Executive Vice President, Church Engagement & Revival

Life Action offers many ways to use your God-given gifts to help believers everywhere move toward revival, vitality, and their mission with Jesus. We’re looking for people who have a passion for Jesus, a heart to serve, and a desire to be a part of work that matters! We have opportunities to serve remotely and at our facilities in Buchanan, MI.

The Leadership Mandate:

Life Action's 55-year ministry model has been expressed in two directions: we go to churches, and people come to us. This position provides executive leadership for the first of those expressions while strengthening its connection to the whole Life Action ministry. The central mandate is to:

• Reintroduce Life Action to a new generation of pastors and churches

• Rebuild trust, awareness, and sustained relationships within the evangelical Church

• Give clear, compelling public voice to Life Action's message of revival through renewed love and restored relationships

• Strengthen and expand the “go to the church” model through multi-day, immersive ministry experiences

• Lead the Church Events area spiritually, strategically, relationally, and organizationally

• Help churches move from a single event toward an ongoing journey of revival, vitality, relational health, and mission with Jesus

Life Action's Ministry DNA:

This leader must understand, embrace, and embody Life Action's ministry DNA:

• Create the context

• Proclaim biblical truth

• Build authentic relationships

• Invite people to respond to God

• Help them live it out

Central to Life Action's message are the Seven Biblical Responses — practical expressions of how we say “yes” to God: Humility, Honesty, Repentance, Forgiveness, Compassion, Obedience, and Kingdom Action. This leader must personally model, clearly teach, and consistently reinforce these responses through preaching, relationships, decision-making, team leadership, and public representation of the ministry.

Provide Executive Leadership for Church Events:

• Lead the overall vision, strategy, priorities, culture, and results of the Church Events ministry

• Translate the CEO's larger organizational vision into a clear and executable Church Events strategy

• Align speaking, scheduling, team deployment, worship, children's and student ministry, event production, follow-up, and church relationships around a unified ministry purpose

• Build, lead, develop, and hold accountable the Church Events leadership team

• Establish clear ministry, scheduling, relationship, financial, and operational goals

• Evaluate current event formats and help develop effective weekend, four-day, eight-day, and other ministry experiences without weakening Life Action's immersive distinctives

• Work collaboratively with Camp, Curriculum and Programming, Advancement, Communications, and Consentia so Church Events functions as part of one integrated Life Action strategy

Serve as a Public Voice for Revival:

• Preach and teach the message of revival with biblical conviction, spiritual authority, pastoral sensitivity, and practical application

• Serve regularly as a featured speaker at Church Events, pastor gatherings, conferences, Camp experiences, partner events, and other strategic settings

• Articulate Life Action's message clearly to pastors, church leaders, congregations, donors, ministry partners, and the broader evangelical community

• Help establish Life Action as a trusted thought leader in revival, relational renewal, authentic Christianity, and church vitality

• Develop sermons, talks, articles, videos, podcasts, interviews, and other content that serves the Church and creates awareness of Life Action's ministry

• Represent Life Action with humility, credibility, warmth, and consistency in public and private settings

Rebuild Relationships with Pastors and Churches:

• Make relationship development with pastors a central leadership priority, not simply a scheduling function

• Build and maintain a growing network of pastors, denominational leaders, church networks, ministry organizations, and trusted evangelical voices

• Listen carefully to pastors and understand the spiritual, relational, cultural, and leadership challenges facing churches today

• Create meaningful avenues for pastors to encounter Life Action before being asked to host an event, including personal conversations, prayer gatherings, pastor lunches, roundtables, digital content, and Camp experiences

• Build a relational pathway that moves pastors from awareness, to trust, to participation, to hosting, to ongoing partnership

• Re-engage churches and leaders who have previously experienced Life Action while reaching pastors who have little or no familiarity with the ministry

Lead Church Development and Sustainable Growth:

• Strengthen the process by which pastoral relationships become confirmed ministry opportunities

• Provide executive oversight to scheduling, church development, lead cultivation, follow-up, and relationship-management systems

• Improve the quality and consistency of communication with prospective and returning host churches

• Develop a healthy, measurable ministry pipeline while ensuring that relational trust and spiritual discernment remain central

• Partner with Communications and Advancement to create pastor-facing messages, campaigns, testimonies, resources, and invitations

• Help determine the appropriate national and regional deployment strategy, with concentrated relationship development in the Midwest, Mid-South, Southeast, and broader Bible Belt, and deep regional strength around the Michigan ministry hub

• Cultivate repeat relationships in which churches engage with multiple Life Action ministries and resources over time

Strengthen Ministry Message and Follow-Up:

• Work with Curriculum and Programming to ensure that Church Events teaching, application, and follow-up are biblically aligned and mutually reinforcing

• Help develop resources for pastors, participants, and ministry partners that extend impact beyond the event itself

• Ensure that every event provides clear opportunities for people to respond to God and practical handles for living out that response

• Champion effective post-event measurement, including pastoral feedback, participant response, testimonies, relationship progression, and longer-term ministry outcomes

• Use feedback and evidence of impact to improve ministry while preserving dependence on the Holy Spirit and the relational nature of the work

Develop Speakers and Ministry Leaders:

• Identify, recruit, mentor, and develop a broader team of credible Life Action speakers and ministry leaders

• Establish theological, spiritual, relational, and communication standards for those who publicly represent Life Action

• Coach speakers to communicate Life Action's message with consistency while retaining their authentic voice and gifting

• Help develop young adults and emerging leaders through meaningful ministry responsibility, discipleship, coaching, and service

• Contribute to a long-term pipeline of future Life Action staff, speakers, team leaders, and ministry executives

Advance the Mission Through Fundraising:

• Serve as a compelling fundraiser for Life Action's overall mission and message, not only for the Church Events department

• Partner closely with the CEO and Advancement team to cultivate, solicit, and steward major donors and Ministry Partners

• Speak at Vision Dinners, major-donor gatherings, partner events, churches, and other strategic settings, clearly communicating the ministry's spiritual impact, vision, priorities, and funding needs

• Build trusted, long-term relationships with individuals, families, foundations, churches, and other partners who may invest in Life Action's mission

• Help develop strong cases for support, ministry presentations, donor communications, and funding initiatives that connect financial partnership to transformed lives and expanded ministry impact

• Participate personally in donor meetings, follow-up conversations, vision-casting opportunities, and appropriate requests for financial support

• Help identify and engage new prospective donors through church relationships, ministry networks, speaking opportunities, and external partnerships

• Model biblical stewardship, gratitude, accountability, and relational integrity in every fundraising activity

Contribute to Organizational Leadership:

• Serve as a trusted member of the Executive Leadership Team and a close strategic partner to the CEO

• Participate in organization-wide planning, budgeting, prioritization, culture-building, and leadership decisions

• Communicate candidly with the CEO about opportunities, risks, obstacles, staffing needs, and performance

• Model healthy collaboration and resist departmental silos, recognizing Church Events and Camp as two expressions of one Life Action calling

• Help connect new church relationships to Camp experiences, ongoing discipleship resources, Consentia offerings, and Ministry Partner engagement where appropriate

• Steward people, finances, vehicles, equipment, and ministry resources responsibly

Initial Priorities — First 12–18 Months:

• Build trust with the CEO, Executive Leadership Team, Church Events staff, road teams, speakers, and key ministry partners

• Assess the Church Events team, strategy, culture, event portfolio, scheduling pipeline, and relationship-development process

• Establish a clear plan to rebuild Life Action's audience and relationships among pastors and churches

• Develop and begin executing a pastor-engagement strategy that includes personal relationships, gatherings, partnerships, content, and consistent follow-up

• Strengthen the Spring 2027 and future Church Events calendars while improving the quality of the ministry pipeline

• Clarify and consistently communicate Life Action's revival message across preaching, teaching, marketing, and pastor-facing resources

• Evaluate current Church Event formats and recommend the deployment model, staffing structure, and ministry rhythms needed for sustainable growth

• Establish meaningful measures of ministry impact, relational progress, team health, and operational performance

• Identify and begin developing additional speakers, ministry leaders, and future leadership capacity

• Build an initial fundraising and donor-engagement plan in partnership with the CEO and Advancement team

Measures of Effectiveness:

Success in this role will be evaluated through both ministry fruit and organizational stewardship, including:

• Growing awareness of and trust in Life Action among pastors and churches

• Growth in meaningful pastoral relationships and active church-development opportunities

• Increased number and strength of confirmed Church Events, including repeat and multi-ministry relationships

• Spiritual impact reported by pastors, participants, churches, and team members

• Clearer and more consistent communication of Life Action's mission and message

• Improved movement from initial pastoral contact to trusted relationship and ministry engagement

• Healthy Church Events staff culture, leadership development, and team retention

• Effective development of speakers and emerging ministry leaders

• Strong collaboration across Church Events, Camp, Curriculum, Communications, Advancement, and Consentia

• Meaningful contribution to donor cultivation, Ministry Partner engagement, and fundraising results for the broader Life Action mission

• Responsible financial performance and stewardship of ministry resources

Required Qualifications:

• A mature, growing relationship with Jesus Christ and a life marked by humility, integrity, prayer, repentance, and dependence on the Holy Spirit

• A clear personal calling and demonstrated burden to see revival and spiritual renewal within the local church

• Strong alignment with Life Action's theology, mission, ministry DNA, and “go to the church” model

• Demonstrated ability as a compelling biblical speaker and teacher

• Exceptional verbal, written, interpersonal, and public communication skills

• Significant experience leading a church, ministry, network, or comparable mission-driven organization

• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior pastors and other influential ministry leaders

• Experience leading leaders, developing teams, setting strategy, and producing measurable results

• Ability to combine spiritual discernment and pastoral sensitivity with strategic clarity and executive accountability

• Willingness and ability to travel frequently and represent Life Action nationally

Preferred Experience:

• Senior pastoral, executive ministry, denominational, church-network, or national ministry leadership experience

• An established network of relationships among pastors, churches, ministry leaders, or evangelical organizations

• Experience developing thought leadership, ministry content, media, or public communication platforms

• Experience leading multi-site, traveling, conference, revival, or church-based ministry initiatives

• Experience in ministry development, church engagement, advancement, marketing, or relationship-based growth

• Demonstrated experience cultivating donors, communicating a compelling case for support, and participating in major-gift fundraising

• Familiarity with measuring ministry outcomes and using relationship-management systems to support follow-through

Leadership and Character Profile:

The right leader will be:

• Spiritually alive — personally pursuing God and ministering from the overflow of an abiding relationship with Christ

• Revival-hearted — deeply burdened for the spiritual condition of the Church and hopeful about what God can restore

• Biblically grounded — able to handle Scripture faithfully and communicate truth with courage, grace, and clarity

• Relationally credible — trusted by pastors, staff, ministry partners, and peers; a listener before being a promoter

• Compelling — able to move naturally between personal conversation, executive dialogue, preaching, teaching, media, and public representation

• Strategic and accountable — able to turn vision into priorities, systems, action, and measurable progress

• Collaborative — committed to the success of the whole ministry rather than building an independent platform or department

• Developing — eager to multiply leaders, speakers, relationships, and ministry capacity rather than becoming the sole voice of the work

• Resilient — able to lead through travel, uncertainty, organizational change, spiritual opposition, and the demands of public ministry

• Humble and authentic — willing to live the message personally, receive correction, admit weakness, and model ongoing responsiveness to God

Essential Distinction of the Role:

This is not primarily a scheduling, sales, fundraising, or event-management position. Those functions are important and fall within the leader's responsibility, but the central need is for an executive ministry leader who can carry the message, earn the trust of pastors and Ministry Partners, lead people and strategy, secure resources for the mission, and reopen doors for Life Action to serve the Church.

The successful candidate will not simply fill the Church Events calendar. This person will help rebuild Life Action's relationship with the Church and lead a renewed movement of going to churches with a prophetic, authentic, anointed, and deeply relational message — calling people to return to God's love, remain in His love, respond from His love, and rejoice in what His love restores.