Speakers & Worship

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Banning Liebscher

Banning & SeaJay Liebscher are on staff at Bethel Church in Redding, California as the Directors of Jesus Culture, a ministry dedicated to mobilizing a generation to shape culture and transform nations. Jesus Culture was birthed out of Bethel’s youth group where Banning was the youth pastor for ten years. Jesus Culture is impacting a generation through conferences, events, music, Campus Awakening, and the training of emerging leaders. Banning’s passion is to see a generation of revivalists raised up who have encountered the extravagant love of Jesus and have given themselves for worldwide revival. He and his wife have three children, Ellianna, Raya, and Lake.

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Tom Crandall

Tom Crandall is the Youth Pastor of Bethel Church, Redding CA. He and his wife Leslie have served in fulltime ministry for 11 years. They have two amazing children, Joel and Adelyn and a yellow lab named Bailey.  Tom’s passion is to see a generation burn for God, be established in their identity as son’s and daughters and empower them to demonstrate the Gospel with sign’s and wonders to a lost world.

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Jude Fouquier

Jude Fouquier and his wife Becky are the Lead Pastors of The City Church in beautiful Ventura, California, where they relocated to plant a church in August of 2010. Pastor Jude & his family spent the previous 18 years serving in several capacities at The City Church in Seattle, Washington, including Youth Pastor, Intern Director, and Senior Associate Pastor, as well as an Elder. He helped to pioneer that church with Pastors Wendell and Gini Smith and forged the Generation Church ministry there for over ten years; a ministry which currently reaches over 1,500 Jr. High through college-age individuals weekly. Before he came to Seattle, Pastor Jude got his start in youth ministry after graduating from Oral Roberts University in 1985 when he first became a Youth Pastor under Wally and Marilyn Hickey at the Happy Church in Denver, Colorado. Pastor Jude travels extensively, speaking at church and youth conferences, imparting into the lives of youth, leaders and pastors around the world.

Pastor Jude is more than just a prophetic voice and inspiration to youth culture and leaders today; his energy and enthusiasm are contagious!  His relentless pursuit of God’s will for his own life, commitment to the Bible and genuine love for people set him apart as an example and model for the next generation.  Pastor Jude loves to walk the beaches of Ventura with his Becky, and finds great enjoyment being.

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Jesus Culture Worship

The Jesus Culture Worship team was formed organically through the momentum of a movement whose focus is to equip a generation to be influencers of society. It’s hard to separate the team from the movement, as they really are joined together with one focus: to bring people into an encounter with God’s love through worship and to disciple them to transform society.

The Jesus Culture Worship team is fronted by Kim Walker-Smith and Chris Quilala with Ian McIntosh playing keys, Jeffrey Kunde as the lead guitarist, Brandon Aaronson as the bassist, Josh Fisher as the drummer, and Skyler Smith as acoustic guitarist. Each member of the team knows the weight of the call God on their lives and they live devoted to a lifestyle of worship, hoping that their music can help lead all those who hear it into an experience of His presence that won’t leave them the same.

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Kristene DiMarco

Kristene DiMarco is a singer-songwriter who has devoted her life to spending time with God in the unseen place. Kristene’s passionate worship inspires believers of all ages to pursue the heart of God in a deeper way. Kristene is a featured worship leader at Jesus Culture Conferences, The Call, and God TV and has been a worship leader with Justice House of Prayer San Francisco for many years. She is a prophetic voice for her generation who carries a strong anointing for intimacy and encounter through worship.

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Derek Johnson

Derek Johnson is a singer-songwriter who has a heart to see young adults experience the power and extravagant love of God through music that carries God’s presence and anointing. He has been leading worship at Bethel Church in Redding, CA for the past 4 years, believing strongly in serving the local church and has been a featured worship leader for Jesus Culture conferences. His heart is to see people transformed by encounters with Jesus who then transform the culture they live in. Derek is a relevant voice to this generation with a strong anointing for bringing intimacy and the joy of the Lord through praise and worship.

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Bryan and Katie Torwalt

Bryan and Katie met in 2006 at the Bethel School of Supernatural Worship in Redding, CA. Bryan is from Canada and Katie a Californian. They both led worship separately while dating long distance for 2 1/2 years, Bryan in Canada and Katie at Bethel Church. They got married in 2009 and became worship pastors together in Fresno, CA. The experience of their worship together is a powerful and unique mixture of their anointing and history with God. They live to see the earth transform to Heaven’s likeness and for this generation to encounter the real Jesus. They believe that in God’s presence, sickness is healed, prisoners are set free, and minds are restored. Their songs carry hope and life that flow out of every note and lyric. Songs of thankfulness and praise reflect the spirit of their ministry together, and their anthems of prophetic declaration release the heart of revival.