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TuesdayDan Southerland
Wednesday Rev. Dr. Jenny Quey
ThursdayRev. Dr. Jeff Johnson The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey A. Johnson serves as the National Director of Evangelism and National Coordinator for NET: National Evangelism Team of the American Baptist Churches USA under the auspices of the Board of National Ministries.As the denominational Specialist in Evangelism, he collaborates with American Baptist national and regional staff committed to the denominational NEW LIFE 2010 goal to make 1,000,010 new disciples for Christ by the year 2010. Part of his responsibility is to assist our 35 different regions and 3 geographic areas in developing specific strategic evangelism plans and programs. In order to accomplish such, he travels extensively to speak, teach, equip, consult, and interact on local, associational, regional, and national levels. His strong Christocentric emphasis on personal evangelism is both relational and natural, rooted in the Word of God. He seeks to raise the awareness of the front line nature of evangelism as it occurs in and through the local church, believing as does our denomination that each of our local congregations are individually the fundamental units of ministry. He has served on Ecumenical, Evangelical, as well as Anabaptist (Believers Church) Evangelism Councils to coordinate evangelistic efforts across the spectrum of the Body of Christ. Rev. Michael Okwakol Michael is the Senior Pastor of Agape Baptist Church in Kampala Uganda and the President of the Baptist Union of Uganda. Previous to coming to study in the US, Michael served as General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Uganda for 8 years and in other capacities since 1984, He also is a member of the General Council of the Baptist World Alliance where he serves in several committees. Michael is completing his graduate studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina where is pursuing a Doctor of Ministry degree in Christian Leadership. Michael is married to Cossy and they have 5 children, 4 girls and 1 boy, and a grandson who is 4.Rev. Dr. Glenn Eugene Porter
Glenn is an associate regional pastor/area minister for the American Baptist Churches of New Jersey. He is responsible for ministering to approximately 120 congregations and pastors in Essex and North New Jersey associations. Prior to joining the ABCNJ ministry team, Dr. Porter served as pastor at the historic Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia. |
Following 13 years as the lead pastor/teacher of Flamingo Road Church, in Fort Lauderdale, Dan started Church Transitions INC., an organization that trains pastors and church leaders to effectively manage major transitions. Dan has trained over 100,000 pastors and church leaders in the past seven years. His focus in how to implement the purpose-driven paradigm in existing churches. Dan is now one of the pastors at Next Level Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. For more information, go to the 
Jenny is Senior Pastor of Community Baptist Church of San Mateo, CA and was born and raised in Hong Kong where she came to know the Lord at a young age. She has served on numerous denominational and inter-denominational boards and committees including ABC of the West, ABCUSA, and the National Conference of Chinese Christian Churches of North America. She has also preached on a weekly radio program in San Francisco. For more more information to 