Linda A. Seiler, Ph.D.

Keynote & Breakout Speaker

For decades, Dr. Linda Seiler felt like a man trapped in a female body and was exclusively attracted to women. Today, she is content in a female body and wholly attracted to men. Dr. Seiler offers a unique, compassionate perspective as one who has struggled with her own gender identity and sexuality.

An ordained Assemblies of God minister, Linda led a team to pioneer Chi Alpha (XA) at Purdue University in 2007, where she served as XA director for 13 years before transitioning into her current assignment as a National XA Field Specialist in Applied Theology and Culture and appointment as Executive Director of ReStory Ministries. She earned a PhD from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (2020) with her dissertation investigating thirty case studies of men and women who were once same-sex attracted and have experienced transformation.

Linda is an avid golfer, dark chocolate lover, and cat mom to feline Facebook sensations Bo and Tabby. Learn more about Linda’s story and her ministry at lindaseiler.com.

Joe Dallas

Keynote & Breakout Speaker

Joe is an author, conference speaker, and ordained pastoral counselor. He’s the Program Director of CloudFire Ministries in Tustin, California, and has authored nine books on human sexuality from a biblical perspective. He received his Master’s Degree in Christian Counseling from Vision University, San Diego, CA, and is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors.

He is also the host of the weekly podcast Christians in a Cancel Culture. He has addressed conferences, churches and universities across the country, and has lectured and debated in Norway, Denmark, Canada, Spain, Geneva, Hong Kong, and Mexico.

Joe and his wife Renee have been members of Mesa Church (AG) in Irvine, California, since 1993, where both of them have served on the Board of Elders. They’re proud parents of their two grown sons Jody and Jeremy, and of Petey the amazing bulldog. Learn more about Joe’s ministry at joedallas.com

Renee Dallas

Breakout Speaker

Renee Dallas has been in women’s ministry since 1992. She works with her husband Joe Dallas at CloudFire Ministries where she established WifeBoat.com, a support ministry for wives impacted by their husband’s sexual and gender identity struggles. She has also served as an Elder at Mesa Church (AG) in Irvine, California, where she was previously appointed Director of the HELPS Ministry Team, and produces and hosts the Setting the Table Podcast for the Mesa Women’s Ministry.

Renee is a Bible teacher and frequent guest speaker along with her husband at churches, conferences, and seminars. She is passionate about spiritual formation and the local church, and is always on the lookout for awesome conversations! She is currently completing the Biblical Counseling Program through CCEF in Pennsylvania (affiliated with Westminster Seminary).

Brett Martin

Breakout Speaker

Brett’s life was dramatically changed by the power of God’s love on a university campus in Northern California. Upon graduating with a degree in Construction Management/Civil Engineering, Brett felt God’s call on his life to minister to university students and bring the message of hope that Christ can reach into the darkest parts of our lives and set us free. Since 1993, Brett’s heart and passion has been to walk alongside students struggling with relational and sexual brokenness, which were part of his own testimony. Over and over again, he has seen God’s transformative power as students begin to experience increased levels of freedom from temptation and from the shame and self hatred associated with those temptations. As these transformations grow, students begin to more effectively walk into their God given purpose and destinies for their lives.

In 2012, God performed another miracle in Brett’s life by reconnecting him to his former girlfriend Holly. In 2015, Brett and Holly married and, in 2020, Holly joined Brett in ministry, and together they formed BH Restoration Ministries. Focusing on relational and sexual brokenness, Brett and Holly currently serve university students at Northern Arizona University and Embry Riddle. Brett has been a Chi Alpha associate campus pastor for 28 years and currently serves on staff with Restoring Wholeness Ministries based in Tucson that provides a 16-week comprehensive inner healing support group. (restoringwholeness.org).

Brett and Holly live in a small town in Northern Arizona and enjoy cooking, spending time with dear friends and family, and learning how to garden and restore their 100-year-old home.

René Martin

Breakout Speaker

René Martin is the co-founder and director of Hearts of Hope in Yuba City, California. The mission of Hearts of Hope is to inform and equip the Church with a compassionate Biblical response to LGBTQ issues; provide support for families with LGBTQ loved ones; and connect strugglers with mentors and resources. She holds a ministerial credential with the Assemblies of God and previously served on the Board of Directors for the Restored Hope Network.

René worked in Savings and Loan management before transitioning to a full-time career caring for her family and serving in her church and Christian school. She and her husband, Keith, have five adult children and six grandchildren.

Learn more about Hearts of Hope at cccyc.net/hoh.

Maria A. Nistri

Breakout Speaker

Maria is a graduate of Southeastern University and has been a leader in ministry for 20+ years. As she has walked through her own struggle and victory over same-sex attractions, her passion is focused on discipleship, hope, and freedom. She has a heart to see the transformational truth of God’s Word realized in the hearts of people, supporting others to walk in alignment with His Spirit and enjoying the benefits of a daily relationship with Jesus. Her life verse is 2 Peter 1:3-11.

Andrew Rodriguez

Breakout Speaker

Andrew Rodriguez is a Christian psychotherapist. He is the director of Integrity Christian Counseling in Pottstown, PA, and he counsels at the University of Valley Forge (an Assemblies of God institution), his alma mater. He’s been involved in counseling individuals with sexuality struggles since 2006, interning (and later working) at Day Seven Ministries (a former Exodus International member ministry) and leading a recovery group for men at UVF for eight years. He earned his master’s in counseling from Chestnut Hill College in 2015, where he faced discrimination for his work with men dealing with unwanted same-sex attraction.

Andrew is on the board of Voice of the Voiceless (which advocates for the rights of ex-LGBT), he’s trained in Reintegrative Therapy, and he uses his YouTube channel to discuss psychology, theology, and sexuality. He has been passionately married to his wife, Jessica, since 2007.

Anne Paulk

Q&A Panel

Anne Paulk is an author, speaker, spokesperson and advocate for men and women struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions and is the executive director and a board member of Restored Hope Network. Restored Hope is a US coalition of member and affiliate ministries, pastors and Christian counselors who restore hope to those broken by sexual and relational sin, especially those impacted by homosexuality.

“I do this work because of the work the Lord has done in me,” Paulk explains. “I know it’s possible to be set free from sexual confusion and homosexuality because that is my story. It is the testimony of thousands just like me. We at Restored Hope want to make sure all who seek the same healing we’ve experienced through submitting to Jesus can have it be their story, too.”

Central to Restored Hope’s mission is the counsel and resources it offers to equip the church to impart that transformative power of Christ. Paulk has spotlighted that power in thousands of television, radio and magazine interviews that she began doing in the ‘90s and continues to do today. She has appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America, The CBS Evening News, The 700 Club and Focus on the Family and been profiled by People magazine and Newsweek – which put her on its cover.

She has appeared on Focus on the Family Radio, Dr. James Dobson’s FamilyTalk, In the Market with Janet Parshall, Dr. Michael L. Brown’s In The Line of Fire, Joni and Friends, Table Talk (Daystar TV), Total Living Network with Jerry Rose, Focal Point with Brian Fischer, and The Georgene Rice Show (SRN), among others. Her story of redemption has also been features in documentaries, including Such Were Some of You (Pure Passion TV/2014).

She is the author of Restoring Sexual Identity: Hope for Women Who Struggle with Same-Sex Attraction (Harvest House Publishers) and co-author of Love Won Out (Focus on the Family), She also has written for Spirit Led Woman, Charisma and The Gospel Coalition.

Paulk, who lives in Colorado, enjoys dark chocolate, laughing with friends and family, serving at her church, skiing and the beautiful outdoors. Her greatest joy is being mom to her three sons.

Kim Sharp

Emcee

National Girls Ministries Director, Assemblies of God

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