MORNING SPEAKER & WORKSHOP SPEAKER:
Pastor Soong Chan Rah, Cambridge Community Fellowship Church

Pastor Soong-Chan was born in Korea and is the Founder and Senior Pastor of Cambridge Community Fellowship Church (CCFC), a post-modern, multi-ethnic, urban ministry-focused church in the Central Square neighborhood of Cambridge, MA.

Soong-Chan has previously been part of a church planting team in the Washington DC area, worked for a number of years with IVCF in Boston (specifically at MIT), and has mobilized CCFC to plant two additional churches (one geared towards Vietnamese at-risk youth) in 2002. Soong-Chan is also an active member of the Boston Ten-Point Coalition, a network of clergy that ministers to at-risk African-American youth in Boston’s inner-city neighborhoods. He has extensive experience in cross-cultural preaching (African-American, white and Latino churches) as well as on numerous college campuses (including Harvard, MIT, U of Maryland, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Brown, BU, BC, Wheaton, Taylor, Gordon, etc.). Soong-Chan was also a plenary speaker at the 2003 Urbana Missions Conference.

Soong-Chan received his B.A. in Political Science and History/Sociology from Columbia University; his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; his Th. M. from Harvard University and his D.Min. from Gordon-Conwell. He has been published in Reconcilers Magazine, Leadership Journal, and Christianity Today.

Pastor Soong-Chan’s vision for CCFC is to see young men and women mobilized for radical, incarnational ministry that impacts the city. He is excited about leading CCFC in its commitment to living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context. Soong-Chan has been married to his wife, Sue, a special education teacher, for eight years. They have a daughter, Annah, who is four years old and a two year old son, Elijah.

EVENING SPEAKER & WORKSHOP SPEAKER:
Pastor Dan Ho, Queens Christian Alliance Church

Pastor Dan Ho came to the United States with his family in 1965. He grew up in New York City and came to know the Lord at the age of 13 during the 1970's revival. Under the discipleship of his pastor, Rev. Lee Hearn, and the supportive fellowship of the Chinese Evangel Mission Church, he grew in the Lord and sensed the call to full-time ministry in 1976.

He attended Nyack College and received a B.A. in Religion. The following year, he attended the Alliance Theological Seminary. After graduating, he and his wife Barbara began their ministry in 1980 in the New York Chinese Alliance Church, developing the English congregation. In October 1982 they were called by the Lord to start the Queens Christian Alliance Church.

Dan and Barbara have two sons, Ryan, who is a 3rd year student at Dallas Theological Seminary and Andrew, who is finishing college.

WORKSHOP SPEAKER:
Pastor Claude Hubbard, Fairlawn Community Church of NJ

Coming soon!

WORKSHOP SPEAKER:
Joanne Highley, Counselor & Director of LIFE Ministry

I was born, raised and educated in Oklahoma. I arrived late in my parents’ lives and was the darling new baby that my whole family loved and pampered. However, at the age of 5, my world fell apart. My father died suddenly, my mother of necessity had to take a job, my 22-year-old brother got married, and my sister went to college. This shock of being “abandoned” sent me into a survival pattern of unreality that caused me to turn off my mind to avoid the pain. This pattern made me very vulnerable and brought feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. My mother took me as her emotional mate because of her loneliness and pain, so I tried always to be sufficient for her and be a “good little girl”.

By the time I reached puberty, I began to resent my mother’s worship and demands. When I was approached and kissed by a girl my age when I was 13, I was drawn into lesbian activity that continued for 10 years. It seemed a viable escape. During these years, I dedicated my life to full-time Christian service and attended Bible college at Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. Obviously I had seriously compartmentalized my mind to be able to practice lesbianism while attending Bible college. The lesbian relationship ended when she told me she had found another woman. I felt devastated and thought my life was over. But soon I found myself involved in another relationship which ended in a very painful way as well. I saw the lie of this lifestyle and vowed to close the door on this ungodly activity.

I took a position in a large church in Kansas City where I met Ron Highley. He also believed in the Lord and His life-changing power. When I told him of my former lesbian connections, Ron said, “I’ve done things I deeply regret having done, so let’s leave these things behind us and go on together.” We were married 45 years in an ever-deepening and happy marriage until he went to be with the Lord in October 2001. It was not as easy as this sounds, but the Lord was constant in His work to free us from old ungodly reactions to pain and to deliver us from demonic oppression. I am completely free of all homosexual orientation and activity, and have been for forty-seven years, all glory and praise to our loving Father.

We were living in the Midwest when we were born again and swept into the Kingdom of God by an outpouring of the Spirit in the 1960s and 1970s (called by some the “Charismatic Renewal” or “Jesus Movement”). I went through a very painful period of sickness and testing of my faith, but the Lord stayed with me and brought healing and deepening faith in His power and Word.

We were principal singers with the Kansas City Lyric opera from 1958-1978, appearing in more than 300 performances of over 40 different roles. We sang in concert and oratorio performances as well. We came to New York City in January of 1978 to pursue our singing careers and see what God had for us here. He very clearly led us to begin a ministry to people desiring freedom from homosexuality and that began in June of 1983. Since then, we have interviewed and counseled over 1000 people, mostly from the New York area (midtown Manhattan) though some have come here from other parts of the country and the world.

We have seen many men and women become completely free of homosexual orientation and activity as a result of following the counsel of the Lord’s Spirit and His Word in this ministry. There have been about 60 marriages, an this has produced nearly 50 “grandchildren” at present count.

It has been a privilege to work with a wide variety of gifted, sensitive people of great courage and tenacity as they fought bravely through their pain, and against sin and lies to freedom in Jesus Christ.

The Lord has made a way for us to teach in churches, conferences, and schools. We have appeared in several TV talk shows such as Donahue, Sally, Geraldo, Jerry Springer, Rolonda, as well as some Christian programs such as PTL, The 700 Club, People Are Talking, and others. Churches in Puerto Rico., the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic have heard us teach and testify on two trips there, and we have been invited to return.