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Date: October 15-17, 2009
Location: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Forth Worth, TX
Theme: “Promoting Community Through Preaching”
Speakers
Leith Anderson–Plenary Speaker
Leith Anderson’s many interests involve him in pastoring, teaching, writing,
speaking, and leadership. Most important is his ministry as senior pastor of Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota since 1977.
This is a large church that not only ministers to thousands in metropolitan Minneapolis but also serves as a
teaching and laboratory church to others across the nation.
He is the president the National Association of Evangelicals headquartered in Washington, DC, holding this office since 2006. The NAE is a multi-faceted association of 61 denominations, hundreds of other evangelical organizations and a constituency in the tens of millions.
FAITH MATTERS is the daily radio program of Leith Anderson and Wooddale Church, heard in cities across America and overseas. Leith Anderson speaks frequently at conferences, has traveled to all seven continents and has been frequently interviewed and quoted by publications and broadcasts including The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, PBS, the BBC, NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, CNN and others.
Articles have been published in many periodicals and he has written ten books including Dying For Change, A Church For The Twenty-First Century, Winning The Values War, Praying To The God You Can Trust, Leadership That Works, Becoming Friends With God, JESUS: An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land, and His People, and How to Act Like a Christian.
Leith and Charleen have known each other all of their lives and have been married to each other most of their lives. They have four children and make their home in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
