Katoomba Easter Convention 2025 with speakers Philip Riken, Kirk Panton, and Glen Cornwell.

MEET YOUR KEC SPEAKERS

We’re grateful to have Philip Ryken, Glen Scrivener and Kirk Patston joining us as our main speakers at KEC 2025. Read on below to find out more about them.

Our speakers will be addressing the theme Seek First the Kingdom. Over the weekend, we will be looking at what it means to do that in life. How do we make pleasing God, and being rewarded by Him, our driving concern among all the pressures, concerns and challenges that life brings us?

Join us in 2025! You don’t want to miss this.

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Meet Philip Ryken

President, Wheaton College

Dr. Philip Graham Ryken is the eighth president of Wheaton College, where he studied English literature and philosophy. President Ryken has published more than 50 Bible commentaries and other books and has served as a board member for The Gospel Coalition, the Lausanne Movement, and the National Association of Evangelicals.

Meet Glen Scrivener

CEO &Evangelism Director, SpeakLife

Glen is an award winning author and filmmaker who speaks around the world about the intersection of faith and culture. Originally from Australia, he was educated at Oxford and is now ordained in the Church of England. Glen is passionate about people meeting Christ and equipping Christians to share their faith.

Meet Kirk Patston

Director, SMBC Centre for Preaching &Pastoral Ministry

Kirk has a background in speech pathology and Presbyterian ministry and has been lecturing at SMBC since 2000 where he is the Director of the Centre for Preaching and Pastoral Ministry. He ’s interested in understanding the Bible well and applying it in a complex world.