Events — Invite a Speaker
Invite a speaker.
Engage International speakers — Sam Raju, Jon Topping, and Dale Fields — accept invitations from churches, university and student groups, schools, conferences, retreats, and camps.
Tell us about your event — the date, the room, and the people who will be sitting in it — and we will write back about who might come and what a visit could look like.
Before you invite
An invitation is the start of a conversation about your people, the questions they are actually asking, and who is best placed to help — and every one that arrives here is read and answered by a person.
What we typically speak on
Choose anything that fits your event. Your selections carry down to the invitation form, so you will not have to type them out again.
Filling a Sunday?
Our speakers preach as well as lecture. Alongside the questions below we keep a curated list of sermons written for Sunday services — expository, gospel-centred, and shaped for a congregation rather than a lecture hall. Ask for it in your invitation and we will send it across.
Questions about God
Questions about Jesus and the Bible
Questions people are asking now
Nothing chosen yet — and that is fine. Leave it to us and a speaker will suggest what suits your room.
Continue to the formWhat happens next
How an invitation unfolds
No proposals, no sales calls. Four steps, with a person at every one of them.
You send the details
The date, the place, and roughly what you have in mind. Rough answers are fine — we would far rather have your invitation early and vague than late and precise.
TodayWe read it and write back
Someone reads it properly, checks the calendar against your date, and replies by name — not from a no-reply address, and not with a form letter.
Within a few working daysWe settle it and confirm
A short call or a few emails to agree the speaker, the subject, and the practical questions. Everything then goes into one email you can forward to your team.
Well before the dateSend your invitation
Six answers are all we truly need. Everything else simply helps us reply well the first time.
Your invitation is with us
Thank you. Someone at Engage will read it properly and write back — usually within a few working days. If your date is close, do call and say so.
Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.1 Peter 3:15
Questions hosts ask
If yours is not here, put it in the invitation and we will answer it in our reply.
Three to six months is comfortable and gives the best chance of matching the right person to your date. Shorter notice is still worth sending: calendars change, and we would rather hear from you late than not at all. If your event is inside a month, send the invitation and then call us.
Travel and lodging are the ordinary costs, and many hosts cover them. An honorarium is gratefully received and helps the ministry keep going, but it has never been a condition of accepting an invitation. Small congregations and student groups should invite us anyway. Tell us where you stand in your message and we will work it out together.
Yes — name them in the form and we will start there. If they are not free on your date we will say so and suggest a colleague rather than leave you waiting. If you would rather we chose, leave it on “no preference” and we will match the speaker to your subject and your room. You can read about each of them on the speakers page.
Open questions are welcome and often the most useful part of the evening — unscreened, and in rooms where a good number of people are not Christians. Recording and livestreaming are usually fine too, with the speaker’s agreement beforehand. Mention either in your message so we can plan the running order with you.
Elsewhere
Other ways in
An invitation is one door. Here are three more.
Diary
Upcoming events
Where our speakers will be next, and what is open to visitors.
Library
Talks & resources
Articles, podcasts and recorded sessions to use before a visit — or instead of one.
Anything else
Write to us
A question of faith, an offer to help, or something that does not fit a form.