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Plenary Session Personnel

We're very pleased to have presented a distinguished group of keynote speakers, biblical expositors, and liturgists for the FC'02 plenary sessions. (Take a look at the conference schedule to see when these sessions occurred.)

Speakers

Delivering our opening address was Mark Labberton. Dr. Labberton is the senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California.

On each of the four main days of the conference, we heard biblical expositions from a team comprising:

Marva Dawn

Dr. Dawn is a theologian, author, musician, and educator with Christians Equipped for Ministry of Vancouver, Washington, and Teaching Fellow in Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. You can listen to Dr. Dawn's recent talk, "Corrupted Words Reclaimed," delivered in January at Calvin College.

Vinoth Ramachandra

Dr. Ramachandra is the Secretary for Dialogue and Social Engagement in Asia for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. He lives in Sri Lanka with his wife Karin.

Harold Dean Trulear

Dr. Trulear is the senior pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Twin Oaks, Pennsylvania. He is also a visiting professor of Urban Ministry and Public Policy at Drew University and a member of the faculty of the Center for Urban Theological Studies in Philadelphia.

Miroslav Volf

Dr. Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at the Yale Divinity School and a visiting professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelical-Theological Faculty, Osijek, in his native Croatia.

On the final evening, we heard a closing address from Dallas Willard (who also led the Ideas and Idols track at FC'02). Dr. Willard is a professor of philosophy at USC and is well known for his books, including The Spirit of the Disciplines, The Divine Conspiracy, and Hearing God.

Conference Liturgists

Andy Crouch

Andy is the editor of Re:generation Quarterly, a magazine that equips the emerging generation to transform their world. He formerly worked with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University.

Stephanie Seefeldt

Stephanie serves as the Worship Pastor for Blackhawk Evangelical Free Church in Madison, Wisconsin. She led worship at the first Following Christ conference in 1998.

Emcee

Greg Jao

Greg is InterVarsity's Divisional Director for Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana. He is also a lawyer and a trivia opponent not to be trifled with. He served as emcee during the first Following Christ conference in 1998 in Chicago and stayed admirably calm during the Blizzard of the Century.

Also on the podium at various times were After Hours Arts performers and Story Night speakers, and a host of others.