Christian Heritage Conference

Harry Reeder
Dr. Harry L. Reeder, III, the 2010 Moderator for the Presbyterian Church in America, has served as Senior Pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, AL for more than a decade. Prior to that call from the Lord, he was the Senior Pastor of Christ Covenant Church, where he was called in 1983 as founding pastor for a congregation of 38 members who were committed to establishing a new congregation that would be used by God as a servant-resource church for metropolitan Charlotte. He is the author of Embers to a Flame: How God Can Revitalize Your Church and The Leadership Dynamic. His radio ministry, In Perspective, has been on the air since 1983 and his conference ministry has taken him around the world. While in Charlotte Pastor Reeder also began his Christian Manhood Seminars, using his extensive study of the Generals of the War Between the States to provide examples of the principles of leadership displayed in their lives. Dr. Reeder and his wife Cindy are the parents of three adult children and grand parents of five grandchildren.

Mike Milton
Dr. Michael A. Milton is the President and James M. Baird, Jr. Chair of Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC. Prior to coming to RTS-Charlotte in 2008 he served as Senior Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, TE. He is a Chaplain in the US Army Reserve, assigned as Deputy Command Chaplain of the 108th Training Command in Charlotte and as an instructor at the Army Chaplains School at Fort Jackson, SC. Dr. Milton is the author of 14 books including the autobiographical What God Starts, God Finishes and the newest, Small Things and Big Things: Reflections on God’s Grace in Everyday Life, published in 2009, and Doxology in the Darkness: How God Transforms Your Pain into Praise, published this summer. In addition to his own books, Dr. Milton’s work has been included in many journals and other publications. His program, The Call with Mike Milton is carried by regional radio stations and available around the world via internet and podcast. Dr. Milton is also a singer/songwriter. His third album, Through the Open Door will be released this fall. Dr. Milton and his wife Mae live in Matthews with their teen-aged son John.

Mike Ross
Dr. Michael F. Ross is the Senior Pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina, a member of the faculty for the D.Min program at RTS-Charlotte, Moderator of the Central Carolina Presbytery of the PCA and a member of the Alumni Board at Columbia International University. Before accepting the call to the pulpit at Christ Covenant, Dr. Ross was the Sr. Pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Jackson, MS. Dr. Ross is the author of two books, Preaching for Revitalization and The Light of the Psalms: Developing Your Faith with Every Psalm and the author of the Presbyterian Church in America’s annually published devotional guide for its Fifty Days of Prayer, first published in 2002. He takes an active role in international outreach, leading teaching and preaching missions for local pastors and their potential church leaders. Dr. Ross and his wife Jane live in Mint Hill. They are the parents of four adult children and grandparents of four grand children

Tom Henry
Rev. Thomas F. Henry is Pastor at Large for WorldServe Ministries, an international mission organization whose goals are to enable, establish and empower indigenous Christian churches and believers in places where traditional mission efforts are limited or forbidden, including China and Cuba. Before God called him to this ministry, Rev. Henry had been a member of the pastoral staff of Christ Covenant Church for 16 years before being called by the congregation to serve as their Senior Pastor in the spring of 2000. Committed to the importance of mission outreach, Tom ministered as a part of teams to Africa, Eastern Europe and Central America, but it was a publicized trip to China with Rev. Bruce Marcey that made Tom realize that God was challenging him to leave the familiarity of a single pastorate and follow God’s call to full-time service on behalf of believers who were not free to tell their own stories. Today, Tom is frequently the public face for a ministry that carefully protects the identities of its workers in high-risk situations, introducing WorldServe to congregations and potential partners in North America and taking an active part in WorldServe’s new initiatives in Bible training and economic development. Tom and his wife Toni are the parents of four adult children and the grandparents of one grandson.

David German
David German has been the Music Minister of Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, IL since September 2004. Prior to accepting that call he was the minister of music at Calvary Church in Charlotte from 1983-94 and Christ Covenant Church in Matthews. Noted for his evangelical outreach to the community through music, David is now at work on “A Grace Family Christmas” which will be a joyous musical celebration of the birth of Christ our Savior and the first Christmas concert on the congregation’s brand new campus and in their new 1600 seat sanctuary. The entire music ministry will take part, including the Children's Choirs, Teen Choir, Grace Singers, Undivided, Christmas Choir and the Orchestra, in the three nights of live performance and the program will be broadcast on WEEK-TV. David and his wife Kathleen live in Peoria with their four children, Dominic, Dimitri, Sophia and Eli.