METRO CHRISTIAN CONVENTION
NYC 2025
OUR FEATURED SPEAKERS
Main speaker
Kendall Faull
With a deep passion for the Lord and sharing the Gospel, Kendall Faull has been in ministry since 1995. He has served as a professor at Summit Theological Seminary since 2012, and continues to share his faith through his music and mission work.
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He is the father of five children and three grandchildren. He and His wife Annie live in Welsh, LA.
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Kendall Faull was the keynote speaker of the Metro Christian Convention in 2014.
Workshop Leaders
Jeff Butler
Jeff Butler and Laurie, his wife, moved to NYC in 1988 to plant a new church, Community Christian Church, which started in Manhattan in 1991. Jeff continued to serve CCC until he retired in 2024, when he and Laurie moved to Tennessee to be near their six grandchildren. Currently, Jeff and Laurie are active members of Sycamore View Church of Christ in Memphis, where Jeff teaches a Sunday morning adult class.
David Elliot
David L. Elliott was born in Manhattan three years after the 10th Street Church of Christ was established by his father, David Vaughn Elliott. He decided to follow Jesus at a young age and was baptized at Elfin Lake Camp near Rutland, Vermont. His wife, Lois, has been his faithful companion for 46 years; they have three children and four grandchildren with another one on the way. They have lived and served in Elmira, NY; Lawrence, MA; San Jose, Costa Rica; Vega Baja and Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. David now serves as an evangelist for the Spanish-speaking Iglesia de Cristo in Lawrence, MA and also works as an electrical engineer.
Cindy Hannon
Cindy Hannon has been involved in Women's Ministry in Long Island for a substantial portion of her adult life. With her family taking a brief break to live in Sydney from 2002 to 2004, she later returned to her home church, East Northport Christian Church, and has continued to serve there since. Her ministry, and service has transformed over the years, from helping to lead her home church in women's "house to house" gatherings, to serving on the board of Soundview Pregnancy Centers, to leading an online Bible Journaling community that encourages worship through creativity and art. Throughout these ministries, the way the Word is shared has changed, but she has always delighted in the real outpouring of the Holy Spirit as it teaches, equips, transforms and renews the body of believers.
Dyke McCord
After serving in long-term, local church ministries in Ohio and Maryland, Dyke joined Waypoint Church Partners in 2020 as Associate Director. Waypoint supports established churches and helps start new churches in the mid-Atlantic region; Dyke serves the Carolinas. He and his wife have two grown sons, are both graduates of Milligan University, and reside near Raleigh with their scruffy miniature schnauzer, Ace.
Mark Nelson
Mark is the Executive Director of the Three Rivers Collaborative, a Johnson University initiative of learning communities for churches in Knoxville, TN. In addition, he is the lead pastor at Thorn Grove Christian Church in east Knoxville. He has 37 years of vocational church ministry experience which includes youth ministry, campus ministry and church planting. He is the co-author (with Alan Hirsch) of the book "Reframation: Seeing God, People, and Mission Through Reenchanted Frames", and his upcoming book "Lunchroom Theology" will be released in September. He has been married for 37 years to Monica and together they have three grown children.