Rick Allen

Rick Allen serves as the national director of Men’s Ministries and Light for the Lost (LFTL). Rick also
serves as a national facilitator of the Acts 2 Journey.
Appointed as Men’s Ministries director in January 2016, Allen is assembling a strategic team and
discipleship pathway for men of all backgrounds and spiritual growth levels to strengthen their godly
place in their homes, churches and marketplaces. Men’s Ministries will focus on assisting men
throughout our 67 districts to engage the journey of personal, small group, church, and community
involvement.

   LFTL is a volunteer charitable mission ministry of the Assemblies of God. Since its inception, LFTL has
raised more than 330 million dollars. Funding resources such as audio, visual, and printed materials,
LFTL has one guiding principle: that all assistance must be used to provide resources directly related to
evangelism. Under Allen’s leadership in 2013, LFTL launched a very successful media project,
Celebrate the Light (CTL). CTL shows our local churches how LFTL is being used around the world and
how the local church can partner with LFTL to reach the lost for Christ.

Through the Acts 2 Journey, Allen equips congregations to pursue God’s plan for them as growing
churches. They rediscover the joy and fulfillment of their God-given destiny using key journey points,
including The Acts 2 Church Process. As each church continues through the process, it becomes a
Spirit-empowered church, focused on biblical values that connect with today’s culture. Over the past 15
years, Allen has assisted hundreds of churches with discovering their potential. Allen works with
churches whose membership range between under 50 to over 3500.

   Prior to his current appointments, Allen served as the district church enrichment director of the
Arkansas District Council (2001-2005). During these four years, he assisted the district superintendent
with the mentoring ministry for pastors through the District Coaching Group and oversaw the local
church leadership development ministry through the Arkansas Cohort Group. Rick served as a U.S.
Missionary working with Book of Hope USA, the Arkansas district, and the Assemblies of God National
Office (2001-2014). Allen held senior pastorates at churches in Arkansas and Tennessee and held
youth pastorates in Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. During his youth pastorate in Tennessee, he
served on the National Child Services Agency for the United States Senate.