For you and your whole ministry team
an interactive and practical 3-day conference
at an accessible destination for everyone
Let's help each other become growing churches which are (under God) more effective in proclaiming the gospel to the friends, family and neighbors around us who so desperately need to hear it.
How do we 'raise the evangelistic temperature' in our church culture?
What can we do to motivate and equip our people to know the gospel deeply and share it confidently?
How do we proclaim and teach the gospel so that we not only make disciples, but we make disciple-making disciples?
These are the questions that will be answered at Evangelize 2024.
The conference is brought to you by Matthias Media, publishers of The Trellis and the Vine and Two Ways to Live, and features speakers chosen specifically for their significant experience and expertise in these crucial topics.
So come along, bring your key leaders, and let us help you create effective mechanisms in your church life for presenting more and more people with the gospel and giving them the opportunity to respond to it.
We want these few days to feel more like a workshop than a conference -- resulting in lots of resolve to make practical changes as we head back to our churches.
For you and your whole ministry team
An interactive and practical 3-day conference
At an accessible destination for everyone
Let's help each other
How do we 'raise the evangelistic temperature' in our church culture?
What can we do to motivate and equip our people to know the gospel deeply and share it confidently?
How do we proclaim and teach the gospel so that we not only make disciples, but we make disciple-making disciples?
These are the questions that will be answered at Evangelize 2024.
The conference is brought to you by Matthias Media, publishers of The Trellis and the Vine and Two Ways to Live, and features speakers chosen specifically for their significant experience and expertise in these crucial topics.
So come along, bring your key leaders, and let us help you create effective mechanisms in your church life for presenting more and more people with the gospel and giving them the opportunity to respond to it.
We want these few days to feel more like a workshop than a conference -- resulting in lots of resolve to make practical changes as we head back to our churches.
Speakers
Mack Stiles
J. Mack Stiles is the director of Messenger Ministries Inc., an organization that promotes healthy missions. Mack and his family lived in the Middle East for twenty years, where he was the founder and director of the Fellowship of Christian UAE Students (FOCUS) in the United Arab Emirates. He later served as the pastor for the Erbil Baptist Church in Iraq and worked for many years with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States. Mack is the author of Evangelism; Marks of the Messenger; Speaking of Jesus and The Truth About Lies.
Dave Jensen
Dave Jensen works as a pastor at Menai Anglican Church, Sydney, Australia, and is also the assistant director of Evangelism New Churches. He has developed the Discovering Jesus evangelistic course, authored the short book What is a Christian?, and can be heard on the 'Explaining Christianity' Podcast. Prior to working in ministry, Dave was an Infantry officer in the Australian Army which is where someone told him the truth about Jesus and he became a Christian in his late twenties. Dave loves rugby league and cricket, but loves his wife Sammy and their 4 young sons even more.
Tony Payne
Since founding Matthias Media in 1988, Tony Payne has written more than 30 books, ministry courses and Bible studies, including The Trellis and the Vine, Two Ways to Live and Learn the Gospel. He is currently a ministry trainer and writer-in-residence at Campus Bible Study (UNSW), and a visiting lecturer at Moore College, Sydney, Australia. His weekly newsletter and podcast is Two Ways News. With his wife, Ali, he has five adult children and eight grandchildren.
Felicity Carswell
Felicity Carswell is from England but currently lives near Chicago with her book-selling husband, Jonathan, along with two young sons, Rufus and Billy. She loves to teach the Bible in her local church and disciple women on a one-to-one basis. She also co-hosts the Two Sisters and a Cup of Tea podcast.
Marty Sweeney
Marty is the Chief Content Officer for Matthias Media and Executive Director for Matthias Media US. He is a part-time pastor, overseeing an apprenticeship program at Old North Church. He lives in Poland, Ohio with his wife Abby and their four children (and a standard poodle named Theophilus). He is the co-author of The Small Group and the Vine (with Tony Payne).
Jonathan Carswell
Jonathan is the CEO of 10ofthose.com - a book ministry that began as a hobby in his bedroom. At the time he was a youth pastor in Northern Ireland. Jonathan grew up in a Christian family, but came to know Christ aged 16 on a Christian camp in Holland, run by Young Life. Today he lives in Chicago, USA. He is married to Felicity and they have two young boys.
Lindsey Yeagley
Lindsey is the Marketing Director at Matthias Media US and has been on staff since 2017. She lives in Mineral Ridge, Ohio with her husband Scott and their three young children, who are all active members at Old North Church. Lindsey is a women's bible study leader and a children's Sunday school teacher as well as a wedding photographer. She loves meeting one-to-one with women to read the bible and she desires to equip more women to be disciple-making disciples in their homes and in their communities.
Is it possible to grow your church to proclaim the gospel?
Is gospel work, specifically evangelism, happening on Sunday mornings, in small groups, and in church member's homes?
Your church can have a shared sense, an institutional lean, of the need for evangelism and share a language that unifies each person in gospel work.
We use a framework with 4 E's that will help you visually see the areas where churches lack in evangelistic effort. In the video, we explain what each of the 4 E's mean and how that fits into our goal to raise the evangelistic temperature in churches.
The shared language around this main idea is called "moving to the right". Our desire is to help you think through ideas and systems to train your people to learn and share the gospel. It is a 'workshop type' conference with gospel clarity as the goal and together we can unfold the best ways to get more churches, key leaders and lay people sharing Jesus with others.
We want to Engage non-believers in order to Evangelize them. If in God’s kindness he transfers them into his Kingdom, we have responsibility to Establish them, to help them learn to be followers of King Jesus. And to instill in them the love of Christ and so start to Equip them to bring others along with them as they move to the right - all for the Glory of Jesus.