Speakers

Kyle is the director of Collegians for Christ Campus Ministry which works with local churches to establish ministries on college campuses. He and his wife, Amanda, have served in ministry since 2005 with a focus on youth. They established a Collegians for Christ ministry at Appalachian State University over six years ago where they dealt with the college campus and students first hand. Kyle serves as the Chaplain for the Appalachian State Wrestling team. They now travel the country training and assisting local churches to reach their campus with the Gospel.

Pastor Chad Braley followed the leading of the Lord and became the pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, in October, 2014. Prior to Faith Baptist he served as an assistant pastor for 7 years at the First Baptist Church in Milford, Ohio. He also served two and a half years as an assistant/youth pastor at the First Baptist Church in Caldwell, New Jersey. He and his wife Laura have been married for 14 years and have been serving the Lord together ever since. They are blessed with one beautiful daughter, Alivia Grace.

Howard & Jason Caldwell are a father-son team of evangelists sent out by the Lighthouse Baptist Church of Winchester, Virginia. Howard and Jason have a combined ministry experience of fifty-five years. In 2006 they started Seeing Truth Ministries. This ministry is an independent Baptist Church ministry dedicated to the propagation of the gospel, producing target programs for the local church and providing itself as an evangelistic and instructional tool in the local church. They offer Family Crusades, Vacation Bible Schools, Bus Promotion Sundays, Church Camps, Sportsmen’s Banquets with live birds of prey demonstration, Revivals, & Missions Conferences.

Kurt trusted in Christ as his personal Savior on January 11, 1982 at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Mattoon, Illinois, and a few years after his family moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee and the Franklin Road Baptist Church (FRBC). While working as a Ranch Hand at the Bill Rice Ranch, Kurt surrendered to full time Christian service. Later on he enrolled at Pensacola Christian College and graduated in December of 1993. Kurt married Christy Payne in 1994, and after serving 2 years as a youth pastor in Florida, Kurt answered the call to return to FRBC as Youth Pastor. God has given the Copeland’s two beautiful daughters, Angel and Gabrielle, and he has also blessed the youth ministry of FRBC! In the spring of 2008, the Holy Spirit began to work in the lives of the teenagers where today the ministry averages over 200 teens in attendance, souls saved weekly, and young people surrendering to the will of God. It is Kurt’s desire to see teens saved and surrender to live for the Lord with their life.

For over 40 years, Dan DeLong has been serving the Lord in the ministry full-time. He had been in missions for over 15 years as a church planter for Baptist International Missions, Inc. (BIMI) He presently is the Director for the BIMI Deputation and Candidate Schools. He is in charge of recruitment of new missionaries around the world. He speaks in missions conferences, youth camps, revival meetings, and Christian school seminars.

Sherry has served as the Director of Distribution for Master Ministries since 2005. She also volunteers as the Master Club Secretary for FBCM. Sherry is married to Ted and has four children and two grandchildren!

Pastor John W. Godfrey Jr. was privileged to be born into a pastor’s home. He accepted the Lord as his Savior at the age of five. He attended and graduated from Great Hope Baptist School in Chesapeake, Virginia. After high school, Brother Godfrey attended Ambassador Baptist College where he received a bachelor’s degree in Bible and Pastoral Studies. After his junior year of college, he married Kristin, his childhood sweetheart. He then began working full-time at Ambassador Baptist College as the Men’s Dormitory Supervisor. After three years, God moved the Godfrey family to Chesapeake, Virginia where Brother Godfrey became a staff member of Great Hope Baptist Church and School with the goal of getting some local church experience before pastoring. After six months, God opened the door for Brother Godfrey to begin serving as the Youth Pastor of Great Hope Baptist Church. He had the privilege of working for his father, Pastor John W. Godfrey Sr., for the next five and half years. During the six years that Pastor Godfrey was in Chesapeake, he attended Tabernacle Baptist Theological Seminary and graduated with a Master of Religious Education degree. God has blessed the Godfrey family with six wonderful boys. On November 13, 2011 Brother Godfrey accepted the pastorate of Immanuel Baptist Church in Clifton Forge, Virginia, and it is his desire to have a ministry founded on Biblical preaching and focused on building families.

Bro. Dan Jessup joined FBC in the summer of 2015 when he became the director of Master Ministries. Before his arrival, Bro. Jessup had spent almost 20 years as an ordained pastor working as an assistant at churches in Pennsylvania and Virginia. During that time he was an active youth director, chapel speaker, Bible class teacher, bus ministry director, children’s ministry pastor, adult Sunday School teacher, academy administrator, and most of all a successful Master Clubs director at the Lighthouse Baptist Church of Winchester, Virginia! FBC and Master Ministries have a great expectation that the Lord will use Bro. Jessup to give direction to the Loving and Leading Conference and to edify the children and youth ministries of our respective churches.