Global Engagement Summit 2026

The Element Dallas – Downtown East (4005 Gaston Avenue) is right on the back side of the seminary and is a wonderful hotel!  Thanks to a special relationship we have with them, conference attendees can make discounted reservations by following these steps:

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The Centers for Apologetics Research (CFAR) is a unique international network of evangelical cult research and education agencies. Our main goal is to equip Christians in the majority world for biblical discernment, the defense of the faith, and cult evangelism. While a number of ministries seek to fulfill this scriptural mandate in the West, there are very few in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the Global South, where many cultic missionary movements are growing most quickly and with the least resistance. It is this need that CFAR was founded to address.

https://thecenters.orgE

I serve as Executive Director of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center, a ministry founded by Rev. Graham at his alma mater that exists to equip every believer, everywhere to share Christ. Through our nine institutes, we help pastors revitalize their churches by reaching new people with the gospel of Jesus Christ. We also convene digital ministries and Christian colleges for increased impact.

wheatonbillygraham.com

AFRICA Centre for Apologetics Research (ACFAR), is a counter-cult ministry committed to Equipping believers across Africa for discernment, defense of the faith and Cult evangelism. ACFAR is an affiliate of the CENTERS FOR APOLOGETICS RESEARCH in the USA. We want to see believers who are able to identify, understand, answer, and evangelize people in cults and as well as integrate them into healthy local churches.

www.acfar.org

The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics helps Christians share the truth, goodness, and beauty of the gospel as the only hope that fulfills our deepest longings. We work with a group of fellows from around the world to create articles, curriculum, videos, podcast, cohorts, and other resources.

For the last couple of years I have served on staff with the Keller Center, organizing our publishing projects and online learning cohorts.

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/thekellercenter/

Karam Fellowship is a community of theological educators working together to cultivate theology for the life of the world. In our scholarship, teaching, mentoring, institutional service and our own personal wholeness, we embrace a calling to steward theological knowledge seeking wholeness, well-being and flourishing for our students and for the individuals, organizations and communities around us.

https://karamfellowship.org

Currently I serve as the HoD and Professor of New Testament at SAIACS teaching and mentoring MTh and PhD students. I am also deeply involved in grassroots level teaching in churches, training pastors and local missionaries, and helping churches and mission organizations in India rethinking proclamation of the gospel in multicultural and multi-religious contexts. The areas of my research interest is interpreting New Testament text meaningfully within local cultural, religious, and political contexts. My academic publications are mostly in line with my research interest.

I am the Director of Evangelistic Leadership at Laidlaw College. I teach evangelism, apologetics, church planting, and evangelistic leadership. I work across the nation raising up evangelistic leaders.

https://www.laidlaw.ac.nz/

King Ministries International hosts large evangelistic Gospel crusades in nations around the world. Evangelist Daniel King has traveled to over 75 countries and spoken face-to-face to more than four million people. He authored "Proof God is Real" and his apologetics YouTube videos have received thousands of views.

https://kingministries.com/

Faithful Presence equips servants and leaders to flourish in their work in and for the public square. We focus on seven facets of whole-life formation and four questions of missional engagement. Our efforts are targeted both in Washington DC and through churches across the country.

Faithful-presence.org. // faithfulpresence.substack.com

KLC is a global network of Christian scholars based in Cambridge, UK, whose rigorous interdisciplinary inquiry is enriched by the insights of faith, community and wisdom, producing a transformative body of research that deepens public discourse and serves the common good. I personally am the Director of the Scripture Collective.

www.kirbylaingcentre.co.uk

Ratio Christi means 'the reason of Christ.' We center on the college campus, equipping students and professors to give historical, philosophical, and scientific reasons for following Jesus. We're all about thoughtful Christianity, transforming lives on campus today and changing culture tomorrow. We have a high school division (25 campuses), a university student division (100 campuses), a PhD student and professors division (a dozen campuses), are active on every continent in 15 countries, and have a booklet product line.

www.ratiochristi.org; www.DrCoreyMiller.com

In a world increasingly marked by division, the Winsome Conviction Academy (Biola University) exists to form people who embody both conviction and compassion. Our academy provides practical tools and training to navigate potentially volatile conversations with wisdom, courage and kindness both inside and outside the Christian community.

https://www.biola.edu/winsome-conviction

EAK is the national umbrella organization for Evangelical Churches in Kenya. EAK exists to unite and empower the evangelical clergy to succeed in their discipleship mandate. This is driven by her vision: a movement of disciple making churches impacting their society.

The EAK Strategy (2026 to 2030) has six thematic areas, namely: Collaborative Missions; Relevant Training; Advocacy and Engagement; Holistic formation and Value Based Relationships; Research and Data Management; EAK’s Organizational Sustainability

www.eakenya.org

KOINONIA is the caring arm of the National Christian Fellowship of Bangladesh, where 24 Church denominations is members and 24 para churches are members as well. Our mission is to enhance capacity and opportunity of the poor vulnerable people communities and Churches through their initiatives and support of appropriate development services, establish their self-governed community-based institutions and networks, do advocacy for influencing policies and decisions affecting their lives and livelihoods and bring holistic transformation.

www.koinoniabangladesh.com

The Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge (KLC) is a growing network of Christian scholars engaged in missional, interdisciplinary public-theological research, fostering community and collaboration that crosses the borders of modernity. Through our academic hubs and organizational projects, we bring rigorous inquiry together with the insights of faith, community and wisdom to produce research that deepens public discourse and serves the common good, pursuing answers to the question, "How then shall we live?"

If this question is asking what I personally do, I am the director of media, in charge of design and digital infrastructure, and I am a specialist in Old Testament and narrative criticism, currently pursuing a book project on evangelicalism and Scripture (via IVP Academic).

https://kirbylaingcentre.co.uk/

The Centre for Public Christianity is an Australian media company that aims to promote a better understanding of the Christian story among the secular public. We seek to convey the heart of Christian faith ("Mere Christianity") and show how it speaks into contemporary life.

We do this by writing and appearing in mainstream media, and curating a public library of articles, videos, and podcasts. We run public events, as well as a speakers bureau; and produce books and documentaries. We package much of this material for youth and schools as a resource for teachers to use in the classroom.

http://publicchristianity.org/

Our work is directed toward improved relations in the Public Square and pathways toward policy change at the political level through Scholarship, Civic Engagement, and Track Two Diplomacy in four related areas: Religious Freedom, Justice, Public and Foreign Policy.  Grounded in the dignity of the human person the CFPSQ provides a locus of engagement among scholars, theologians, philosophers, and policy analysts to better understand and facilitate the role of faith in public engagement.

https://cfpsq.org/

Central Africa Baptist University in Kitwe Zambia exists to train the next generation of servant leaders in Africa for Great Commission living, by resourcing African churches and Christian leaders with accredited education, training seminars, and print materials. We offer church ministry and Christian education certificates, degrees, and masters programs ranging from gap year through seminary graduate studies, each with a strong emphasis on biblical worldview formation through the narrative of Scripture, and on relevant training for African church ministry. Because of our multicultural team’s commitment to bringing the gospel into deep engagement with prevalent African cultural realities, we network and partner with several African apologetics and cultural engagement ministries across the continent.

https://cabuniversity.com/

I serve as the Executive Director of CT Pastors, a department of Christianity Today dedicated to equipping, encouraging, and connecting ministry leaders. As a media ministry, we are a community of Christ followers who work together to advance the stories and wisdom of the kingdom of God around the world.

www.christianitytoday.com

The World Evangelical Alliance represents its global church constituency of over 650 million from 9 regional and 161 national alliances. The WEA fosters unity in Christ, strengthens identity, voice, and platform for Gospel witness and discipleship.

https://worldea.org/

The C.S. Lewis Institute (CSLI) in the legacy of C. S. Lewis, seeks to develop wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ who will articulate, defend, share, and live their faith in personal and public life. Celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2026, CSLI is an inter-denominational organization based in Washington, D.C. with locations in 32 cities in 5 countries, committed to assisting churches and pastors in making disciples of Jesus Christ. This takes the form of local in-person and distance learning discipleship programs, area-wide conferences, pastor fellowships, and biblically based resources in the areas of discipleship, evangelism, and apologetics available in print and digital media through our website and online courses LMS.

www.cslewisinstitute.org