Speakers

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Plenary Speakers:

Mike Frost

Michael Frost is the Director of the Centre for Evangelism and Global Mission at Morling Baptist Seminary in Sydney, Australia, and is the author of numerous books including Seeing God in the Ordinary (Hendrickson, 2000) and The Shaping of Things to Come with Alan Hirsch (Hendrickson, 2003), both best sellers. He travels and speaks on the emergent church in the U.S., Canada, and the UK, as well as Australia and New Zealand.

Wagdi Iskander

born in Sudan, was a Bedouin and a Muslim. He received his education in Sudan. After years of resisting God and thanks to the tireless witness of a university classmate, Wagdi became a new creature in Jesus Christ in 1985. Consequently, he was disowned by his Muslim family and spent time in prison, facing death.

He came to Canada in 1988 as a student at Prairie Bible College and then attended Southern Baptist Seminary. He later founded and pastored a Sudanese Church in Edmonton. He also has been involved in the Arabic ministry and an Arabic radio program. He has traveled extensively with Campus for Christ in outreach, leadership training and church planting among refugees worldwide.

Wadgi, his wife and his two children now live in Calgary where Wagdi serves as pastor of Arabic Church of Calgary (C&MA).

Stuart Murray

Stuart spent 12 years as an urban church planter in Tower Hamlets (East London) and has continued to be involved in church planting since then as a trainer, mentor, writer, strategist and consultant.

For 9 years he was Oasis Director of Church Planting and Evangelism at Spurgeon’s College, London and he continues as an Associate Lecturer of the college.

He is chair of the Anabaptist Network and has a PhD in Anabaptist hermeneutics.

Since September 2001, he has worked under the auspices of the Anabaptist Network as a trainer and consultant, with particular interest in urban mission, church planting and emerging forms of church.

He is the founder of Urban Expression, a pioneering urban church planting agency with teams in London, Glasgow, Manchester and The Netherlands.

He has written several books on church planting, urban mission, emerging church, the challenge of post-Christendom and the contribution of the Anabaptist tradition to contemporary missiology. Recent publications include Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World (Paternoster 2004), Church after Christendom (Paternoster 2005), Changing Mission (CTBI 2006) and Planting Churches: A Framework for Practitioners (Paternoster 2008).

He is married to Sian, who is a tutor at the Baptist College in Bristol where they live, and he has two grown up sons and a grandson.

Glenn Smith