Save the Date!

Urban Summit 2022 | Saturday, September 17

 
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Save the Date!

The Urban Summit is back and with a new date and location - September 17, 2022 at The Life Church on Highland (255 N. Highland Memphis, TN 38111)! Get your tickets today!

 

The Urban Summit will focus on four topic areas:

One

Poverty

Two

Racism and Discrimination

Three

Immigration

Four

Christian Community Development (CCD) Principles

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Keynote Speakers

 
 

Adam Taylor

Rev. Adam Russell Taylor is president of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community. Follow him on Twitter @revadamtaylor

Taylor previously led the Faith Initiative at the World Bank Group and served as the vice president in charge of Advocacy at World Vision U.S. and the senior political director at Sojourners. He has also served as the executive director of Global Justice, an organization that educates and mobilizes students around global human rights and economic justice. He was selected for the 2009/2010 class of White House Fellows and served in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs and Public Engagement. Taylor is a graduate of Emory University, the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology. Taylor also serves on the Independent Sector Board, the Global Advisory Board of Tearfund UK, and is a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellowship. Taylor is ordained in the American Baptist Church and the Progressive National Baptist Convention and serves in ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va. 


Matthew Soerens

Matthew Soerens is the US Director of Church Mobilization for World Relief, where he helps evangelical churches to understand the realities of refugees and immigration and to respond in ways guided by biblical values. He also serves as the National Coordinator for the Evangelical Immigration Table, a coalition that advocates for immigration reforms consistent with biblical values.

Matthew previously served as a Department of Justice-accredited legal counselor at World Relief’s local office in Wheaton, Illinois and, before that, with World Relief’s partner organization in Managua, Nicaragua. He’s the co-author of Welcoming the Stranger: Seeking Truth and Justice in the Immigration Debate (Intervarsity Press, 2018, Revised Edition) and Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis (Moody Publishers, 2016).