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WHAT DOES LOVE LOOK LIKE? HOW CAN WE IMPACT OUR CITY THROUGH LOVE?

God loves this land. He is raising up his church, giving them a deep hunger to see the kingdom of love established. God’s affections for the people of this region have no limit. Become inspired, motivated and envisioned to move together as we seek a fresh revelation of God’s heart for the city. In conjunction with our main speakers Heidi Baker, Sean Feucht and Shawn Bolz, leading city voices will empower your desire to get involved. An outreach/activation time on Saturday will give you the opportunity to impact our City of Angels.

Fueled by God’s love, a sense of responsibility, and a passion for restoration, tangible transformation is possible. Come Impact LA as LA Impacts the world!

Speakers and Panel Participants

Heidi Baker

Heidi was ready to call it quits until she received a sudden life-changing touch from God. In 1995, Heidi and her husband, Rolland, arrived in Mozambique, the poorest country in the world, and took over a horribly dilapidated and neglected orphanage with eighty children and no promised support. Today, they provide for 10,000 children daily. They also planted a church, which has spread like fire throughout the neighboring countries. There are currently over 10,000 churches and still growing! According to many church historians, this is one of the greatest church-plant movements in the history of the Church. Don’t miss hearing absolutely incredible testimonies of God’s miraculous provision, salvation, healing, and deliverance…even the dead being raised back to life!

Shawn Bolz

Shawn has been a pioneer in ministry including the church building, transformation, and supernatural ministry since he was in his teens. His focus on intimacy with God, creativity through entertainment, and social justice have brought him around the world to meet with churches, schools, entertainers, and world leaders. Shawn’s style of speaking and coaching accompanied with his unique expert perspective on the issues of love, creativity, and justice, have kept his calendar full. Shawn lives in Los Angeles where he is involved as talent for the entertainment industry and is the pastor of Expression58 as well as an author of several books including Keys to Heaven’s Economy.

Sean Feucht

Sean is a husband, father, lover, fighter, optimist, musician, speaker, writer, revivalist and founder of a grassroots global worship, prayer and missions organization called Burn 24/7. His lifelong quest and dream is to witness a generation of burning hearts arise across the nations of the world with renewed faith, vision and sacrificial pursuit after the Presence of God with reckless abandon. He has produced, recorded and released twelve worship albums, numerous teaching resources and recently co-authored his first book “Fire and Fragrance.” He is married to his gorgeous wife Kate and is a new father to their baby girl, Keturah Liv. He currently resides in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (when he is not on planes, trains or automobiles).

Harmony Dust

Harmony is the founder and Executive Director of Treasures, outreach and support group for women in the sex industry. While completing a Master’s Degree in Social Work at UCLA in 2003, Harmony founded Treasures as a dream born from a broken past and a heart healed by the love of God. Having overcome sexual abuse, rape, dysfunctional relationships and a life inside the walls of a strip club working as an exotic dancer, Harmony is truly passionate about seeing women’s hearts and lives revolutionized by a relationship with God and a revelation of their true worth in Him. She also has a passion for seeing the house of God be a place where hurting and broken people are met with open arms and offered a safe haven for their healing and restoration. She has been featured in various media sources, including Glamour Magazine, Tyra Banks Show, Dr. Drew’s Sex Rehab and The 700 Club. She is a sought after speaker and her memoir, Scars & Stilettos has been published by Lion Hudson.

Melody Rossi

Melody has been an advocate and champion for youth from poor communities since 1995. While working as a Special Education teacher at Sepulveda Middle School in North Hills, Melody became aware for the first time that schools in the Northeast San Fernando Valley were some of the worst in the nation. Students were also facing tremendous pressure to join gangs, take and sell drugs, and become involved in crime. Melody’s motto is, “If you don’t like it, change it!” So she did. In 1999, Melody Rossi founded Cloud and Fire Ministries to provide a place of belonging and safety to children and teens in dangerous neighborhoods. Today, countless youth refer to her as teacher, pastor, mother—or all three. Under her leadership, Cloud and Fire has grown from an after school club to a thriving organization that provides multiple programs and a wide array of services to more than 400 youth each. Melody Rossi speaks throughout the United States for churches, women’s events, and universities, sharing about her work with at-risk, incarcerated, and gang youth. She is also sought out for her many messages dealing with finding hope after loss. Melody is also the author of an award-winning book entitled: May I Walk You Home? Sharing Christ’s Love with the Dying. In her book, she recounts how her mother, father, and stepmother all came to personal faith while struggling with terminal illness.

Alexia Salvatierra

Rev. Alexia Salvatierra is an ordained Pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, with over 30 years of experience in interfaith and community ministry, community organizing and legislative advocacy.  For over eleven years, she was the Executive Director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice—beginning as the director of CLUE in Los Angeles and then as the first CLUE-CA director.  CLUE-CA is a statewide alliance of multifaith organizations of religious leaders who come together to respond to the crisis of working poverty by joining low-wage workers in their struggle for a living wage, health insurance, fair working conditions and a voice in the decisions that affect them.   CLUE-CA’s mission is to build a faith-rooted movement for economic justice throughout California, utilizing an original “faith-rooted” organizing model which integrates insights from the civil rights movement, Latin America and the Philippines to equip faith leaders to contribute their unique gifts and resources to larger movements for economic and social justice. Before coming to CLUE-CA, Rev. Salvatierra founded multiple programs and organizations, in the US and overseas. These included a gang prevention program for at-risk immigrant youth in Fresno, a community computer center and an intergenerational community garden where the elderly taught at-risk youth to grow produce in Oakland as well as a collaborative of UC students, homeless leaders and congregation members providing emergency services in the streets of Santa Cruz and the migrant farmworker camps in Watsonville. She was founding director of the Berkeley Ecumenical Chaplaincy to the Homeless, a program that integrated social services, community organizing, pastoral care, and economic development for the homeless that was replicated in six US cities. In the Philippines, she trained urban poor women in Manila to serve as chaplains to their neighbors. She has been awarded the Changemaker award from the Liberty Hill Foundation, the Stanton Fellowship from the Durfee Foundation, the Amos Award from Sojourners and the Prime Mover award from the Hunt Alternatives Fund.  She is currently consulting with national organizations and writing a book for Intervarsity Press on Faith-Rooted Organizing.

Marcos and Susie Gamez

Marcos and Susie Gamez are currently serving as missionaries with an inner city missions organization called World Impact.  They direct a youth and young adult ministry and the Teen Community Center out of where their ministries are run.  Marcos is the son of Mexican immigrants and grew up on the south side of Chicago and got saved from the streets at the age of 19.  After dropping out of high school Marcos got his GED, then went on to study Bible and Theology at Moody Bible Institute. Marcos served as a  senior admissions counselor at Moody while also pastoring a youth group on the West side of Chicago in a Latino/African American community. Susie (a Korean-Canadian) grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia and studied communications and sociology at Simon Fraser University.  She joined staff at World Impact nine years ago after she graduated from college. Marcos and Susie began dating while they were students at Fuller Theological Seminary both pursuing their M.A. in Intercultural Studies. They got married just over a year ago and are now expecting their first child in November.

Mary Glenn

Mary is the Director of Collaborative Partnerships and Education at City Net. Mary educates and writes curriculum on City Faith (God’s heart for the city, theology of the city and how to find/build assets in the city) and the Los Angeles Urban Immersion graduate level class. Mary is an adjunct professor with Fuller Seminary and Bakke Graduate University where she received her D.Min. in Transformational Leadership. Mary has a heart for law enforcement, has served as a police chaplain for over a decade with Alhambra PD and is a certified police chaplain trainer. She is an ordained pastor having served over 15 years in youth and community outreach ministries and is a graduate of both Regent College and Fuller Seminary. She is a bridge-builder and hopes to engage, educate and empower people, churches, leaders and organizations in loving their city and the people in it. Mary also serves part-time as the Program Director for the LA Barnabas Group. She dreams of a day when the Church lives in unity as Jesus prayed in John 17:23. Her heroes include her grandmother, Jesus, Bono (of rock band U2), Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Michael A. Mata

Michael has administered and designed ministry and community programs for nearly twenty-five years, particularly in the areas of community transformation, urban youth ministry, congregational redevelopment, intercultural outreach, leadership development and Latino ministry. He is the Urban Development Director for World Vision U.S. Programs. He is the former director of the Urban Leadership Institute and the Mildred M. Hutchinson Assistant Professor of Urban Ministry at the Claremont School of Theology. Michael served seventeen years as part of the pastoral team at Los Angeles First Church of the Nazarene (a multi-ethnic/multi-congregation church with a highly regarded community program and prominent Hispanic ministry) and two years as Pastor of Urban Mission at Pasadena First Church of the Nazarene. Michael and his wife, Kristina, have three grown adoptive/foster children and ten grandchildren.

Donna Neville

Donna is the Senior Pastor of Praise Chapel Huntington Park, along with the greater Fellowship of churches and ministries sent out from Huntington Park. She and her late husband, Michael Neville, founded Praise Chapel Christian Fellowship in 1976. It has since blossomed into a family of fellowships world-wide. She co-pastored with Pastor Mike for 20 years and has continued to lead the ministry since his home-going in 1996.

Rt. Rev. Alexei Smith

Born in Los Angeles, he obtained his Undergraduate studies in the field of International Relations from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was awarded a Master of Divinity Degree with High Distinction from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1987 he was ordained as a Melkite Greek Catholic Priest and appointed Administrator of Saint Andrew Russian Greek Catholic Church and Saint Paul Melkite Greek Catholic Mission in El Segundo, California. On June 6, 1994 Cardinal Roger Mahony appointed Fr. Alexei Smith as his Principal Liaison and Personal Representative to the Orthodox Roman Catholic Dialogue. On October, 1997 he was elected to the Council of Priests of the Eparchy of Newton. In 1999 he became Vice Chairman of the Council of Priests of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and appointed Chair of the Priestly Life and Ministry Committee. That same year he was appointed Protopresbyter of the Western Region of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton by Bishop John Adel Elya. In November 2000, Cardinal Roger Mahony appointed Rev. Alexei Smith the Director of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

John and Jude Tiersma Watson

John and Jude Tiersma Watson live and work in Los Angeles as missionaries with InnerChange/CRM –  A Christian Order Among the Poor. They have shared their lives with their neighbors for two decades in Westlake/Pico Union, an immigrant neighborhood surrounding Mac Arthur Park, just west of downtown. Their heart is to mentor the next generation of young leaders that God would use in his transformation of families, networks and communities in LA. John is a community pastor, mentor, entrepreneur and poet. Jude is the associate Professor of Urban Mission in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Seminary. She has a special interest in the integration of spirituality and urban life.

Karen Covell

Karen Covell is a Producer of Specials and Documentaries, Founding Director of the Hollywood Prayer Network (HPN) and Co-Founder and Producer for JC Productions, an independent television and music production company.  He has produced a Boys Town TV Special, “Changed Lives: Miracles of The Passion,  and she was Assoc. Producer on “Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer,” to name a few. As the Director of HPN, Ms. Covell also speaks and teaches around the country on how to pray for the people in the world’s most influential mission field; the entertainment industry.  She is also a published co-author of two books with her husband Jim and their writing partner Victorya Rogers.  They are entitled, “How To Talk About Jesus Without Freaking Out” and “The Day I Met God,” both available at Amazon.com. Karen is married to her best pal, James Covell, composer and they have two sons, Christopher, who is at the Dodge Film School at Chapman University and Cameron who is at the LA County H.S. for the arts.

Caren Bream

Caren Bream is the Production Coordinator and the Secretary/Treasurer for The Greenhouse. She grew up in South Central Pennsylvania and attended school in upstate New York, including several months at the New York School of Urban Ministry in New York City. Among her many travels, she spent time in Sydney, Australia exploring film production. Her wide range of interests has connected her love for serving people in the inner city, theological studies, and helping to create film and other media productions. After serving in an administrative position in Pennsylvania for a few years, she finally pursued her nine-year dream by moving to Hollywood. She loves to enable others to put their dreams into motion and to encourage and challenge people to use their creative abilities to transform culture in Hollywood and around the world. Caren also worked as an associate producer with RB Davies, Inc., in North Hollywood.

Terri Larson

Terri is the Director of Catalytic Leader Development at City Net. She works with current and developing Christian catalytic leaders of city and neighborhood movements toward community transformation. She coaches, leads strategic planning, facilitates spiritual formation (soul care) and builds capacity for leaders and their organizations. In addition to her role as a gifted coach and leader, she provides facilitation in Participatory Strategic Planning and Results Based Management which gives reporting analysis and outcomes. Before coming to City Net, Terri has worked in the community for three decades most recently as the Executive Director for Eleazar Partnerships, Inc. an organization that focused on asset-based community development in So CA. bringing together city catalysts and Christian community developers for shared planning, resources, learning and regional results. She is a trainer of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) and a certified trainer in Group Facilitation Methods with Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA). Terri serves as a senior leader with Community First Association. Terri loves being a wife, mother, grandmother and friend. She enjoys laughing, cooking, vacationing and sharing life.