What to expect at our annual Abouding Hope & Joy Conference!

Our annual Abounding Hope & Joy Conference took place in Redding, California on May 2 - 3, 2025.

Catch the replays as we hear from speakers Steve & Wendy Backlund, Connie & Aaron Jones, and the Igniting Hope team along with worship led by Bethel's very own, Hannah Waters!

Come ready to receive the fullness of everything God has created you for and let’s delight and abound in our joy in the Lord together!

Catch the Replay

Conference Schedule

  • Day One

    Session 1 with Steve & Wendy Backlund

    Session 2 with Steve Backlund

    Session 3 with Jenny Fitzgerald, Nicky Weir, Andy Fitzgerald, Debbie Roed

    Session 4 with Connie & Aaron Jones

    Session 5 with Steve & Wendy Backlund

  • Day Two

    Session 1 with Steve & Wendy Backlund

    Session 2 with Wendy Backlund

    Q&A with Steve & Wendy Backlund

    Session 3 with Rob Weir, Josh Greegor, Corina Greegor, Jason Neustaeter

    Session 4 with Connie Jones

    Session 5 with Steve Backlund

Main Speakers

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 paired with a revelatory teaching gift that creates new wineskins for greater dimensions of God (both personally and corporately).

Steve Backlund

Igniting Hope Co-Director

Main Speakers

Wendy Backlund is a revelatory author and speaker who lives with her husband, Steve, in California. Wendy has a passion for setting Christians free from their past, and empowering them to walk in the fullness of their spirit identity in Christ. She is the author of Living from the Unseen, Victorious Emotions, and more. Wendy has a fervent dream to release hope and revelation of the renewed mind, leading the Body of Christ into life-changing encounters with God.

Wendy Backlund

Igniting Hope Co-Director

Additional Speakers

Connie Jones is a John Maxwell Certified Coach and Leader Developer. She is a radical encourager with a passion to see the Body of Christ rise up into her magnificent place of identity and authority. She has been blessed to serve the church during the past 25 + years as a youth pastor, associate pastor, senior leader, and itinerate minister. She is a graduate of BSSM and Rhema Bible College and now works for Igniting Hope Ministries. She and her husband, Aaron live in Redding CA with their greatest treasures, their three sons: Joran, Braden, & Jesse.

Connie Jones

Associate Director of Igniting Hope