Matt is the CEO and a founder of Engage 360 Ministries. Matt was raised in Nebraska where he also did undergraduate studies. After a three-year process of wrestling through questions dealing with the existence of God, trustworthiness of the Bible, and what Christianity taught; he came to faith in Christ. This process has given him a passion to help others know their faith and to share their faith effectively.

Matt and his wife Erica decided to move to Charlotte, NC to pursue a Masters in Philosophy at Southern Evangelical Seminary, which he completed in the Spring of 2018. Matt and Erica have 5 children. Erica is a trained educator, and they are homeschooling their children using a classical education model.

Matt was drawn to the need for Christians to be able to both share and defend their faith. However, he became convicted that the fruit from efforts of very talented men and women dedicated to speaking, teaching, writing, and creating materials to help Christians share and defend the faith has not measured up to the quality of their gifts and what they have produced.

After serving with Ratio Christi (a campus ministry) for seven years at a private university in Charlotte and as a leader on the Ratio Christi National team, Matt teamed up with others to create Engage 360 (E360 for short). The E360 team seeks to help bridge the gap between everyday Christians and those in the communities around them. Matt has a passion to create a team that can faithfully serve Churches and Christian organizations to help them grow in spiritual depth and effective evangelistic outreach. In his free time Matt enjoys spending time with his wife and children, reading, and fishing.

Trish is the CFO and member of the training team for Engage 360 Ministries. Responding to God’s call to full time ministry, Trish resigned from twenty+ years in commercial and government accounting industries to work with adults, youth, and kids of all ages to equip them to know what they believe, share and defend those beliefs, and grow deeper in their faith so that they are impassioned to share the truth of the Gospel with others.

Trish is currently attending Southern Evangelical Seminary pursuing a Masters of Arts in Christian Apologetics with a Concentration in Philosophy. Her passion is to use this training to equip local churches to meet the unique challenges of today’s post Christian culture, help them find answers to the important questions in life, and transform their communities with the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Trish lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her husband Eric. They have two grown children, Marie and James. Trish enjoys spending time at the range with Eric, watching the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox, time with friends, and reading, reading, reading.

Ken began his role as Director of Information Technology in May 2019 to help scale up the training of Christians as spiritual conversationalists. His career background includes 33 years in Great Commission IT ministry across three organizations and two continents. He came to Christ as a high school junior in May 1972 during Billy Graham’s only visit to Birmingham, Alabama (where Ken grew up). Although his family had attended a mainline church until his high school years, Dr. Graham’s message included for the first time in Ken’s awareness all the essential elements of God’s good news. With understanding came desire, and Ken moved from death to life by responding to the invitation.

Ken graduated from Georgia Tech in Atlanta in 1979 as a budding Electrical Engineer, having crammed four years of study into six as a cooperative education student. Christian friendships and the ministry of a good church during that time were key to his growth beyond spiritual infancy.

After graduation, while working back in Birmingham as a telecommunications engineer in the electric utility industry, Ken innocently joined one of the most missions-minded churches in America. Hearing God speak through the church’s constant emphasis on the Great Commission had its effect on Ken: volunteer involvement with JAARS and three short-term trips with Wycliffe Associates (Peru, Australia and Kenya) led him in 1985 to join Wycliffe Bible Translators as a career missionary to provide engineering services…for the next 26 years. In 1989, while working at the Wycliffe facility in Dallas (Texas), Ken met and married Katy (who had joined Wycliffe at the orientation course just prior to his own).

In August 2012, Ken and Katy left Wycliffe to join the then-fledgling OneHundredFold ministry, which provides mobile technology to discretely deliver and house Christian content, especially to people living in politically restrictive regions. He worked primarily on software to support online theological education.

In January 2018, Ken joined the staff at United World Mission (UWM) as Technology Manager. Over the following year, he supported the home-office IT systems which enable UWM’s 45-country church planting, theological training and other ministries.

The Scriptures and its teaching consist of information, albeit housed in physical objects (printed material, electronic media, etc). Consequently, handling any kind of information in today’s world requires IT. Ken’s ministry over the years covered many domains of IT: telecom and large computer management, network engineering, computing/telecom support to field workers, database development, IT recruiting, client-side software development, server-side web development, online education development and IT strategy. The massive scope of just these IT these needs spawned in Ken a compelling drive to promote the Great Commission’s urgent need for laborers (beyond the obvious roles requiring seminary and Bible college graduates) to perform the critical roles upon which the whole enterprise physically depends in today’s world. IT is only one among many skillsets (like finance, management, marketing, engineering, tech writing/training, media, journalism, logistics, course design, administration, law, government relations, facilities maintenance, project management, aviation, childhood education, recruiting, research, etc, etc, etc) which are just as necessary to spreading the gospel as pastoring, evangelism or church planting. Contact Ken if this surprises you and/or you wonder how your background might just fit a Great Commission need.

Ken and his wife Katy live in Monroe, North Carolina with their daughter Charissa. Their son Christopher and wife Caroline live not far away in Charlotte with their toddler son William. Ken is a news addict who also enjoys classical music, traveling, choral singing, programming and promoting missions. Contact Ken at [email protected].

Joshua Erlien is a teacher, writer, community apologist, and a homeschool dad. He has served as the director for the UNC Charlotte Ratio Christi chapter since 2011. His experience with college students has clarified and focused his perspective on outreach and discipleship.

Joshua has worked with TEAM at Southern Evangelical Seminary speaking in a lecture tour in Italy, and conferences and panel Q & A forums locally. As a Community Apologist, Joshua speaks to churches, community groups, and families on apologetics issues with a focus on commending Jesus Christ through winsome conversation.

Joshua and his wife, Nita, have four children and reside in Charlotte. They are passionate about helping families and students thrive by passing on the faith to the next generation in an intellectually credible and compelling way.

Ibrahim Inuwa’s passion for discipleship and evangelism led him to join the team of Engage 360, in the summer of 2018, as a founding member and Co-Director of Media.

At Wheaton College, Ibrahim became acquainted with film editing, audio production, and radio broadcasting while completing his undergraduate Communications studies.

For several years, Ibrahim consumed web-based audio broadcasts and came to appreciate their utility at reaching extensive and culturally-diverse audiences. He has since developed his audio engineering aptitude, with the objective of contributing to collaborative ministry projects. One of which is a podcast for Engage 360. His personal mission is to help inform, equip, and to urge Christians to become fully engaged followers of Christ.

Ibrahim has been an Associate Minister, Interim Pastor, and has spoken at numerous venues (i.e., Southern Evangelical Seminary’s TEAM Ministry, along with the National Conference on Christian Apologetics).

Ibrahim earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communication, with minor emphasis in Biblical & Theological Studies, at Wheaton College. He is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Apologetics at Southern Evangelical Seminary.

Ibrahim and his wife Kim are passionate about reaching the next generation, for Christ and His Kingdom.

David is the newest staff member of Engage 360 Ministries (E360). He is a graduate of Southern Evangelical Seminary and hails from Poplar Bluff, Missouri where he helps his mom run her small cattle farm. Though currently working in the administration of a local hospital, David has just started the adventure of a supported career missionary life. He had already been involved in the work of E360 as a volunteer for some time, and helping format and finalize E360’s first online evangelism course is only one of his contributions.

David’s full-time future in E360 will be to manage all of the back-end IT systems which implement the online course engine, the membership platform, the e-commerce system and other back-office IT tools, all part of keeping the organization functioning.

E360 urgently needs David to take up these roles full-time so that our ministry momentum is not hindered. It takes a lot of work to build and maintain online education, and even more as the trainees being served grow from dozens to thousands. E360’s primary teaching ministry will simply not be able to scale to meet the demand without David, and we heartily recommend him to you. His current financial support level is 22.5% of his needed monthly quota, and we encourage you to join his team. Contact David at [email protected].