Keynote Speaker Ed Stetzer has planted churches in New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and transitioned declining churches in Indiana and Georgia. He has trained pastors and church planters on five continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and has written dozens of articles and books. Ed served for three years as a seminary professor at the Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and has taught at fifteen other seminaries.  Ed's primary role is President of LifeWay Research and Lifeway’s Missiologist in Residence.  Ed will speak on turning around churches and current trends in missional living.

Ed has spoken at many conferences including Advance 2009, Flourish, Innovate, and Catalyst among others as well as many denominational gatherings.  He is frequently cited and interviewed on contemporary trends in evangelicalism by news outlets such as CNN and USAToday and others. 

• Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age (2003)
• Perimeters of Light: Biblical Boundaries for the Emerging Church   (w/ Elmer Towns, 2004),
• Breaking the Missional Code   (w/ David Putman, 2006)
• Planting Missional Churches   (2006)
• Comeback Churches   (with Mike Dodson, 2007)
• 11 Innovations in the Local Church   (with Elmer Towns and Warren Bird, 2007)
• Compelled by Love: The Most Excellent Way to Missional Living   (with Philip Nation, 2008)
• Lost and Found (with Richie Stanley and Jason Hayes, 2009)

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