Main Session Speakers

  • Dr. Peter Bellini

    Rev. Dr. Bellini has served in ministry for over 36 years. He has been a leader in every facet of ministry, including new church starts, church turnarounds, mergers, local church renewal, prison and campus ministry, revivals, conferences, deliverance ministry, discipleship and leadership training, inner city and global missions and several marketplace ministries. He has taught and ministered in countries throughout Latin America, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America. Dr. Bellini teaches on the Holy Spirit and related topics, such as holiness, healing, prayer, hearing God, discipleship, mental health, pastoral care and counseling, revivalism, Wesleyan Holiness-Pentecostal-Charismatic movements the power of God, spiritual warfare, and deliverance. Above all Dr. Bellini is a revivalist and ministers in revivals throughout the year. As a revivalist he ministers in the fivefold gifts, specializing in prophetic intercession, deliverance, and healing. Dr. Bellini is one of the foremost authorities on deliverance and exorcism.

    Pete is married to Mariuccia Bellini. They have two adult children Pietro Aaronne and Paola Arianna. They have a granddaughter Costanza.

  • Tommy Jones

    Tommy has been pastoring GRACEchurch in East End, Arkansas for the past 13 years . He has seen God move in incredible ways in and through this diverse, growing church.  In the current culture, he is increasingly thankful that GRACE is led by the Spirit rather than a political party and that the church has grown deeper through difficult times. Tommy leads a staff of dedicated pastors who are not afraid of change and willing to move as the Spirit directs. Tommy has a wife named Kristi who is a functional medicine APRN, a son Kaeden, and a daughter Kinley. 

  • Chris Bounds

    Rev. Chris Bounds, Ph.D. is Professor of Theology at Asbury Theological Seminary. He has co-authored four books: Holiness: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Theology with Matt Ayars and Caleb Friedeman; Holiness: The Power to Transform You, Your Church, and Your World with Jim Garlow, Christy Lipscomb, and Joann Lyon; Selecting Worship Songs: A Guide for Leaders with Constance Cherry and Mary Brown; and Unholiness: Overcoming the Forces that Attack Your Soul with Jim Lo.

    He presently serves on the Board of Trustees of One Mission Society Global (OMSG) and the Board of Directors of The Francis Asbury Society. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors for Good News: A Forum for Scriptural Christianity in The United Methodist Church and the Manchester Wesley Research Centre.

    He and his wife Tamara have been married for almost thirty years. They have two children, a daughter – Maris, a son – Morgan, and daughter-in-law – Alyse. 

  • Warren Smith

    J. Warren Smith, professor of historical theology, is interested in the history of theology broadly conceived from the apostles to the present, but his primary focus is upon patristic theology. His book Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa (Crossroad, 2004) is a study of Nyssen’s ascetic theology as the intersection of his anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology.

    He lives in Durham with his wife, Kimberly Doughty, who is an EC resource teacher, and their children, Katherine and Thomas. His interests include playing with his English bulldog, walking in the Western NC mountains, painting military miniatures, reading Victorian literature, watching history and science documentaries, and studying U.S. and British diplomatic and political history.

    He was brought up in the home of a Methodist pastor and professor of Church History at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. While working on his MDiv, he took a year to teach European History (1870-Present), Religious Education, and English at United Methodist secondary school in Zimbabwe. Between divinity school and his doctoral studies, he served as pastor of Friendship UMC, a 100 year old congregation south of Atlanta. Since then, he taught at Wabash College and Yale University before settling down at Duke.

  • Michael Hutchings

    Michael Hutchings

    Dr. Michael Hutchings has 35 years of pastoral, church planting and "pastoring pastors" experience in a variety of church cultures, including Baptist, Vineyard, Willow Creek and Mennonite. In Peoria, Illinois, he is a leadership mentor, a pastor’s coach and is an advisor to a number of leadership teams of ministries and churches.

    His ministry, “God Heals PTSD Foundation” creates curriculum and conducts “Healing Trauma and PTSD” training seminars throughout the world, in churches, ministry centers and military bases. He trains prayer ministers, clergy, chaplains and counselors to utilize a healing prayer model to bring restoration to those suffering with PTSD. He has trained over 20,000 in his seminars on bringing healing prayer to trauma. His book, “Supernatural Freedom from the Captivity of Trauma” is available through Destiny Image. He has travelled to Ukraine, Rwanda, South Africa, Armenia, Brazil and New Zealand to train the church to bring healing to those with unresolved trauma.

    He has a Doctor of theology and a Doctor of Ministry degree and has worked as a licensed behavioral therapist in private practice counseling and was clinical coordinator for a counseling program serving homeless, runaway youth and their families.

    He is currently the Director of Education for Global Awakening, an evangelistic ministry in Mechanicsburg, PA. He directs Dr. Randy Clark’s Global School of Supernatural Ministry and the Global Certification Programs. He is passionate about connecting pastors and leaders throughout the body of Christ to come together for transformation in their cities, and he strives to equip others to minister healing and wholeness to the world. He has been married to his wife, Roxanne for 43 years, and has three children and five grandchildren.

Breakout Sessions

Spiritual Parenting

Kevin Watson

Healing Prayer

Matt Judkins

The Spirit & Collaborative Sermon Writing

Jeff Jones & Tommy Jones

Caring for Your Soul in the Presence of the Holy Spirit

Connie Jeske & Kelly Junk

Evangelism

Spirit & Truth Ministries