All Bay Area Leadership Summit - Fairfield

2641 N Texas St.,Fairfield CA 94533

10 February, 2023

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What would it look like for the whole Body of Christ to come together to reach our whole community?Join us for this leadership summit & let's find out!A Practitioners SummitLeaders from different areas of society, Pastors, Ministry Leaders and Business Leaders, will bring their perspective to the table, as we discuss what it would look like to see every person reached, and every area of our society touched and transformed by the gospel. All of the presenters are local leaders who will share their best practices how they are modeling collaborative efforts to serve the community and getting exceptional results. The program is structured with plenty of space for Q&A with the presenters and collaborative discussion. We want to learn more about the many great efforts already in process so that we can build upon them for with the goal of exponential impact. Click here to watch the presentations from our previous summit. A United Movement“…Open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” John 4:35 At this Summit leaders from different sectors, backgrounds and passions come together around tables to solve real challenges, build relationships, and dream about what we could do together that we couldn't do apart. This is not a new organization we are asking you to join, rather we aim to bring together the family of God to look at the Great Commission in a new light, and develop sustainable collaborative strategies built around long-term relationships. Some of our Presenters:Vanessa Russell, Founder and Executive Director, Love Never Fails, a non-profit dedicated to the restoration, education and protection of those involved or at risk of becoming involved in domestic human trafficking. Vanessa believes that the issue of human trafficking can be solved through love expressed in prayer, safe housing, mentoring, job training, outreach, and education.Ps. Adam Peacock, FeatherVine, Santa Rosa. Adam  is founder of FeatherVine, a ministry designed to cultivate expressions of faith and faithfulness in the united church of Sonoma County. That effort has been built upon the sustained work of building prayer and relationship among pastors and local churches in Sonoma County for over 25 years. In 2017, Adam transitioned into his current ministry and helped lead the response to the historic wildfires that destroyed over 5,000 homes in their community. The united outreach efforts have now expanded beyond disaster relief to include significant advances into the local schools, homelessness, and the foster care system.Brett Bymaster, Healing Grove Health Care Clinic, San Jose. Brett graduated from Purdue University with honors and a BS in electrical and computer engineering. Brett spent 15 years as an analog chip designer for medical equipment in Silicon Valley startups, earning several patents for his novel inventions. Brett then served as the youth pastor at a church in San Jose CA for seven years before becoming the executive director at the Healing Grove Health Center Foundation. Brett has more than 20 years of experience in helping low-income youth and families in urban communities transform their lives through the good news of Jesus. Brett has volunteered at Washington Elementary in the low-income Washington community of Downtown San Jose for the past 14 years. Brett and his wife, Dr. Angela Bymaster, M.D. were a part of the founding team of Healing Grove Health Center in 2020. Brett and Dr. Angie have 4 adopted children, one biological child, and one grandbaby.Kathy Chao Rothberg, Chief Executive Officer of Lao Family Community Development. Kathy had over 10 years experience as a real estate developer in affordable housing at the East Bay Asian Local Development (EBALDC) and the First Community Housing Corporation (FCH). The projects she managed all received national awards for high quality design, environmental sustainability, historical preservation, and below market housing for diverse communities. Lao Family is widely recognized for their extraordinary results in helping refugees and individuals in crisis stabile and re-integrate into society with gainful employment and long term housing. Adrian Tirtanadi, Executive Director/Founder Open Door Legal Open Door Legal is pioneering the country’s first system of universal access to civil legal representation. Their goal is to show that when everyone has access to the law, poverty will be dramatically reduced. Their model of universal access is scalable, sustainable, and the most cost-effective way to address poverty.  Currently serving about 40% of the cities population, over the next few years we plan to expand citywide, making San Francisco the first city in the country with universal access.  They also hope to become a model for national replication, and want to have a systemic impact on how we, as a society, ensure justice for the poor. Adrian was inspired from an early age to think systemically about poverty and was moved to find solutions. This calling eventually led him to conclude that universal access to legal help was the most effective way of addressing poverty in America and brought him to law school. Immediately after graduating, he founded Open Door Legal.Sherol Chen, PhD - AI Research Engineer, Social Innovator. Dr. Chen has worked in AI for over a decade. Currently, she is part of Google Research working on building ML models. She's taught AI for Stanford Pre-Collegiate in 6 countries. Additionally, Sherol founded Passion Talks which aims to build the best world by shaping spaces through our passions. She is also a founding member of the Google InterBelief Network and served as an inaugural steering committee member for Christians. Sherol serves on the board of directors for the Monterey Jazz FestivalPs. Richard West, Founding Pastor, Liberty Church Fairfield. Like many other organizations, the COVID lock down was a very difficult challenge for Liberty Church, services where closed and their income dropped 30%. Rather than circle the wagons, the Lord directed them to "take church to their community." At the same time the city reached out to them to help with the neighborhoods that had the highest number of 911 calls. Liberty church mobilized volunteer congregants to do mobile food pantries and COVID safe worship services for the most in the most vulnerable neighborhoods in their city. As a result, the 911 calls in those neighborhoods have dropped, the church's relationship with the city official has never been better, and at the end of the two year lockdown the church income was up above pre-covid levels.Major Darren Norton, Salvation Army Central California Region. Salvation Army is the largest provider of social services in San Fransisco, and are on a campaign to aggressively grow their capacity in order help respond to the homeless crisis in San Francisco and the entire state of California.Ted Hahs, Strategic Indigenous Missions, Silicon ValleyEric Johnsen, R-Three, Monterey County. R-Three is an innovative non profit, which is a social purpose home manufacturer, property developer and social services provider. They manufacture micro homes inside Soledad prison in partnership with the CDCR, they have a similar program with at risk youth at Rancho Cielo youth camp in Monterey county. They partner with churches and other organizations to develop underused land to to provide social purpose housing as well as an alternative stream of income.Hermie Smit, CityTeam, Hermie grew up in South Africa, moved to the US in Nov. 1999, and started working for CityTeam in 2001 where he leads CityTeam Programs Expansion & Partnerships that serves low-income families with basic necessities and enable them to lasting solutions in the Bay Area. Through the systemization of their operation and effectively partnering with organizations like Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, Alameda County Community Food Bank, local churches, foundations, companies, and hundreds of volunteers, CityTeam in the Neighborhood replicated their Mobile Pantry Program from 25 to 56 different locations in Santa Clara, San Mateo, & Alameda Counties that delivered over 4 million meals to 30,000 Bay Area residents in FY22 alone. These pantries provide beachheads into communities to then create onramps to lasting solution that enable holistic empowerment.and others...***Room Accommodations***We recommend the Hilton Garden Inn of Fairfield as the conference hotel. Click this link to book. General Schedule**Friday5-5:30 Registration 5:30-7 Dinner* 7-9 Evening Session Saturday 8:30-9 Continental Breakfast* 9-11 Morning Session 1 11-11:15 Break 11:15-1 Morning Session 2 1-2 Lunch * 2-4 Afternoon Session *Dinner, Breakfast & Lunch included with registration **Session lengths subject to change