Jeff Lewis Joins Sixteen:Fifteen as Mobilization & Discipleship Strategist
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jeff Lewis Joins Sixteen:Fifteen as Mobilization & Discipleship Strategist (effective Monday, December 4th, 2023) December 4, 2023 - Sixteen:Fifteen, a leading Christian non-profit committed to equipping local churches and organizations for...
Black Friday Sale – When Everything Is Missions
"If everything is mission, nothing is mission. If everything the church does is to be classed as “mission,” we shall need to find another term..." - Stephen Neil . In the first book, When Everything Is Missions, Matthew & Denny called all of us to refocus our gaze...
Cultivating Good Soil with Sixteen:Fifteen
This time of year, we think a lot about harvests and thankfulness. But for many of us, it’s easy to forget the food on our tables today had to grow from seed months ago. And the fields it was grown in were probably cultivated years ago. Harvests don’t happen by...
The Mission Matters: Conversations from Mission Leaders Conference 2023
Matthew Ellison interviews Robert Wassel (Pioneers), Jeremy Wynne (Fellowship Bible Church - Topeka, KS), and Luke Womack (AIRO) at the MissioNexus Missions and Church Leaders Conference in Orlando, FL in September 2023. Among other topics, they talk about how change...
Gaining God’s Heart for Lost Sheep
Gaining God’s Heart for Lost Sheep: 3 Steps to posture your heart toward Christ-like Compassion for The Unreached What stirs your heart? What causes deep compassion to well up within you, to where you just have to do something? Here are three steps we all can take to...
Why Go to the Ends of the Earth When There are so Many Lost People Right Here?
by Matthew Ellison - Sixteen:Fifteen, President and Church Missions Coach I have been engaged in mobilizing churches to engage the nations for nearly twenty five years, and if I had a nickel every time I heard people say, “Why go to the ends of the earth when there...
A Merry Christmas Eulogy
Back in 2012, in a Special Edition ministry newsletter entitled, Mission Accomplished, I shared how my dad was treading that thin place where heaven and earth meet, and how his ministry on earth was coming to a close. My dad had played an instrumental role in the...
The Innovation Crisis
An interview with the author Ted Esler, President of Missio Nexus What’s the big idea? I am often asked by ministry leaders, “Ted, who is being innovative right now that we might be able to learn from?” I found myself short on answers and realized that innovation...
What Drives us?
Our passion is to see a movement of local churches rise up and take their place in the greatest movement in history, namely the Great Commission. We long to see churches join God in His invincible, unthwartable mission to fill heaven with worshipers from all nations,...