Date 5 Mar 2012
Time 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location Sir Woolf Fisher Arena

Ian Grant QSO has been an outstanding advocate for youth and parenting in New Zealand for many years. He spent 30 years running a national youth organization involving thousands of young people around the country. Ian and his wife Mary identified a need to equip and inspire parents, and as a result, Parenting with Confidence Inc. was established in 1993. Ian will interview Dr Ben Carson about his career, life and faith.

Dr Carson had a childhood dream of becoming a physician. Growing up in a single parent home and being challenged by dire poverty, poor grades, a horrible temper, and low self- esteem appeared to preclude the realization of that dream, until his mother, with only a third-grade education, challenged her sons to strive for excellence. Young Ben persevered, and today is a full professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the John Hopkins School of Medicine, where he has directed pediatric neurosurgery at the John Hopkins Children’s centre for over a quarter of a century, he conducted the first and only successful separation of a Siamese twins joined at the back of the head in 1987.

His four books Gifted Hands, Think Big, The Big Picture and Take the Risk, Learning to Identify, Choose and Live with Acceptable Risk, provide inspiration and insight for leading a successful life. A fifth book , “America the Beautiful”, will be released in 2012. Dr. Carson has been married for over 30 years to his wife, Candy, and is the father of three sons. His mother, Sonya Carson, who made all this possible, is alive and living in Maryland.

 

Proceeds of the conference to benefit
Duffy Books In Homes

 

General Admission

Price:
Adult: $15.00
Child: $10.00 (5-15 years)

Please note that under 5′s are free provided they seat on parents knee. For wheelchair bookings please contact the Box office on (09) 9852391.