Conference Date:

September 16-18, 2010

Location:

Lampstand Presbyterian Church
655 S. Airport Rd.
Decatur, IL 62521
(map and directions)

Deadlines:

Early Registration Discount Ends MAY 31, 2010

NO REFUNDS after
August 1, 2010

Key Note Speaker Profiles

Here is a little bit about each of the Main Speakers at the National Great Banquet & Awakening Conference. We are excited to have each of them share with us.

—— PRINT FLYER

Jack Pitzer

Jack Pitzer is married to Roberta Fitz-Hugh Pitzer. They have 4 children and 4 grandchildren. He lives in Decatur, Illinois where he was born and raised. He began his ministry in Tennessee and was Senior Pastor in Madisonville, Kentucky for 23 years. God called him back to his hometown after being gone for 30 years. Here he is the Senior Pastor of Lampstand Presbyterian Church and has served in this capacity for 11 years. Jack attended the Upper Room Cursillo #5 in Nashville, Tennessee the Fall of 1979. Since then he helped write the Walk to Emmaus in Nashville and then started the first Walk to Emmaus movement outside of Nashville, Tennessee in 1981. He then became the author and Founder of the Great Banquet/Awakening Movements and is the President of Lampstand Ministries which is the covering corporation for these movements. The first Great Banquet was held in Madisonville, KY in 1990. Jack has also served on many prison weekends over the last 30 years and over 250 free world weekends.
God has used the tool of the Great Banquet to advance and establish His Kingdom in many places. There are now 30 Great Banquet and 9 Awakening movements across the United States. You can find out more information at www.lampstand.net. Jack has found that God can work miracles in people’s lives if they give Him 3 days of their time. He says that the Great Banquet does his job for him which is for people to “know Jesus as Savior and Lord and to make Him known”.

Jim Pitzer

Jim Pitzer and his wife Terry live in Colfax, Illinois. They have 5 children, 4 grandchildren with 1 on the way. Jim has been in the "Stock Market" business for the past 38 years and manages both individual and institutional portfolios at Wells Fargo. Jim is an active member of Calvary United Methodist Church in Normal, Illinois where he teaches a Bible study each Sunday morning. He attended the Madisonville, Kentucky. Walk to Emmaus #1 in 1981 (table of Luke). Subsequently, Jim and Terry assisted in starting the Central Illinois. Walk to Emmaus in 1982 and the formation of the Bloomington/Normal, Northern Illinois and Quad Cities Emmaus Communities from 1984-1991. Jim has also participated in numerous Great Banquet # 1 weekends across the country and has served in prison ministry for 25 years. His passion for these weekends stems from the fact that they are a most effective way to introduce or re-introduce the risen Christ to those He chooses to call.

Roy Ellis

Roy Ellis is married to Cheri Hobgood Ellis and has three children, five grandchildren, and two on the way. Roy resides in Madisonville Kentucky where he also attended the Walk to Emmaus # 37 and sat at the table of Luke in October of 1989. Roy is the Senior Pastor of Christian Assembly Church in Madisonville and has served in that capacity since 1988. The Great Banquet has been a tremendous tool of God to change and transform lives for the glory of God. Because of this, Roy has served on many teams in Madisonville, in Illinois and in several prisons.

Glenn McDonald

Glenn McDonald is senior pastor of Zionsville Presbyterian Church in suburban Indianapolis, a congregation he helped organize in 1983. Glenn and his wife Mary Sue are Indianapolis natives and are parents of Mark (31), Katy (28), Jeff (25) and Tyler (22). He is an avid spelunker, movie buff, and amateur astronomer. Glenn holds a degree in biology from Purdue University and received his Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is the author of The Disciplemaking Church: From Dry Bones to Spiritual Vitality (2004); Living Beyond the Sanctuary: Discipleship in the Real World (2008); and co-authored Imagining a Church in the Spirit with Ben Campbell Johnson (1999). Glenn attended the Madisonville Great Banquet #49 in 1992. His conviction about the Great Banquet: “I believe the Great Banquet is the single most transforming ministry I have ever encountered. There seems to be no end to the way that the Holy Spirit is using this unique experience to revive the Church and build God’s kingdom.”

Lawrence “Buddy” Royston

Buddy Royston pastors LaVergne First UMC in Tennessee. He began his career in Corrections with the State of Tennessee in 1971 as a probation/parole officer. He became the state director of Jail Inspection and was later hired by Corrections Corporation in 1985. Buddy’s corporate experience led him to Murfreesboro in 1989 when he became a jail consultant and began a diversion school program. In 1993 he researched and initiated the first School Resource Officer program in the state of Tennessee. He later became Chaplain of the Rutherford County Sherriff’s office as he continued to pastor. Buddy has been very active in the Walk to Emmaus ministry.
Buddy is married to Susan, who is an 8th grade teacher. They have two sons, Matt and Zack who live in Tennessee. To quote Buddy, “you can get peoples’ attention better sometimes if you are packing a gun as well as a Bible.” He has served on Cursillo, Walk to Emmaus and Great Banquet weekends since 1980.