Opening Night Entertainment
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 7:00 PM CT On-site and Livestream
Trinity Gospel Choir- Gospel Choir Director, Professor Nicole Saint-Victor
Trinity Christian College’s Gospel Choir is composed of dedicated and talented students studying a wide array of academic majors and hailing from all across the United States and the world at large. Under the leadership of Professor Nicole Saint-Victor, students rehearse and perform a variety of music in the African-American Christian tradition. Singing and playing with excellence and enthusiasm, the choir offers its gifts for the good of the community and the glory of God.
Morning Devotions
Friday, October 28th 2022, 8:00 am – 8:30 am CT On-site and Livestream
Louis Damani Jones, Behavioral Health Therapist
Louis Damani Jones is the current Voter Engagement Coordinator at the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also a Behavioral Health Therapist with the SSM Health system, and a research assistant at the CatholicPsych Institute. He has previously served as a research assistant at the Center for Social Development on the Financial Capability and Asset-building project. His volunteer activities include serving on the Board of Directors for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, Vagabond Missions, and the Before Gethsemane Initiative. He was the recipient of the Rising Star award from the Liberman Graduate Center at Washington University in St. Louis and the Cardinal Bernadin New Leadership Award from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He received his Masters of Social Work from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Morning Devotions
Saturday, October 29th 2022, 8:00 am – 8:30 am CT On-site & Livestream
Dr. June Tyson, LCSW-R, ACSW, CCM
Dr. June Tyson comes to you from Brooklyn, NY. She is a License Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R) and a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, (ACSW). She practices psychotherapy at Community Counselling and Mediation (CCM) in Brooklyn. Dr. Tyson is also License Independent Social worker of Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) and works for the Costal Samaritan Counseling Center, in Myrtle Beach SC.
Her MSW is from Fordham University and her PhD is in Human Services from Capella University. She is an adjunct professor for the master’s degree in Counseling Program and Social Work Program at Liberty University, Indiana Wesleyan University and Winthrop University.
In addition to being a proud and active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, (AKA), Dr. Tyson is also a part of a Global Health Group, in which she travels yearly, sharing Social Work techniques with doctors and nurses of various hospitals and universities in Nigeria and Haiti. Dr. Tyson believes that social workers should stretch themselves by volunteering to do overseas work, learning another language and other creative activities that bring them out of their communities and their comfort zones. This way the world can experience their talent, skill and love for mankind.
Saturday, October 29, 2022
During the NACSW Community Conversations, 11:30 am CT
Integrated Praise (formerly known as the ARC Praise Band)
The Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) had already established a relationship of worship and fellowship through the Salvation Army Corps integration. This unity of voices just seemed natural. Due to the challenges of worshiping and fellowship during Covid-19, the opportunity was given to these individuals to come and worship with ARC until things opened back up at their corps. This began a collaboration of voices that brought gospel and contemporary praise together. The Integrated Praise once known as ARC Praise Band is still serving and coming together to lift in the name of Jesus.
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Saturday, October 29, 2022
During the Saturday Evening Banquet, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. CT On-site & Livestream
Enjoy the inspiring music and performance of Jonathan Brooks
Jonathan Brooks currently serves as Co-Pastor at Lawndale Christian Community Church. He was the former pastor of Canaan Community Church in Chicago for 15 years. He is also an adjunct Professor for Northern Seminary in their Christian Community Development Program and Trinity Christian College’s Chicago Semester program. He served as the Chicago City Director for Mission Year, a year-long service program that focuses on the intersections of Faith and justice. Jonathan has also been an educator in inner city Chicago for well over a decade and is a firm believer in investing in your local community. He has a deep desire to impress this virtue on all who will listen whether congregation, classroom or community.
Through various roles and partnerships, Jonathan is engaged in social activism, church planning, youth development, holistic health options, college scholarships, music lessons and continual support to the incarcerated and their families living in North Lawndale, Greater Englewood and other Chicago communities.
Pastah J, as he is affectionately called, is a sought-after speaker, writer and artist. Along with speaking, training and consulting he has written numerous blogs and contributed to various books. He is the author of the book “Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods” published by InterVarsity Press. During his tenure at Canaan the church released a gospel album titled “Recommend Jesus” to be used as an avenue to share faith as an integral component in community transformation. Lastly, Pastah J has also recorded four hip-hop albums with the group Out-World and a mixtape to accompany the book Church Forsaken.
Jonathan has a Bachelor of Architecture from Tuskegee University, Master of Arts in Teaching from National Louis University and Master of Divinity from Northern Seminary in Christian Community Development. He hopes to merge his academic knowledge, practical tools and ministry training in order to turn his convictions into tangible solutions which will help change neglected neighborhoods all over the city of Chicago for future generations.
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Sunday, October 30, 2022-
Sunday Worship – 9:00 Christ Church – 501 Oak Brook Rd, Oak Brook, IL 60523
Dr. Eric Haskins | Spiritual Formation Pastor |Christ Church Oak Brook – Butterfield
Sunday worship, services of the classic and contemporary style, that run concurrently, on Sunday morning. For a fuller picture of what to expect on a typical Sunday at Christ Church we encourage you to explore the NEW HERE section of our website.
Convention attendees will meet in the hotel lobby at 8:30 am Central Time on Sunday morning, October 30, 2022, and travel together to Christ Church (501 Oak Brook Road, Oak Brook, IL 60523) for 9:00 am worship service.