Kevin Phillips

Kevin G. Phillips (B.A., M.A. Wheaton; M.B.A. studies Syracuse; Ed.D. Columbia) is passionate about developing youth as leaders and as disciple makers. He is the Director of J-Life USA (http://jlifeusa.org) and trains youth leaders on five continents annually with Reign Ministries of Minneapolis. He has served at Hopewell Church in New York since 1992 where he has directed the youth ministry, led 30 mission trips and served on the Ministry Vision Board.

Kevin has 30 years of experience in youth ministry including the starting of the Youth Ministry major at Nyack College. He has also taught for The Kings College, Taylor University, Empire State College, New York School of the Bible, East Coast School of Urban Ministry, Hudson Valley Bible Institute, NY/NJ Sunday School Associations, Teen Missions India/Australia, J-Life Africa, and Mueller College of Brisbane, Australia. He has been certified as a trainer for Sonlife, Group Publishing, and Natural Church Development.

Latest publications include:

• Peer Review, “Parental Role in Discipling Youth in Their Spiritual Journey”, Journal of Youth Ministry, 2012.
• “HRC Lenton Devotional”, Hopewell Junction, NY, 2012.
• Inspiring Future Disciple Makers. New York: Teachers College, 2011.
• “UniquelyYou”: a profile for integrating personality styles, spiritual gifts and passion with Mels Carbonell, 4th edition, 2010.
• iLead: Downloads on Leadership in Youth Ministry (chapter entitled, “iEmpower: Leading-Servants - Serve to Grow, Empower to Multiply”) 2008.
• “Changing Your Congregation’s DNA” in Advocate, Fall 2008, page 16.
• “Metro Youth News” - a monthly listing of area events for youth in NY, NJ and CT sent to over 1,200 leaders -  http://jlifeusa.org/category/newsletter/
• “Youth Connection”: a quarterly column in the R.C.A. “Educator” newsletter that supports Christian Educators in the R.C.A.

Kevin has been married to his best friend, Sarah, for 29 years!