"Connecting Health & Faith" Speakers

Stevie Baggs
Stevie Baggs Jr. is a three-time All-American and a graduate of Bethune Cookman University. Many know him for his athletic career in the NFL and CFL. Recognized as the only athlete to play for 11 professional football teams, Baggs accounts how his experience prepared him for a purpose beyond the stadium with his newly released book, titled Greater Than the Game. Since his 10 years in football. Baggs has empowered the youth and adults nationwide with motivational speaking, was honored as the City of Atlanta's Health & Wellness Ambassador by Mayor Kasim Reed, and has recently celebrated the CETA Foundation's 11th year of service to risk communities.

Reverend Lucy Guzman | Pastor for Living Hope Church
Lucy Guzman, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, received an MS degree in Public Administration and was pursuing a successful managerial career in NYC until she felt God’s calling to apply her administrative /leadership gift s to the church setting. She graduated in 1988 with a Masters of Divinity degree and later received her doctorate degree in church leadership development from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. Health and wellness is part of Living Hope Church’s DNA since Pastor Lucy, an insulin-dependent diabetic, uses her personal experience to provide exercise, nutrition and counseling services to overweight persons desiring to make lifestyle changes. Dr. Lucy presently serves on the steering committee of the New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids, (NJPHK) with the mission to reduce child obesity in the capital city of Trenton. In 2013, Dr. Guzman coordinated the adoption of the Living Hope Church Organizational Wellness Policy that has become a model for other churches desiring to improve the health of their parishioners.

Pastor Marvin Winans | Perfecting Church
Pastor Marvin Winans of Perfecting Church (Detroit, MI), who has worked with the American Heart Association to meet his congregants where they are to build an initiative that is community and participant focused.  Pastor Winans may be most well known as being a part of the famous gospel group, The Winans, but his legacy will be of spirituality and health. Serving as Bishop-Elect of Perfecting Fellowship International, Bishop-Elect Marvin L.Winans oversees a sisterhood of churches both stateside and abroad that encompasses congregations from various states including New York, Texas, Florida, Alabama, London and South Africa; all of which meet annually for church growth, leadership training, community outreach and convocations packed with teaching, preaching and worship.