GOSPEL-CENTERED STORIES
to TRANSFORM YOUR TRIBE
MEET Kevin Devries
Founder & President of Grace Explorations I Father of Champions I Son of Immigrants | World Explorer | Award-Winning Film Producer I Serial Entrepreneur I Brand Ambassador I Thought Leader I Cardiac Arrest Survivor I Inspirational Speaker
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World Endurance Explorer
Climbed Five of the SEVEN CONTINENTAL SUMMITS from 2000-2003
Skied to the NORTH POLE in 2005 in TRUE NORTH
Served as Lead Mountaineer on Mt. Ararat, Turkey (2009-2013) for the Award-Winning Documentary FINDING NOAH, Narrated by Gary Sinise, Nationally Released in 2015
Ran BOSTON MARATHON as Elite Amateur Athlete in 2013
Expedition Kayaked all five Great Lakes
Climbed EVEREST Region as a Boston Scientific Corporation Brand Ambassador in 2022
Explored 70 Countries, Six Continents, 48 of 50 States
Award - Winning Film Producer
2022 Documentary THE TRUE SUMMIT
Serial Entrepreneur
Start and sold companies across diverse industries
Brand Ambassador
Climbed EVEREST Region as a Fortune 300 Boston Scientific Corporation Brand Ambassador
Thought Leader
Directed and consulted national faith-based organizations
Catalytic Content Creator
Co-Created Base Camp Nation, helping hundreds of men’s ministry leaders reach thousands of men
Soul Survivor
Cardiac Arrest, 15-Minute No Heartbeat, Near-Death, Out-Of-Body Experience in 2019
International Inspirational Speaker
Kevin’s death-to-life story of riches, to rags, to redemption is heart-breaking and life-changing. Only through understanding God’s grace, “God’s best & brightest idea,” did Kevin find redemption in a Christ-centered community of men.
Today, as an Inspirational Speaker, Kevin impacts tens of thousands of men, women, and students each year at men’s conferences, church services, school chapels, and community and corporate events worldwide.
Kevin has appeared on The Glenn Beck Program, The Mitch Albom Program, CBN 700 Club, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and several other National & International Media Outlets featured in two Award-Winning Documentaries - FINDING NOAH, Narrated by Gary Sinise & THE TRUE SUMMIT, where he climbed in the EVEREST Region as a Cardiac Arrest Survivor/Brand Ambassador for Fortune 300 - Boston Scientific Company
As a highly sought-after speaker, Kevin is known for his fearless transparency, poetic metaphors, disarming humor, and unbridled passion for creating an experience and atmosphere where true transformation can happen.
Kevin’s death-to-life story of riches, to rags, to redemption is both heart-breaking and life-changing. Only through understanding God’s grace, “God’s best & brightest idea,” did Kevin find redemption in a Christ-centered community of men.
As an International Inspirational Speaker, Kevin impacts tens of thousands of men, women, and students, each year at conference, church, college, and corporate events worldwide.
He is known for his fearless transparency, poetic metaphors, disarming humor, and unbridled passion for creating an experience and atmosphere where true change can happen.
BIO
Appearances Inlcude:
"Kevin is a rare man whom God has raised up for such a time as this." Brian Doyle, Founder & President - Iron Sharpens Iron National Men's Equipping Conference
"the response was tremendous." Mike Young, Executive Director - Noble Warriors
"Kevin’s journey calls to the heart of all men." Traylor Lovvorn - the heart of man
"At every venue Kevin speaks, he touches men’s lives and fills the room." Darrell Billups, Executive Director - National Coalition of Ministries to Men
Schedule Kevin for your next event and Choose from 3 event packages:
EXPLORE
ENERGIZE
EMPOWER
EXPLORE
90-minute EVENT: A 30-MINute Documentary Screening, Inspirational story, and Q&A SESSION designed to Inspire YOur tribe to Embark on the inward journey together.
Designed for: Men’s Conference, Men’s Breakfast, Sportsman Banquet, College/Community/Church Movie Night, Trauma Recovery Groups, Corporate Wellness Events
NOTE: Church Services Option (30-Minute Inspirational Story Only. No Screening or Q&A Session)
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30-Minute True Summit Screening (Includes Licensing Fee)
30-Minute Inspirational Session: The True Summit
30-Minute Exclusive Q&A
NOTE: The True Summit Screening & Inspirational Session may be substituted with the True Story Session if the host organization decides to feature Kevin’s story first before the Screening at a later date. $750 per Session still applies.
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The Screening Session is about finding the strength to turn away from The False Summit - the addiction to peak performance that drowns our soul in the shallows of success, the illusion of control, the poverty of wealth, the emptiness of image, and elusive happiness to find The True Summit - a deeply surrendered, spiritually significant life rich in redemptive relationships, authentic wellness, and pure joy.
The True Summit is not a physical place we can achieve, often leading to disillusionment. The True Summit is a metaphysical space where we accept our true identity and, in doing so, discover our ultimate destiny finds us.
When we own our story, we can offer our story as strength because we’ve climbed The True Summit as the greatest journey within.
MEN’S EVENT
STARTING @ $750
+TRAVEL, FOOD & LODGING
Starting @ $1000
+ Travel, Food & Lodging
for Corporate Wellness Event ENERGIZE & EMPOWER Pricing Email: Info@graceexplorations.com
Energize
NIGHT & MORNING EVENTS: A 90-minute Screening EVENT + 2 Additional sessions w/ Group Discussion
Designed for: Designed for Weekend Men’s Retreats, Tribe Building, Community Recovery, and Corporate Wellness Events
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Evening Session:
30-Minute True Summit Screening
30-Minute Inspirational Session #1: The True Summit
30-Minute Exclusive Q&A
Morning Session:
30-Minute Inspirational Session #2: True Story
15-30 Minute Q&A or Small Group Table Discussions
30-Minute Inspirational Session #3: True Healing
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The Screening Session is about finding the strength to turn away from The False Summit - the addiction to peak performance that drowns our soul in the shallows of success, the illusion of control, the poverty of wealth, the emptiness of image, and elusive happiness to find The True Summit - a deeply surrendered, spiritually significant life rich in redemptive relationships, authentic wellness, and pure joy.
The True Summit is not a physical place we can achieve, often leading to disillusionment. The True Summit is a metaphysical space where we accept our true identity and, in doing so, discover our ultimate destiny finds us.
When we own our story, we can offer our story as strength because we’ve climbed The True Summit as the greatest journey within.
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Kevin will share more of his True Story from The True Summit Everest Documentary.
After summiting mountains all over the world, surviving two divorces, bankruptcy, living out of a vehicle for five years from untreated trauma, and a 15-minute, No Heart Beat, Near-Death, Out-of-Body Experience where he met The Risen Christ who sent him back, Kevin finally understood he was always a spiritual climber, never a shamed criminal. He was no longer a prisoner of his past but a patient redeemed in the presence of God, who gave him the strength to descend and get well, as nothing heals in the thin air of The False Summit.
We’re all exiles in a foreign country who must climb our own Mt. Ararat ˜The Painful Mountain,” as prophets, priests, and kings to discover our true names and powerful purpose. In Kevin’s search for the Ark of history, you’ll find the arc of your True Story.
This session is about the true and mythic journey every person must embark upon to find their healed heart as home, like an Ark frozen in ice inside a mountain of pain as the last remaining link to a shimmering world now lost in a flood of shame. On this journey, you will discover that the greatest discovery is what you find while looking for something else on mountains that exist to be climbed, not cursed. We do not conquer the mountain, only ourselves.
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Kevin will share how to heal and hack your life purpose encrypted in your pain.
Eden still exists as an echo of eternity on earth. Healing still happens where CHRIST, as a river of water, flows into Five Healing Streams: Church, Community, Counsel, Contemplation, and Content as emblems of Eden. To exempt one compromises the whole.
We seek the cure of sin through confession to Christ and the healing of shame through confession of our stories in a redemptive community of Christ. This session reminds us we are patients, not prisoners. We must feel to heal. God is a good surgeon who allows hurt to heal us.
Pain encrypts purpose until we answer Christ's question: "Do you want to get well?" Christ is The Well at World’s End that, in the end, makes us all well.
STARTING @ $1,500
+TRAVEL, FOOD & LODGING
Add True north, True men, true sword for $500 each additional session, $750 per sunday church service event
EMPOWER
FULL WEEKEND: 6 Sessions w BONUS SESSION w BASE CAMP OUTREACH LAUNCH along with BASE CAMP NATION PLAYBOOK and Coaching Calls
Designed for: Designed for Weekend Men’s Retreats, Tribe Building, Community Recovery, Corporate Wellness, and BASE CAMP LAUNCH Events.
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Same As ENERGIZE plus…
Saturday Lunch
Afternoon - Free Time
Saturday Dinner
30-Minute Inspirational Session #4 True North
Sunday Breakfast
Sunday Morning Man Church
30-Minute Inspirational Session #5 True Men (or $750 PER LOCAL CHURCH SUNDAY SERVICE EVENT)
15-30 Minute Q&A or Small Group Table Discussions and or Break
30-Minute Inspirational Session #6 True Sword (or $750 PER LOCAL CHURCH SUNDAY SERVICE EVENT)
Sunday Lunch
Afternoon - Free Time
Sunday Dinner
BASE CAMP LAUNCH @ Brewery, Barn, Bonfire, etc - anywhere except church to promote as outreach event
30-Minute BONUS Inspirational Session #7 True Life
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The Screening Session is about finding the strength to turn away from The False Summit - the addiction to peak performance that drowns our soul in the shallows of success, the illusion of control, the poverty of wealth, the emptiness of image, and elusive happiness to find The True Summit - a deeply surrendered, spiritually significant life rich in redemptive relationships, authentic wellness, and pure joy.
The True Summit is not a physical place we can achieve, often leading to disillusionment. The True Summit is a metaphysical space where we accept our true identity and, in doing so, discover our ultimate destiny finds us.
When we own our story, we can offer our story as strength because we’ve climbed The True Summit as the greatest journey within.
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Kevin will share more of his True Story from The True Summit Everest Documentary.
After summiting mountains all over the world, surviving two divorces, bankruptcy, living out of a vehicle for five years from untreated trauma, and a 15-minute, No Heart Beat, Near-Death, Out-of-Body Experience where he met The Risen Christ who sent him back, Kevin finally understood he was always a spiritual climber, never a shamed criminal. He was no longer a prisoner of his past but a patient redeemed in the presence of God, who gave him the strength to descend and get well, as nothing heals in the thin air of The False Summit.
We’re all exiles in a foreign country who must climb our own Mt. Ararat ˜The Painful Mountain,” as prophets, priests, and kings to discover our true names and powerful purpose. In Kevin’s search for the Ark of history, you’ll find the arc of your True Story.
This session is about the true and mythic journey every person must embark upon to find their healed heart as home, like an Ark frozen in ice inside a mountain of pain as the last remaining link to a shimmering world now lost in a flood of shame. On this journey, you will discover that the greatest discovery is what you find while looking for something else on mountains that exist to be climbed, not cursed. We do not conquer the mountain, only ourselves.
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Kevin will share how to heal and hack your life purpose encrypted in your pain.
Eden still exists as an echo of eternity on earth. Healing still happens where CHRIST, as a river of water, flows into Five Healing Streams: Church, Community, Counsel, Contemplation, and Content as emblems of Eden. To exempt one compromises the whole.
We seek the cure of sin through confession to Christ and the healing of shame through confession of our stories in a redemptive community of Christ. This session reminds us we are patients, not prisoners. We must feel to heal. God is a good surgeon who allows hurt to heal us.
Pain encrypts purpose until we answer Christ's question: "Do you want to get well?" Christ is The Well at World’s End that, in the end, makes us all well.
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Kevin will share the life lessons he learned from his North Pole Ski Expedition.
We seek an unknown point until we know the point: Life is a journey with people, not a destination to a place. Time means nothing, and the moment means everything where all time zones converge at the North Pole.
Life is like skiing to the North Pole on a continental-size sheet of shifting ice - the moment you arrive, the destination departs. In the extreme Arctic, self-rescue is impossible. We either journey together or die alone. This session cures destination disease and empowers us to ditch performance treadmills so we can dare the pilgrim trail in time outside time of our True North.
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Not all who wander are lost if they wander into the Cave of Adullam - BASE CAMP, where all the Lamps of God, like King David, are lit. In the Cave of Kings, we wander in as fugitive sinner and walk out as favored sons.
In this session, we pursue man’s original glory rather than police original sin through the “Five D’s of the Masculine Journey” so the wounded knight inside a nobleman no longer hides behind his baggage like King Saul. We heal with honor, so a knight in a cave is crowned king in a castle where emasculated males become extraordinary men like King David - a man after God's heart. Marrying a queen doesn't make a man a king. God makes a man a king in the Cave of Kings with other men who can climb The True Summit together.
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Every great story begins with a trial that leads an individual to a tribe where he encounters the truth that leads to personal transformation. And every great story has sequential moments that often get stuck, suspended in trauma...like a shattered sword; a sense of shame that our original glory is lost in our original sin.
We wander as exiled kings, stunted images of our former selves when we misinterpret the story we are living.
In the poetic words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it’s time for us to..Seek for the Sword that was broken…
In this session, we’ll learn our True Story is our strength to climb The True Summit, and find our True Sword, reforged in the redemptive fire where God works out all things for the good of those who believe He can write His redemptive story through them.
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This unique evangelistic men’s outreach opportunity will detail Kevin’s 2019 Near-Death, Out-of-Body Experience, where he met the Risen Christ after his heart stopped beating for up to 15 minutes. In this suspended moment, Kevin discovered what we believe now determines where we belong forever, and if we know Christ and He knows us, this life is as bad as it gets, but if we don’t know each other, this life is as good as it gets.
Like Jonah in The Belly of The Whale, God turns our tomb into a womb. Death is only a door to another life that never ends. God’s ultimate redemption is not revolution, reformation, or revival. It’s resurrection. And the inconvenient truth is you must die to a story too small for your soul in this life to enter a larger story in the next life.