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Matthew Stowell

Executive Pastor

Matthew Stowell
53 years old
Grand Rapids (49525) United States (Michigan)
Professional Status
Employed
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  • Maintain, manage, and acquire over $2 million in donor relationships.
  • Lead, oversee and develop CURE's Church Engagement Team which includes strategy identification, goal setting, metrics and evaluation.
  • Provide input, plan, develop and implement vision to appropriately represent CURE to our friends at events.
  • Develop systems and metrics to track the Development Team's engagement and efficiency with CURE's donors to support best practices and effectiveness.
  • Leverage a large relational network to promote and represent CURE.
  • Ensure that Church Engagement is carried out in keeping with CURE's values, mission, and vision.
  • Oversee the supervision of a direct report which includes church relationship planning and strategy, problem resolution, evaluating performance and casting vision for productivity.
  • Provide input into stewarding resources to maximize the efficiency of donor engagement.
  • www.cure.org
  • Oversight, development, and implementation of all missional activities and strategies both locally and globally.
  • Partner acquisition and development for over 20 active accounts / relationships.
  • Manage and Steward a missions budget over $1 million.
  • Coach and Mentor Worship Pastors at each campus.
  • Elder / Church Leadership team.
  • www.adabible.org
  • Oversight of all adult ministries. Including small groups, assimilation, community groups (men's,women's, newly married, etc.), and two full time Staff.
  • Oversight of the worship department, creative content of services, and part time worship staff.
  • Development and implementation of vision and values for both adult ministries and worship (i.e.designed and implemented a new assimilation process for the church)
  • Regularly lead worship in weekend services
  • Elder / Church Leadership team.
  • www.salemchapel.org
  • Set up, open, and run a new office in Chiang Mai, Thailand, focused on Pastoral and Medical Care for the over 500 missionaries of ELIC all over Asia.
  • Led a team to develop and execute policy towards excellence in member care.
  • Oversight of Budgets and Finance for the office.
  • Worship Direction and Leading at multiple ELIC events or training.
  • Produced and managed creative content for our Annual Thailand Conference, including the Recording and Production of three live worship albums.
  • www.elic.org
  • Leading and Oversight of all Adult ministries including Men’s, Women’s, Assimilation, Small groups, Counseling, Shepherding, and Discipleship programs.
  • Executive oversight of Children’s Ministry, Youth, and all Admins.
  • Oversight of Finance, Human Resources, Budgets, and spending by the church.
  • Spear-headed the development of the three core values of The Grove: Love God, Grow Together, Serve the World, and how they could be applied in each sub-ministry.
  • Helped create "Live Love Records" by setting up a new studio and recording an album for the band "Safe Haven".
  • Creative Development and Implementation of a new website for the church.
  • www.thegroveaz.org
  • Worship Pastor – led the Worship Department of 8 employees including all worship leaders and support staff, volunteers, service planning, lights, video, sound, choir, record label, and worship services on our 4 campuses.
  • Harvest Bible Fellowship – Placement, formation and direction to the worship pastors in our churches across North America.
  • Various worship leading and teaching at conferences like Straight Up, Downpour, Moody Pastors Conference, and Harvest University.
  • Started a record label "Harvest Songs" that produced over 8 albums of original artists and live worship for our churches.
  • Jr. High Pastor / Student Ministries Pastor (1998-02) – Oversight and development of programs and staff that challenged students to Love God and Love Others with all they had, the last two years in student ministries I was promoted to oversight of both Jr. High and High School.
  • Camp Harvest – Opening, Building (actual), and Program Development at our summer camp in Michigan.
  • www.harvestbible.org
Learn more
  • Oversight of the Jr. High Ministry, emphasis on Worship, Teaching, and Missions.
  • www.wheatonbible.org

B.A. Youth Ministry

Moody Bible Institute

September 1992 to May 1996

Board Member

Since 2015
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