Main Speakers

 

See also Workshop Speakers Worship Team

Winter Conference draws upon a large panel of internationally-known Christian speakers. This year we are especially pleased to present these gifted teachers.

J. P. Moreland
Morning Speaker  

Professor of Philosophy; B.S. University of Missouri; M.A., University of California, Riverside; Th. M., Dallas Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Southern California.

With degrees in philosophy, theology and chemistry, Dr. Moreland has taught theology and philosophy at a number of universities throughout the United States. He has authored or co-authored many books, including:

• Christianity and the Nature of Science

• Scaling the Secular City

• Does God Exist?

• Immortality: The Other Side of Death  

• The Life and Death Debate: Moral Issues of Our Times

Dr. Moreland is also the co-editor of Christian Perspectives on Being Human. His work has appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Christianity Today, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and the American Philosophical Quarterly. Dr. Moreland has served with Campus Crusade for 10 years, planted two churches and has spoken on over 100 college campuses.

See also: Detailed Biography

Dr. James Hudson Taylor, III
Evening Speaker

Dr. James Taylor III was born in Kaifeng, China. His great grandfather, J. Hudson Taylor, founded the China Inland Mission in 1865, now known as OMF International. After growing up in China, he completed studies in the United States.

His service in Asia began in 1955, when he and his wife, Leone, went to Taiwan where their three children were born. Dr. Taylor was involved in youth ministries and in 1970 became founding president of China Evangelical Seminary in Taipei, Taiwan. From 1980 to 1991, he served as OMF’s General Director at their International Headquarters in Singapore where he was described as “an American with British roots and a Chinese mind.”

In 1993, Dr. Taylor joined Chinese colleagues in founding MSI Professional Services, formerly known as Medical Services International, a creative new initiative in Christian professional service in inland China. He currently serves as MSI’s president.

Frank Dietz
Plenary Speaker

Topic: I See Dying People

Frank Dietz is a minister at large with a mission agency Operation Mobilization that has 3000 people working in 80 different countries. 

In 1963 Frank was part of Operation Mobilization's first team to India. He opened the OM work in Kerala, South India. The burden was to help mobilize the church in the South to go to the spiritually barren north with the Gospel of Christ. In 1969 Frank handled and helped develop the work of OM in Nepal. Through the OM work of India, the ship ministry came into being. In 1970 with the purchase of Logos, the first OM ship, Frank and his wife Anneli served for three years on board developing the ministry side of the ship. During 1975-1976 Frank and his wife Anneli established the work of OM in Finland. In 1977 the second OM ship Doulos was purchased and Frank and his family spent seven years on board with the last five as the director of the ship. During that time Doulos was mainly in Latin America. During 85-95 Frank pioneered OM's work in Latin America. Turning it over to other leaders in 1995 Frank has now become a Minister at Large promoting missions involvement and taking meetings all over the world. Frank is married to Anneli from Finland and they now reside in Citrus Heights, CA. They have two daughters and two grandsons.