Seminar Speakers

Homer Trecartin "Youth in Mission"

Having a wealth of experience in missionary service, Homer Trecartin serves as an associate secretary in the General Conference and is the director of Adventist Volunteer Service and the planning director for Adventist Mission. He will speak specifically to youth interested in mission service during the first session.

Jon Dybdahl "I Think God Wants Me to be a Missionary"

Geared especially for the academy and/or college age young person, Jon will discuss how to know if God is calling you to serve in a mission capacity. Dybdahl spent six years as a pastor and evangelist Thailand where he founded Chain Mai Adventist Academy. Dybdahl is considered one of the Seventh-day Adventist church’s foremost experts on world mission.

Belinda Kent "Becoming Incarnational and Missional Women for Jesus Christ"

Belinda and her husband, John served with Adventist Frontier Missions for eight years. She has a passion to help young people learn to experience God and live transformed lives as His disciples. She will emphasize ways to immerse oneself in the culture in order to have the most impact in both foreign countries and here at home.

John Kent "Towards More Effective Short-Term Missions" part 1

This four-part seminar series will give short-term missionaries the instruction and knowledge to be sucessful in a mussion venture, whether it be a two-week church building project or a year of student missionary service. John Kent is the training director at Adventist Frontier Missions (AFM) and has been involved in outreach for over 25 years including eight years as an AFM Missionary.

Pat Gustin "Let All the Earth Praise the Lord," part 1

Pat Gustin is a retired missionary teacher, having spent 23 years in Asia (Far Eastern Academy, Chaing Mai and Bangkok Thailand, and Ubol. Pat’s experience in the mission field gives her a unique perspective on worship and culture. She will share meaningful and culturally appropriate ways to have authentic worship with the appropriate reverence for God.

Russel Burrill "Church Planting Still Viable in the 21st Century?" part 1

Russel Burrill is the director for the North American Division Evangelism Institute and also Ministerial Secretary for the North American Division. His seminar will share an examination of the biblical and Ellen White counsels on church planting with an attempt to discover the priority of God for the Adventist church in the last days. It will be discovered that church planting is one of the most effective agencies under heaven to increase the harvest God wants reaped in these last days

Gary Krause "Global Mission: 20 Years and We're Still Here"

When the world Adventist Church voted a Global Mission initiative to reach unentered areas in 1990, there were six million baptized Seventh-day Adventists. Today there are 16 million. Yet a huge challenge remains because there are more "unreached" people on planet Earth today then there were in 1990. What practical steps should be be now taking?

Homer Trecartin "Seniors in Mission"

Homer Trecartin is the associate secretary of the General Conference and the director for Adventist Volunteer Service. He has a passion for youth to have the opportunity to experience mission service. He also has an equal passion for adults of all ages to have that same opportunity.

Belinda Kent "Becoming Incarnational and Missional Women for Jesus Christ"

This seminar is a repeat of the first

John Kent "Towards More Effective Short-Term Missions" part 2

Pat Gustin "Let All the Earth Praise the Lord," part 2

Russel Burrill "Church Planting Still Viable in the 21st Century?" part 2

Gary Krause "Translating the Gospel"

Pastor Gary Krause, director of the Office of Adventist Mission, at the Adventist World Headquarters will discuss what it means to become "all things to all people." How can we make Adventism significant for different audiences, communties, and people groups -- while still preserving its identity and integrity?

Session Three seminars will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Sunday

John Kent "Towards More Effective Short-Term Missions" part 3

Wayne Kablanow "Planting a Church" part 1

This seminar will inspire pastors and lay workers to catch the church planting vision and see the great mission field in their surrounding communities. His seminar will give practical application to Russel Burrill's Sabbath Seminars. Kablanow is the Church Planting coordinator in Upper Columbia Conference and also the pastor of a church plant, Hayden Lake Church in Idaho.

Session Four seminars will be from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. on Sunday

John Kent "Toward More Effective Short-Term Missions" part 4

Wayne Kablanow "Planting a Church" part 2