By Norm Miller, Louisiana College News
PINEVILLE –Louisiana College’s 160th Commencement service will feature keynoter Jay Strack, author and minister from Orlando, Fla.
Strack’s topic: “The History of the Future.”
Attendees must have a ticket to be admitted to the May 7 event that begins at 10 a.m.
Strack has more than 40 years as a dynamic speaker among leaders in business, education and religious sectors. He has addressed more than 15 million people in 30 countries in churches, as well as stadiums such as the Georgia Dome, Astrodome, Super Dome, Reunion Arena, and the Olympic Village Stadium in Moscow.
He is a graduate of Charleston Southern University, and has known Dr. Rick Brewer, LC’s president, for 35 years.
Charleston Southern University took a chance on the former drug addict, giving Strack a semester to prove himself. In spite of being labeled a “trouble student” (with ADD and dyslexia), he earned degrees in religion and psychology. “I went from totally unmotivated to a doctorate degree,” he said.
Strack is a licensed and ordained Southern Baptist Minister, who served as senior pastor of a mega-church for five years at the age of 26, and later became a prominent evangelical evangelist. He has spoken 26 times at the Southern Baptist Convention.
He served on the Committee of the Order of Business, The ERLC (Ethics Religious Liberties Commission), President and Vice President of C.OS.B.E (Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelist), C.OS.B.E Hall of Fame, and First Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Strack’s founded Student Leadership University, which has served more than 160,000 students through its various programs, including: the 23-city Lift Tour, and Youth Pastor Summits in Orlando, Dallas, Nashville, Toronto, Southern California, Nairobi, and New York City.
Corporate engagements include NASA, Walmart, Chick-fil-A, Johnson & Johnson, The US Air Force Academy, General Motors, Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Walt Disney Company, Universal Studios, RDV Sports and numerous NFL, NBA, & MLB teams and events, including featured speaker for two NBA All Star Game.
Commended for his work against drugs by former secretary of education William Bennett and former First Lady Nancy Reagan, Strack has been interviewed nationally and internationally on radio and television including CNN, the McNeil Lehrer Report and the 700 Club.
NBA Orlando Magic Senior Vice President Pat Williams says, “When I hear my good friend Jay Strack speak, I make sure I have a pen and plenty of paper. He is awesome, baby!’’
Zig Ziglar described Jay Strack as “entertaining, powerful, inspiring and informative.”
Strack is the author of 38 highly inspirational books, including: “The Three Success Secrets of Shamgar,” “Good Kids who do Bad Things,” “Above and Beyond,” “Everything Worth Knowing I Learned Growing UP in Florida,” and, “Critical Issues. Absolute Answers.”
Strack is the editor of three study Bibles: Transformer – Thomas Nelson; True Love Waits – Broadman Holman; and, Student Leadership Bible – Thomas Nelson.
