Eleventh Annual Keach Conference Coming (9/28-29)

Image:  Fellowship at the 2010 Keach Conference

 

 

We are getting ready for the 2012 Keach Conference (look here for more info and to pre-register online) which will be hosted this year by Christ Reformed Baptist Church in Charlottesville (meeting at the Covenant Lower School).  This year's theme will be "Of the Fall of Man, Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof" (chapter 6 in the Second London Confession) and the speakers will include Dr. Carl Trueman of Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia, PA; Lloyd Sprinkle of Providence BC, Harrisonburg, VA; and Bryan Wheeler of Emmanuel BC, Verona, VA.  This will be our 11th annual meeting.  The last few years we have listed information in the program from past conferences (see below).  The list indicates that we have been blessed with some wonderful past gatherings.  It also shows the development of the conference and the sharper confessional definition that has developed over the last decade, as the conference moved from Biblical conservatives in moderate SBC Virginia, to soteriological Calvinists, to confessional Reformed Baptists.

 

Keach Conference*

Past Keynote Speakers (meeting date and site)

 

2002

Dr. Calvin Frett, Pastor in Residence Ministry

(Thurs., November 8, First Baptist Church, Virginia Beach)

 

2003

Dr. Russell Moore, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky

(Wed., November 12, All Saints Presbyterian Church, Richmond)

 

2004

Dr. Greg Wills, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky

(Mon., November 8, Plantation Road Baptist Church, Roanoke)

 

2005

Dr. Mark Dever, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC

Dr. Tom Nettles, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky

(Wed., November 9, Good News Baptist Church, Alexandria)

 

2006

Dr. Andrew Davis, First Baptist Church, Durham, North Carolina

Dr. Tom Nettles, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky

(Wed., November 8, Green Run Baptist Church, Virginia Beach)

 

2007

Pastor Greg Barkman, Beacon Baptist Church, Burlington, North Caroliina

Dr. Michael Haykin, Toronto Baptist Seminary, Toronto, Canada

Theme: “Of the Holy Scriptures”

(Fri.-Sat., October 5-6, 2007, Jefferson Park Baptist Church, Charlottesville)

 

2008

Dr. Joseph Pipa, Jr., President, Greenville Presbyterian Seminary, Greenville, South Carolina.

Dr. Bruce Ware, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky

Theme: “Of God and Of the Holy Trinity”

(Fri.-Sat., September 26-27, 2008, Jefferson Park Baptist Church, Charlottesville)

 

2009

Dr. Derek Thomas, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi

Pastor Conrad Mbewe, Kabwata Baptist Church, Lusaka, Zambia

Theme: “Of God’s Decrees”

(Fri.-Sat., September 24-25, 2009, Jefferson Park Baptist Church, Charlottesville)

 

2010

Tom Ascol, Pastor, Grace Baptist Church, Cape Coral, Florida, and Director of the Founders Ministry (founders.org)

Dr. David P. Murray, Professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Theme: “Of Creation”

(Fri.-Sat., September 24-25, 2009, Christ Reformed Baptist Church, Charlottesville)

2011

Dr. Joel Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Pastor Malcolm Watts, Emmanuel Church, Salisbury, England

Theme:  “Of Divine Providence”

(Fri.-Sat., September 30—October 1, 2011, Covenant Reformed Baptist Church, Warrenton)

*From 2002-2009, the conference was known as “The Evangelical Forum.”  It was renamed “The Keach Conference” in 2010.