The Upper Room Gathering Forums
Registration is open for Challenges to Religious Freedom.
We invite you and your friends to join our panelists Mat Staver, Founder and Attorney with the Liberty Counsel, Rob McCoy, Senior Pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel, and Che Ahn, Founder and Senior Pastor of Harvest Rock Church. Pastors McCoy and Ahn are facing legal challenges. Mat Staver is an attorney and subject matter expert on how to respond effectively to the types of legal challenges churches are confronting during these tumultuous times. The panelists will discuss the deep implications for opening our churches and what is at stake for us and the culture.
The forum will take place on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 beginning at 4:30p PT /6:30p CT/ 7:30p ET . This will be a roundtable format scheduled for 1½ hours. The Zoom Webinar is viewable from desktops, tablets, and phones.
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The Upper Room Gathering Forum: Challenges to Religious Freedom
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Our Panelists
Mat Staver
Mat Staver serves as Senior Pastor, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel; Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action, Faith and Liberty, National Pro-life Center, Freedom Federation, Salt & Light Council, and National House of Hope; Founder and Chairman of Liberty Relief International; Vice President and Chief Counsel of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (which includes over 42,000 Evangelical Hispanic churches). Liberty Counsel is a Christian ministry that proclaims, advocates, supports, advances, and defends the good news that God in the person of Jesus Christ paid the penalty for our sins and offers forgiveness and eternal life to all who accept him as Lord and Savior. Founded in 1989, Liberty Counsel has offices in Central Florida, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Mathew D. Staver, ESQ., BCS
Pastor Rob McCoy
Rob McCoy, the Senior Pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks (California), is the son of a conservative Naval officer father and a Republican activist mother. An All-American Water Polo player and a National Finalist Swimmer, he graduated from California State University Fresno with a B.A. in History and received his seminary training from The Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in Fresno, California. Prior to entering the ministry, he was a Divisional Manager with Unilever and an Area Manager with Chesebrough Ponds, Inc. He has served as the Senior Pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks for 17 years. He has been a member of the Thousand Oaks City Council since 2015 and was the Mayor of Thousand Oaks from December of 2018 to April 2020. He served as a Ventura County Sheriff’s Chaplain for 4 years and on the board of the Conejo Pregnancy Center. His wife Michelle and he have been married 28 years and they have 5 children and 2 grandchildren. Godspeak Church
Pastor Che Ahn
Ché Ahn and his wife, Sue, are the Founders and Senior Pastors of Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, CA, since 1994. Ché is the Founder and President of Harvest International Ministry, a global revival and reformation movement in over 65 nations with the common vision of “Changing Lives, Transforming Cities, and Discipling Nations.” He is also the International Chancellor of Wagner University, an international network of apostolic training centers established to equip the saints for Kingdom ministry.
Ché has authored numerous books. He is a sought-after conference minister, apostolic leader, and moves powerfully in spiritual gifts and healing.
For more information about Ché Ahn, his ministries, and his resource materials, visit: cheahn.org, harvestim.org, wagner.university, and hrockchurch.com.