OUTSTANDING RESOURCES
STEPHEN W. BROWN
Stephen Brown is the Founder and President of Key Life Network, Inc. and Bible teacher on the national radio program Key Life. The weekday 15-minute broadcast and 60-second Think Spots are currently heard on over 600 outlets. Stephen is also the host on the talk show, “Steve Brown, Etc.” aired on the Radio American Network on Saturday evenings.
Mr. Brown is an accomplished author of eleven books, including When Your Rope Breaks (1996), Jumping Hurdles (1997), Follow the Wind (1999), and What Was I Thinking? (2006). He is the contributing editor of Preaching magazine and a former disk jockey and newsman at radio stations in Boston, MA; Greensboro and Winston-Salem, NC. He is the Professor of Preaching and Pastoral Ministry at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL and the former pastor of Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church. Stephen is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Religious Broadcasters and Harvest, USA and a contributing Editor of Preaching magazine.
This dynamic, inspirational speaker was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. Stephen married the former Anna Williamson and is the proud father of two daughters and grandfather of three granddaughters.
CAROL KENT
Carol Kent is a popular international public speaker best known for being humorous, encouraging, and biblical. She is a former radio show co-host and has often been a guest on Focus on the Family and a featured speaker at Women of Faith, Time Out for Women and Heritage Keepers arena events. She has also spoken at The Praise Gathering for Believers and at Vision New England’s Congress.
Ms. Kent is the president of Speak Up Speaker Services, a Christian speakers’ bureau, and the founder and director of Speak Up With Confidence seminars, a ministry committed to helping Christians develop their communication skills. She has recently founded the nonprofit organization, Speak Up for Hope, which will benefit the families of incarcerated individuals. The goal of the organization is to give hope to the hopeless, encouragement and strength to the weary, healing to marriages that have been torn apart by incarceration, and mental, spiritual, and physical stability to the children of prisoners.
Her books include: A New Kind of Normal, When I Lay My Isaac Down, Becoming a Woman of Influence, Mothers Have Angel Wings, Secret Longings of the Heart, Tame Your Fears, Speak Up With Confidence, and Detours, Tow Trucks, and Angels in Disguise. She has also co-written with Karen Lee-Thorp the Designed for Influence Bible Studies. Carol has also been featured on the cover of Today’s Christian Woman.
MITCH MAHER
In August 2008 Mitch became the Senior Pastor At Redeemer Community Church in Katy, TX. For the six years prior, Mitch served as the Directional Leader/Lead Pastor at Fellowship Bible Church in Jonesboro, AR, a church he helped plant in 2002. Originally from Plano, TX, Mitch graduated from the University of North Texas in Denton where he quarterbacked the football team and earned a Bachelor in Business Administration in 1995. Throughout his school years Mitch was involved in the campus ministry of Student Venture and then in college, Campus Crusade for Christ.
From 1996 to 2001 Mr. Maher worked with the Young Singles Ministry of Denton Bible Church, serving as the Director for over three years. With a passion for the local church, communicating God’s truth, and equipping believers for life and ministry, Mitch joined the Church Planting Leadership Residency program at Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, AR before moving to Jonesboro in 2002 to plant Fellowship Bible Church of Jonesboro.
Excited to help others understand the Scriptures, Mitch Maher self-published a book/DVD entitled Clarifying the Bible: a DVD Presentation to Help Make Sense of It All. This exceptional DVD has become a useful tool for those continuing to read God’s Word and see it from a different perspective.
Mitch and his wife Tara are the proud parents of their little girl, Macy, who was born in 2004, and their second child is due this December.
KENNON VAUGHAN
In February 2004, Kennon Vaughan knew he was called not just to "do the work of an evangelist," but also to train other believers to be disciples and to aid ministries and para-church organizations across the country in implementing Biblical, multiplicative discipleship. He birthed Downline Ministries to fulfill this calling.
Mr. Vaughan began speaking while in college at Auburn University and during his brief baseball career at Vanderbilt University. He has been motivating and equipping audiences across the nation for nearly a decade. Upon graduation he went into full-time youth ministry seeing first-hand the need for and radical impact of discipleship in the life of every believer. An effective communicator with passion, charisma, and a solid foundation of Biblical knowledge, Kennon speaks powerfully to the mandate of Christ for every believer to make disciples. He also speaks to audiences on how to be an ambassador for Christ in other culturally relevant areas such as leadership, purpose, identity, and relationships.
After five years working as a youth minister, first in Missouri and then Tennessee, Kennon decided to further his training by studying for a year under author, teacher, and Pastor Tommy Nelson. Kennon currently is obtaining a Masters in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree in "Evangelism and Discipleship: Living and Leading the Great Commission" from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Internationally, Kennon has traveled and studied in the Middle East, played baseball in South Africa with Campus Crusade's Athletes in Action, and led DownLine discipleship training teams in China, Zambia, Madagascar, and El Salvador. Kennon has also coached high school football and baseball over the past five years and is currently the team chaplain and a volunteer coach at Memphis University School.
Kennon, his wife Kathryn, and son Caleb reside in Memphis, TN.
