Chosen Conference
The Lord has CHOSEN you out of all the people on the face of the earth to be his treasured possession. — Deuteronomy 7:6
Across the nation, thousands of children wait for the stability, safety, and love of a forever family. The Church is uniquely positioned to be the answer. The Chosen Conference is an event designed to ignite a movement of hope, healing, and home through local churches just like yours.
Tickets are $25, with the option to purchase a box lunch for an additional $10.
What You Can Expect
- Inspiring Keynote Speakers: Hear from dynamic leaders who embody a deep commitment to the sanctity of life and God’s call to care for the orphan and the widow.
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Practical Tools & Resources: Walk away with proven strategies, ministry models, and connections to organizations that will help you launch or grow your church’s ministry.
Three Pillars of Hope
At the heart of this gathering are our Three Pillars of Hope — guiding every session, conversation, and connection you’ll make at the conference:
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Empower your church to establish impactful adoption and foster care ministries that create lasting change.
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Engage every believer to understand their biblical call to support the vulnerable, whether through fostering, adopting, or standing in the gap.
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Equip your ministry with the tools, connections, and resources to turn passion into action and vision into ministry.
Partner with Purpose: Sponsorship Opportunities
The Chosen Conference is more than an event—it’s a movement to mobilize the Church in caring for vulnerable children through adoption and foster care. By becoming a sponsor, your organization will gain valuable exposure while directly supporting this Kingdom mission.
Advocate Level – $5,000
Make a meaningful impact and show your support for churches stepping into the call to care.
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Opportunity to sponsor a Breakout Session
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Sponsor Table
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Acknowledgment on official CHOSEN Conference agenda
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3 box lunch passes
Defender Level – $10,000
Lead the charge in transforming lives by elevating your voice to a greater level.
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Opportunity to sponsor a Breakout Session
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Sponsor Table
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Acknowledgment on the official CHOSEN Conference agenda
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Organization logo featured on the CHOSEN Conference website and main session screen
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5 box lunch passes
Join Us
Your sponsorship helps equip churches to answer the call—and positions your organization as a catalyst for real change in the lives of children and families.
Contact Rhonda Barlow to secure your sponsorship today!
Speakers
Beth Guckenberger
Beth and her husband, Todd, live with their family in Cincinnati, Ohio where they serve as Co-Executive Directors of Back2Back Ministries. After graduating from Indiana University, the Guckenberger’s moved to Monterrey, Mexico where they lived for 15 years. Between biological, foster, and adopted children, they have raised eleven children. Beth is the author of sixteen books including adult and children’s titles. She travels and speaks regularly at conferences, youth gatherings and church services about reckless faith. Her style is based in story-telling and she draws from her vast field experience as a missionary, Bible teacher and parent for illustrations of biblical concepts.
Jamie C. Finn
Jamie is the author of Foster the Family and Filled. She is also the founder and president of Foster the Family, a national nonprofit that serves vulnerable children and the families, as well as the founder of the Filled Gathering, the largest gathering of foster and adoptive moms in the world. Though the words “foster care” are not in the Bible, the act of caring for the vulnerable is clearly important to God. Perhaps nowhere is that kind of tender attention and care for the vulnerable more evident than in the act of fostering a child.
Bishop W.C. Martin & Donna Martin
Bishop W.C. Martin and his wife, Lady Donna Martin, lead Saving A Generation Ministry and pastor Bennett Chapel Baptist Church in Possum Trot, Texas. Their inspiring story, How Love Came to the Least of Them, was published by Focus on the Family and chronicles how their small church adopted a total of 77 children out of the foster care system between 1998 and 2003.
The journey began with Lady Donna, who, while grieving the loss of her mother, felt led to follow in her mother’s footsteps by loving on children, specifically, the broken, unloved, and forgotten children in foster care. She and Bishop Martin completed the necessary classes to become licensed foster and adoptive parents and soon shared their vision with the congregation.
As Bishop Martin began preaching on the biblical foundation of adoption, citing Romans 8:15 and the truth that all believers are adopted into God’s family, members of the church felt called to do the same. One by one, families began the adoption process. What started as a personal calling became a church-wide movement, ultimately giving birth to a ministry committed to saving a generation of children through love and the gospel.
