2025 Speakers

Munty Teahn

Co-Pastor Awaken Church

McMinnville, OR

Munty Teahn and his wife Stephanie co-pastor Awaken Church in McMinnville, OR

In addition to his gifting as a pastor, Munty is an encourager. He cares deeply about his community and is passionate about prayer and seeing lost souls saved. He often goes on walks, not only for exercise, but for the expressed purpose of “connecting with other folks,” outside of the church, he said.

A few highlights of his ministry include serving the youth at the Interdenominational Fellowship in Sierra Leone; and as a an elder at Camp Waterloo Refugee Camp. He also served as a pastor at two African Christian Fellowship International churches in Liberia.

Munty is the father of three teenagers and one adult child. He also has one grandson. He works for Yamhill County Health and Human Services in its community-based mental health services program. In his free time, Munty enjoys going for bike rides with his family and playing basketball.

At festival, Stephanie will interview him about his life journey, which includes growing up amid civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone. He will answer the question “Can good things come out of pain?”

Leah Devyldere

Founder of Destiny Seeds
Tangent, OR

Leah Devyldere, her husband Tony and two youngest children live in Tangent, Oregon. The two are parents of 13 children. Her hobbies include “trying to keep up with all of them,” which is no easy task, as “they are scattered all over the world,” she said.

In addition to homeschooling her children, she has served as a missionary; a teacher, in everything from Sunday School to backyard ministries; and a mentor.

In 2017, she founded Destiny Seeds to release people of all ages into the kingdom and create unity among generations in the body of Christ. In 2024, she published the book, “It's Their Kingdom: Guiding Youth into the Spiritual Realm.” Her greatest joy is guiding people of all ages into the spiritual realm. “[The] kingdom of heaven belongs to children and those who can become like children,” she said.

Leah, who ran the children’s ministry portion at Festival of Tents for five years, has a teaching degree from Oregon State University and served as a children’s pastor for 40 years. Currently she works as a substitute teacher for pre-K through grade twelve classes.

She is a certified trainer with The Prophetic Company and will be speaking on how to hear the voice of God!

Bryson Lewis

Heart of the Valley House of Prayer

Corvallis, OR

Bryson Lewis and his wife Paris live in Corvallis, Oregon. The couple have five children.

He works as a real estate agent and helps lead the Heart of the Valley House of Prayer, where he formerly served as full-time director.

The Lewis family are athletic. The children have played soccer, and he coaches. They are also musical. Everyone plays an instrument. A talented drummer and guitar player, Bryson’s spiritual gifts are in the areas of leadership, intercession and moving prophetically in word and song.

Bryson longs to see the restoration of ministering to the Lord as part of prayer. “I want people to know how to connect with the Lord in prayer, intimacy and intercession,” he said.

Unity in the church is a “huge theme for me” he said. The City-wide Light Corvallis gathering, which involved dozens of churches coming together for 26 hours of unified worship and prayer for the community, over a five-year period, is an example of his combined passions of city unity with prayer and a culture of worship, he said.

He prays for members of the body of Christ to flow together in unity, growing in maturity, formed and knitted to Jesus.

At festival, Bryson will speak on the person and work of the Holy Spirit.

Peet and Kelsea Nichols met on a blind date, which involved him flying out to Iowa in 2015. They married a year later. Since then, God has greatly blessed them and their family has grown to include Leif (7), Liesl (5), Ronja (2), and Pierce (6 mo.).

The couple live in Philomath, OR where they invest time and energy into their children and in the ministry of The Hive Church Communities, leading worship, and discipling youth.

They also serve at their local House of Prayer.

Peet & kelsea nichols

The Hive Church

Corvallis, OR

Days off are spent relaxing at home, reading, eating, getting into music or art—or chasing kids and chickens around outside.

More than 25 children live on their little dead-end street in Philomath, Kelsea said. And she and Peet ardently pray for each of them “to be saved, sanctified, and robust in their destiny and relationship with Jesus,” she said.

Currently, Holy Spirit is working within Peet “eradicating fear,” and helping Kelsea “live fearlessly.” and teaching her to “fully lean on God in motherhood.”

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