ABSURD '19 - The Absurd Conference: Recent Episodes
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Trey Grant is the Lead Pastor/Teaching Pastor of The Well Church in Keller, Texas. Trey is a graduate of Hampton University and has a Master of Religion from Redeemer Theological Seminary (Formerly known as Westminster Theological Seminary Dallas). Prior to full-time ministry, Trey spent four lucrative years in Sales-Management in Corporate America with several Fortune 500 companies. After, Trey served on the pastoral staff at Irving Bible Church in Irving, TX for six years, first as a Student Pastor and then as Church Plant Resident before being called to found and plant The Well Church Keller. Trey's duties as Lead Pastor/ Teaching Pastor include giving overall vision and direction for The Well Church, raising up, training and equipping leaders and preaching and teaching the Life Transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ. Alice and Trey have been married for ten years. They have two beautiful children; Mason and Hannah.
Oneya Fennell Okuwobi is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology studying race and religion at The Ohio State University. Oneya’s research interrogates how diverse organizations impact racial inequality. Along with her husband, Ayodele, Oneya is founding elder of 21st Century Church, a church plant in Cincinnati, OH. She is co-author with Mark DeYmaz of Multiethnic Conversations: An Eight-Week Journey toward Unity in Your Church. It is the first personal devotional and small group study on multiethnic life and church designed for people in the pews.
Jeff Snodgrass is the lead pastor at Unite Church in Pasadena, California. He has been in full time ministry for 14 years and has an intense passion for making disciples, maximizing the ability of all around him, and mending racial divides. He and his wife have been married since 2007 and added four children to the family between January 2012 and December 2013. God has brought their children to them in a divine and purposeful way. The oldest two are twins at the age of twenty-three and the younger two are both boys only seven months apart.
Dele Okuwobi is the co-founding elder and senior leader at 21st Century Church, a church plant in Cincinnati, OH. He also serves as the director of 21st Century Church Network, a relational church network for Multiethnic churches planters.
Courtney Brown is the Operations Manager/Family Partnership Director for Habitat for Humanity in East Central Ohio. Courtney has served as Family Partnership Director at HFH East Central Ohio for the past 6 years. During her tenure with the affiliate, Courtney not only enhanced existing partner family education opportunities but also used her talent and heart to create a holistic educational curriculum for families. This good work has made HFH East Central Ohio a training ground for affiliates from all over the country who have come to learn and model the program. Courtney has taught workshops at both the State level in Ohio as well as HFHI and was part of a Global Village team working in El Salvador. As Courtney begins to migrate into an operations role at the affiliate, she enjoys working with staff who seek to put God’s love into action by bringing people together to build homes and communities of hope. Courtney is a Canton, Ohio native and a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College where she earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree.
A collection of local pastors and members of the community field questions on diversity and how the conversation can make it's way int your home