These speakers can be contacted directly, by emailing us at: mail@DeepRootsNewBranches.org or by calling 1-800-266-2175
If you’re looking for someone who can share with your group about Deep Roots/New Branches:
Gary Bekker - World Missions
Tom Bratt - Home Missions
Mike Bruinooge - CRC Offices
Henry Hess - CRC Offices
Al Karsten - Canadian Ministries
Thea Leunk - Classis Renewal Ministry Team
Allen Likkel - Home Missions
Gary Mulder - Faith Alive Resources
John Rozeboom - Home Missions
Andy Ryskamp - CRWRC
Bill Van Groningen - Home Missions
Your Classis Home Missions Board representative
Your Classis Home Missions Committee Chair
If you're looking for someone who can lead a workshop on new church how-to’s:
Martin Contant - Home Missions
Allen Likkel - Home Missions
John Rozeboom - Home Missions
Bill Van Groningen - Home Missions
Your Home Missions Regional Leader:
Tong Park - Korean & California South
Martin Contant - Western Canada
Peter Holwerda - West Coast
Ben Vandezande - Eastern Canada
Jerry Holleman - West Central U.S.A.
Henry Wildeboer - Eastern Canada
Larry Meyer - North Central U.S.A.
Peter De Vries - Smaller Church Specialist
Ben Becksvoort - Great Lakes Stanley
Jim Native - American & Red Mesa
Jim Osterhouse - Chicagoland
Bob Price - Black & Urban
Gary Teja - Hispanic & Southeast U.S.A.
Stan Workman - Hispanic & Southeast U.S.A.
Duane VanderBrug - Eastern U.S.A.
If you would like to hear about one of the following planting or parenting topics:
Darrell Bierman, Byron VanKley
Why plant churches and stories of ministry.
Kevin DeRaaf, Bruce Ballast
Working as a parent/Partner
Bruce Gritter, Kevin Schutte
Casting vision for church planting and what it takes to move from a proposal adopted at Classis to grand opening of a new church.
Rob Hogendoorn, Larry Doornbos
A vision for church planting and stories of effective ministry.
Ed/Michelle Top, Carl Kromminga Jr.
Sharing ideas on how to infiltrate a community on a number of strategic levels in order to seed the vision of the new church in the region.
Andrew Turkstra, Kevin Adams
Developing leaders for the harvest. (Leadership development in the local new church plant)
Geoff VanderMolen, Tim Blackmon
Telling stories about the joys and struggles of starting a new church. (Casting a vision for a plant)
Adrian VanGiessen, Jul Medenblik
Vision for CP and partnering
John Van Sloten, Andy Sytsma
On how to build bridges with established churches and church plants, or helping a classis catch a vision for planting new churches.
John Van Til, Peter Holwerda
Classis and new churches
John Wildeboer, John Wilcewski
How to reach people thru groups and evangelistic relationships
Fred Witteveen, Charles Kim
Planting in an ethnically diverse setting
If you would like to hear about one of our new church starts from its planter:
Elmer Tandayu - Bellflower and Carson, CA
Ron Black - Los Angeles, CA
Charles Kim - Los Angeles, CA
Rich Braaksma - Santa Monica, CA
Derek Zyl - Sacramento, CA
Tim Blackmon - Folsom, CA
Ron Vanderwell - Sacramento, CA
Mark Humphreys - Tracy, CA
Bob Pollema - Las Vegas, NV
Albert Sideco - Wyckoff, NJ
Andy Sytsma - Haledon, NJ
Paul Ingeneri - Flanders Valley, NJ
Chris Mitchell - Boston, MA
Mike Laird - (MA or CT area only) Boston, MA
Rob Hoogendoorn - London, ON
Adrian Van Giessen - Kitchener, ON
Darrell Bierman - Cambridge, ON
Henry Schenkel - Grand Rapids, MI
Paul Worster - Walker, MI
Jon Huizenga - Rockford, MI
Jeff Hough - Muskegon, MI
Don Ridder - Muskegon, MI
Kris Vos - St. John, IN
Jul Medenblik - New Lenox, IL
Rob Knol - Valparaiso, IN
John Zayas - GAP - Chicago, IL
Verlyn Schaap - Sioux City, IA
Kevin Schutte - Kansas City, MO
Geoff VanderMolen - Calgary, AB
Bruce Gritter - Edmonton, AB
Andrew Turkstra - Mission, BC
Eric Likkel - Seattle, WA
Byron VanKley - Vancouver, WA
Mark Brouwer - Minneapolis, MN
Rick Ebbers - Longmont, CO
Jose Rayas - El Paso, TX
Hector Garcia - West Kendall, FL
