Meet The Speakers

Matt Regan

Matt Regan

Associate Pastor - Southeast Christian Church

Matt Reagan is the Associate Pastor at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, KY. Matt has served in various roles at Southeast since 2006, including students and other leadership roles. He’s a visionary leader with a passion to unleash the church to impact our community and beyond. Matt works with pastors all over our country to encourage and strengthen the ministry work they are doing. He has a heart for others to know Jesus and grow in who Jesus made them to be.

Bob Russell

Bob Russell

Founder of Bob Russell Ministries

Bob RussellAt age 22, Bob became the pastor of Southeast Christian Church, a newer church whose 120 members were still meeting in the basement of a house on the east side of Louisville, Kentucky. Forty years later, in 2006, Bob retired from Southeast, which had become one of the largest churches in America. Through Bob Russell Ministries, he continues to preach at churches and conferences across the United States, offering his insights on church leadership and providing mentorship to pastors. An accomplished author with over a dozen books to his name, including “After 50 Years of Ministry: 7 Things I’d Do Differently and 7 Things I’d Do the Same,” Bob has also contributed over 600 articles to his blog at BobRussell.org, where he consistently offers Biblical guidance on contemporary issues.

Woods

Ben & Crystal Woods

Directors of Brave Way Home

We are devoted followers of Christ, partners in marriage and ministry, and the grateful parents of our three amazing children, Ezra, Calla and Lilah. They met at freshman orientation in Bible College, before the turn of the century, and have been married since 2001. We love Jesus first and let the fullness of that core relationship pour into our marriage and then into our family and then into the world around us. We have served in various forms of ministry over the years, from touring the country performing music, to serving students on a secular college campus, to discipling college-age young adults and creating discipleship pathways in the local church, and we have always served together. Learn more at thebravewayhome.com

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