"Making A Difference"
March 27, 2025
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Foundations Track
Topical Track
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Speakers
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Dr. Kevin Carson
Dr. Kevin Carson – pastor of Sonrise Baptist Church (Ozark, MO); Department Chair of Biblical Counseling at Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary (Springfield, MO); ACBC and IABC certified; BCC counsel board member, counselor at Sonrise Biblical Counseling Ministry; conference speaker; married with four children; B.A., Pastoral Theology, Baptist Bible College (Springfield); M. Div., Baptist Bible Graduate School (Springfield); D. Min., Biblical Counseling, Westminster Theological Seminary.
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Randy Patten
Randy Patten is the President of TEAM Focus Ministries, an organization that seeks to increase the discipleship effectiveness of evangelical churches and Christian leaders through public proclamation of Scripture and private coaching. He is also the Director of Training Emeritus of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC).
Previously Randy served 18 years with ACBC, 16 as the Executive Director. He has been involved in training biblical counselors for over 40 years, including 24 years at Faith Biblical Counseling Ministries, Lafayette, Indiana.
Randy is a founding board member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition and a contributing author to Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling (Harvest House, 2012 & 2021), Scripture and Counseling (Zondervan, 2014) and Biblical Counseling and the Church (Zondervan, 2015).
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Debi Pryde
Debi grew up in a wonderful, committed Christian home and was privileged to have an active godly family who loved the Lord! She was saved after hearing the Gospel in Primary Church as a child. She grew up in a family of deacons, missionaries, teachers and servants of the Lord Jesus that both inspired her to follow their example, and prepared her to serve and teach. Her mother taught her how to present the Bible to children which ignited her love for teaching the Bible.
Debi and her husband served the Lord together for 47 wonderful years until the Lord took him home to be with Him. Debi continues her
teaching and counseling ministry as the Lord provides her opportunities. She is a member of Lighthouse Baptist Church under Pastor Brian Dunlop. She actively teaches a ladies’ Sunday school class on Sunday mornings and serves as a staff counselor.
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Dr. George Cragg
Coming Soon!
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Lamar Eifert
Lamar Eifert worked in the financial and pharmaceutical fields for the first 12 years of his career before surrendering to full-time ministry. He was ordained to the ministry in 1998 and has served as the Pastor of Family Ministries and Counseling at Valley Forge Baptist Temple for the past 26 years. He opened the Valley Forge Biblical Counseling Center (VFBCC) in 2013 where he serves as Director. He has his Masters degree in Biblical Counseling and is also a certified biblical counselor with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC) since 2010. He began the annual Competent to Counsel Conference in 2012 to help train pastors and lay people within the local church to become effective biblical counselors and reach the community with the gospel.
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Scott Wendal
Scott Wendal is the senior and founding pastor of Valley Forge Baptist Temple in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. In 2023, the church celebrated its 39th year of ministry under his leadership. He is married to Jodie, a pastor’s daughter from Canada, and they have five children – Matt, Jeremy, Megan, Scotty Jr. and Amber. Pastor Matt and his wife Nikki serve fulltime in ministry with them. Valley Forge Baptist has a growing missions program currently supporting over 230+ missionaries and projects worldwide. For 12 years, he served on the Board of Trustees of Baptist International Missions Inc. and currently is on the Pastoral Advisory Board of West Coast Baptist College. He is also a contributor to ministry127.com.
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Dr. Charles Hodges
Dr. Charles Hodges is currently the Executive Director of Vision of Hope, a residential treatment facility for women in Lafayette, IN. He is an instructor at Faith Bible Seminary as well as a counselor, and conference speaker for Faith Biblical Counseling Ministries. He also serves as a deacon in Faith Church.
He holds a B.A. in History from Indiana University – Purdue University of Indianapolis, a M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine, and an M.A. in Counseling from Liberty University and an M.A. in Religion from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
He is a Family Practice Physician and a Deacon at Grace Baptist Church, Lebanon, IN. ACBC Certified; ACBC Fellow, instructor and counselor at FBCM; married with 4 children and 13 grandchildren.
