Southern Area Ministers Conference
February 9-10, 2009
Soul Spa: Healing for the Inner Self
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| Dr. Tom Kinnan | Dr. Jim Coffield | Renee Yohe | Dr. Chris Accornero |
Dr. Tom Kinnan
Tom and Kathy Kinnan have been married for 35-plus years and have two married children and four grandchildren. Kathy teaches middle school at Whitefield Academy, a Christian classical education school, and puts up with a weird and wacky husband.
In the summer of 1998, Tom and Kathy moved to the Kansas City area to plant a church, a dream that had been in his heart for many years. Tom comes to us with a depth of knowledge and experience. He has been in ministry for nearly 36 years, 32 of those years as a pastor. He is known for his insights, humor and challenging teaching while being tender and compassionate in his presentation.
As well as being a pastor of the local church, Tom has traveled internationally as a speaker at colleges, churches, conventions, retreats and camps. He has extensive experiences in servicing mission fields and missionaries.
Tom’s heart is to see people in the church become equipped to live their lives fully devoted to Christ in the community where God plants them to be a light. He does not want to maintain a church but wants it to be a living and growing body of believers.
Tom is the Founder and President of Knowing God Ministries and Founding Pastor of Break Pointe Community Church.
Dr. Jim Coffield is an Associate Professor of Counseling and the clinical director of the M.A. in Counseling degree program at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in counseling psychology. He is a licensed Psychologist (TN 2349).
Dr. Coffield brings a wide variety of teaching and clinical experiences. His clinical experience includes counseling in private practice, college counseling centers, church-based counseling centers and hospital settings. He enjoys the classroom and brings 20 years of teaching experience, including undergraduate and graduate students in public educational settings, small private colleges and seminaries. His research interests include adoption, narrative psychology and counselor training.
He has been married to Mona for 18 years, and they have two children, Skylar (15) and Pearce (13).
Renee Yohe
Renee Yohe is the author of Purpose for the Pain. It is the inspiring story of this young woman’s battles through addiction, depression, and self-mutilation. In heart-breaking detail and poetic outpourings, Renee chronicles her journey from self destruction to new live through the redemptive power of Jesus Christ. Through four years of journal entries, she takes the reader through her deepest moments of despair to the hope on the other end. Raised in a pastor’s home, Renee has a message that must be heard by those in ministry. Renee’s story is a light of possibility to anyone who feels trapped by darkness. Renee is also the inspiration behind the non-profit movement, To Write Love On Her Arms.
Dr. Chris Accornero
Rev. Dr. Christina Accornero is the Chairperson of the Division of Religion and Associate Professor of Religion for Southern Wesleyan University in Central, South Carolina. She joined the faculty at SWU in July 2008 after four years of administrative/faculty service at Asbury Theological Seminary, in Wilmore, Kentucky. She has been serving in the field of higher education for over 30 years, with degree work in Kinesiology (B.S. and M.S.), educational administration, and intercultural studies (Ph.D.).
Dr. Accornero is a person of many interests, wide education, and a variety of occupational experiences. She has directed, managed, consulted, administered, researched, coached, published, and started her own company. She is a member of several professional organizations as well as a number of professional boards and committees. Her dissertation and current writings are in the areas of organizational culture and community development in terms of operational structures and systemic abuse, especially in global urban contexts. She serves faith communities as a licensed minister, pulpit supply speaker, and as a specialist for leadership development, administration, and church health.
Conference Schedule:
Registration and all sessions in Founders’ Hall in University Dining Commons
Monday, February 9, 2009
- 6:00pm Registration Founders’ Hall
- 7:00pm Opening Session – Dr. Tom Kinnan
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
- 8:00am Registration continues
- 8:30am Plenary Session -Dr. Chris Accornero
- 10:00am Break
- 10:45am Plenary Session - Dr. Jim Coffield
- 12:00pm Lunch
- 1:30pm Plenary Session - Renee Yohe
- 2:45pm Break
- 3:15 pm Plenary Session - Dr. Jim Coffield
- 5:00pm Dinner
- 7:00pm Closing Session – Dr. Tom Kinnan
Conference Quick Facts:
· Casual dress, please!
· Connect with students from your church or conference
· Tuesday night will present the Virgil A. Mitchell Excellence in Pastoral Ministry Award