Plenary Speakers

Tony Campolo

Tony Campolo is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University. He is the founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, an organization that develops schools and social programs in third world countries and in cities across North America. He is the author of 35 books, his latest three being, Letters to a Young Evangelical, The God of Intimacy and Action and Red Letter Christians, A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics. Learn more about Tony Campolo here.

• Fri 11:45 AM Festival Leadership Lunch Ballroom A
• Fri 7:00 PM Plenary Session : Red Letter Prayers Hall A
• Sat 11:30 AM Youth Leaders: Questions and Answers Ballroom C
• Sat 7:00 PM Youth Rally : Setting a course & travelling lights Hall C
• Sun 2:15 PM Plenary Session : Red Letter Christians Hall A

BOOK SIGNING : Friday Jan 30, 9 - 9:30 PM

Other Engagement during this weekend

• Sun 8:30 AM at Cedar Grove Baptist Church, 10300 - 144th Street, Surrey

Dr. Joseph D’souza

Joseph D’Souza is the International President of the Dalit Freedom Network, an organization which represents the interests of India’s “untouchables.” He is the author of Dalit Freedom: Now and Forever, a book which traces the history of the Dalit quest for emancipation and the response of the Indian church. He serves as the President of Operation Mobilisation-India, as well as the Chairman of the All India Council of Churches. Learn more about Joseph D’Souza here.

Watch an Joseph D'Souza in an interview in Vancouver August 2008

• Fri 1:30 PM The Four Waves of Mission Enterprise: Part 1 Room 1
• Fri 4:30 PM The Four Waves of Mission Enterprise: Part 2 Room 1
• Sat 12:30 PM India at the Crossroads Room 1
• Sat 7:00 PM Plenary Session : The Lords Prayer & Mission Hall A
• Sun 10:00 AM The Three Cries of Freedom Room 1
• Sun 4:00 PM Film : "India's Hidden Slavery" Room 11

BOOK SIGNING : Saturday Jan 31, 9 - 9:30 PM


Mark Buchanan

Mark Buchanan is the pastor of New Life Community Church in Duncan, B.C. His books (Your God is Too Safe, The Rest of God, Hidden in Plain Sight) inspire readers to a deeper walk with God. Mark’s teaching combines exegetical study with practical application. He worked with a coalition of leaders to create new relationships with First Nations groups of Vancouver Island. Mark is an energetic communicator who believes Acts 1:8 is a model for today’s Church. Learn more about Mark's ministry here.

• Fri 1:30 PM Your Church is Too Safe Room 11
• Fri 7:00 PM CLUB 67 : Now Walk on Water Room 1
• Sat 9:15 AM Plenary Session : Rest Hall A
• Sat 3:00 PM JOLT : Let's Go Kill Some Orcs Hall C
• Sun 10:00 AM Plenary Session : Risk Hall A

BOOK SIGNING : Saturday Jan 31, 11 - 11:30 AM

Mike Yankoski

Mike Yankoski is a graduate from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. Mike's book Under the Overpass captures the journey that he and a friend took when they chose to live as homeless people. They did this in order to better understand the plight of the poor and interact with the most despised people of society. His passion is to challenge youth to live out their faith, be directed by God's Word, and engage with the world they live in. Watch Video previews and learn more about Mike on his website, Under the Overpass.

• Fri 12:30 PM Youth Field Trip Rally : Life under the Overpass Hall A
• Fri 7:00 PM JOLT : Friday Night Youth Rally Hall C
• Sat 10:00 AM Youth - Praise Him in the Morning Hall C
• Sat 1:45 PM Who cares about Social Justice? Room 1
• Sat 7:00 PM CLUB 67 : Life under the Overpass Room 1
• Sun 4:00 PM Adult Seminar : Life under the Overpass Room 1

BOOK SIGNING : Saturday Jan 31, 12:00 Noon – 12 :30 PM

Marie Ens

Marie Ens was born in Saskatchewan and moved to the Lower Mainland as a young girl. Beginning in 1961, the Ens family spent a number of years working in Cambodia. After the country fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975 they relocated to France where they worked with Cambodian refugees. After her husband passed away in 1991, Marie returned to Cambodia in 1994 to resume her ministry in the land that she loves. Now in her "retirement years", she works at Place of Rescue, an AIDS hospice and orphanage, outside the capital city of Phnom Penh. Marie has been called “the Mother Theresa” of Cambodia, providing education and medical care in the name of Jesus to the poor of this SE Asian nation. Learn more about Marie's work here.

• Fri 3:00 PM Responding to the AIDS Crisis Room 11
• Sat 11:00 AM Growing up Poor Room 1
• Sat 2:00 PM Plenary Session : Jesus Led Me all the Way Hall A
• Sun 1:00 PM She Shall be Called Woman Room 1

BOOK SIGNING : Saturday Jan 31, 4:00 - 4:30 PM

BOOK SIGNING

Don’t miss getting your books personally signed by our Plenary Speakers. Find them at the Missions Fest Bookstore, booth V13 in the far right rear cornerfrom the front entrance (SE corner) of Exhibition Hall B.

Tony Campolo : Friday Jan 30, 9 - 9:30 PM
Mark Buchanan : Saturday Jan 31, 11 - 11:30 AM
Mike Yankoski : Saturday Jan 31, 12:00 Noon – 12 :30 PM
Marie Ens : Saturday Jan 31, 4:00 - 4:30 PM
Joseph D’Souza : Saturday Jan 31, 9 - 9:30 PM