Day 1
Wednesday, November 8th
1:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Registration 8:00 - 12 noon)
Organizing Pastor, Beulah Land Community Church, Houston, Texas
Bishop Dr. Ruth Allen Ollison
Moderator
How to Get Out Of Debt
and Stay Out
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Bishop
Aris Hickman
Houston Area Fellowship, Houston, Texas USA
Bishop Aris Hickman is the
Organizing Pastor, New Commandment Christian Fellowship, B.S. in Economics, University of Houston, 29 year Special Education Teacher and Service Provider, Author and husband and father.
How to Get Out Of Debt
and Stay Out
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bishop
Michael Forney, PhD
President, Family Life Bible College
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Bishop Dr. Michael D. Forney is the Founder/Overseer, Life Style of Christ Ministries. Married with six girls. He holds a Doctor of Arts in Theology, Cornerstone University, Master of Arts, Christian Counseling; Bachelor of Arts in Theology, Calvary Theological Seminary; University of Houston; Grambling State University; Organizer and Overseer of Lifestyle of Christ Church, Pearland, Texas, Former Executive Pastor, Cullen Missionary Baptist Church, Houston, Texas.
How to Get Out Of Debt
and Stay Out
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bishop
Rosemary Lands
Executive Pastor, Family Life Missionary Baptist Church
Bishop Rosemary Lands holds a Bachelor Degree in Social Work, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; a Masters Degree in Social Work, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Bishop Lands is a trained Family Counselor, individual counseling, domestic violence, and human resource. She has extensive work in the non-profit field; Internship in graduate school with United Way of Metro Atlanta and worked for several years with United Way and Big Brothers and Big Sisters. She is trained in volunteer recruitment, training and management, fundraising, board development, and mentorship.
Thanksgiving Service
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Overseer
Demetrice Weeden
Associate Minister, Alpha Bible Ministry, Greater Calvary Bible Church International
Overseer Demetrice Weeden is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. She is a Licensed Cosmetologist, LaPlant Beauty School, 1983.
She accepted her call to the gospel ministry in 1998. She was licensed in 2005, by the Greater Bethlehem Baptist
Church (GBBC), St. Louis, Missouri, by Reverend Paul C. Robinson, Sr, and the licensing council. She served for 40
years as one of the GBBC Mass Choir Directors. She founded the GBBC Intercessory Prayer ministry in 2017.
Overseer Weeden was appointed Overseer within the Family Life International Fellowship on January 1, 2023.
Day 2
Thursday, November 9th
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
FLIF General Secretary
Bishop Anthony K. Wright
Moderator
Rekindle the Fire and Relaunch
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Archbishop
C. Lloyd Battieste, PhD
Archbishop Dr. C. Lloyd Battieste is the
Founding Pastor, Redemption Worship Centre, Toronto, Canada, Founder and Presiding Archbishop: Redemption Faith Ministries International Inc. (Toronto, Canada), President and Chancellor, Mount Olivet Bible Institute & Seminary Inc., (Toronto, Canada),
Co-Founder and Chief Prelate, International Council of Pentecostal Bishops Inc. (Toronto, Canada)\
Executive Member, Council of International Charismatic Bishops (U.S.A)
Africentric Hermeneutic. How can we de-westernized our preaching
and teaching?
10:00 - 12noon
Archbishop Van Gayton, PhD
Dean of Education is for the International College of Bishops.
Dr. Van Gayton has taught subjects such as Philosophy of Religion at Jamestown Community College, The African American Religious Experience at the University at Buffalo, The Bible and Race at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He also taught Theology, Apologetics, and Classical Education, to high school students, as their teacher and high school principal.
The Inaugural First Lady's Brunch Program
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Elect Lady
Carmela Wright
Elect Lady Carmela C. Wright is an award-winning family advocate with 17 years of experience in home education and over two decades of faithful Christian service who has dedicated her life to empowering and nurturing women to feel loved. She is a sought-after creative strategist. She is currently advising over fifty women-owned small businesses across the United States of America. Recently, her mission is to empower women of all ages to practice radical self-care along with the biblically based womanhood model of Titus 2.
When she is not caring for her loving husband of 28 years, Bishop Anthony K. Wright, and their six younger children at home, she can be found scouring for Houston’s most delicious cupcake, taking high-energy jam sessions fueled by 90’s hip-hop, and looking for a location to take another solo vacation.
Gender Confusion. What is God's design intent?
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Archbishop Russell McClanahan, PhD
Presiding Bishop/Patriarch of the Evangelical Episcopal Communion
Dr. McClanahan received his B. A. from Kentucky Wesleyan College and his Master of Divinity from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary.
He has traveled extensively thoughout the U.S., the West Indies, and South America. Dr. McClanahan has sought to discover what has given meaning and purpose to people's lives regardless of their circumstance. He has served as a Family Counselor, Program Director for alcohol/drug treatment program, Pastor, church planter and regularly conducts seminars on functional and dysfunctional families and relationships.
Honors and Awards Gala
6:00 PM
Bishop Alfred T. Lands
International Vice Presiding Bishop, Family Life International Fellowship, Inc.;
Bishop Lands is the Organizing Overseer and Leader of Family Life MBC, Jonesboro, Georgia. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and; a Master of Urban Ministry, from the Urban Seminary of Atlanta. Member of the House of Bishops, of the Evangelical Episcopal Communion.
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He has been married to Rev. Rosemary Lands, for 41 years. She serves as the Assistant Pastor. She was consecrated as a bishop in the Family Life International Fellowship, Inc. in 2013.
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Bishop Land's vision is to produce godly families God's way through the reaching, teaching, and preaching God's Word.
Day 3
Thursday, November 10th
8:o0 AM - 12:00 noon
Area Presiding Bishop, FLIF Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Bishop Willie F. Brooks, Jr.
Senior Pastor, Upper Room Bible Church
Moderator
Postcolonial Theology. What must we do to break plantation programming?
8:30 AM - 10:30
Archbishop Darel E Chase, PhD
Senior Pastor of Metropolitan Cathedral in Louisville, Kentucky.
Archbishop D. E. Chase is a prophetic pastor, passionate leader, social activist, church planter, and educator engaged in preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and fighting against racial injustice. Archbishop Chase is also committed to practicing and preaching a Black theology that unapologetically calls attention to the problems of mass incarceration, environmental justice, and economic inequality.
He currently serves as the Presiding Prelate of the African Episcopal Church, the President of Metropolitan Christian University, and the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of the River Valley.
Standing In The Gap For The Family
10:30 AM - 12 noon
Archbishop Sterling Lands II, PhD
International Presiding Prelate and Patriarch, Family Life International Fellowship, Inc.
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Archbishop Lands is the Presiding Prelate, St. John Archdiocese. Organizing Overseer and Leader of Greater Calvary Bible Church, Austin, Texas. He is the COO of the Evangelical Episcopal Communion. He is the Co-Founder and President-Chief Executive Officer of the International Conference of Bishops Inc. He is the Co-Chair of the Pastors Across Texas Coalition. He is the CEO of the Family Life International Bible Institute.
He Pastors and supports Bishops and Pastors in the USA, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Haiti, and the UK.
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He is committed to strengthening the family as a Kingdom priority.
