Meet the Speakers | All Access Disability Conference

We are excited to have some of the top speakers from the area joining us this year! You can meet them below.

The ministry track speakers:

Tiffany Crow, MA, BCBA

Tiffany has served as the Special Needs Coordinator at Brazos Pointe Fellowship since 2014. She is a Behavior Analyst with a background in teaching Early Childhood and Special Education. She provides behavioral training and consults for public school educators and ministry leaders on strategies to assist students for success. She is passionate about the population she feels called to serve and believes that every life should be celebrated as a part of God’s perfectly planned design.

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Mark Dean

Mark Dean is the Lead Pastor of Sienna Ranch Baptist Church in Missouri City, Texas, where he has served for 22 years. Mark is a graduate of Mississippi College and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a Colson Fellow. He is pioneering a church-wide biblical worldview discipleship/mission strategy called Christ Culture. Mark and Marcia have been married for 40 years. They have 2 children and 3 granddaughters.

Lauren Garner

Since 2017, Lauren has served as the Church Engagement Manager with Joni & Friends Texas. The mission of Joni & Friends is to communicate the gospel and equip Christ-honoring churches worldwide to evangelize and disciple people affected by disabilities. In her time with Joni & Friends, she has engaged churches from all over the state to help create opportunities for families affected by disability to engage in community within their local churches through Sunday morning services, respite nights, parent support groups and volunteer training. Inspired 10 years ago by serving at camp who specifically hosts groups affected by disabilities, Lauren recognized her heart’s pull was to advocate on behalf of those whose voices were going unheard. The opportunity to see a family transform from surviving to thriving is what keeps her motivated to create relationships in the community to help equip local churches to serve individuals and their families affected by disabilities.

Matthew S. Stanford, Ph.D.

Matthew S. Stanford is CEO of the Hope and Healing Center & Institute in Houston, TX and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and the Houston Methodist Hospital Institute for Academic Medicine. Dr. Stanford’s research on the interplay between mental health and faith has been featured in such national publications as The New York Times, USA Today, and Christianity Today. A Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, he is the author of several books including Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness and Grace for the Children: Finding Hope in the Midst of Child and Adolescent Mental Illness.

Daniel K. Williams

Daniel Williams serve as Minister to Special Needs Families at Houston’s First Baptist Church. After spending many years in the legal and business worlds, Daniel was called into full-time ministry to serve special needs families, “the least of these.” Daniel and his wife, Mary Lynn, have three precious kids: Tyna, Mae and David, who also happens to have Classic Autism Disorder. Daniel holds degrees from Texas A&M University (BBA), Baylor University (JD) and is currently pursuing his MAFM in Special Needs Family Ministry from Dallas Baptist University.

Jake Thomen

Jake Thomen is a husband, father, Christ follower, and an unlikely pastor. He pastors Vessel Collective Church in Round Rock, Texas and is the founder of RAD Ministry. RAD Ministry is a special needs ministry that serves and loves families who have family members with special needs both inside the church and those who are far from God, by focusing on respite and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Chuck Hendee

Chuck Hendee is a semi-retired businessman who has dedicated his time to serving in various capacities at Sienna Ranch Baptist. He has played guitar in our Praise Ministry for years and participated in the Prison Ministry. Last year after helping promote the Emily Colson Event at Sienna Ranch, he volunteered to lead a Special Needs Ministry.

Karen Enamorado

Karen Enamorado serves as the Special Needs Ministry Director at Chapelwood United Methodist Church. Karen was called into ministry at the age of twenty one and received her degree in Special Education from the University of Houston. She resides in Richmond, TX with her husband and three beautiful children.

The family track speakers:

Denise Briley

Denise has been involved in special needs ministry since 1995 when she founded The JOY ministry in Tomball and later established Thru the Roof at Houston’s First Baptist Church until retiring in 2016. She’s taught at many conferences across the country. After raising her own children, who are now grown or in heaven, this season of her life she’s her caring for her adopted daughter with special needs as well as fostering medically fragile babies and toddlers.

Lorin R. Furlow

Lorin Rayburn Furlow is the Director of Special Services in Brazosport Independent School District where she supports students, families, and campuses with Special Education or 504 Services. Lorin is also a Restorative Discipline Coordinator who has trained across the state. Lorin and her husband Chris are lifelong residents of Lake Jackson, Texas where they have raised their two children, Chance and Hope. Lorin has not only participated as a professional in ARD and 504 meetings, but also a parent and advocate for her son Chance who received special education services from the age of 3 and her daughter Hope who has received services for Dyslexia since 2nd grade. Lorin believes each and every child is special and is excited for the opportunity here to share strategies that as a parent and professional have found successful to support students with special needs!”

Giset King

Giset King is an educator, psychologist, advocate and Co- founder of Cafe Azul TX Autism. She works in the community to educate parents to advocate for their kids and equip them with practical strategies to help their kids succeed.

Dr. Lee Peoples

Lee (Doc of Ministry) is the pastor of Heights Baptist Church in Alvin, TX. He’s the co-author of Held: Learning to Live in God’s Grip. His son, James, was diagnosed with autism in 2010, and since that time, Lee has been an advocate for special-needs ministry. He also has a passion for encouraging special-needs dads.

Sandra Peoples

Sandra Peoples (M Div) is a special-needs mom and sibling. She serves Heights Baptist Church in Alvin, TX as director of the special-needs ministry. She’s the author of Unexpected Blessings: The Joys and Possibilities of Life in a Special-Needs Family and the host of the podcast, Self Care and Soul Care for the Caregiver.