2024 Speaker
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2023 Speaker
Chris Peter
RUF Campus Pastor
Millersville University
Chris received his Master of Divinity at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, from 2017-21. While in seminary, he met Kelsey at RUF training, and after she finished her RUF internship at the University of Vermont, they got married in 2019. And they welcomed their daughter Elliana into the world in January 2022. He started working at Millersville University in 2021.​ Chris is passionate about pouring the truth of the Gospel into college students' lives.
2022 Speaker
Nick Perrine
Pastoral Counselor
Blue Ridge Christian Counseling
Nick grew up in Northwestern Pennsylvania. He received a Master of Divinity with a Counseling Emphasis from Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, Pennsylvania. After seminary, he interned at CCEF New England, and has most recently been a Biblical Counselor for Heart Song Counseling in Northern Virginia. Nick and his wife Sandy have been married since 2013. Nick’s passion is that people would experience the peace and strength of God being with us and for us. His overarching goal in counseling is to help people grow in knowledge of self and knowledge of God.
2019 Speaker
Derek Bates
RUF Campus Pastor
University of Pittsburgh
Derek has been the campus pastor for RUF at PITT since 2008. Born and raised in VA, he graduated from James Madison University, lived briefly in Ukraine, CO, and then St. Louis, MO where he graduated (again) from Covenant Theological Seminary. Derek enjoys reading, sports, lifting weights, fixing up broken things, good music, concerts, and drinking coffee with students. Derek is married and has 4 awesome kids.