You’re looking for powerful, relevant insights that can help you bring more people to Christ as you share the gospel in your local church and community.
Save the Date!
Be refreshed and revitalized in your ministry at the 2024 GARBC Conference
June 24-27, 2024 · Elgin, Illinois
Theme: Together
"The Incredible Value of Biblical Fellowship"
Engaging Sessions
Building Relationships
Forward Thinking
Are you seeking
- Relevant sessions that speak to your specific challenges in ministry?
- Encouragement from like-minded leaders?
- Applicable strategies you can take back to your church?
As a ministry leader, you need a time to be refreshed and get excited about what’s next.
Get refreshed and refueled at the 2024 GARBC Conference.
At the GARBC Annual Conference, you’re more than just another attendee.
You’re part of a larger group of co-laborers who are striving to disciple others and bring people to Christ. Your participation plays a vital role in helping us move forward together.
At the GARBC Conference, you’ll experience:
Engaging Sessions
Hear speakers, teachers, and leaders provide valuable insight that’s relevant to your ministry context, church, and community.
Building Relationships
Network with like-minded ministry leaders to build relationships, receive encouragement, and be reinvigorated in life and ministry.
Forward Thinking
Be equipped, build momentum, and become a part of what’s next as we make disciples through healthy local churches.
Don’t miss this opportunity to be equipped and refreshed in your ministry.
Registration for the 2024 GARBC Annual Conference coming soon!
Why the GARBC Annual Conference?
For over 90 years, the GARBC conference has been transforming lives and motivating leaders to continue to make disciples in our communities and around the world. Your participation in the conference helps keep our organization strong as we move forward and seek God’s will.
Conference Speakers
David E. Strope serves as interim national representative of the GARBC. In this role, David shares God’s Word in church and ministry settings, counsels and encourages pastors and churches, provides assistance with pastoral placement, and mentors and trains pastors, all while championing the association’s doctrinal distinctives.
Prior to serving in this role, David was a pastor for 45 years in four New York Churches (Bethel Baptist Church, Jamestown; Calvary Baptist Church, Lockport; Regular Baptist Church [now Maple Avenue Baptist Church], Elmira; and Calvary Baptist Church, Norwich) and at Ankeny Baptist Church of Ankeny, Iowa.
In addition to his pastoral roles, David has served on the GARBC Council of 18, the Northeast Fellowship Council of 10, and the Iowa Association of Regular Baptist Churches Council of 10. He currently serves on the elected council of Baptist Mid-Missions, and has taught at Faith Baptist Bible College as an adjunct faculty member.
David and his wife, Debbie, both hail from Newark Valley, NY, and have three children, seven grandchildren, and two foster grandchildren.
Philip De Courcy is pastor of Kindred Community Church in Anaheim, California, and teacher on the daily media program Know the Truth.
Philip was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Christian parents who instilled in him a love for the Lord Jesus Christ.
At sixteen years of age, Philip trusted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior.
In 2020, Patrick Odle became BMM's ninth president after 26 years of pastoral experience in Iowa and Ohio. He also served as Faith Baptist Bible College & Theological Seminary's Vice President of Enrollment and Student Life for three years. God developed his heart for missions through connections to BMM missionaries and Council members, along with numerous mission trips. Patrick and his wife, Ruth, have four adult children and two grandchildren.
Ryan Frank is a church planter who serves as lead pastor of Involve Church in Nampa, Idaho, which he helped start in 2015. “God does not want His children sitting on the sidelines. He wants them involved in the body of Christ, and Involve Church exists to involve people in an authentic relationship with Jesus Christ."
Chris Anderson was the founding pastor of Tri-County Bible Church in Madison, Ohio, where he pastored for 15 years. For 9 years after that, Chris pastored Killian Hill Baptist Church in Lilburn, Georgia, where by God’s grace, more than 10 families were launched into missions or church ministry. He now serves as Vice President of Global Opportunities at Biblical Ministries Worldwide. Click the icon below to learn more.
Clare Jewell has been married to his wife, Donna, for more than 40 years. They currently reside in Salem, Oregon. They have four daughters and 13 grandchildren scattered across the eastern portion of the United States.
Prior to joining with ABWE and the GARBC, Clare was the Senior Pastor of Lakewood Park Baptist Church in Auburn, Indiana, for more than 20 years. From 1988-1993, He was the Administrator of Grace Baptist Christian School.
Clare completed his BA in Pastoral Studies at Baptist Bible College in Clarks Summit, PA. He also earned a Master of Arts Degree in Social Sciences from Eastern Michigan University. Currently, Clare is in the final stage of completing a Doctor of Ministry degree in Strategic Leadership at Corban University.
Along with preaching and teaching, Clare loves to golf, hike, ski and cheer for the Michigan State Spartans!
Conference Testimonies
Conference Archives
Explore recordings from past GARBC conferences.
2023
Information coming soon.
2022
Do the Truth
Clare Jewell
Quieting a Noisy Soul through Truth Incarnate
Dr. Nicolas Ellen
Training and Transformation through the Truth of God’s Word
Dr. Nicolas Ellen
Truth in Advertising
Ken Floyd
Truth Matters
Truth to the Nations
Paul Davis
“What Is Truth?” Abstract Idea or Incarnate Grace?
Dr. David E. Strope
2021
Unleash the Spirit of Conviction
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Unleash the Spirit of Love
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Abide in Christ
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Unleash the Spirit of Help
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Peace in a World at War
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Christ’s High Priestly Prayer and The Holy Spirit
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Plugging into Your Ultimate Power Source
General Session: Monday Evening, June 28, 2021 Mike Hess, National Representative, General Association of Regular Baptist …
Incomprehensible God
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The Beauty of Christ
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The Supremacy of Christ
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Stay in Your Lane
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The Clarity of the Throne
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