Meet the Speakers

Keynote Speakers:

Breakout Speakers:

Kelsey Herndon

Kelsey Herndon is a husband and father of three. He serves his alma mater, Oklahoma Christian University, as Assistant Director of the Office of International Programs and holds a master's degree in Theological Studies. Kelsey and his wife Lisa host a group of young adults in their home every week that centers around vulnerability and respect for all. Their experience walking alongside gender and sexual minorities gives them great peace and joy as God’s Kingdom comes. Serving young adults is what Kelsey loves. Whether it is hosting them in his home, listening to them over a cup of coffee, or offering some loving admonition; Kelsey loves encouraging young men and women to serve God and others. His guide and strength is the hospitable, loving, relational God, revealed to us in Jesus Christ.

Deborah Price

Deborah Price works as an education specialist at a small, private school in Yukon, OK, where she loves providing one-on-one instruction to kindergarteners and first graders to help them strengthen skills needed to be successful in learning to read and write, as well as overseeing the school’s reading intervention program, student mentoring program, and accommodation plans for struggling learners. She and her husband David, blessed with three sons, have experienced God’s providence and care through the ministry of their local church to raise their now 22-year old son who has autism. It is a great joy for Deborah to share how God has and continues to help their family through the ministry of the body of Christ with the goal of equipping others to be the hands and feet of Jesus to families affected by special needs.

Chris Rosser

In 1999, Chris graduated from Oklahoma Christian University as a Bible major with an English minor. He and his wife moved to Mito, Japan, in the summer of 2000 to teach English in public schools and to work as vocational missionaries with Mito Church of Christ. Chris began working as a full-time missionary for the congregation in 2003. Their two sons were born in Mito, and they returned to the United States in Fall 2006. He served as a minister with Eastside Church of Christ in Midwest City, Oklahoma, earned a Master of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma, and completed his M.Div. degree at Oklahoma Christian in 2012. Chris says he likes working at OC because “teaching at this level is my dream job, and I enjoy working with students to facilitate research and through our interaction in Introduction to Graduate Biblical Studies.”