Collaboration: What Does It Really Mean?

Workshop panel with Reid Saunders, Keith Cook, Mark Young, and Alan Greene

Working with others is hard and messy. How do you even start? Get the inside scoop from people who have learned how to successfully collaborate. Luis Palau has always said that one person can only do so much, but our efforts are multiplied exponentially when we work together. Listen to how these NGA evangelists have taken this idea and made collaboration a central value of their ministries.

Panel of NGA Evangelists:

Reid Saunders founded Reid Saunders Association in 2002, which has proclaimed the gospel in word and in deed to more than 157 million people across the globe. He has ministered in 89 countries and across the USA at festivals, conferences, and outreach events. He is the author of several books. Reid, his wife, Carmen, and their three children live in Salem, Oregon.

Keith Cook is the founder and president of On The Go Ministries, an international evangelistic outreach ministry that ministers across the street and around the world. He is also the founder of the On The Go Outreach Training School, which serves to teach people of all ages how to be effective ministers of the gospel. Keith is an evangelist with a powerful delivery and a heart committed to sharing the message of Christ with people. Keith Cook resides in Springfield, Tennessee, with his wife and son.

Mark Young is the CEO and founder of M.A.S.Y. Ministries Inc. In the summer of 2008 Mark
attended his first Luis Palau workshop/festival in Portland, Oregon. Mark’s intentions were to learn how to plan a Christian concert back in his home state of Florida. He was running from his calling of preaching the gospel, due to his father, a pastor, dying in the pulpit at church during Sunday evening service. After leaving the Luis Palau event, he had not acquired any information on promoting a concert, but Mark received a calling to spread the gospel and was ordained to be an evangelist.

Alan Greene serves as Director of Training/Coaching & Collaborative Events for Global Network of Evangelists (NGA) seeking to identify, equip, and mobilize evangelists to reach the next generation for Christ. Alan is a passionate author, speaker, and the founder of LifeLight Communications. He sits on the cabinet of the Global Network of Evangelists. Alan has committed himself to pursuing God’s call on his life by combining his experience in both ministry and business to share the Gospel message with as many people as possible and encourage the ongoing work of evangelism and missions in keeping with Acts 1:8. Alan’s wife, Vicki, is the co‐founder of LifeLight Communications, and the couple enjoy time with their 3 daughters, 2 sons‐in‐law, and 5 grandchildren in their home of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

This was one of the workshops at the Connect PDX Conference in Portland, Oregon in September 2019.