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-Founder

Main Speakers

Wendy Backlund is a revelatory author and speaker in the Body of Christ, carrying a passion to set people free and release them into their full identity in Jesus. She equips others to see through heaven’s perspective and walk boldly in the authority God has entrusted to them. With a heart to lead life-changing encounters with God, Wendy inspires breakthrough, awakening, and supernatural transformation wherever she ministers. She is the author of Victorious Emotions, Living From the Unseen and more.

Wendy Backlund

Igniting Hope Co-Founder

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