Day 10 - January 24, 2012
6AM // Chris Brooks
Celebration Church, Jacksonville, FL
Chris Brooks serves as a Campus Pastor at Celebration Church in Jacksonville Florida. He was on the launch team of 7 people, who founded Celebration Church in 1998.
Celebration has grown to over 10,000 in attendance, both nationally and internationally. Chris has served in many leadership roles in the church and also as a church planter. He is passionate about teaching God¹s word and about leading people to experience a God First life.
Chris and his wife, Ashley, have been married 17 years, and are blessed with a son, C.J., and a daughter, Maggie Mae.
12PM // Kerri Weems
Celebration Church, Jacksonville, FL
Kerri Weems is the wife of Stovall Weems who pastors Celebration Church, a dynamic and thriving church in Jacksonville, FL. Kerri is passionate about leading the women of Celebration at a local and international level. In addition to being a gifted pastor, teacher and conference speaker, she produces and hosts Celebration Church’s annual women’s conference, Shine. Every year, the conference reaches hundreds of women from the greater Jacksonville area, throughout the United States and from around the world. In 2011, Shine also expanded to Africa for the very first Shine Zimbabwe. Kerri has also fostered Celebration Sisterhood, which exists to empower women to be compassionate, courageous, and free. Sisterhood places value on womanhood at every stage of life. Through weekly Bible studies, monthly Sisterhood meetings and teachings on her blog, Sisterhood reaches across the scope of Celebration’s multiple campuses. Kerri and Stovall have three children, Kaylan, Stovie, and Annabelle.
7PM // Jimmy Evans
Trinity Fellowship, Amarillo, TX
Jimmy Evans is Founder and CEO of MarriageToday, a ministry that is devoted to helping couples thrive in strong and fulfilling marriages and families. Together with his wife, they co-host MarriageToday with Jimmy and Karen, a nationally syndicated television program.
Jimmy has served as the senior leader of his church, Trinity Fellowship in Amarillo, Texas for the past 30 years. Jimmy has authored more than ten books among which is his popular work, Marriage on the Rock.
Jimmy and Karen have been married over 38 years and have two married children and four grandchildren.