The Team
GUEST SPEAKERS
Pastor Lonnie Slater
Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Lonnie L. Slater is the Pastor of the Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Kathleen, Georgia. "The church where you can feel the difference"--because we are making a difference. He also currently serves as the President, 6th District of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia. Inc. (GMBC) and is an adjunct professor at the Fort Valley State University. Rev. Slater began preaching the Gospel of Jesus the Christ on April 5th 1991 at the United Baptist Church Okinawa, Japan. He has served in a myriad of church positions and has ministered in Japan, Turkey, and Germany as well as various places in the United States. Rev. Slater holds a Bachelor of Theology degree from Sacramento Theological Seminary and Bible College in Sacramento, CA; Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Religious Education from Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. He has an earned Doctorate of Ministry in Biblical Preaching from Clamp Divinity School of Anderson University in Anderson, SC.
Jaime Torres
Jaime Torres Ministries
Jaime Torres was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on January 27th, 1962 to an unwed mother of fifteen who left the island for New York City when Jaime was only nine months of age. Jaime experienced many rejections in his life, but unfortunately, found acceptance from one of the many gangs that were prevalent in the city. Concerned for her son, Jaime’s mother sent him back to Puerto Rico to live with his father. The move meant to rescue Jaime from danger actually hastened his downfall, for his father was one of the larger drug leaders on the island. Jaime also became involved in drug trafficking, which would eventually end in a twenty-five year prison sentence. His life was on a downward spiral that included being stabbed in throat and shot six times in the chest. As the Lord would allow, Jaime was arrested for possession of two kilos of cocaine with the intent to import five hundred kilos more.God had an appointment with Jaime in a Federal prison in the form of a man named Gene Lawson, who was also a prisoner of the Lord.