Main Session Speakers
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Beatrice (Bee3) Byemanzi
Beatrice (Bee3) Byemanzi is one of the Network Leaders at Worship Harvest Ministries, a church planting movement that exists for the purpose of catalyzing spiritual, social and economic renewal in our immediate communities and as a result, the world. As a Network Leader, she oversees 11 locations with over 3,000 disciples in more than 300 Missional Communities.
Bee3 is passionate about church planting, making disciples and adding value to groups of people, organizations helping them discover and maximize their God given capacity and potential. She is also a certified coach, speaker and trainer with The John Maxwell Team and a financial coach with the Straight Forward Financial Growth Team.
Bee3 has written four books; including Powerful Living, Enjoying Your Bible, Build Your Arsenal and her newest book, Help I Am Dating which have impacted people from all walks of life by stirring up a desire to live by the word of God.
She is a musician who has written and recorded songs, a vocalist and poet.
Beatrice and her husband Pastor Jeremy Byemanzi of sixteen years are a great example of marriage in their generation. Together, they lead one of the growing locations; Worship Harvest Gayaza with over 1,000 disciples. They have four children; Nandi, Soraya, Karabo and Irembo.
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Josh Howard
After 16 years on the mission field in India, Josh has recently relocated his family to Indianapolis, Indiana. Josh has a passion to see the Kingdom of God spread throughout the world. He desires to raise up disciples who make disciples, leaders who create leaders, and churches that plant churches. In 2015, he launched a ministry called “Ignite,” which has seen over 30,000 churches started in about 10 years through movements of multiplication.
Josh currently serves as the Director of Vision and Mobilization at Discipleship.org, Global Mobilization Catalyst for E3 Partners, and the President of Fidelis International Seminary. Josh holds a Master of Arts in Missional Church Movements from Wheaton College, an honorary doctorate from Dallas Christian College, and is the co-author of the book Christian Extremism: A Life Worth Dying For and of the book Igniting Movements: Multiplying Churches in Dark Places. Besides God’s grace through Jesus, he is most thankful for his wife Lashi, his two sons, Josiah and Jeremiah, and his daughter Zara.
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Putty Putman
Spirit-inspired innovative insights come from Putty's wild journey with Jesus from physicist to pastor to entrepreneur to author and speaker. His three main passions are the Holy Spirit, effective communication, and journeying toward the future God has for the church and the world. Putty founded the School of Kingdom Ministry and spent eleven years as a pastor on the staff team of The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois, followed by a year and a half as an interim pastor at The Chapel. In February 2023 he moved to Phoenix, Arizona to church pioneer by planting a new kingdom ecosystem called FUSE. Putty is the author of two books, and lives with his wife and three children in Tempe, AZ.
Break Out Speakers
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Joe Long
Breakout
Joe Long is one of the lead pastors at Vineyard Covington in Covington, Kentucky. Vineyard Covington has a heart to welcome people home to a family being transformed by the love of Jesus. Joe is also a husband, father of three, and grandfather of three. In addition to teaching and training, he helps to lead Vineyard Covington in the areas of mission and prayer.
Joe has a passion to to lead people through the Alpha Program and everyday disciples into practices of prayer, solitude, and deep and transformative spiritual formation in the Way of Jesus.
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Jeff Duerler
Breakout
After settling on the Westside of Cincinnati, starting a family, and launching a rental property business, Jeff and Julie helped pioneer a third location of LifeSpring in Harrison, OH in 2008. When the decision was made to become autonomous churches in 2016, Jeff transitioned into the Senior Pastor role of LifeSpring Community Christian Church. He also serves as an adjunct online professor with Nyack College – Alliance Theological Seminary. Jeff loves to get off the beaten path to explore something new. When he was in high school, he thought Christianity was just for young kids and elderly women, but when he encountered the real Jesus, everything changed. His passion today is to help others know, love, and serve a Jesus who doesn’t just offer eternal life for the future but who calls us to brave, adventurous, abundant living now.
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Ryan Snow
Breakout
Ryan is Lead Pastor of Vineyard Florence Church. Ryan has a passion for Jesus and all things discipleship and cultivating environments where Spirit-empowered disciple-making happens and everyday people are saved, transformed, and released to do what Jesus did.
Ryan has been married to Karla for over 25 years and they have four children and one son-in-law. Ryan has vocational backgrounds in pastoral ministry, discipleship coaching, real estate, and banking. In addition to his current role as lead pastor, he is an elder, servant, and disciple-maker. He also currently leads the Vineyard USA Middle Eastern Refugee Partnership to plant churches and discovery bible groups and power evangelism trainings amongst the diaspora people throughout Europe and the ME.
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Clay Harrington
Breakout
Clay serves as the Senior Director of Breakthrough Ministry - a ministry that oversees Evangelism and Missions - and serves and the Teaching Pastor at Vineyard Cincinnati Church. Clay is also the co-founder of Cincinnati School of Supernatural Ministry - a school that equips ordinary people to operate in the extraordinary power of Holy Spirit. Clay is passionate about equipping the saints in the gifts of the Spirit, experiencing people make decisions to follow Jesus and provoking revival. Clay also enjoys spending time with his wife, Regina, and their two-sets of twins.
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Robert Pitman
Breakout
Lead pastor of Sanctuary Church, Robert Pitman was born and raised in Lexington, KY, where he attended the University of Kentucky on a football scholarship. He earned a degree in Speech Communication, a Master of Divinity Degree from Asbury Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry in Counseling from Luther Rice Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. After a few years in ministry, God led him into his own counseling, out of that experience God gave him a heart for the lonely, lost, the least, the addicted, the seeker, and those who feel judged by the church. Robert is passionate about reaching those outside the walls of the church and has launched the 7 Stories of Love Initiative! You can find out more at: 7storiesoflove.com