Nuts and Bolts Track
Planting highly effective churches requires mastery of a wide range of skills and functions. The Nuts and Bolts track provides the opportunity to learn from world-class experts in a variety of fields. With over 30 choices, the elective nature of this track allows conferees to focus on a particular area of interest or benefit from a wide range of topics that address their biggest needs.
Nuts and Bolts Track Options:
How Do You Change Messy People? (John Burke)
If you successfully start a church out of the culture, it will include messy people - how will you lead them to change? Learn how to lead people into a profoundly simple yet radically transforming relationship with God, each other, and our world instead of just keeping people busy. John shares how he's seen God change very messy people through the 60-60 Experiment done by thousands and explained in his new book Soul Revolution.
Starting a Church out of the Culture (John Burke)
Could you start a church with a Buddhist, a biker, a gay rights activist, a transient, a high-tech engineer , a Muslim, a twenty-something single mom, a Jew, a couple living together and an atheist? If you did what kind of church would it become? Learn how to create a come as you are culture in your church - that invites everyone to find faith in Jesus - as John shares from his bestselling book, No Perfect People Allowed.
Together Toward Maturity (Matt Chandler)
Leading a staff full of broken people while being broken ourselves can be unbelievably challenging, tiresome, and at times, overwhelming. In this session Matt will talk about staff relationships and get into the nuts and bolts of building a mature, effective team. The one thing constant for all of us is that we weren't called to this thing alone.Church Planting Networks: 3 Part Series (Steve Childers)
Church Planting Networks: Three part series (Steve Childers)
Join Steve as he tackles the following key questions:
• What is a church planting network and why is it so critically important for successful church planting?
• How to start and strengthen a transformational parenting church network (Parenting Church Community - PCC).
• How to start and strengthen a transformational new church network (New Church Community - NCC).
Organic Church Lessons for All of Us (Neil Cole)
Learn key principles from Neil Cole and the organic church movement that will help you lead your church into life transforming community and discipleship regardless of what type of church you're planting.
Organic Leadership - Unearthing the weeds that hinder the multiplication of leaders (Neil Cole)
Neil will share insights form some of his latest research and writing on how to get out of the way so leaders can develop naturally.
Branding, Marketing, and the Church 101: A Primer for Church Planters (Patrick Dennis)
Can a new or existing church (of any style) raise awareness and shape the way it is perceived by its community in a way that honors God? Yes! This session will provide practical tracks to run on in two critical awareness-building disciplines: Marketing, the effort to raise visibility and to "let people know we are here"; and Branding, the perception-shaping practice designed to "let people know what we are about." This seminar is for church planters/leaders who: (a) wrestle with whether or not their church should be involved in marketing efforts; or (b) want to do a better job of getting the word out and aren't sure where to start. If you want to see your church expand its reach, and are aware that the potential impact of your church will be directly (and perhaps dramatically) influenced by the degree to which people are aware you exist, this session is for you. But arrive early; this session was standing room-only last year.
Branding, Marketing, and the Church 201 (Patrick Dennis)
Though the Branding, Marketing and the Church 101 seminar is NOT a required prerequisite for 201, this workshop will be less about how to think about branding and marketing in general and more of a practical, hands-on workshop designed to help you think about your specific external (and internal) communications more intentionally. We will talk through questions to help you evaluate your own brand if you have already established one, or to build a foundation for your new brand if you are planting or rebranding a church. Come with paper and pen, and rolled up sleeves, ready to work. This seminar is not about merely listening but rather about getting down to the serious business of thinking about how you'd like your church to be perceived by your intended audiences.
12 Steps on Raising Funds for the Church Planter (Bill Dillon)
It's one thing to have a vision to serve as a church planter but it's another to raise the funds needed to accomplish your vision. Bill Dillon, President of People Raising, will share from this more than 35 years how to raise those funds. His approach is practical and has helped thousands of people in ministry today. Bill's proven 12-step personal solicitation program is based on the popular Moody Publishing book People Raising: A Practical Guide to Raising Support. Also, a 6-hour DVD curriculum and website www.PeopleRaising.com will provide ongoing fund raising training.
Live Sent: Beyond Just Gathering (Jason Dukes)
The artist has always been about movement. In fact, when He put on skin, He created a movement that He called "church." And just as He had been sent, His bride became the One sent. But something happened.
Gathering His church became more the emphasis than sending. Nothing is wrong with gathering, but the Sender intended more. Learn how to cultivate living sent in your local expression of the church so that she will blossom beyond just gathering and move toward being the letter from God into culture that she was created to be.
Staffing and Equipping a Growing Church (Bill Easum)
Leaders are a growing churches most critical resource. Bill will share insights from his experience to help you staff your church and create a culture of equipping that multiplies leaders.
The 10 Most Common Mistakes...and How to Avoid Them (Bill Easum)
Bill will draw from decades of experience as a planter and consultant to identify ten points that account for the great majority of failures among church planters. He'll also offer practical suggestion on how to avoid them.
Using the Internet to Gather, Disciple and Create Community (Kevin Giddings)
We all have heard about Social Networking, Facebook, Search Engines, blogs and more. But how effective is your internet strategy in gathering people in community, creating disciples and ministering to them? Come learn practical ways to enhance your web ministry and impact hundreds if not thousands of people online. Learn from case studies and best practices from churches that have been successful doing ministry online. This session will equip you with extremely practical strategies whether you are an online expert or a beginner.
Websites, Technology and Church Planting (Kevin Giddings)
A website is often the first place people learn about your community and is seen as an extension of your church. Find out what leading churches are doing with their websites and learn valuable insight into how to have an effective online presence. This session will include the findings from a market research project that evaluated hundreds of churches online. Is your website making a substantial difference in your church plant? Do you need a better online presence? Do you want to learn what cutting-edge churches are doing with their website? If so, this session is designed for you.
Ridiculously Radical Group Life, Five Outrageous Necessities (Rick Howerton)
Small Groups breathe life into the people who have come on board to start the church. This session will clarify what every small group must do if it is to attract new members and breathe life into those who are already doing so much.
Selecting a Small Group System that is Right for Your Culture (Rick Howerton)
There is a plethora of ways to do small groups. In this session you will learn about multiple small groups systems and conclude which system might be best for your church plant.
10 Practical Ideas To Break The 200 Barrier (Brian Jones)
Brian Jones has always had a heart for pastors leading small, struggling church plants. In 1995 Brian Jones moved to Dayton, Ohio to start the largest and fastest growing church in the history of human civilization. Four years later, that new church had zoomed from 150 to, well, 150. Frustrated and ready to quit, he threw in the towel. Like 16,345 times. Fortunately a friend intervened by asking him a simple question, "Why don't you study pastors who have done this before and do what they did?" So he did. It changed his ministry mindset and the church began to grow. If you're a pastor of a new church running less than 250 each week, Brian hopes this seminar will give you practical steps to help your church grow. But most importantly he hopes planters will walk away with a new encourager, ministry partner and friend.
No Building, No Money, No Problem! (Gary Lamb)
One of the biggest lies in church planting is it takes huge amounts of money to do portable church with excellence. The reality is most church plants don't have unlimited money and this leads to Church Planters using portability as an excuse for not reaching their community. In order to create an environment that matches the vision God has given you, you must learn some creative ways to do portable church with excellence. In this session Gary will share with you some practical tips, resources, websites, companies, and shortcuts he's used by being involved and connected with portable churches ranging in size from 150 to 5,000 over the last 8 years.
Fostering Extravagant Generosity (Brad Leeper)
There are plenty of reasons for a church plant to fail to launch, but the lack of financial resources should not be one of them. This workshop will give you the tools, the strategy, and the mindset to successfully build relationships to abundantly resource your plant. The right vision, communicated correctly, will find extravagant generosity that financially resources your church plant.
Family Ministry: Reaching Tots to Tweens in the New Church (Tammy Melchien & Sommer Wisher)
Family Ministry is a critical component of your new church. This intensive will equip you with practical tools and strategies to build a reproducing children's ministry. You'll learn how to define and declare your vision, organize for reproduction, develop your dream team of leaders, and collaborate across ministries to reach the entire family.
What Does it Take to Get Your New Church Service Powered? (David Mills)
There is a special momentum that comes to new churches that engage their communities through service-it changes the character of their church and grows a missional heart from the very beginning. Compassion by Design has developed exciting tools and strategies for engaging early, engaging effectively and expanding the impact of the new church through service. We will share practical steps and stories about how you can make "community" and "service" more than just the activities you do to increase marketing, and build an enduring imprint of the character of Jesus in the community. Hear the stories of other planters, and learn about proven strategies to expand your impact, open new doors for relationships and opportunity and find outside grant funding for your service efforts too. Join us as we explore how to become SERVICE POWERED!
Planting in a Post-Christian, Post-Modern and Multi-Ethnic Culture (Dave Olson)
No matter where you live, your world is becoming more post-Christian, postmodern and multiethnic. How will that influence how you plant your church? What are the practices and structures necessary to plant an authentic and vibrant church today? Engage in this discussion that will weave the necessary biblical and practical threads together to create a clear vision and praxis for moving forward.
The Evangelical Church in Crisis?? (Dave Olson)
The Evangelical Church has seen a downward trend the last 3 years. The environment is more challenging and traditional church practices are less fruitful. Why is that happening? How can new churches help turn around this trend? What are the solutions? Will the church continue to submerge, or begin to emerge? Come discuss the problems and the solutions for the Evangelical Church.
The Sticky Church Paradigm (Larry Osborne)
Sticky Church isn't about church growth, it's about discipleship. It's about keeping people long enough to fulfill the second half of the great commission. We'll explore why so many churches are leaky and what it takes to become sticky - and why it matters if we want to fulfill our mission.
Surviving and Thriving as a Pastor (Darrin Patrick)
Nothing is more difficult than maintaining spiritual vitality and joy in the midst of the craziness of ministry. To have a healthy church is to be a healthy pastor. Come and discover how to do the work of God in a way that doesn't destroy God's work in you.
Church Planting that Engages Culture (Efrem Smith)
Explore theology and ministry models for engaging culture for Kingdom purposes.
Church Planting that Transforms Community (Efrem Smith)
Explore a theology, as well as, organic and programmatic strategies for community development and transformation. It is important today that we not just grow churches but that we change communities in which churches are planted.
Teaching for Life Change (Ron Sylvia)
Church planting places many demands on a leader. None may be more critical to master than the ability to lead people to the life changing truth of the scripture. An experienced church planter and pastor, Ron will share insights to help you plan and prepare for teaching that leads to life change.
Am I a Church Planter? (Scott Thomas)
It's the question many at this conference are asking... In this workshop you'll hear from Scott's study the 20 characteristics of an effective church planter.
How Do You Know When You've Got One? (Craig Whitney)
They say they want to plant a church. You think maybe they could. How do you know? This workshop will introduce you to a variety of practical tools and resources that will help you identify and assess potential church planters.
Worship Ministry in the New Church
From team dynamics to style to licensing, there are all levels of questions to be answered when building an effective Worship Ministry. Come learn from leaders who've been there. Karaoke optional.
