Geiger has deep roots in the Bachman Lake Community, having worked as a church planter and pastor of Cristo Rey Presbyterian Church from 2002 to 2015. During those years, he experienced firsthand the rich community in Northwest Dallas, as well as the brokenness and challenges created by poverty. Those experiences led to a vision for a new organization that would work alongside Cristo Rey and other churches to serve the educational, material, and emotional needs of the community. He brought this vision to a group of committed leaders who started Casa del Lago in 2014. Shortly after its start, Geiger and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he served for two years as a senior director on the executive leadership team at Pacific Crossroads Church.

Betsy is a native of Monterrey Mexico who has lived in Dallas for the last 15 years. Her husband is an instructional coach with DISD and she has 2 children, Ana Paula, age 17, and Diego, age 13.
Studied Bachelors Degree in Bilingual Education in Mexico, worked for 6 years as a Bilingual teacher in Monterrey, Mexico.

She started working in Cristo Rey as an ESL and was coordinator from 2008 to 2014. Betsy started working at Casa del Lago in 2014 as Founder & Director of Casa's Early Childhood Education program (serving children ages 14-48 months of age.)

Brigitte Gabriel is a NY Times best-selling author, leading expert on global Islamic terrorism and Chairman of ACT! for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in America. Her latest book is RISE: In Defense of Judeo-Christian Values and Freedom.

Ms. Gabriel started ACT for America in an effort to protect the citizens of the United States from the horrors she experienced as a young girl in her native Lebanon. When Ms. Gabriel was 10 years old, militant radical Islamists launched rockets into her family’s home in their Christian town in southern Lebanon destroying her home and seriously injuring her as they waged war against the “infidels.” Her family was forced to seek refuge in an underground 8 x 10-foot bomb shelter where they lived for the next seven years. Often surviving on mere weeds, they had to crawl through a ditch to get water from a nearby spring while avoiding Islamic snipers.

After several perilous years, Ms. Gabriel moved to Israel before subsequently becoming a proud citizen of the greatest nation on earth – the United States of America. Today, she is the one of the leading terrorism experts in the world, providing information and analysis on the rise of global Islamic terrorism. She lectures nationally and internationally about terrorism and current affairs.

In addition to serving as the Founder and Chairman of ACT for America, she is a celebrated author of two New York Times Best Sellers. Ms. Gabriel is named one of the top 50 most prominent speakers in America. She speaks Arabic, French, English, and Hebrew.

Ms. Gabriel was knighted in Europe in 2016 for her international work on fighting terrorism and standing up for Western values.

In today’s environment, she stands alone as an individual who has experienced terrorism firsthand, now leading U.S. citizens in the national security arena and enabling them to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and the democratic values and traditions of the United States of America.

Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He has authored most recently the New York Times best seller Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2013) as well as Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009), which was named a Book of the Year by the prestigious Times (of London) Literary Supplement in 2009.

Meyer’s other publications include ten chapter contributions to the 2015 collection of essays Debating Darwin’s Doubt as well as contributions to, and the editing of, the peer-reviewed volume Darwinism, Design and Public Education (Michigan State University Press, 2004) and the innovative textbook Explore Evolution (Hill House Publishers, 2007). He has published editorials in national newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The National Post (of Canada), The Daily Telegraph (of London) and The Los Angeles Times.

He has appeared on national television and radio programs such as The Jim Lehrer News Hour, NBC Nightly News, ABC Nightly News, CBS Sunday Morning, Nightline, Fox News Live, Paula Zahn Now (CNN), Good Morning America and the Tavis Smiley Show on PBS. In 2008, he appeared with Ben Stein in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. He is featured prominently in the science documentaries Icons of Evolution, Unlocking The Mystery of Life, and Darwin’s Dilemma, as well as two New York Times front-page stories and attention in other top national media.

Casa del Lago (The Lake House) was founded in 2014 by a core group who wanted to serve the Hispanic families living in this community. This core group cared deeply for the community and wanted to continue the efforts that Cristo Rey Presbyterian Church had begun to reach into this community with quality faith-based educational programming, counseling, and legal assistance.

For example, our morning program called Conversations and Caritas integrates English as a second language classes and early childhood education so that parents can improve their English skills while their children prepare for elementary school.

In the evening, Conversations and Kids Club, offers similar integrated programming for families of elementary aged children. Spanish language counseling services are also available for the children and families that we serve.

According to a nationwide survey, more than two-thirds of atheists and one-third of agnostics believe that “the findings of science make the existence of God less probable,” while nearly half of self-identified theists believe “the findings of science are neutral with regard to the existence of God.”
But what if there is another option? What if the discoveries of science actually lend support to belief in God?
Tackle this question head-on at the upcoming Dallas Conference on Science and Faith on January 18-19, 2019. Held on the campus of Park Cities Baptist Church, the conference will explore exciting scientific discoveries about the origin and fine-tuning of the universe, the origin of the first life, and the origin and development of complex life. The conference opens on Friday evening (Jan. 18) from 7:30-9:00 pm, and it continues on Saturday (Jan. 19) from 8:45 am-4:15 pm.

By: Michael Brown - stream.org - January 6, 2019 There’s a reason that the first openly bisexual senator did not take her oath on the Bible. There’s a reason that an atheist website rebuked me ...