KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & WORKSHOP Leaders

CALEB FOUST has been on staff at Emerywood Baptist Church in High Point for the past 7 years where he currently serves as the associate pastor. He worked in student ministry for 18 years throughout Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, and North Carolina before transitioning to his current role in 2022. He and his wife Mary Beth have two daughters Ava (8) and Eleanor (4) and enjoy, binge watching, reading, competitive fort building and exploring all the North Carolina nature they can take in.

Workshop – Future of Youth Ministry Think Tank

Friday | 1:15 p.m.

DENEAL FOWLER joined the Ardmore Baptist Church staff as Minister of Invitation and Hospitality in 2017. She is a native North Carolinian who spent her early years in Statesville, college days in Boone and later came to call Winston-Salem home. She delights in hearing people’s stories and seeing all the ways God uses the “ministry of the ordinary” to connect folks in sacred ways to one another and to the good news of God’s love.

Workshop – Why Investing in Healthy Congregational Relationships = Flourishing

Friday | 10:15 a.m.

CURTIS FREEMAN is research professor of theology and Baptist studies and director of the Baptist House of Studies. His newest book, Pilgrim Journey: Instruction in the Mystery of the Gospel, is set for publication in fall 2023. He is editor of the American Baptist Quarterly and serves on the Baptist World Alliance Commission on Doctrine and Christian Unity.

Workshop – Making Christians: Instruction in the Basic Teaching of Christ

Friday | 10:15 a.m.

AMY GALLAHER serves as the minister of missional engagement at Ardmore Baptist Church. She has also grown up as a missionary kid (MK) on the field in Hungary as her parents ministered to the Roma peoples in Eastern Europe with CBF.

Workshop – Let’s Talk Housing and Hospitality

Friday | 10:15 p.m.

DON GORDON is the founder and CEO of C3-Christians Caring for Creation and a Baptist pastor who has served in congregational ministry in North Carolina and Virginia for over 30 years. He is the father to 3 daughters and now has added 3 sons-in-law and 3 grandchildren.

Workshop – Beyond Recycling: How Churches Can Truly Care for Creation

Friday | 1:15 p.m.

BRUCE GOURLEY of Bozeman, Montana is an American historian and author and is managing editor of publications, Good Faith Media.

Workshop – Understanding and Responding to Christian Nationalism

Friday | 10:15 a.m.