Speakers

Jude Fouquier and his wife Becky are the Senior Associate Pastors and Elders at The City Church in Kirkland, Washington. Pastor Jude also serves as the director of the Generation Intern program; an intensive leadership training program that trains and equips over 100 young leaders each year to impact their generation. After graduating from Oral Roberts University in 1985, Pastor Jude became a Youth Pastor and has served for over eighteen years in youth ministry. He was first a Youth Pastor under Wally and Marilyn Hickey at the Happy Church and then helped pioneer The City Church in 1992 with Pastors Wendell and Gini Smith. Pastor Jude helped forge the Generation Church ministry at The City Church for over ten years; a ministry which currently reaches over 1,500 Jr. High through college age individuals weekly. Pastor Jude travels extensively, speaking at 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.

Promotional Video of Jude Fouquier

Tom Madden is the International Director of Youth & Christian Education for the Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee. He received a Bachelors Degree from Lee University and a Master’s Degree from the Church of God Theological Seminary.

While serving as youth pastor at the North Cleveland Church of God he founded Winterfest, a local church youth group retreat. What began as a small gathering of teenagers and sponsors, 279 people and five local churches, has now blossomed into eighteen regional gatherings that minister to over 50,000 each year and has celebrated nearly 30 years of ministry. The out growth of Winterfest has led the way in the establishment of other denominational ministries such as The Mission, and City Vision / Inner City Missions and Urban Missions.

Prior to his election as International Director in August 2008, he served as the Assistant International Director of Youth & Christian Education from 2004-2008 and the International Youth Ministries Coordinator for the Church of God Youth & Christian Education Department from 1990 until 2004. He has served as State Youth & Christian Education Director of Indiana from 1988–1990, State Youth & Christian Education Director of Chicago Metro from 1986-1988, and from 1979-1986 he served as youth pastor in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Cleveland, Tennessee.

He currently resides in Cleveland, Tennessee and is married to Charla (Parson) a kindergarten teacher at Michigan Avenue Elementary School. They have two children Crystal and Chad and one grand-daughter Charis.

Promotional Video of Tom A. Madden

Dr.Thomson K. Mathew is a third generation minister. His grandfather and father were both Pentecostal preachers in Kerala. With a B.S. degree from Kerala University, India, he entered the Yale Divinity School in 1972 where he received M.Div. and S.T.M. degrees.

After pastoring a church in Connecticut for five years, he joined the Oral Roberts Ministries in 1981 as a chaplain at the City of Faith Medical Center. He recalls praying with the first patient in the City of Faith Hospital! He went on to receive a D.Min. from ORU in 1986 and an Ed.D. in 1992 from Oklahoma State University. He is a Board Certified Chaplain in the Association of Professional Chaplains and a Clinical Member of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. He joined the ORU seminary faculty full time in 1989 as professor of Pastoral Care and became dean on January 1, 2000.

He is a bi-lingual writer of books and articles. He has three texts in print in the US: What Will Your Tombstone Say? (2008), Ministry Between Miracles (2002) and Spirit-led Ministry in the 21st Century (2004).

Encouraging people to follow God’s call on their lives and teaching pastoral theology are the two things Dr. Mathew loves doing most. He considers it a great privilege that God has called him to do this work.