Mentor Coaches
Our Mentor Coaches equip, lead, and train you to facilitate powerful coaching encounters with Jesus.
Mathew Swinson
As a Coach, Mathew helps Christian men and women break free from guilt, people-pleasing, and self-doubt so they can live boldly and authentically as the person God created them to be. His coaching blends Encounter Coaching, Christian counseling, and performance coaching to guide clients into deep inner healing and lasting freedom—without pretending, shrinking, or earning their worth anymore.
Mathew has used Encounter Coaching for over 6 years and has been coaching full-time since October 2022, helping hundreds of people rediscover their voice, restore their joy, and walk confidently in their true identity. He is passionate about seeing coaches share their unique giftings paired with their transformational coaching skills to a world fueled by unmet desire. He believes that Jesus’ way of making that happen is in community working together.
Mathew and his wife of over 10 years live in Virginia with their 3 kids.
Todd Olsen
Todd brings together his life experience negotiating multi-billion dollar deals at Ford Motor Co with 7+ years as a Certified Encounter Coach to help leaders bring God’s kingdom to earth. He loves helping his clients hear God’s voice and experience life-changing encounters with Jesus – enabling them to make better decisions and live more joyfully.
While Todd coaches a variety of people in all walks of life, his specialty is coaching business leaders who are working within a cross-cultural context. He has over 2,000 hours of coaching experience and is a Certified Professional Christian Coach with CCNI.
Todd and Kathy, his wife of over 35 years, live in Michigan and have five kids and seven grandkids. Todd enjoys mountain biking and the outdoors. Having lived overseas, he also loves cultivating friendships with those from different cultures.
Soonil Lee
Soonil has experience as a stay-at-home mom, counselor, chaplain, teacher and a children/youth pastor. The heart that ties all these experiences together is her desire for people to experience the tangible love of Father God.
Soonil coaches people who struggle with unhealthy boundaries in their key relationships and/or have low self-worth causing them to feel depressed, anxious and hopeless. Her clients routinely become more confident, have hope for their future, and foster healthier relationships.
She and her husband live in Toronto, Canada with their 2 adult daughters.
David Smith
David’s background is a mix of occupational ministry, construction, coaching and training. David is a Certified Transformational Coach through Western Seminary and a Certified Encounter Coach through MetaFormation. In addition to his own coaching business, Master Builder Coaching, David founded and directs Kingdom Coaching Institute, a Christian coach training organization.
Drawing from his own life experiences, insights from scripture and his own journey with Jesus over the past 50 years, David has a passion to help fellow Christ-followers move out of cultural/consumer Christianity and churchianity, into a deeper experience
of knowing Christ and experiencing progressive transformation.
David lives in California with his wife of 34 years, Luanne. He is the proud dad of four children and papa to eleven grandchildren.
Jason Wells
Jason’s heart to lead people into deeper intimacy with Jesus has compelled him into 30 years of full-time ministry. For most, that place of deepest intimacy occurs when meeting God in the place of suffering – a place Jason is well acquainted. It is in those places that Jason meets his clients and empowers them to meet Jesus in profound, life-changing ways.
Though possessing dual masters degrees in Counseling and Ministry, it was the transformational power of Encounter Coaching that fully captured his heart. Jason now uses the powerful tools of Encounter Coaching to develop and impact Kingdom-minded leaders at the deepest levels of the heart.
Jason resides in Colorado with his wife and three boys.
Chris Frost
Before becoming a life coach and pastor, Chris spent close to 20 years in the business world. Through a business failure, the Lord lead him to three years of ministry training at Bethel Church in Redding, California. It was there that Chris fell in love with Christian life coaching after interning for Tony Stoltzfus and in 2016 he started his own coaching business.
Chris was the first Certified Encounter Coach and first Encounter Coach Trainer at MetaFormation. He is passionate about “equipping the saints to do the work of the ministry”, empowering people to hear the voice of God, and seeing Jesus transform people’s hearts from the inside out.
Chris Frost is married to his wife Dominique and together they have 3 children: Daniella, Drew, and Kezia. Chris is currently ordained and pastoring with the Summit Church in Edmonton, Canada.
Etienne
Etienne’s God encounters have marked him so powerfully, he has made it his life mission to help others experience the same.
As a pioneer, leader and community developer, Etienne has seen God come through many seemingly impossible situations. It is now his joy to assist people in conquering their challenges by being aware of God’s involvement in their lives. Etienne has coached and trained in over 30 nations.
Etienne, his wife and three kids have called Central Asia and the Middle East home for the last 25 years, working with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
