When

03/01/2025    
8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Where

Ashburn Baptist Church
15401 Wolf Rd., Orland Park, IL, 6046
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We are looking forward to seeing you for our 2025 Men’s Iron Sharpens Iron Conference in Orland Park!
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Keynote Speakers

G.F. Watkins is an international leader, speaker, visionary, church planter, and an author of seven books. From his humble beginnings as a high school coach, G.F. has gone on to…
Chris Harper [aka Harp] is a speaker and disciple-maker serving as the Executive Director of BetterMan. Equipping more than 800 churches and 100,000+ men, BetterMan is unleashing biblical masculinity across…

G.F. Watkins

G.F. Watkins is an international leader, speaker, visionary, church planter, and an author of seven books. From his humble beginnings as a high school coach, G.F. has gone on to plant churches around the world starting with PowerHouse Church in Katy, Texas, Powerhouse Namibia in Africa, and PowerHouse Peru in South America.

As a spiritual son to the late Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, father of the modern-day men’s movement, G.F. Watkins’ principle of ministry and church planting is the restoration of the world through the restoration of the man. This fundamental belief, that men are God’s answer to the world’sproblems, birthed the worldwide movement known as Man Church over 20 years ago.

Man Church teaches that manhood and Christlikeness are synonymous. It is the foundation on which all of PowerHouse Church and its covenant churches are built on. Reach the man, change the family; change the family, change the church; change the church, change the community; change the community, change the city; change the city, change the state; change the state, change the nation; change the nation, change the world. It all begins with men taking responsibility and taking their rightful place.

After pastoring PowerHouse Katy for 20 years and planting churches around the globe, G.F. has stepped into the role of an apostolic leader and coach through his organization The Genesis Team. The Genesis team serves as a covering and a resource to pastors and business leaders, their families, and their staff. Sharing the wisdom gained over 30 years of ministry he guides young pastors and leaders as they navigate the obstacles of life.

Pastor G.F. travels the world equipping God’s leaders with strategies for increasing commitment levels, developing and growing strong men’s ministries, and impacting the world with the gospel.

Chris Harper

Chris Harper [aka Harp] is a speaker and disciple-maker serving as the Executive Director of BetterMan. Equipping more than 800 churches and 100,000+ men, BetterMan is unleashing biblical masculinity across the globe.
Chris is passionate about biblical manhood, and often speaks on topics such as a man’s identity in Christ, the trouble and trials that threaten men, and the importance of being a gospel-centered husband and father. With a fiery and magnetic teaching style, Chris is sure to motivate and move his listeners. He desires to see generations of men grasp who they are in Christ and come alive!Chris and his wife, Ally, live with their four children – Scarlett, Malachi, Calvin, and Oliver – in Arlington, Texas. In addition to his family, Chris loves 90’s hip-hop, a good cheeseburger, and firmly believes Jordan is better than Lebron.