Seminar 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.
You 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;
- Provides stimulating discussion questions – at the end of each session –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, will present Biblical strategies to invigorate and facilitate Christianity’s marching orders – the Great Commission – in your community and around the world!
Sign up today for this two-session seminar and find out how YOU can imitate the methods of Jesus to reach your world for Christ in your lifetime!
Seminar Summary
Session One: Local Discipleship – Making Disciples Just Like Jesus Did!
Imagine walking with Jesus and learning discipleship directly from Him! Understanding and imitating Jesus is both practical and effective when it comes to discipleship, as Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Executive Director of Eagles In Leadership, shows us how to imitate the example Jesus left for us to follow!
Session Two: Global Leadership – Servant Leaders Who Reach Your World For Christ!
In this session, you will learn what Jesus’ intentions actually were for you and I, the local Church, as Dr. Smith shares a simple roadmap to accomplishing Glocal evangelism and discipleship, starting with your own small group, just like He did!
Seminar Summary (30 words)
This is a practical, passionate, Biblical mentoring journey for those who desire to win their world for Christ. THIS seminar brings effectiveness and practicality to your efforts!
For the Pastor
The purpose of this event is to draw your people into the daily process of evangelism and discipleship. Throughout the seminar, Dr. Smith will encourage each participant to …
- Become a disciple of Jesus through your specific leadership model.
- Then, he will challenge them to become disciplers of others, as a never-ending, life-long mission.
All of this will be done from the New Testament model of Jesus.
The event will include …
* Two (2) 75-minute seminars
* A 10-15 minute Q & A at the end of each seminar
* A 20-minute break in between seminars
Each participant will be encouraged to bring their Bible to the event.
This is a practical, passionate, Biblical mentoring seminar for individuals, small groups, leadership teams and congregations who desire to win their world for Christ.
Agreements and Understandings
Dr. Smith is available to also speak at Sunday Worship with a follow-up message entitled, “It’s All About the Mission!” should the church leadership so desire. This message works off the premise: If I am “on mission” for Jesus Christ the focus of my life will be clearly seen in my choices and sacrifices.
Dr. Smith will come to the Church with the following agreements. The Church will provide …
• Publicity for the event
• Dr. Smith’s transportation to/from the event
• An agreed-upon honorarium
• Printed copies of Dr. Smith’s notes for each participant
• One copy of Dr. Smith’s book, Growing Missional Leaders, for each participant
• A table for Dr. Smith to sell his books before, during the breaks and after the event ends
In order to book Dr. Smith, simply message Ofel Ladines, ouladines@gmail.com. You can discover more about Dr. Smith and his ministry at EaglesInLeadership.org.
Dr. Smith’s Biography
Eagles In Leadership is a consulting, training ministry targeted to the next generation. Developing young eagles is our passion as we “Encourage Achievement in Godly Leaders by Emphasizing Servanthood.”
Eagles In Leadership is lead by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Ph.D. Dr. Smith was born in Wisconsin. He was unaware of his need for Jesus Christ as his personal savior until high school. As a sophomore, his history teacher shared The Four Spiritual Laws with him. There in that teacher’s office, Matthew prayed to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and put Christ on the Throne of his life as Lord.
Changes happened to Dr. Smith quickly. Soon his high school Spanish teacher asked him to help begin a teen Bible study. 40-50 teens soon met for study weekly. At his teacher’s church, Pastor Myron Higby challenged him to consider full-time Christian service. After a trip to the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, Illinois and Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois, he began to pray over God’s will for his life. God called him to Moody and Trinity. It was at Moody that Matthew surrendered to the call of God for ministry in a chapel service.
Marrying the joy of his eyes, Melodee Joy, the new couple moved to Southern California where he served as a volunteer youth pastor, as a part-time youth pastor and as a missionary pastor where they served for many years.
God brought about a life-changing step in Matthew and Melodee’s life when the couple accepted the call to East Los Angeles County. This was a time of great growth and development from a leadership standpoint for them. Turning around a dying church in a Hispanic community, the next 11 years allowed them to teach and train countless leaders in the Southwest and Mexico through leadership conferences and consulting opportunities. While there, Matthew earned his Masters of Arts in Ministry in Chicago, his Doctor of Philosophy in Christian Theology and his Doctor of Philosophy in Christian Education in Southern California.
Dr. Smith has pastored churches in California, Iowa, and Florida. These opportunities allowed them to expand God’s Kingdom and reach out with mission teams throughout the United States, Mexico, France, and Israel. He is currently adjunct faculty for California Pacific School of Theology. He has also served as adjunct faculty at California Baptist University in the School of Christian Ministries, Colorado Christian University, Bible Believers Christian College and Seminary and the University of South Los Angeles (formerly Life University).
Melodee was promoted to Glory on November 11, 2017, where she received her reward for life and ministry well lived.
Matthew’s habit of reading the Bible and prayer has been a source of great strength and understanding when it comes to leadership development. He reads the Bible at least once per year cover to cover. He enjoys an intimate, spiritual walk with God, including hundreds of answers to prayer every quarter, and hundreds of new insights monthly from God’s Word (having read it cover-to-cover some 39 times since 1993). It is his habit to label and file each insight topically for future retrieval. Currently, he has some 30,000 plus topical observations from the Bible that are a direct result of God’s intimate work during his devotional time.
For more information: https://www.eaglesinleadership.org/staff/
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Growing Missional Leaders! Seminar
How many times have you watched loved ones walk into a Christ-less eternity and wept because you know you could of, should have done more?
What if you could see your community, county, country or world worshiping Jesus? Would you, your group, or your church want to be a part of that?
THIS seminar brings effectiveness and practicality to your efforts so you can imitate Jesus and draw others to Him!
Join us as Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, Executive Director of Eagles In Leadership,
- 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;
- Provides stimulating discussion questions – at the end of each session –providing the stepping-stones to launching fresh ministry into your community.
If you are hungering to reach your world for Christ, you will be energized by this passionate call to fulfill Christ’s Gospel and the invigorating manner in which your 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, will present Biblical strategies to invigorate and facilitate Christianity’s marching orders – the Great Commission – in your community and around the world!
Sign up today for this two-session seminar and find out how YOU can imitate the methods of Jesus to reach your world for Christ in your lifetime!
