You are invited to attend!

Bring a friend!

You are invited to attend!

Bring a friend!

You are invited to attend!

Bring a friend!

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The world around us changes approximately every 18 months! Such change brings great challenges to our mission. Eagles In Leadership has designed a weekend to help you energize your congregation or organization to fulfill the Great Commission in your community. You can bring this weekend to your church or organization! (More about that in a moment.) The weekend looks like this …

Reaching Your Community in Your Generation Seminar

Saturday

Breakfast gathering – around tables

Session 1: Help! My Community is Changing!

50 minutes – after breakfast

The community around our facilities has changed so much since we first started this ministry. Our mission has never changed – we are here to reach our community to Christ. So what’s happened and, better yet, what can we do to fix it? This session helps us understand the natural process of decline in a church and how to bring focus afresh on the mission so that we can reach our community in our generation!

Break

15-20 minutes

Enjoy some time with Dr. Smith, peruse the book table and get an autographed copy of one of his books!

Session 2: What’s Your Dream? (And How to Reach It!)

50 minutes

God has placed a specific dream in the heart of every church. That dream involves the mission of Jesus – to make disciples of all nations. In this exciting, informative and inspiring session, Dr. Smith will take you through specific steps to help you discover or rediscover the dream of God for your life as an individual and as a church body. You will come away from this session with fresh energy and hope as you seek to share your story of God’s glory to spread His name and fame!

Session 3: Healthy Churches Grow!

40 minutes

Healthy couples have children; sick ones don’t. The same is true for churches. Bringing people to faith is the birthing process within God’s Church. Understanding what happens that brings decline in American Churches is a key to helping us reach our community in our generation. Once you know what went wrong, you can begin to take steps, as a church, to fix those things! In this powerful session, Dr. Smith walks us through the natural life of a church and shows us how to bring fresh life and vitality to our congregation!

Lunch Break

30 minutes

Enjoy some time with Dr. Smith, peruse the book table and get an autographed copy of one of his books!

Session 4: Reaching Your Community In Your Generation (It’s All About the Mission)!

40 minutes

In order to reach our community in our generation we will need to focus on two key issues, according to Jesus. In this humorous, encouraging and insightful message, Dr. Smith will reinvigorate your faith and center your life on the two keys all growing churches focus upon.

Optional Q & A Session: What are the questions you would like an answer to?

15-30 minutes

In this informal setting, you will have an opportunity to ask any question about church growth, church health and how to reach your community in your generation!

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Of course, you can tailor this weekend to your specific need. Take a moment now and contact Dr. Smith (Admin[at]EaglesInLeadership.org) to bring this weekend to your church or organization and learn more about how you can reach your community in your generation.

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God can feel distant … even if we have come to know Him in a personal relationship.  Enjoying an intimate walk with God seems impossible, yet it is something God longs for with you, and that’s the focus of Dr. Matthew Lee Smith’s How to Have An Exciting Daily Devotional Seminar!

The How to Have an Exciting Daily Devotional Seminar has helped thousands regain the closeness and freshness their faith longed for. Pastor Matt is an experienced speaker and gives encouraging, energetic and helpful presentations based on his experiences alone with God.

Dr. Smith is available to speak to any size group. (He will provide a free autographed copy of one of his books to the host of the event.)

Invite author, pastor, leadership developer, professor and podcaster Dr. Matthew Lee Smith to speak to your church, men’s group, Sunday School class or retreat.

To Schedule: Admin[at]EaglesInLeadership.org

Can’t Wait For a Seminar?

Dr. Smith has written two daily devotional helps you can order today:

Daily Devotional Helps: In His Image and In His Presence

Each book walks the reader through a year-long journey with God. In His Image restores the truth that “God Created You to Love You!” In His Presence invites the reader to “enter into God’s presence with the joys and pleasures of intimacy!”

To Purchase: Copies available at –

Amazon.com or EaglesInLeadership.org

About Dr. Matthew Smith

Dr. Matthew Lee Smith is the executive director of EaglesInLeadership.org, a ministry dedicated to “Encouraging Achievement in Godly Leaders by Emphasizing Servanthood” (EAGLES). He has been a pastor, trained leaders, counseled and spoken at conferences across the USA and in Mexico.

SOUL SURFER In Theaters Everywhere
April 8

SOUL SURFER is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, inspiring millions worldwide through the love of her family, her sheer determination, and her unwavering faith in Jesus Christ.

The film features an all-star cast, including AnnaSophia Robb and Helen Hunt, with Carrie Underwood in her film debut, and Dennis Quaid. SOUL SURFER arrives in theaters April 8 … get back on the board!

Learn more at SoulSurfertheMovie.com

Eagles In Leadership strongly encourages you to attend Radicalis! Dr. Matthew Lee Smith will be there, and he hopes you will be too!

Rick Warren invites you and your team to join the Radicalis Generation, February 22-25, 2011

Rick Warren along with Matt Carter, Steven Furtick, David Gibbons, Shawn Lovejoy, and Pete Wilson will be speaking in the main plenary sessions. There will also be great worship experiences featuring some of the best talent in Christian music. Radicalis promises incredible experiences that will encourage radical fellowship, radical growth, and radical surrender to God. Join Pastor Rick and the plenary speakers as they focus on church planting. Bring your entire team!

15 Conferences! 3,000 pastors and leaders! 4 days! Say yes to God and attend.

For the month of February, you can get a 15% discount on Growing Missional Leaders!

Dave Ferguson talks about “Growing Missional Leaders”

“Missional is more than the latest buzzword in Christian leadership circles. Mission is what motivated God to send His people to be a blessing to the rest of the world.  Mission is what caused the Father to send his Son to a lost and dying world.  Mission is the end result of the Spirit’s movement in the life of every Christ follower.  Mission was the last challenge that Jesus championed before he left planet earth.   In the pages of this book you will feel Matthew Smith’s passion for mission.  He understands that every person’s eternity is at stake and the dream of God for all mankind is in jeopardy unless we accomplish the mission of Jesus.”

~ Dave Ferguson, Author of The BIG IDEA and Exponential:

How You & Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement

Growing Missional Leaders is a practical, passionate, Biblical mentoring journey for individuals, small groups, leadership teams and congregations who desire to win their world for Christ. Readers will appreciate the enthusiastic and Spirit-filled hope God provides as Matthew tells stories – of lost opportunities and successes with friends – that give powerful, encouragement of personal and corporate outreach; opens Bible passages – again and again – showing God’s heart is to bring his lost children home; and provides stimulating discussion questions – at the end of each chapter –providing the stepping stones to launching fresh ministry into your community.

Believers hungering to reach their world for Christ will be energized by this passionate call to fulfill Christ’s Gospel and the invigorating manner in which their thought processes will be stretched to God-sized proportions.

Matthew Smith, pastor of multi-ethnic and multi-generational churches in urban, suburban and rural communities from Miami to Los Angeles, presents twenty-four Biblical strategies to invigorate and facilitate Christianity’s marching orders  – the Great Commission – in your community.

To order your discounted copy of Growing Missional Leaders, CLICK here and enter your discount code: 4CKTYHFM

You can order as many copies of Growing Missional Leaders at the 15% discount as you want during February!

I know you will want to attend this conference! I will be there and I believe you should be there also!

~ Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

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• Preorder your very own autographed copy of “Growing Missional Leaders”, signed by the author (Matthew Lee Smith)!

• This special edition will only be available for a short time, so order now!

• Product Description

Growing Missional Leaders is a practical, passionate, Biblical mentoring journey for individuals, small groups, leadership teams and congregations who desire to win their world for Christ. Readers will appreciate the enthusiastic and Spirit-filled hope God provides as Matthew tells stories – of lost opportunities and successes with friends – that give powerful, encouragement of personal and corporate outreach; opens Bible passages – again and again – showing God’s heart is to bring his lost children home; and provides stimulating discussion questions – at the end of each chapter –providing the stepping stones to launching fresh ministry into your community.

Believers hungering to reach their world for Christ will be energized by this passionate call to fulfill Christ’s Gospel and the invigorating manner in which their thought processes will be stretched to God-sized proportions.

Matthew Smith, pastor of multi-ethnic and multi-generational churches in urban, suburban and rural communities from Miami to Los Angeles, presents twenty-four Biblical strategies to invigorate and facilitate Christianity’s marching orders  – the Great Commission – in your community.

• Forward by Dave Ferguson, author of The Big Idea and Exponential: How You & Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement, http://DaveFerguson.org
  

• What Others Are Saying About “Growing Missional Leaders”

Missional has become a buzzword stamped almost everywhere and anywhere but in his most recent book Growing Missional Leaders Dr. Matthew Smith takes us on a journey to rediscover just what it means to be “MISSIONAL”! Dr. Smith helps the reader understand how to BE missional and to LEAD missional with stories that inspire and questions that challenge. I’ve seen first hand that what Dr. Smith espouses with his pen he lives with his life. Growing Missional Leaders is a great place to start for any leader who has a desire and passion to make a kingdom impact!
~ Troy Gramling, Lead Pastor, Flamingo Road Church (Cooper City, FL) http://www.flamingoroadchurch.com
#32 in Outreach’s 100 Largest Churches in America

Practical, biblically centered, and encouraging … Growing Missional Leaders fits the bill on all three. If you want to become better at fulfilling God’s call in your life, then read this book. Dr. Smith packs 24 helpful principles into short, easy-to-read chapters easily used with groups or for personal reading.
~ Charles Stone, Senior Pastor, Ginger Creek Community Church (Aurora, IL) http://www.gingercreek.org
Author, 5 Ministry Killers and How to Defeat Them

“If you are a pastor, youth minister, missionary, parent, teacher, coach…or in general a CHRISTIAN…then you honestly need to read this book by Matthew Smith. It is Biblical, building on leadership principles from scripture. It is practical, offering common-sense ideas and strategies. It is readable, using illustrations, stories, and applications in easy-to-read chapters. Most importantly, it calls us back to living life on mission with God and then tells us how to go about it. Get one for you, and go ahead and get one for all your friends that you love and respect. It really is that good and that helpful.”
~ Clayton King, http://www.claytonking.com/
Founder of Crossroads Ministries (Shelby, NC) http://www.crossroadsworldwide.com/
Teaching Pastor Newspring Church (Anderson, SC) http://www.newspring.cc
Author, Dying to Live, Abandoning Yourself to God’s Bold Paradox

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READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR — In His Image

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READ THROUGH THE PSALMS IN ONE YEAR – In His Presence

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Despair and troubles seem to be overwhelming the people of God right now. The only way for the men and women of God to weather the storms of life is to cling to the God in charge of it all. A deep, storm-busting faith begins with our daily time in God’s word. Dr. Smith has words of hope, love and wisdom gleaned from this study of God’s word and he’s collected them into two faith building books – In His Image and In His Presence.

And now Dr. Smith is asking for  your help promoting the books and he’s offering you a chance to win a free autographed copy of your very own.

Find some way to promote the book: you can write about it on your blog, post a video on YouTube, Tweet about it on Twitter, tell your Facebook friends, run something in your church bulletin, buy some copies for your local church library,  leave a review on Amazon … whatever you can think of. The idea is (of course) to drive sales of the book.

If at all possible, link to the book itself using the following URLs:

In His Presence: https://www.createspace.com/3382271
In His Image: https://www.createspace.com/3391449

Once you’ve posted something, write about it in the comments section at the bottom of this page.

You have until 10/30/09 to come up and execute your promotional idea.

We are honored to announce that OnlineBibleColleges.net has included the “Transformed Podcast” from Eagles in Leadership as one of the “100 Incredibly Inspiring Christian Blogs” in its recent post. “Transformed” was listed along with such notable podcasts such as, “Joel Osteen Ministries Podcast,” “Lifespring” and “Hope for Today.” 11 podcasts were listed in the category.

Readers were encouraged to “Get out your iPod and download one or all of these Christian related broadcasts to get tons of inspiring faith related messages.”

Tell your friends and encourage them to check it out today at: http://onlinebiblecolleges.net/100-incredibly-inspiring-christian-blogs/.

You may have noticed that I have not been posting nearly as frequently over the last month.  The reason is that my daughter Tabitha and I have put the finishing touches on a new book.  It is done and I am really excited about it.  This is a book for anyone who longs to know God and desires to walk with Him in joyful and pleasure. It is very practical and I think inspirational.  The title is “In His Presence.”

We have been brainstorming ways to get the word out about this new book.  So, I thought I would see if you could help.  Leave me a comment with your thoughts or answering these questions:  How would you market a new book?  What creative ideas have you seen for getting the word out about a book? Are there ways that you would like to help us?

Thanks for your help!

This Christmas – as money is tight – why not give a gift that will last all through 2009? Give the gift of God’s love by ordering a copy of In His Image for each person on your Christmas list.

In His Image is a daily dose of God’s love that is guaranteed to bring great hope and inspiration to your family and friends! Listen to what Val says …

“I highly recommend this devotional book!  I gave this book to several on my Christmas list last year.  The timing perfectly aligns with the New Year coming for a wonderful devotional to use along with Bible reading for 2009!”

If you would like to share our great God and His great plan for life, we suggest you purchase a copy of Dr. Smith’s book, “In His Image”. We know you will want to get several copies for your friends today. To order your copy of “In His Image” click the link on the right hand toolbar.

To learn more about the ministry and resources of Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, click the ‘RESOURCES’ link at the top of this web page.

While we wait for the final outcome in the “Religion Inspiration” category for the 2008 Podcast awards, we wanted to thank you for your vote. As you know our Transformed! Podcast is a finalist and we are excitedly awaiting the announcement. Voting is now closed and vote review is in progress! The lower 20 Category Winners (including the ‘Religion Inspiration’ category) will be announced on Sunday, Nov 9th at 4 pm Pacific. No matter the outcome, we want to again thank you in advance for your gracious kindness. We will let you know the results as they are posted. You can watch the proceedings live at http://podcastawards.com/ on Sunday, Nov 9th at 4 pm Pacific if you so desire.

Dr. Matthew Lee Smith poses with his trophy from the Winter 2008 Podcast Peer competition. The Transformed Podcast won Best Newbee podcast!