Lawyers for Jesus

Tom Ciesielka is the founder and president of TC Public Relations and has worked in public relations, marketing, and business development for more than 25 years.

TC Public Relations is a dynamic team of communications professionals with a mission to provide excellence in public relations services. Tom is committed to managing each client’s mission, vision, and brand by developing media strategies, crisis communication plans, and publicity campaigns.

Jeff Koch is the Vice President of residential lending with Draper & Kramer Mortgage Corp., and has been a mortgage consultant since 2002. He was previously on Lawyers for Jesus to discuss his powerful testimony and how he came to Christ, but today we will be discussing how his faith takes shape in the workplace.

For over 14 years, Jeff has maintained an emphasis on character, clarity and courtesy for his clients. He sees his role in the mortgage and home buying process as part of caring for the whole person, not just a number.

Pastor Jeremy Falk is the pastor of Uptown Church, a new church formed in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The mission of Uptown Church is to disrupt suffering and help mend broken lives and relationships in their community with the hope of Jesus.

Reverend Al Cleveland is associate pastor at New Life Covenant Church Southeast in Chicago and the founder of Al Cleveland Ministries and Salt Summit, an annual leadership training conference with a “TED talk” like format, packing a lot of applicable information into a variety of short presentations.

Reverend Al Cleveland aims to unite believers in the common goal of the church and train leaders to respond to current issues in a Biblical way.

This year’s Salt Summit on November 9th and 10th will address topics such as global missions, apologetics, financial literacy, pre & post abortive victory, and avoiding sexual orientation lawsuits. These are all important issues that connect to today’s society and would be beneficial to learn more about.

Dan Watts is the manager of sales and ministry relations at Salem Media Group in the greater Chicago area and Mauck & Baker’s go-to contact at WYLL who has helped bring Lawyers for Jesus to life.

AM 1160 WYLL is Chicago’s only commercial talk radio station providing programming from a Christian worldview and is brought to you by Salem Media Group, America’s leading radio broadcaster, Internet content provider, and publisher targeting audiences interested in Christian, conservative, and family-themed content. For more than 40 years, Salem has helped the local church develop, launch and expand their messages to a world that desperately needs the gospel.

Peter Roskam proudly represents Illinois’ 6th District in the United States Congress, and is currently in his sixth term of service.

During his time in government, Representative Roskam has championed numerous initiatives to reform tax policies, healthcare programs, and foreign affairs to protect the American people. In the past he also practiced law in Chicago, gaining significant experience as a litigator.

Francis H. Buckley is a Foundation Professor at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law and author of The Republican Workers Party, a book about the 2016 election and the resulting changes to American politics.

Francis Buckley has written several books and has been published in the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Review. He has also appeared on many media networks such as CNN, NPR, Fox News, and C-SPAN. In 2016 he worked on the Trump campaign, writing speeches for him and his family and advising on transition matters.

Emilie Kao is the director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation, which strives to formulate and promote conservative public policies in the United States.

As an attorney she has defended religious freedom for the last 14 years in East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and South Asia at the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom and Becket Law.

Ray Banks is the Executive Director of Harvey House School of Ministry, a Christian residential training program by Restoration Ministries that serves men who have struggled with drug and alcohol addictions.

Restoration Ministries’ goal is to restore hope to people and bring lasting change to the community of Harvey, Illinois. Harvey House is a 12-18 month program that aims to guide lives in a positive direction. The mission of Harvey House is to assist, develop, and train men who have a desire to grow in Christ so that their lives become a living testimony to the ways of the Lord.

Tom Morrison is a former small business owner, a former teacher, and current conservative member of the Illinois General Assembly. Tom, who was first elected in 2010, is currently running for re-election as a state representative of the 54th district.

Tom Morrison has continually fought for Illinois taxpayers and leads the movement to end taxpayer-funded legislative pensions, even refusing his own pension, inspiring many other legislators to do the same. Today we want to discuss taxpayer funding in regards to abortion along with other issues regarding religious freedom in Illinois, and what Tom can do if he is re-elected this next term.