Understanding how the Lordship of Jesus Christ extends to all areas of life.
Over the years, I’ve had a lot of people ask me how they can become a conference speaker. Here are a few suggestions:
Israel speaking in Sendai, Japan
The main thing is following God’s leading for your life. God always wants you to be teaching someone somewhere. The question is, “Is it in a public setting?” Not everyone is cut out for public speaking ministry. There is also a price to pay. Most people who are in demand as popular conference speakers have paid their dues. They have traveled tens of thousands of miles, endured many sleep-deprived nights, spent hundreds of hours preparing their messages, and spoken before audiences smaller than your family to get to where they are today. Not everyone can or should do this type of work. However, if God has placed a message on your heart, and you steward it wisely, you can be successful as a public speaker.
Israel Wayne is an Author and Conference Speaker who serves the Lord through Wisdom’s Gate Ministries.
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I loved listening to you speak in MO. I enjoyed that you were not only encouraging but were a wealth of factual information as well. I am glad you posted this because I would love to reach the point to speak at conferences one day. Thank you!
Thank you, Nicole! It makes it all worth it when you know that what you shared was helpful to someone else!
Do you know what topics you might want to address?
Thanks for the tips, I do feel the Lord has put a message on me, and a desire to so the speaking, the trouble for me is knowing what doors to knock on, when and how. Also, thanks for pointing out the struggles as well, so that we see a complete picture.
Joann,
The first step is to identify your target audience? Is it women, married couples, business professionals, etc.?
Then create a website kind of like mine: http://www.IsraelWayne.com
Put your bio, topics, endorsements and any other helpful info.
Then email groups or events who reach your target audience. Offer to speak for free initially, just to get some experience. Eventually, they may offer to give you an honorarium to help with your expenses and overhead.
Ask for a recommendation from those you have worked with in the past to build credibility. Hope that helps!
Great tips! Its a scary thought to know God called me to ministry, though its a scarier thought to not obey!
Whats the best first step to actually speaking? A letter to conferences or churches? I have done one small bit for an online homeschool creationism convention but it was about when I was an atheist/evolutionist, how I became a young earth creationist and why worldview matters. My core message is primarily for mothers/young women about the importance of evangelism while our children are still walking with us, too many moms wait until the next season of life to share the Gospel and they miss so much plus their children miss out seeing them share the Gospel which is probably leading to many children walking away from their faith as adults. I have a website, blog and a youtube channel, not sure where to go from here.
Can you share your weblinks with me? I’d love to check them out.
I think having a site especially for speaking is important, like my personal speaking site: http://www.IsraelWayne.com
Try to include your whole “Speaker Packet” online, complete with a short, edited video of you speaking, if you can create one. When you do contact churches or conferences, they will want all of the information to be in one place. Your bio, workshop topics/descriptions, fees, etc.
I would recommend getting a copy of Michael Hyatt’s new book, “Platform” that gives a lot of great nuts and bolts for how to get started in building an audience for your message.
http://michaelhyatt.com/platform
http://www.mommyevangelism.com is the website.
http://www.youtube.com/mommyevangelism is our youtube channel.
http://www.facebook.com/mommyevangelism is our facebook page.
I also have my personal blog at http://www.wordpress.com/herdofhoskins and I dont really know how to incorporate that into the ministry of if I should just keep it separate since its really just a matter of what the Lord lays on my heart at any given time.
I will order Michael Hyatt’s book, thank you for the info! I figure there are so many who have already figured this all out I need to draw from that wisdom and see what kind of doors God opens.
Have a blessed day!