1000 volunteers in 62 countries.

Sessions:

  • Learn by Testing: Perfecting an Online Evangelism Strategy

Drew Dickens, Need Him Ministries

Drew Dickens serves as the President/Executive Director of Need Him Ministries, an international evangelism counseling ministry. Prior to joining Need Him, Drew was a senior executive with CBS Radio and Westinghouse Broadcasting in Dallas, New York, and St. Louis. He is a graduate of Baylor University. He and his wife, Laurie, have been married since 1981 and now reside in Dallas, Texas. They have two teenage boys. Drew also serves on the boards of the National Religious Broadcasters, Boy Scout Circle Ten Council, Hope for the Heart Counseling, and Forrest Outreach Foundation.

Sessions:

  • The convergence of media for effective Internet Evangelism

Johnnie Gnanamanickam, CBN

Johnnie is Senior Manager of Digital Media Development at CBN. His job includes evaluating emerging technologies and trends and leveraging them for the kingdom. He would like to see the Body of Christ using God given insight, inspiration and innovation to lead the world in the areas of media and technology.

Johnnie has been equipped with an unusual blend of skills that include marketing, creative, technical, leadership, and ministry. Most of all he is driven by a passion to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth and make disciples of all nations, primarily using media.

Sessions:

  • The Social Media Revolution

Rev. David Hackett, visionSynergy

The Rev. David Hackett, Presbyterian pastor and associate director of visionSynergy (www.visionsynergy.net), helps shape the global mission networking movement through VisionSynergy's international ministry developing next-generation leaders oriented toward collaboration. He assists and develops strategic global Christian networks focused on areas of high impact for world evangelization, such as Muslim Internet evangelism and the use of the mobile in evangelism.

He is the editor of the PowerofConnecting Network Resource Site (www.PowerofConnecting.net) and its monthly Partnership eNewsletter. Dave previously served as a missionary in Korea, a mission pastor, and a mission agency executive director. He lives with his family in the Seattle, Washington area.

Sessions:

  • Innovate and collaborate to set your Web/Mobile Evangelism Ministry on a growth curve

David Nolent, LookingForGod.com

David is 33 years old. He came to know the Lord in England at 22 while he was doing his last year of MPhil as an exchange student. From the very moment he believed he felt a strong desire from God to tell others about Him and His Salvation his Jesus Christ His Son. He went to witness everyday in the streets and soon wanted to find a way to quicken the evangelism process to give everyone a chance to hear about Jesus before dying. ThatÕs how in 1999 he built his first evangelistic website and how God led him to meet Eric Celerier in 2002 who invited him to join the TopC ministries and develop evangelism.

Today, the role of David is to develop the website www.lookingforgod.com in 35 languages with local partners in all the countries of the world!

Sessions:

  • Glocal Internet Evangelism: Thinking Global and Local

Dani Sleiman, CBN

Dani was born and raised in a nominal Christian home in Lebanon, surrounded by many Muslim neighbors. In 1986, he experienced a personal conversion to Jesus through a missionary to Lebanon. From that point on, Dani has had a deep passion to see Muslims come to Jesus. Soon afterwards, Dani worked for five years with a CBN broadcast affiliate called METV (Middle East Television) in Southern Lebanon using his fluency in Arabic and English.

After immigrating to the United States, Dani honed his broadcasting skills at Regent University in Virginia, graduating in 1994 with a Masters in TV Production. In the following four years, Dani led a small IT company of his own, and worked with several Christian ministries. As the current Managing Producer of Arabic Programing at CBN, Dani now produces Arabic shows for worldwide audiences each week.

Sessions:

  • Ministering to Muslims using TV and Internet

John Sorensen, Evangelism Explosion

President of Evangelism Explosion (EE), Rev. John B. Sorensen came to the Lord through someone trained in EE and has been active in EE since 1991, clinic trained in 1995. John first served EE as Director for Ministry Advancement before being elected as Executive Vice President in 2004. John earned a Masters in Arts in Evangelism from Knox Theological Seminary. John is married with four children.

Sessions:

  • Designing Internet Evangelism for a Postmodern Generation

Craig von Buseck, CBN.com

Dr. Craig von Buseck is Ministries and Special Projects Director for CBN.com, the Web site of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). He writes a weekly column on CBN.com that focuses on biblical teaching and cultural commentary. Craig is also editor of "ChurchWatch," a blog that follows the latest news and trends affecting the Body of Christ.

Craig is the author of Seven Keys to Hearing GodÕs Voice by Hensley Publishers. He is currently writing a book titled, NetCasters: Harnessing the Internet to Make Fishers of Men, which will be published by Broadman and Holman in 2009. He is an ordained minister and travels often to minister in churches, speak at professional events and teach communication and writing techniques.

Craig is a graduate of CLASS (Christian Leaders and Speakers Services), and serves on the faculty of the CLASS Seminar. He has been a featured speaker at the Florida Christian Writers Conference, the Glorieta Christian Writers Conference, the Write-to-Publish Conference, the Colorado Christian Writers Conference, the Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference, the Heart of America Christian Writers Conference, and the Jerry Jenkins Writing for the Soul Conference. He has also been a featured speaker at the Internet Evangelism national conference and the CLASS Reunion at the CBA convention.

Craig holds a MA in Religious Journalism and a Doctor of Ministry from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Sessions:

  • NetCasters: Web 2.0 and Internet Evangelism in 2008

Rusty Wright, Author and Journalist

Rusty Wright is an award-winning author, journalist and lecturer who has spoken on six continents.Ê His evangelism resources have been used in 14 languages by over 350 websites Ð Christian and secular Ð based on every continent.Ê He trains Christian leaders, broadcasters, print-media and Internet professionals in effective communication with secular audiences and holds Bachelor of Science (psychology) and Master of Theology degrees from Duke and Oxford universities, respectively. www.probe.org/Rusty

Sessions:

  • Communicating Christ Effectively to Secular Audiences

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