Join Sixteen:Fifteen for The Mobilized Church™ workshop! Together we will explore seven keys to help your church and missions leaders cultivate a vibrant missions culture, unlocking your church’s potential to reach the nations.
For two decades, Sixteen:Fifteen has coached countless churches across the United States helping them deepen and strengthen their global missions engagement. After evaluating our most effective and fruitful churches, we found certain commonalities that are evidenced in Scripture. We have collected data, experiences, and wisdom from these churches, creating two interactive options that will help your church develop a personalized plan, owned by church and missions leaders, to cultivate a vibrant missions culture to engage the nations more effectively.
We call this The Mobilized Church™ – Keys to Unlocking Your Church’s Missions Potential.
- Hear from noted speakers, missions thinkers, pastors and authors with decades of church leadership and missions experience.
- Break-out sessions for your team are strategically scheduled to help your church dig deeper so you can apply biblically-based concepts in the context of your church and entire congregation.
- Large Group discussions allow you to hear and learn from other churches and leaders. Networking allows you to connect with them as you develop and grow your missions vision for your church.
- Develop an action plan with which you and your leaders will leave with, ready to engage with your church staff and congregation.
Matthew began serving on staff at Calvary of Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1993, where he attended and graduated from their School of Ministry. He worked as the missions pastor at Calvary for nine years, developing and launching a strategic church-wide missions ministry.
In 2014 Matthew co-founded Sixteen:Fifteen and now serves as President & Church Missions Coach. He devotes his time to serving local churches and organizations across the country by coaching them in strategically focused missions and helping them to discover and use their unique gifts in partnership with others to make Christ known among all nations. He is also the co-author of "When Everything Is Missions" and "Conversations on When Everything Is Missions".
Denny currently has served in many church staff roles as worship, missions, and small group pastor and understands the significance of missions in the local church. During his vocational ministry, Denny served on the staff of two mega-churches, directed a para-church ministry, and helped plant several churches. He previously served as VP of Church Partnerships at Pioneers for the past 12 years.
Denny has co-authored the book “When Everything is Missions” and "Conversations on When Everything Is Missions" and also serves with Sixteen:Fifteen through a partnership with Pioneers as a Church & Agency Coach and Church Partnerships consultant.
Adrian serves as the Executive Pastor of Christ Kingdom Church in District Heights, MD just outside of Washington D.C. where he oversees the Christian Education, Evangelism, Worship, Administration, and Family Life ministries.
In addition he also serves as Executive Director for the National African American Missions Council (NAAMC), a conglomerate of missionaries, churches, and missions agencies working to increase African American involvement in the Great Commission.
Sarah was born and raised in Texas and grew up with aspirations of becoming an architect. After graduation from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor’s in Environmental Design, she began her career working for a large architecture firm in Dallas, TX. During her 7 years in the world of architecture, she ended up in Zambia on 3 separate short term visits. It was there in Africa, that God changed her heart, future plans and view of the world as He showed her His heart for the nations. She went on to serve for 5 years on a church-planting team in a tiny island nation in the Indian Ocean that is 99.9% Muslim. In that tiny African nation, she served as a Gospel seed sower, language learner, ballet teacher, seamstress, baker, English teacher, henna artist and active neighbor in her wonderful island village.
Sarah returned to the States in May 2017 and now serves as the Mobilization Coordinator for Africa Inland Mission
Jeff currently serves as the Discipleship Pastor at West Rome Baptist Church and a Mobilization/Discipleship Specialist with Triad. For 17 years he served as the Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies at California Baptist University, and for four years Director of Mobilization at CBU, until the spring of 2019.
He has served in mobilization/disciple ministry for 33 years as a church planter, instructor/trainer for the Perspectives course, Co-founder of Passion conferences, author of God's Heart for the Nations and Calling: A Scriptural Journey. Jeff has also assisted with training indigenous mobilization leadership and developing field strategies in over 30 countries.
Robert serves as a Regional Director for Partners where he leads efforts to motivate and mobilize churches to make a greater global missions impact through partnership with indigenous ministries working among the least reached. He began his professional career as a practicing attorney before serving sixteen years as a missions pastor and Senior pastor.
Robert knows the challenges of leading a church to be globally engaged. He loves serving local churches by helping them understand the incredible opportunity and personal responsibility they have to be strategically involved in reaching the least reached with the gospel.”
