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 serves as Vice President of Church Partnerships with Pioneers USA and leads a team of 10. 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 also serves with Sixteen:Fifteen as a Church Missions Coach and Church Partnerships consultant.
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.
Michael VanHuis has been with Missio Nexus since September 2015 and currently serves as vice president. He started in missions in 1997 as a Pioneers field missionary in Ghana, West Africa. He’s since served in various leadership roles with mission agencies and a large local church. He has a master’s of global leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He and his wife, Laura, have five children and live in Aurora, Illinois.
For 17 years Jeff 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.
Dr. Mary Ho is the International Executive Leader of All Nations, a global Christian missions organization with workers making disciples and doing church planting in 44 countries. Dr. Ho is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by sharing the love of God among every people and in parts of the world where the name of Jesus Christ is little or not known.
