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 & Agency 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 served as Vice President of Church Partnerships with Pioneers USA for nearly 20 years. He 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 also spent 15 years as a business owner.
Denny has co-authored the book “When Everything is Missions” and "Conversations on When Everything Is Missions" and is now seconded to Sixteen:Fifteen through a partnership with Pioneers as a Church & Agency Coach!
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.
Jeff served for 17 years 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 pastor and 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.
Rebekah is the former Director of Mobilization for Cafe 1040. She and her husband also serve on the Missions Committee at their church. Rebekah brings years of missions mobilization experience as well as serving in the local church.
Rebekah continues to serve churches and missions organizations by regularly sharing her experience & teaching through Sixteen:Fifteen workshops.
Clint grew up in a small town in the high plains of eastern New Mexico going to church every Sunday, but things really clicked in college through an on campus Christian ministry. It is through personal discipleship and faithful preaching that Clint caught on to God's heart for His glory to be seen and savored among the nations. Clint spent a summer in Russia shadowing an evangelist and church planter there. He served as a Missions and Executive pastor/church planter in Albuquerque, New Mexico for 15 years where he helped cast vision, raise funds, and mobilize church planters toward the ends of the Earth. Clint and Joanna have been married since 2005. They adopted their two sons from Uganda in 2008 and 2011. They are a soccer family and they love seeing churches, their leaders, and their members catch and own God's global vision and mission to make disciples of Jesus from all nations.
After serving as a pastor for 17 years at a metro-Detroit church, Rick initiated and helped build a church and mission agency partnership that resulted in his church commissioning and relocating his family with a church-based team to establish a ministry in West Africa. He has since lived on three different continents and served on multinational teams in 10+ countries, further igniting his passion to see diverse people come together in Christ, navigate conflict, build trust and unity, and fulfill the church’s purpose.
Recently completing his master’s degree in Organizational Psychology, he now serves churches and organizations by coaching them through change and transformation to maximize their impact.
After spending 10 years as a professional firefighter, David left the fire service for full-time vocational ministry. He previously served as the Texas Regional Director for the Perspectives Study Program for 8 years and he currently serves as the Director of Mobilization & Operations at Sixteen:Fifteen. David has led more than a dozen trips to Central America doing evangelism, medical and orphan care, firefighter training and church planting. He has worked with numerous churches to develop missionary training and equipping programs and he has spoken to thousands of students and adults across the US and Central America about God’s global mission with a great passion to mobilize the body of Christ to strategic engagement in God’s global purpose.
