Matt Kyser

BIO

Tim Armstrong has served as the Senior Pastor of The Chapel in Akron, OH since 2014. The Chapel reaches over 5,000 people every weekend across their 5 campuses. Tim is a graduate of both Cedarville University and Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M). Before coming to The Chapel, Tim (along with a team of 30 people) planted Crossroads Community Church in Masnfield, OH which grew to over 2,000 members through a commitment to the verse-by-verse exegetical teaching of God’s Word. As the pastorteacher of the radio program, The Worthy Walk, Tim’s goal is to reach the lost with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Kie is the Senior Pastor of Hyde Park Baptist Church and The Quarries Church (“one church in two locations”) in Austin, Texas. Originally from Fairbanks, Alaska. Kie arrived in Texas for Seminary in the 1980′s where he earned a Master of Divinity and a Doctor of Ministry from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth. Following his Seminary training, he made his way to the Atlanta area and served two churches in 10 years until 1997 when he came to Hyde Park in Austin as Senior Pastor.

As a senior pastor for over two decades, Daniel Henderson brought prayer-based revitalization to numerous churches. Now, as the President of Strategic Renewal, Daniel is dedicating his full-time efforts to help congregations across the country and world experience renewal. Daniel is sought after for his expertise in leading corporate prayer. He has authored numerous books on biblical leadership and prayer including, Old Paths, New Power and Transforming Prayer: How Everything Changes When You Seek God’s Face.

In 2010, Jeff Schwarzentraub moved to Denver, CO to plant BRAVE Church (formerly Harvest Bible Chapel Denver), where he continues to serve as Lead Pastor and Elder. Under Jeff’s leadership, BRAVE has also recently launched a resident seminary program and global church planting network. Jeff is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, where he received the distinguished Harry A. Ironside Award for Expository Preaching. He also completed his doctorate degree at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Jeff’s Bible-teaching can be heard weekdays throughout Denver, CO on KRKS 94.7.

Robert Smith, Jr. holds the Charles T. Carter Baptist Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School where he teaches Christian Preaching. Previously he served as the Carl E. Bates Associate Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He has written the book, Doctrine That Dances: Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life (B&H Publishing Group, Nashville: 2008), which was selected as the winner of the 2008 Preaching Book of the Year Award by Preaching magazine and 2009 Preaching Book of the Year Award by Christianity Today’s preaching.com. In 2010, Preaching magazine named Doctrine That Dances one of the 25 most influential books in preaching for the last 25 years. His book, The Oasis of God: From Mourning to Morning—Biblical Insights from Psalms 42 and 43 was published in the spring of 2015. He received Beeson Divinity School’s “Teacher of the Year Award” in 2005. He and his wife, Dr. Wanda Taylor-Smith, Ph.D., are the parents of four adult children (one in heaven).

Troy has been in pastoral ministry for over 20 years and currently serves as the Senior Pastor of Eastlake Community Church in Virginia, which he helped plant in 2005. Troy is a visionary leader who invests much of his life, not only in preaching and teaching but in developing spiritual leaders and in training the next generation of church planters.

Alice Moss is a Bible teacher, retreat speaker, workshop leader, and worship-based prayer facilitator. She has a unique ability to reach women with her genuine, enthusiastic love for Jesus. She offers wise Biblical counsel to women based on a mature and clear understanding of God’s Word. She recently authored a biographical book, I Crossed Over, which recounts her own 40 year journey in prayer for her husband’s salvation.

Dennis Henderson has served in pastoral ministry for over 50 years, and is currently serving as the Lead Pastor at Fusion Bible Church in Durant, OK. In addition to his local church ministry, Dennis also helps facilitate nationwide efforts in prayer and renewal as a member of Strategic Renewal’s Transformational Ministry Team and as a Southwest Regional Director for The 6:4 Fellowship.

Billie Henderson has been a pastor's wife for 54 years. She has served the local church in discipling women, speaker for women's conferences and in recent years mentoring pastors wives. She and her husband, Dennis, have spoken to ministry couples in 15 countries. They have 4 adult children and 9 grandchildren. Billie is always refreshing and authentic as she shares with ministry wives.

Keeney Dickenson is the founder and director of Prayeridigm Ministries. He is a pastor, writer, consultant, and conference speaker with a passion for prayer and revival. Keeney is a graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv) and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (DMin). He is a founding  leader of The 6:4 Fellowship, and has served as Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church in Crockett, Texas since 2003.

Jim is the Chairman and founder of MaximTrak Technologies, an International Software Firm serving the Automotive and power sports industries as well as President and founder of Maxim Automotive, which specializes in forming and managing re-insurance companies for Automotive Dealers. Jim and his wife Cathy have been involved in inner city ministry for over 30 years as regular hosts of city-wide prayer gatherings, founders of Acts 4:13 (a ministry dedicated to mobilizing the church to prayer for pastors), and board members of People for People and World Impact. Jim is also the Chairman of The Hope Center, an urban crisis pregnancy center in North Philadelphia, as well as an author and public speaker.

Paul Purvis has been a lead pastor for nearly 20 years, serving the last 8 in the greater Tampa area at Mission Hill Church. The priority of prayer has been evident throughout Paul’s ministry at Mission Hill. In addition to daily staff prayer and a weekly all-church prayer gathering, Mission Hill has created a Prayer Pastor position and hosts an annual 40 Days of Prayer & Fasting leading up to Easter. This profound commitment to prayer has multiplied the ministry of Mission Hill Church and through this, God has shown His faithfulness over and over again.

Lindsay Taylor has served in pastoral ministry for nearly 40 years. Lindsay currently serves as president of Strategic Renewal Canada with a deep desire to see churches across our land experience a heaven sent move of God.

Pat Jones serves as the Lead Pastor of Eastern Hills Church in Williamsville, NY. Pat also serves as a Northeast Regional Leader for The 6:4 Fellowship, a coalition of pastors committed to "prayer and the ministry of the word" as seen in Acts 6:4.

Len Crowley has a broad ministry background, serving as pastor of four churches, Bible teacher, board member, and ministry director. Len is also Co-Founder of Whole in One (designing multi-ethnic collaborations) has led PLI Global (worldwide, character-based leadership training), helped direct COUNSEL & CAPITAL (a non-pro t investment bank), and trained trainers as a National Instructor with Walk Thru the Bible.

Jason Matta is a pastor and church planter. He planted Hope Church Toronto West in 2013, where he continues to serve as lead pastor today. Pastor Jason is passionate about the glory of God, the mission of God, the Word of God, and humble dependence upon God in prayer. He also serves as a Regional Leader for The 6:4 Fellowship.

Dale Sutherland served on staff at Mclean Bible Church as the Lead Pastor until 2019 where he casted vision, shepherded the people and provided pastoral oversight of the church. Dale and Patti attended MBC from the early 1980’s until the launch of CityLight in 2019. Prior to his role as Lead Pastor, Dale served as the Director of Student Ministries and Director of Outreach for more than a decade. Dale now serves as the President of ICM USA and is actively launching a global initiative to care for the physical and spiritual needs of the ultra poor of the world. Dale has three daughters, three sons-in-law, six grandsons and one granddaughter.

Brenda Brown has been teaching on principles of purposeful living for over twenty-five years. She is the author of the book, The Deeper Life of Women in the Bible. She also co-authored The Deeper Life: Satisfying the 8 Vital Longings of the Soul and 21 Days to a Deeper Life with Daniel Henderson. As a Life Coach, Brenda enjoys helping women discover their purpose and build a strategic plan to help navigate life's changing seasons. She is a wife, mother and grandmother.

Matt Kyser is the Lead Pastor of The Village Church in Irvine, CA, and also serves as the Founder and President of Restor Renewal Ministries – a ministry dedicated to the spiritual, physical and vocational renewal of pastors and Christian leaders. Matt is also the Acts 29 Area Director for Orange County, CA. Matt and his wife Dina live in Irvine, California with their three children.

Strategic Renewal exists to serve the local church in making an extraordinary commitment to the priority of prayer. Our vision is to see praying people, supporting praying pastors, leading praying churches for supernatural gospel impact. In all we do, we underline the Scripture’s emphasis on healthy local-church leadership, the sufficiency of the Holy Spirit, and the pursuit of cultural transformation.

Learn more at strategicrenewal.com   

The 6:4 Fellowship is a coalition of pastors committed to excellence in the two vital priorities found in Acts 6:4: "prayer and the ministry of the word". These priorities defined New Testament leadership and gave early church leaders the courage to say “no” to the distractions of lesser demands in order to focus on the core priorities of supernatural ministry.

Learn more at 64fellowship.com