Speakers
We regret that Dr. Cornel West will not be speaking on Tuesday, Sept. 7. CCDA Founder, Dr. John Perkins, will be delivering the keynote address on this evening.
Antoine Bennett
A lifelong resident of the Sandtown-Winchester community in West Baltimore, Antoine Bennett began working for the New Song Health Center in 1996 and is now co–executive director of New Song Urban Ministries. He is the president of the Sandtown Habitat Homeowners Association and serves the community as a member of multiple local boards of directors and as a coach for boys’ and girls’ basketball teams at New Song Academy. Antoine is also a member of the national YouthBuild board of directors.
Cheryl Broetje
Cheryl Broetje and her husband, Ralph, own and operate Broetje Orchards, an apple growing, packing, and shipping business they founded in the southeastern part of Washington state, whose mission statement declares that it is “a quality fruit company bearing fruit, fruit that will last.” Among the 25 programs the Broetjes have established are the Jubilee Youth Ranch, a residential community that currently serves teen boys looking for new beginnings, and the Center for Sharing, which helps laypeople to explore, discover, and put into practice God’s call on their lives in ways that serve the specific needs of others.
Crissy Brooks
Crissy Brooks is a founding member and the executive director of Mika Community Development Corporation. She spends her days with her neighbors, church partners, staff, and friends figuring out what it looks like to love God and their neighbors in Costa Mesa, California. Brooks has the privilege of leading initiatives in neighborhood organizing, youth development, and building church-community partnerships. She loves to make a good plan and finds joy in running, journaling, and traveling.
Jonathan Brooks
Jonathan Brooks is the senior pastor of Chicago-based Canaan Missionary Baptist Church and CEO of Canaan Community Redevelopment Corporation in Chicago’s West Englewood Community. Under the name of Amen Anointed, he has recorded four hip-hop albums with the group Out-World. Brooks is currently enrolled at the Bakke Graduate University of Ministry, earning his D.Min. in transformational leadership with a concentration in ministry in complex contexts.
Harvey Carey
Harvey Carey is the founder and senior pastor of the Citadel of Faith Covenant Church in Detroit, Michigan. He is a dynamic speaker whose global ministry changes lives with the transforming truth of God’s word, and his inspiring leadership and vision for urban revitalization unites people across boundaries of race, age, class, and culture. Carey developed a nationally emulated youth-ministry model that has reached thousands of teens in inner cities across the nation. He is also chair of the Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization providing housing, social services, and ministry to youth and children.
Daniel Carroll R.
M. Daniel Carroll Rodas is a professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary. A board member of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, he serves on the editorial boards of Religion and Theology (South Africa) and DavarLogos (Argentina), is a contributing editor to Prism magazine, and is the author of Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible. Carroll holds a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield, England.
Noel Castellanos
Currently the CEO of CCDA, Noel Castellanos has served in full-time ministry in urban communities since 1982. He is a highly sought-after speaker, motivator, and mentor to young leaders throughout the United States, and is a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Castellanos is coeditor, with John Fuder, of A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry.
Mark Charles
Mark Charles (Navajo) consults and speaks on Native American issues, including Navajo time perception, retaining cultural integrity, contextualizing Christian worship for indigenous cultures, and racial reconciliation. He has visited and worked with indigenous communities around the world. A graduate of UCLA, Charles supports his family as a consultant and database programmer.
Wayne Gordon
Wayne Gordon is founding pastor of Lawndale Community Church and president of CCDA. In over 30 years of ministry, he has played a key role in numerous community development initiatives, and one of his major goals has been to develop a new generations of leaders for North Lawndale. Gordon holds a D.Min. degree from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary and is the author of Real Hope in Chicago.
Glen Kehrein
Glen Kehrein is the founder and executive director of Circle Urban Ministries in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. Founded in 1974, Circle has become a national leader in urban community ministry and development. Kehrein is coauthor, with Raleigh Washington, of the award-winning book Breaking Down Walls: A Model of Reconciliation in an Age of Racial Strife.
Bob Lupton
Bob Lupton has invested almost 40 years of his life in inner-city Atlanta. Through FCS Urban Ministries, a nonprofit organization that he founded, Lupton has developed two mixed-income subdivisions, organized a multiracial congregation, started a number of businesses, and initiated a wide range of human services in his community. Lupton has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Georgia and serves as a speaker, strategist, and inspirer with people throughout the nation who seek to establish God’s shalom in the city. His most recent book is Compassion, Justice, and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor.
Andrew Marin
Andrew Marin is president and founder of the Marin Foundation, a nonprofit organization that builds bridges between the religious and the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT) communities through scientific research and biblical and social education. He is the author of the award-winning Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community and blogs on all things faith, sexuality, and culture at loveisanorientation.com.
Joan & Randy Nabors
Joan and Randy Nabors were powerfully influenced by the ministry of Tom Skinner in the 1960s when they were high school students in Newark, New Jersey. As college students they became involved in a ministry in Chattanooga that would become New City Fellowship, the congregation they lead today. Their ministry has also taken them to East Africa, where they pastored a church in Nairobi, Kenya, and Randy helped develop prison ministries in several countries.
Mary Nelson
Founder, former CEO, and president emeritus of Bethel New Life on Chicago’s West Side, Mary Nelson is presently coordinator of the Loyola University Institute of Pastoral Studies master’s degree program in Social Justice and Community Development. She serves on the boards of CCDA, Sojourners, and the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education and is in demand as a consultant, writer, teacher, and speaker in all areas of community development. Nelson holds a Ph.D. from Union Graduate School.
Eboo Patel
Named by US News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders of 2009, Eboo Patel is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based institution building the global interfaith youth movement. He is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and serves on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations. Author of the award-winning book Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, Patel holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.
John M. Perkins
Christian community development pioneer John M. Perkins is, with his wife, Vera Mae, a founder of Voice of Calvary Ministries in Mendenhall, Mississippi; the Harambee Christian Family Center in Northwest Pasadena, California; the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development; and CCDA. Author of the memoir Let Justice Roll Down, he has been recognized for his work with eight honorary doctorates from colleges and universities across the United States.
Patty Prasada-Rao
Patty Prasada-Rao is the co–executive director of New Song Urban Ministries in the Baltimore neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester. Born to Indian parents in the United States and into an extended-family network that instilled in her an appreciation for a strong sense of community, she finds the same extended-family network system and depth of community in the African-American neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester. Prasada-Rao holds a master’s degree in health education/community development from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.
Gabriel & Jeanette Salguero
Gabriel Salguero and his wife, Jeanette, are senior pastors of the multicultural Lamb’s Church in New York City. Salguero’s life work is bring an ethical framework to public policy and empowering multicultural leadership. The founder of Power of the Gospel International, a faith-based organization focused on diversity, leadership empowerment, and training, he is presently director of the Hispanic leadership program at Princeton Theological Seminary. He served as the moderator for the 2008 Sojourners Presidential Forum on Faith, Values, and Poverty.
Brenda Salter McNeil
A dynamic preacher, evangelist, and thought-leader, Brenda Salter McNeil has over 20 years of experience in the field of racial and ethnic reconciliation and is the president and founder of Salter McNeil & Associates, a Christian company that partners with organizations to transform them into reconciling communities. Salter McNeil holds two doctorates: a doctor of ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a doctor of humane letters from North Park University, where she currently serves as a scholar in residence. Her most recent book is A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism, and Race.
John Teter
After serving with InterVarsity for ten years in southern California, in 2007 John Teter planted Fountain of Life Covenant Church in Long Beach, California, a multiethnic and multiclass congregation. He also serves as director of church-planting training for the Evangelical Covenant Church and is the author of two books, Get the Word Out and (with coauthor Alex Gee) Jesus and the Hip Hop Prophets.
Barbara Williams-Skinner
CCDA board chair Barbara Williams-Skinner is president of Skinner Leadership Institute, founded in 1992 to produce of a new generation of leaders who are technically excellent and spiritually mature. For many years, Williams-Skinner was the executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus in Washington, D.C., and she currently serves as national director for ecumenical and legislative outreach for a Broadway-caliber civil rights musical, “If This Hat Could Talk.” Author of Becoming an Effective 21st-Century Leader, Williams-Skinner holds M.S.W. and law degrees from UCLA and M.Div. and D.Min. degrees from Howard University School of Divinity.
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