Matt & Michelle Brown are co-founders and directors of Think Eternity, an evangelistic and mission based Non Profit organization and NGO. Matt is the author of the newly released Revolutionaries: Men and Women in Every Century Who Advanced Christianity and they are widely read bloggers. Their speaking ministry as international evangelists takes them regularly to the ends of the earth with thousands of people who have dedicated their lives to Jesus Christ through their ministry. They also serve as frequent radio guests and Matt as an adjunct professor on evangelism at North Central University. They currently reside and base their ministry out of Minneapolis, MN.
Recently Matt worked full time for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association towards an outreach to the next generation in the United States, held by Franklin Graham, in which 112,798 people attended in four US cities along the Mississippi River.
"Matt Brown’s powerful messages have been preached from coast to coast across the United States and around the world – impacting large audiences from many denominations. He and his wife, Michelle, represent a new wave of evangelism – communicating the gospel with passion but also with much needed relevancy for a new century. Matt and Michelle Brown are the new faces of American evangelism.”
Doug Wead, former White House special assistant to President George Bush & New York Times bestselling author
Matt Brown's Biography
Matt Brown was born near Minneapolis, Minnesota to Mark and Tami Brown. Third born among three brothers, with mostly Italian and German heritage. He was raised with a deep faith in a genuine Christian home. His parents set a strong example of the Word of God, prayer, serving the local church, family values, strong work ethic and sharing Christ with others.
His father was a computer engineer for most of his life, but in 2000 started a small business with his son Dan called Reach Communications. Reach Communications has grown and gone on to bring audio installations for many churches and business across the midwest US as well as hosting large scale events for clients such as The White House, Brother Andrew and Open Doors International and International Justice Mission as well as many major Christian recording artists.
Matt gave his life to the Lord at the age of four, later rededicating his life to the Lord at age thirteen. He sensed a call to ministry since the age of eight, only later at the age of seventeen feeling the specific call to be an evangelist.
His parents enrolled he and his brothers in the private elementary school Medicine Lake Lutheran Academy (now Heritage Academy) near the Twin Cities where stayed until 9th grade. He attended Delano High School for the next four years. During this time, starting around his Junior year, several of the Catholic youth in his town began to hold a worship night in which they were experiencing a powerful move of God. Matt attended soon after and already 60 students were worshipping together in a town with a High School of only 650 students. Nearly 10% of the youth worshipping the Name of Jesus together. Matt soon joined the group, by that time composed of students from most major denominations: Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Evangelical Free, Assemblies of God, etc. The crowd continued to grow, packing out the small coffeehouse on River Street in Delano - Common Grounds Coffee House. Students worshipped in the back room for stocking supplies and behind the sales counter - while others arrived to find no room and deciding to leave. They recognized their need for more space and requested from the Principle the use of the Public High School auditorium. Their request was taken to the school board and granted. For the next several years 400-600 students packed the Public High School auditorium for a night of worship that was labeled Monday Night Jam. The most impacting part of Monday Night Jam was the evident Presence of God. Students were giving their lives to Christ by the droves each week, without a single sermon being preached. The Holy Spirit was present convicting these young people of their sin and directing them to salvation in Jesus Christ. Several students were physically healed in worship - a girl who was deaf in her left ear, a young boy who had dyslexia - healed in worship by the Presence of God. During the climax, the Principle shared with them that for an entire year there was literally zero disciplinary problems in the entire High School - this in a generation littered with school shootings. This student led, interdenominational revival deeply impacted Matt and eventually Michelle, and has been a catalyst for their calling to ministry and faith in God.
Towards the end of his Senior year in High School Matt sensed a call from the Lord to preach on his lunch table. Many in his school had experienced the power of God during Monday Night Jam, but his heart was burdened that every student get a chance to hear a credible Gospel presentation while he was still there. He followed through with this vision, preaching his first two real sermons ever - first and second lunch. Strangly, students clapped and cheered following both speeches. Nearly fifty students came to him afterwords to pray to accept Christ and many more were impacted.
Matt went on to attend North Central University in training for ministry, majoring with a four year degree in Pastoral Studies, and a minor in Biblical Studies. He was heavily involved in outreach and missions, personally leading hundreds of people to the Lord on the streets of Minneapolis, Urbana and New Orleans, as well as training others to do the same. After his Sophomore year at North Central he began to travel and preach full time, keeping a consistent schedule through the rest of his collegiate years.
He married Michelle Denyes in May of 2005, the love of his life and his best friend, and they continue to work closely together in ministry.
They have gone on to found Think Eternity as an organization in late 2005, and a registered Non Profit in late 2008. Think Eternity serves as the evangelistic and mission based covering for their ministry, together with it's phenomenal board of advisors. To date, Matt and Michelle have traveled and preached from coast to coast across the US and around the world, preaching for hundreds of churches in around 30 US states, as well as several other countries of the world. They have communicated the Gospel to tens of thousands of people face to face, and hundreds of thousands more through online and print articles and radio. Over 10,000 people have made decisions for Christ in these meetings. They have also seen hundreds of people receive physical healing after simple prayer in the Name of Jesus. They have also directed thousands of dollars to humanitarian needs in various parts of the world, including fresh water wells in India, malaria treatment for Burmese refugees, shoes for Latin American street children and more.
After five years of writing and study, Matt's first book Revolutionaries: Men and Women in Every Century Who Advanced Christianity was released. It contains a century-by-century look at Christians who took the Good News of Christ to tough areas of the world. He also began blogging in 2008, bringing their ministry reach to tens of thousands more from nearly every continent in the world through the web.
Although preaching 1-2 services a week for the past 8 years, Matt and Michelle have worked flexible jobs to pay the bills. For several years, they worked in experiential marketing for Fortune 500 brands and over a dozen of Advertising Age's Top Marketing Companies in the world. In 2009, Matt worked full time for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association towards an outreach to the next generation in the United States, held by Franklin Graham, in which 112,798 people attended in four US cities along the Mississippi River. In late 2009, he began serving as the marketing director for 95.3 Praise FM in the Twin Cities.
He also serves as a frequent radio guest and an adjunct professor on evangelism at North Central University.
Matt and Michelle attend, tithe to and serve a local church when they are not traveling, Emmanuel Christian Center near Minneapolis, MN.
Michelle Brown's Biography
Michelle (Denyes) Brown was born near Minneapolis, Minnesota to Dwight and Sue Denyes. The eldest sibling with one younger sister.
Her father is a co-broker owner of Re/Max Associates Plus in the Twin Cities, a successful real estate business that one year received the prestigious award of the Most Successful Re/Max branch in the world. While he remains a silent partner in the business, Dwight Denyes has gone on to become the Lead Pastor of Emmanuel Christian Center, a thriving mega-church near the Twin Cities of several thousand people. Dwight's father, G. Mark Denyes became the first Pastor of Emmanuel, then known as Fridley Assembly of God, while it was still just a few families meeting in the basement of a home. G. Mark Denyes and his wife Shirley served as Lead Pastors of Emmanuel Christian Center for nearly 45 years - seeing God grow the church to what is today one of the largest Assembly of God churches in the nation. They continue to serve on staff as founding Pastors. G. Mark Denyes' story can be found in his book at the store section of this site.
From this incredible heritage of ministry, Michelle is a fifth generation preacher, one of her great ancestors having been ordained by John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist denomination.
Michelle gave her life to the Lord at a young age, later sensing a call to missions at the age of fifteen. During her teenage years, she enjoyed an incredible discipleship experience in her youth ministry, JC's Place, averaging nearly 1,000 students under the leadership of Nate Ruch, now one of Think Eternity's board members. She continued this discipleship by attending Master's Commission, a year long discipleship program similar to Youth With a Mission (YWAM) for young adults.
After graduating from Master's Commission, she went on to graduate from North Central University, majoring with a four year degree in Cross Cultural Studies, with a minor in Biblical Studies. By graduation, she had led teams of people to do missions in many continents of the world.
Shortly after graduating from North Central, she married her college sweetheart Matt Brown in May of 2005.
They have gone on to found Think Eternity as an organization in late 2005, and a registered Non Profit in late 2008. Think Eternity serves as the evangelistic and mission based covering for their ministry, together with it's phenomenal board of advisors. To date, Matt and Michelle have traveled and preached from coast to coast across the US and around the world, preaching for hundreds of churches in around 30 US states, as well as several other countries of the world. They have communicated the Gospel to tens of thousands of people face to face, and hundreds of thousands more through online and print articles and radio. Over 10,000 people have made decisions for Christ in these meetings. They have also seen hundreds of people receive physical healing after simple prayer in the Name of Jesus. They have also directed thousands of dollars to humanitarian needs in various parts of the world, including fresh water wells in India, malaria treatment for Burmese refugees, shoes for Latin American street children and more.
Although Matt's preaching has averaged 1-2 services a week for the past 8 years, Matt and Michelle have worked flexible jobs to pay the bills. For several years, they worked in experiential marketing for Fortune 500 brands and over a dozen of Advertising Age's Top Marketing Companies in the world. In 2009-2010, Michelle served as the assistant to Clarence St. John, the Minnesota Leader of the Assemblies of God and the overseer of the midwest US Assemblies of God leadership. She also served the Minnesota Women's Ministries department, putting on several women's conferences that gathered thousands of women and launching a website with daily devotional articles from incredible women of faith across the country.
Michelle is a frequent radio guest and serves in various capacities of their evangelistic ministry.
Matt and Michelle attend, tithe to and serve a local church when they are not traveling, Emmanuel Christian Center, near Minneapolis, MN.