Join Faith Forward for a morning designed to encourage and equip leaders to live and lead with faith in everyday life.

Event Details:
• Date: Friday, January 29, 2027
• Time: 8:00 – 9:30 AM
• Location: Fargo, ND
• Includes: Coffee, community connection, and a featured message

About Faith Talk

Faith Talk creates space for leaders across industries and life stages to pause, open Scripture, and grow alongside a community of faith-driven leaders. These gatherings are welcoming, practical, and spiritually grounding, designed to help you carry your faith into your work, relationships, and leadership.

Featured Speaker: Dr. Ryan Capouch 

Dr. Ryan Capouch is the founder of Lumen Vision in Fargo, a developmental optometry practice treating children, athletes, and brain injury patients. He holds the FOVDR fellowship in developmental optometry, a credential fewer than 1% of optometrists nationwide have earned, and in 2023 he was named North Dakota's Young Optometrist of the Year.

His calling traces back to a September morning in middle school when he woke up with no vision in his right eye. Within two days he had lost vision in his left eye as well and was rendered legally blind. A week in the hospital and the care of four doctors brought him to a full recovery, and it was their attention that set the direction of his life. He spent his summers in college working as an optometric technician for the same local optometrist who first diagnosed him. 

A native of Portland, North Dakota, Ryan graduated magna cum laude from the University of Mary with a degree in Biology and minors in Chemistry and Theology, and completed his doctorate at the Arizona College of Optometry. He serves the University of Mary on its Board of Trustees and mentors fourth-year optometry students through clinical externship programs at Lumen Vision. 

That's what Faith Forward is about. Vocation as calling, shaped by the people who showed up when it mattered.

We can't wait for this community to hear from him.