Speaking

Teaching people can use on Monday.

Jeff has spent forty years in the local church helping people take their next step with Jesus. Jeff teaches people how to take their next step — coming to believe, connecting with others who will walk alongside them, and living each day led by the Holy Spirit. He also helps church leaders build something that keeps people walking long after that first step, and has taught groups of pastors and church leaders on mission trips in Nicaragua, India and Africa.

Topics

What Jeff speaks on

Each can run as a single session or across a weekend. Jeff speaks once — the books are built to carry a small group for weeks afterwards, so the teaching does not stop when he goes home.

Now that you believeFirst steps for new believers — and how to build a church culture that walks with them past week one.
Not meant to walk aloneDiscipling and mentoring: why the Christian life was never designed to be private.
Spirit-led, not just Spirit-filledThe difference, why it matters, and what the daily practice looks like. Draws on Empowered For More.
Building a covenant marriageFor marriage retreats and couples’ events. Jeff and Sue have been at this fifty-five years.
Leading in the local churchStarting something that outlasts you, and the discipleship culture that carries it.
Watch

See Jeff teach before you invite him.

Short clips, a couple of minutes each, across the range of what Jeff teaches on. The quickest way to know whether he is right for your people.

Introducing Jeff36 seconds
Inviting Jeff to speak43 seconds
Marriage2 min
Parenting2 min 25
Difficult situations2 min 12
Spirit-led vs. Spirit-filled1 min 44

Formats

  • Weekend services & guest teaching
  • Weekend retreats
  • Leader training
  • Podcast & radio interviews

What hosts get

  • Promotional graphics, bio and headshots
  • Bulk book pricing for attendees
  • A follow-up resource for people who respond
  • A/V and travel requirements up front
About Jeff

He started and co-authored The Discipleship Walk in 1989 — a three-day retreat that has now reached more than 18,000 people across the United States — and built the Alpha Course at his church into one of the largest in the country. He has trained more than 500 churches in the US, Nicaragua and India to run their own Alpha Courses. For fifteen years he taught the spiritual gifts classes at his church, where over 1,500 people came to understand the Holy Spirit and how they had each been gifted.

He has been licensed as a pastor by Northview Church in Carmel, Indiana for twenty years, and has served in pastoral roles in many other places, including India and Nicaragua. He spent his working life in business — starting new divisions, then running his own consulting firm for twenty years — and served in ministry the whole time.

Booking

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He reads every one of these himself. If your date is close, say so in the message.