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Jan Harrison
Jan Harrison is passionate about the power of God’s word to transform lives. For almost forty years she has studied, taught, and practiced applying God’s truth to every area of her life. Her ability to communicate is described as authentic and compelling as she challenges and encourages her audience to grow and mature in personal faith. Jan is the author of two books, Life After the Storm, and A Woman Who Knows God by Name.
She speaks and writes from the personal experiences of being a wife for 43 years, a mother of four children, the loss of their only son, a grandmother, mentor, women’s ministry leader, active member in her local church, and participant in the global ministry, Open Eyes, founded by her late son, James. She and her husband Frank live in Charlotte, NC.
Denny Mathews
Denny serves as the President of Open Eyes, a ministry focused on accelerating the Gospel to the unreached and under-served. Denny grew up in Gujarat, India where he learned first-hand to trust the Lord as he watched his parents live out their calling amidst great suffering and persecution. Early in their marriage, Denny’s parents left all they knew and set out, in faith, to follow the leading of their Savior to an unreached area of India. Much like the faithful servants of the New Testament, his family faced hunger, beatings, persecution, betrayal, sickness, and the death of a child – all to preach the gospel, plant churches, and care for the least and the lost. Today, Denny follows in the footsteps of his father in a willing desire to pursue those in greatest need around the world.
In 2016, after more than two successful decades in the financial services industry, Denny left corporate America to join vocational ministry. Denny also serves as teaching Pastor at Steele Creek Church of Charlotte. Denny and his wife, Bella, have been married for 28 years and have four children – Jude, Abigail, Hannah, and Jonah.