12:30 - Booth Tour
1:00 - Welcome - Cornelia Garza - Texas Dept. of Family Protective Services/Faith Specialist
1:30 - Pastor Michael Dean - Celebrate Recovery
2:00 - JoAnn Cole Vice President of Buckner Children and Family Services - Solutions for Vulnerable Children
2:45 - Rabbi Claudio Kogan - Child Abuse In the Faith Community
3:30 - John Schwider, Royal Family Kids - Confronting Abuse and Changing Lives
4:15 - Bishop Aaron Blake and Pastor Alex Blake - CAREPORTAL Connecting Faith with Child Welfare
5:00 - Dismiss for final Booth Tour
Pastor Alex Blake
Bishop Aaron Blake
John Schwider
Cornelia Garza
Dr. Claudio Kogan
JoAnn Cole
2019 AGENDA COMING SOON!
2017 Guest speaker, Henry “Hank” Whitman serves as the commissioner for DFPS. He spent 22 years with the Texas Department of Public Safety. A decade of that time was spent serving as a Texas Ranger. In 2011, he was named chief of the Texas Rangers.
2016 Guest speaker, Bishop Aaron Blake, helped us launch a powerful program called CarePortal that helps churches actually minister and meet needs of abused children and broken families. Learn more at
Past Seminars Featured:
Faith Summit 2017
TDFPS
Henry "Hank" Whitman
Faith Summit 2016/18
CarePortal Co-founder, Bishop Aaron Blake
Faith Summit 2015
ACE Overcomers Author, David Lockridge
2015 Guest speaker, Dave Lockridge, has a curriculum that is helping adult and teen victims of child abuse heal. Easy to use. Powerful results.
Learn more at