Bethel Leaders Summit

Bill Johnson is the Senior Leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California.

Bill is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. The present move of God has brought Bill into a deeper understanding of the phrase “on earth as it is in heaven.” Bill and the Bethel Church family have taken on this theme for life and ministry, where healing and miracles are normal. Bill teaches that we owe the world an encounter with God and a gospel without power is not the gospel Jesus preached. Bill is co-founder of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM).

Bill serves a growing number of churches partnered for revival. This apostolic network has crossed denominational lines in building relationships that enable church leaders to walk in both purity and power. Bill and his late wife, Beni, have three children and eleven grandchildren. Their three children and spouses are all involved in full-time ministry.

Kris and Kathy Vallotton are the Senior Associate Leaders of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and have served on Bill Johnson’s apostolic team for decades. They are both co-founders of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) and Moral Revolution. For over 20 years Kris and Kathy have helped thousands of Believers realize their identity as sons and daughters of God.

Kris is a noted prophetic voice worldwide. As a bestselling author, he has written more than a dozen books and training manuals to help prepare believers for life in the kingdom. He’s a highly sought-after international speaker equipping people to successfully fulfill their divine purpose. Kris has a diverse background in business, counseling, consulting, pastoring, and teaching. He loves to both teach to the masses and advise leaders one-on-one, utilizing his experience and his prophetic gift to assist world influencers in achieving their goals. He commonly provides counsel to governmental and business leaders on practical strategies for cultural transformation and has unique expertise in economies and building prosperous communities.

Kris and Kathy are also successful entrepreneurs who co-owned 9 businesses in the automotive industry. Together, they direct KV Ministries and have traveled the world teaching and preaching about the goodness of God and the power of the Kingdom.

Kris and Kathy have been married for over 45 years and have four children and ten grandchildren.

Steve Backlund is an encourager, leader developer, joy activist, and a revivalist teacher. He travels extensively throughout the world encouraging churches, leaders, and organizations into catalytic levels of hope. He has a unique anointing to release hope and joy coupled with a revelatory teaching gift that creates new wineskins for greater dimensions of God (both personally and corporately). Steve and his wife Wendy were Senior Pastors for seventeen years and now reside in Redding, California. Steve mentors third-year students as part of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM), is the Associate Director of Bethel Leaders Network (BLN), and together with his wife is the Founder of Igniting Hope Ministries. He has authored numerous books including Declarations, Igniting Faith in 40 Days, Let's Just Laugh at That, and The Culture of Empowerment.

Dave grew up as the son of an Army chaplain and he experienced twelve moves before graduating from high school in Newport News, VA.  He graduated from the University of Richmond with a B.S. in Industrial Management.

After college he served on a church staff then spent six years working in campus ministry in the northeast while also working at General Electric. In 1978 Dave moved to Tulsa to shift from a focus of discipling college students to mentoring men in the community.  He did that as an avocation for many years while working at American Airlines negotiating contracts and managing suppliers.  He also spent two years as Department Head of Purchasing at CFS followed by five years as a consultant representing three manufacturing companies.

In 2004, at the urging of close friends, Dave founded Your One Degree, a ministry of coaching individuals in focus, purpose, and effectiveness.  His 25 years in corporate life, along with many years as a business owner, as a consultant, and as a mentor of men have proven invaluable in helping people find their One Degree.

The ministry of Your One Degree has helped leaders and individuals in 35 countries and 47 states.  It will soon expand further into Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Dave is married to Janice and they have two grown sons and a daughter-in-law.

Dave & his wife, Taff are the Directors of the Bethel Leaders Network (BLN) which exists to connect, encourage, and empower leaders across the world. Prior to this role, Dave was a pastor and manager at Bethel’s School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM). Dave is a gifted motivational speaker who has a powerful prophetic voice and international influence. His passion is the empowerment of individuals, leaders, and communities, in all spheres of society, helping them to live naturally supernatural lives. Dave worked in Australia as a secondary teacher, consultant to schools and community organizations, and has pioneered many effective programs and motivational seminars which continue to empower young people and families. He has also authored and ghost-written several books which have impacted the global community. Dave is also the founder of ‘INCREASE’, releasing testimonies of God’s goodness through print and the ‘Increase’ Testimony App. His passion to steward the testimony is contagious. Dave & Taff live in Redding, California with their three blonde boys Zeke, Jaden, and Chase.

Dr. Jennifer Kang is a Ob/Gyn practicing in Redding, California, where she resides with her husband and four beautiful children. She received her B.S in Neuroscience and M.D. at the University of Rochester, and then completed residency training in Ob/Gyn at Brown University/Women & Infants Hospital. She then served in the Navajo Nation Indian Health Service, where she began to discover how partnership with Holy Spirit can fuse with medical healing.

In 2013, she moved with her husband and children to Redding, California and founded Selah Women’s Health, a practice that seeks to empower women and their families into full healing and destiny and where partnership with Holy Spirit is seen as central to healing. Her goal is to see this practice expand beyond women’s health through cross-discipline partnerships based on Kingdom honor. Her other current interests include calling medical providers to be healers with Holy Spirit, energizing education of medical providers in these new models, and promoting scientific research in a Kingdom model.

Susan Allen was raised as a YWAM missionary kid in Hawaii and Southeast Asia. Through her growing up experiences, she developed a passion for the younger generation to walk with God. After several years of working as a teacher in the United States, Susan, her husband James, and their four children relocated to Penang, Malaysia and served as missionaries for 14 years. In Malaysia, Susan worked as a teacher and administrator at a large international school. Their family relocated to Redding, California in June 2019, and Susan completed a master’s degree in Christian Spiritual Formation and Leadership from Friends University.

For the past several years, Susan has worked as a conference speaker and spiritual formation consultant with Christian schools around the world. In partnership with Bethel Christian School, she began the BCS Encounter Home School Program, an interactive spiritual growth program for homeschooling families, and was appointed as Bethel Christian School’s Vice-Principal in August 2021. In June 2022, she stepped into the role of Principle of Bethel Christian School. Susan has a passion for children and families to encounter God together and for faith to be passed from generation to generation.

Ahab Alhindi is the owner of the Chick-fil-A in Redding, CA. He also facilitates the Champions Business Leaders, a monthly gathering of business leaders to encourage, connect and inspire business owners to excellence and promote the kingdom of God in their businesses. Ahab is an author, leadership coach and speaker. His most valuable offering to this world is as husband, father and child of God.

A graduate of the Arts Educational Schools in London, Fabiano has worked as an actor, writer, director, and producer for over 20 years.  Some of his theatre credits include South Pacific (Peter Darling, Tony Award Best Choreographer), The Boyfriend (ULTZ, Olivier Award Best Director), West Side Story, and Romeo & Juliet (both with James McAvoy). On film and TV, Fabiano has worked with Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Parminder Nagra, and more. He recently co-produced the movie Unplanned due for release in March 29, 2019.

Passionate about training creative revivalists who perform in the Presence from their true identity, he created the Dream Circle, a technique allowing actors to take risks in a safe space. He wrote, produced and directed an new adaptation of a Christmas Carol for the Redding Civic Rep.  

Fabiano is the lives in Redding with his wife, Claire, and children Bella and Joshy.

Richard Gordon was raised in South Africa where he married his beautiful wife, Libby, and completed his BSc in Computer Engineering and MA in Electronic Engineering. He has had the privilege of working alongside some of the world’s best tech companies. Richard and his wife pastor at Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM). Richard is also the Revival Group pastor over Bethel School of Technology. His dream is to raise up world-changers and influencers like Daniel who will shape and shift culture, encountering and ushering in the presence of God wherever they go. He comes alive, igniting the potential in people around him and seeing the Glory of God move across the earth!

Benji & his wife Daniela are both ministers and founders of the Mission organization Kingdom Family Multiplication, a ministry aimed at bringing holistic transformation to nations. They're multiplying disciples among least, last and lost tribes and have witnessed several thousand new organic churches all around South and Southeast Asia since 2008. They are both very passionate for unity in diversity within the body of Christ, which reflects heaven's family culture to the nations. In their ministry they've witnessed countless healings and miracles and have a track record of investing their lives into building up powerful leaders. As a couple they just published a book “Prepare The Barns” on Amazon, sharing their heart and DNA on Kingdom Family Inheriting Nations. They are the parents of three teenage sons, Ruben, Joshua, and Timothy, who give them great joy.