SAVE THE DATE!

This is an event you don’t want to miss! Oakwood Christian Church will be hosting Burly Men’s Conference featuring Matt Proctor from Ozark Christian College. 

Join us Friday evening, January 23 & Saturday, January 24, 2026 to experience powerful teaching, a spiritual challenge, amazing food, Christian fellowship, and all things “Burly”! Please save the dates!

Registration opens on November 1, 2025!

Matt Proctor

President of Ozark Christian College

In high school, Matt Proctor was a National Merit finalist who enrolled at the University of Iowa as a journalism major. But after hearing God’s call, he transferred to Ozark Christian College in Joplin, Missouri. Now instead of broadcasting the bad news, he’s proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. Matt has served as a youth minister, preaching minister, Bible college professor and is now president of Ozark Christian College. He was the president of the 2013 North American Christian Convention and he serves as a contributing editor for Christian Standard magazine. His writing includes two books, Finish-Line Faith and Victorious. He enjoys reading, cheering for the St. Louis Cardinals, and traveling widely to preach about Jesus. Matt is especially grateful to God for his wife Katie and their six children—Luke, Lydia, Clara, Carl, Conrad and Caroline.