Rev. Steve Keaton will be INFUSE IV January 27-29, 2012.
Steve Keaton is the founder and executive director of Tsunami Ministries. He is a 20 year veteran of youth ministry and began his journey into the abyss of youth ministry at University City UMC in Charlotte, NC. He was basically the guy that busted all the kids for smoking and smooching.
Steve has served at churches in the Charlotte, NC area, Rock Hill, SC, Yadkinville, NC and currently he is the Grand Pu-bah of Student Ministries at Mt. Tabor UMC in Winston-Salem, NC Basically Steve gets paid to be a kid. Man, life is good!
Steve loves youth and loves Jesus. This is very obvious by how easily he can revert back to being a 12 year old boy.
Steve does a bit of speaking around the country at youth events, youth worker training events, seminars, conventions, bingo nights, bake sales, demolition derbies, yard sales and more.
Steve has a God-given gift to reach & communicate with youth in any environment. He has been a youth speaker at large youth ministry conferences, as well as intimate youth ministry retreats. Steve's style of speaking and relational ministry ability make him extremely effective in covering a wide range of topics which today's teens are dealing with.
Experience:
Youth Speaker at hundreds of student conferences, retreats, leaders training events, seminars and more.
Served as youth pastor to both small & very large youth ministries.
Training Youth Workers.
Planning and directing retreats for both small youth groups and huge youth conferences.
Over 50 mission trips around the US and Internationally.
Prior to Full-Time Ministry, Steve was a volunteer youth worker while working as a Charlotte Police Officer in Charlotte, NC.