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A message your people will actually remember.

Stephan Kilgore is a lead pastor and author who speaks at churches, conferences, and ministry events. He preaches with warmth and conviction, and he sends people home with something they can actually do come Monday.

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Why Stephan

Booking a speaker is a risk.

You are handing someone your platform, your people, and a moment you do not get back.

The wrong voice falls flat and everyone feels it. The right one moves the room, and it keeps working long after the lights go down.

Get it wrong, and that moment does not come back. Your people leave the way they walked in.

Stephan planted Revive Church and has pastored it as founding pastor for fifteen years. He wrote Not a Backup for women who have forgotten the strength God gave them.

He has spent his life learning to preach to the real people sitting in front of him. He is not a hired motivational voice. He is a pastor, and it shows the moment he opens his mouth.

Founding Pastor, Revive Church•15 Years•Author of Not a Backup

Speaking

Inviting Stephan is simple.

Reach out

Tell Stephan about your event, your people, and the date you have in mind.

Plan it together

You choose the topic and the format. Stephan carries the rest.

Your people encounter God

And you follow up with a next step that actually sticks.

Available for Sunday services, conferences, men's and women's events, leadership sessions, and retreats.

Picture the room after he closes. People are not reaching for their phones. They are still sitting with it, already deciding who they need to call, what they need to change, or who they need to forgive.

What Stephan speaks on

Every Sunday at Revive Church, Stephan does not pull a message off a shelf. He prays into what the people in front of him are actually carrying, then builds the word around it straight from Scripture.

He brings that same approach to your church or event. Tell him what your people are walking through, and he will seek God for the specific word they need, not a recycled talk, but a message shaped for the room he is standing in.

God stretches you before He increases you. Most people feel the pressure of a growing season and assume something has gone wrong, when the pressure is the preparation.

This message helps your people understand why the discomfort they feel is often the surest sign God is getting them ready for more.

Most miracles in the Bible did not start with fireworks. They started with obedience that looked slow and unremarkable. Naaman dipping in the Jordan. A widow pouring oil into borrowed jars.

This message shows your people why the ordinary, faithful, day-after-day steps are usually the exact place God hides the miracle.

Only twice do the Gospels say that Jesus was amazed. One of those times was because of a Roman soldier who told Him, you do not even need to come, just say the word.

This message raises the ceiling on what your people believe God can do, and challenges them to expect Him in the places they had already written off.

Pruning hurts, and God does it to the branches He believes in most. In John 15, the branch already bearing fruit is the one He cuts back, so it can bear even more.

This message reframes the painful season your people may be walking through, and shows them the cutting is a sign a harvest is coming.

Built for women's events, conferences, and gatherings, and drawn from Stephan's book. This message speaks to the woman who has quietly believed she is the backup, the support role, the one who holds everything together while wondering if she matters as much.

Stephan takes her back to what God actually said when He made the first woman, and hands her a strength she may have forgotten was hers. Your women will not leave feeling lectured. They will leave feeling seen, and reminded of who God made them to be.

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The Book

You are not doing it wrong.
You are just tired of carrying it alone.

There is a kind of tired that sleep does not fix.

You remember the details. You carry the decisions quietly. You step into the gap, because if you do not, you are not sure anyone will. It is not weakness. It is strength that was never given language or direction.

Keep carrying it the way you always have, and the weight does not get lighter. It just becomes normal, and normal is not the same as healed.

Not a Backup goes back to what God actually said when He made the first woman, the original word behind the softened translations, and hands you back a strength you may have forgotten was yours. This is not a book about doing more. It is a book about relief.

An honest word: Stephan is a man writing to women, and he knows it.

He wrote this from years of watching his wife, his daughters, and the women he pastors carry strength with grace. This is not a man telling you who to be. It is a pastor pointing you back to who God made you.

Picture the version of you who stops shrinking to keep the peace. Who leads from her strength instead of apologizing for it. Who feels like herself again.

You are not a backup. You never were.

For the woman who is tired but faithful, and ready to hand that weight back to the God who designed her to carry it well.

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Give

This is ministry, not a machine.

When you give here, you are not funding a brand or feeding an organization. You are sowing into people.

Real people, in real rooms, who walk in carrying weight and walk out believing God is not finished with them.

"Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account."

Philippians 4:17, NKJV

"So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver."

2 Corinthians 9:7, NKJV

Every message preached. Every copy of Not a Backup placed in a woman's hands. Every event where someone finally exhales and believes again.

Partners make that possible. You are not a name on a donor list. You are part of the harvest.