Participants received customized counsel

Several convention participants spent some individualized time with industry experts and received invaluable insights on issues directly affecting them and their ministries. Consultants are listed below with their areas of expertise.

• Chap Clark – Parenting, pop culture, youth culture

	Chap Clark, president of ParenTeen and HURT Seminars, is professor of youth, family, and culture at California’s Fuller Theological Seminary, author of 17 books, and senior editor of Youthworker Journal. He’s also president of Foothill Community Ministries, Inc., the parent organization for the ParenTeen and HURT Seminars.

• Craig Detweiler – Media, pop culture

	Craig Detweiler, a screenwriter, author, and cultural commentator, first dedicated his life to Christ at Young Life’s Windy Gap camp in North Carolina and later served there as program director. He co-directs Reel Spirituality at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

• Neil Gurney – Branding, marketing

	Neil Gurney has handled some of the globe’s best-known brands, including Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. A former CEO of the Saatchi & Saatchi group in Africa with 500 staff members and annual billings of more than $150 million, he now heads up a division focusing on brand strategy and marketing for the Alpha Group.

• John Losey – Staff training, team building

	John Losey, the founder and director of Praxis Training Systems, has facilitated experiential learning programs for numerous organizations for more than 20 years. He holds a master's degree in social science from Azusa Pacific University and is the author of Experiential Youth Ministry Handbook: How Intentional Activity Can Make the Spiritual Stuff Stick (Youth Specialties, 2004) and Experiential Youth Ministry Handbook: Using Intentional Activity to Grow the Whole Person (Zondervan, 2007), due out this September.

• Ron Mattocks – Board issues, finances, marketing

	Ron Mattocks, a former CCCA board member, is president of Mattocks & Associates, Inc., providing management consultation for societies, associations, health organizations, schools, and faith-based organizations. He has extensive marketing experience and has served as vice president for three organizations.

• Barry McLeish – Fund raising, marketing

	Barry McLeish is the international vice president of the McConkey/Johnston Group, a fund-raising and marketing management consulting firm specializing in nonprofit organizations that has worked with numerous camps. He is also the author of Successful Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations.

• John Pierson – Board issues, leadership, management

	John Pearson is president of John Pearson Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm that helps nonprofit organizations. His experience includes heading up Christian Management Association, Willow Creek Association, and CCCA as well as working as a camp director and leading numerous conferences and workshops.

• Joe Sebestyen – Conference center management/finances, hospitality, retreat marketing and sales

	Cornell University's hotel school is tops in the nation and Joe Sebestyen, is that institution's instructor in conference center management. Joe has worked for Marriott with some of the Fortune 500's most prestigious corporations, including Harvard Business School, and has assisted IBM, Georgetown University, and USPS from the consulting phase through their turnkey start-up of their conference centers.

• Marge Scanlin – Measuring learning outcomes, risk management (ACA accreditation)

	Marge Scanlin worked at ACA for 24 years in roles including director of accreditation, division director of camp and member services, and executive officer of research. She's also served as project director of three camp-related national research projects, speaker at numerous conferences, consultant for camps and other organizations, and camp director.

• McNair Wilson – Creativity and innovation, drama, public speaking  

	McNair Wilson, who spent 10 years as a Disney Imagineer (theme park designer), assists individuals and organizations from IBM to the Salvation Army with creative thinking. He’s written and illustrated books, as well as penned, performed in, and directed plays and musicals. (Visit: Tea with McNair. )