Summer Celebration 2010 Speakers

Jim Ellis, PhD, retired Navy chaplain

Dates speaking: 26 June-3 July 2010

Week's Topic title: "Living the Mystery " (Marriage Week)

Short synopsis of weeks topic:
Jim Ellis, PhD, a retired Navy chaplain and currently the director of Continuing Studies and professor of Organizational Leadership at Union University's Gemantown, TN campus. Jim and his wife, Shirley, will be leading the study for the week, Living the Mystery. This seminar is a retreat that presents marriageas the ultimate spiritual discipline. Marriage combines the classical spiritual disciplines of study, prayer, and meditation with the essential relational disciplines of communication, conflict resolution and goal setting. Couples will be encouraged to live in their marriages through the supernatural ability of the Holy Spirit. This biblically based seminar includes group discussion and work in the Bible focusing on practical application of the principles taught. Jim and his wife, Shirley, have been married for over 30 years and have three daughters.

Biography:
Chaplain Jim Ellis, retired from the Navy in June 2005 as a Commander completing 27 years active duty. His last assignment was as the Seventh Coast Guard District Chaplain in Miami , FL. Previously Jim was the Command Chaplain for Marine Aircraft Group 39 when it deployed to combat in OIF I in January 2003. This was his second tour with Marines. Jim and his wife Shirley have been married for 32 years and have three daughters. Jim has a PhD in Organizational Leadership.

Cindy Wesley

Dates speaking: 3-10 July 2010

Week's Topic title: Heroes on the Homefront

Short synopsis of weeks topic:
"Heroes on the Homefront" week, with speakers Cindy Wesley and Anne Borcherding, is a special week for spouses and their children whose husbands are deployed in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.

Biography: Cindy Wesley is a proud army brat, her dad having served 2 tours in Viet Nam and over 30 years of military service. She is married to COL Eric Wesley, an armor officer, currently serving as brigade commander of 1st BCT, 1st ID, at Fort Riley. She and her husband feel called as a family to the military and they strongly believe that we, as leaders, are called to minister to the military community in the high tempo post 9/11 world.

She has been active throughout Eric's time in the military within the chapel, OCF, PWOC, and their unit FRGs. She has helped to sponsor 2 WOW conferences at FT. Stewart during OIF 1. Most recently she spearheaded a vision alongside OCF to begin the "Heroes on the Homefront" weeks at Spring Canyon , which was followed by the series "Hope for Homefront Heroes" for Command magazine, a column for which she has written and recruited other authors. She and Eric have 3 children: Tyler, Austin, and Meredith.

| top |

REV. CHUCK STECKER, D. MIN

Dates speaking: 10-17 July 2010

Week’s Topic title: Growing Your Family for all Generations

Rev. Chuck Stecker is the President and Founder of A CHOSEN GENERATION, a Christian ministry established to equip leaders with training, resources and strategies to strengthen the intergenerational culture and spiritual continuity of the Church, for the purpose of helping each person grow in spiritual maturity, as a reproducing disciple.

Chuck served in the United States Army for 23 years and retired in 1994 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He served in various staff and leadership positions in units such as Army Rangers, Airborne, and Special Forces. His career included assignments in Korea, Italy and limited duty in various other countries. He also served for three years on The Joint Staff in the Pentagon.

After retiring in 1994, Chuck and his family moved to Littleton, Colorado where he joined the staff of Promise Keepers and became the Regional Director for the South-Central Region. He served the Lord in Promise Keepers for three years and traveled throughout the region equipping, training and ministering to men and raising up a field staff to serve the men and churches of the region.

In 1997, Chuck felt called from Promise Keepers to start a ministry called Mission Capable Men to equip and train Godly leaders who will reproduce into future generations. As Chuck worked with leaders throughout the "body", he felt God's calling to minister directly to issues of the intergenerational church. In 1998, Chuck founded the ministry of A CHOSEN GENERATION.
Chuck was ordained as a "Minister of the Gospel" on May 12, 1996 with a local church. On November 4, 2005, those credentials were approved to transfer to The Evangelical Church Alliance, an international organization. Chuck has earned a Bachelor’s and Master's Degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. In 2004, he graduated from Louisiana Baptist University and Seminary with a Doctorate of Ministry (D. Min.) specializing in Christian Leadership.
Chuck has authored several articles and was a contributing author to Effective Men’s Ministry: The Indispensable Toolkit for Your Church. He has written a book for parents and ministry leaders concerning Rites of Passage that was published in February 2006. The title is Men of Honor & Women of Virtue, Raising Kids to Keep the Faith.

Chuck and his wife, Billie Jean, live in Littleton, Colorado, where they are active members of Grace Community Church. They have a daughter Laura Cassel, and two sons, Chad and Courtney. Lauri resides in Littleton with her two daughters, Eliana and Hannah. Chad and his wife, Tanya, work in Missouri. Courtney, their youngest son, recently served a combat deployment with the U. S. Army in Iraq.

| top |

| top |

| top |

| top |

| top |