Workshops 2012
Exponential 2012 Workshops Times
Workshop 1 - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 8:30am-9:30am
Workshop 2 - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Workshop 3 - Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Workship 4 - Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 8:30am - 9:30am
Workshops Listed by Track:
Survive and Thrive Track – Hosted by Shawn & Tricia Lovejoy (Churchplanters.com)
Family & The Fishbowl
1- Avoiding Blowing Up and Burning Out -Jud & Lori Wilhite
We all face challenges, criticism, fatigue and frustrations in ministry. How do we become part of the less than 10 percent who actually finish well? What can we build into our lives now to help us go the distance and not become a statistic? How can we deal with the criticisms and the emotional ebb and flow of ministry? Jud and Lori will look at these questions and more to help encourage all of us to stay the course.
2- How to Disciple your Children- Mark Batterson
Join Mark as he discusses how to disciple your children.
3-Raising Pastor's Kids - Bill & Shawna Hybels
Our kids see it all. The beautiful Bride of Christ; and its ugly underbelly. Our kids are in it all of the time. Are we protecting them? Are we burning them out? Are we discipling them? Are we helping them love both Jesus and love His church? Our church?
4-Battle Lines: Family and the Ministry- Darrin & Amy Patrick
As a Pastor, balancing family life and ministry life can be a constant battle. Pastor Darrin and his wife, Amie, will discuss ways to fight for unity in your family and marriage, while still fulfilling your call as a minister.
Candid Conversations
1-How Do the Mighty Fall? Like I Did- Shawn Lovejoy
Listen as Shawn Lovejoy, founder of Mountain Lake Church and Leader of churchplanters.com shares his personal story about the damage that can be done when good intentions lead to wrong priorities; and lots of destruction...and how we can re-order our lives, priorities, and ministries.
2-Surviving And Thriving Through Unexpected Challenges - Brian & Amy Bloye
How do you stay the course in the midst of difficult circumstances, conflict and criticism.
3-How Church Planting Will Change your Marriage-Bob & Niki Roberts
Bob & Niki, high school sweethearts, will trace their journey of following Jesus to plant a church, the impact on their marriage and lessons learned.
4-When the Fishbowl Breaks- Justin & Trisha Davis
Justin and Trisha were church planters...until their world came crumbling down. What happened? Driven-ness. Distance Decay. Deception. Hurt. Their personal story of forgiveness, reconciliation, and ministry restoration could keep the cracks in our fishbowl from spreading. Come find out how in this no-holds-barred workshop.
Discipleship at Home
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Personal Vision
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Leading Ourselves
1-Narcissistic Pastors-Tim Stevens
Question: What type of personal has the guts to believe they can go into a community, gather scores of people around them, and see significant, long-lasting impace? Answer: A church planters. And the best ones are often a bit narcissistic. That is, they don’t listen when people say it can’t be done, and they truly believe they can rally people to bring about permanent change in a community. Whether you have the joy (and challenge) of working with a narcissistic pastor, or you see one when you look in the mirror, Tim Stevens will challenge your thinking and offer practical ideas you likely never heard in seminary.
2-The Hardest person to Lead-tbd
The hardest person to led in our church is not our Board or our Staff. It’s not the congregation. The hardest person to lead is our self. As goes the leader, so goes the church. How can we master our lives and live lives of discipline and self control? How can we grow as a leader? Matt will help us.
3-Circle of Prayer-Mark Batterson
Dream Big. Pray Hard. Think Long.
4-The Measure of Our Success-Shawn Lovejoy
So many of us discouraged and disillusioned with the way our church planting journey is turning out? Why? It may have everything to do with the measure(s) of our success. Whether we’re packing it out or not, how do we know if we’re really winning at this church planting game? Shawn Lovejoy, Directional Leader for churchplanters.com will help us.
It's Personal – Hosted by Launch Network
1-How do you Launch a Healthy Church- Daniel Floyd
Vision, passion, strategy, resources . . .and nominal success. Or, worse . . .absolute failure. How can all these traits co-exist in a church plant? Could it be that it takes more than merely great vision, passionate people, a well-defined strategy, and a large bank account to launch a successful church? As a church planting team, there are crucial decisions you must make in launching a church in order to avoid the sting of nominal success or the discouragement of failure. "How do You Launch a Healthy Church?" will give you practical tools to avoid the landmines and launch a strong, healthy, successful church.
2-How do you Protect Your Marriage and Family While Planting a Church- JR Lee
How to Protect your Marriage and Family While Planting a Church: Throughout your life, hundreds, maybe thousands of people are going to call you Pastor. The most important people that you are called to lead do not live somewhere in your community. They live in your house. With an unlimited supply of needs and opportunities begging for our attention, it's vital that we learn how to protect our marriage and our family. You must decide who gets your best day in and day out. The choice is up to you. Choose wisely.
3-How do you Deal with Growth and Change- Chip Henderson
In a growing ministry, change seems constant, and as a leader you can often feel overwhelmed by an uncertain future. This session will help you learn to navigate the transitions of ministry with confidence and without losing your soul.
4-Can you Remain Authentic in Ministry- Jonathan Robbins
"Can you remain authentic in Ministry?" - In this session, we'll attempt to identify and clarify the lines that get blurred between our jobs/callings as church planters/leaders and who we are as individual followers of Jesus. It's easy to fall into the trap of inauthentic leadership. Becoming and remaining who God created you to be is an constant struggle for the growing leader. We'll discover what it looks like to be who you are while you're doing what God called you to do.
Discipleship Track – Hosted by Relational Discipleship Network
Missional Discipleship-
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Discipleship at Home
1-Discipleship at Home- Darrin Patrick
In this session, Pastor Darrin will talk about what it means to build a culture of discipleship in your home.
2-How to Disciple your Children- Mark Batterson
Join Mark as he discusses how to disciple your children.
3-The Leader’s Marriage: The Foundation of Churches that Transform Lives-Pete Scazzero
Our marriages, along with the marriages of our people, are windows into the level of spiritual depth and maturity of our ministries. There are few greater challenges for those of serving as pastors and leaders than maintaining and nurturing a high-quality, intimate marriage out of which we lead others. This workshop is to equip the leader/pastor with a biblical vision and practical tools to begin a journey where discipleship/spiritual formation of marriages forms the foundation of a healthy, missional church.
4- The Relational Factor: Why Discipleship is Impossible Without It! – David Putman
For years churches have taken a curriculum and organizational driven approach to discipleship with limited life change. In this workshop we will explore why curriculum and organization alone falls short, but more importantly what does work. Jesus modeled a relational approach. Discover the keys to relational discipleship and why and how it produces dramatic life change. Become the disciple you want others to become!
Discipleship: The Mission of the Church
1-The Theology of Relational Discipleship-Bobby Harrington
Dr. Bobby Harrington is a church planter, founding director of the Relational Discipleship Network and former lead trainer and network guru for Stadia. Bobby will make the case that the local church should be committed to "Relational Discipleship" because of New Testament teaching. Discipleship is the theme behind every book in the New Testament. And God's desire is that every human being would become a disciple and follow Jesus Christ into eternity. Properly understood, discipleship is the underlying purpose of the church. In this quest, Agape love is the most important aspect of discipleship. The joining of these two concepts is called "Relational Discipleship."
2- Discipleship’s Dirty Little Secrets – Larry Osborne
Let’s admit it, most of our current hot button discipleship strategies and methods sound good, but miss the mark – and miss it badly. Larry Osborne will explore eight overlooked truths about how spiritual growth and maturity actually work in the real world.
3-The Missional Significance of Discipleship- Alan Hirsch
This session will explore why focusing on developing disciples and forming people in the Way of Jesus is of strategic significance to the creation, health, and viability of any church or church planting movement.
4-Small Groups that Make Disciples- Jim Putman
Jim Putman is the founding pastor of Real Life Ministries, one of the largest, fastest growing and unique churches within the USA in the last 10 years. Building on the concept that discipleship is the core mission of the church, Jim will show how Jesus made disciples in small groups. Jim will explain, in practical terms, how a new church can follow the same method that Jesus used and create a small groups system based upon that today. Jim will also tell stories about how Real Life Ministries adopted this model and grew to where they now have up to 8,000 people in small groups meeting on a weekly basis.
Creating Discipleship Systems
1-Aligning People Around the Mission of Discipleship-Jim Putman
Jim Putman is the founding pastor of Real Life Ministries, one of the largest, fastest growing, and unique churches within the USA in the last 10 years. Building on the concept that discipleship is the core mission of the church, Jim will show how everything in a new church can be based upon a commitment to discipleship. In practical ways, Jim will tell the story of how they do it at Real Life Ministries. Alignment is a key concept which describes how every part of church life needs to focus upon, contribute to, and uphold discipleship. Alignment is making sure that everyone understands what the church is about, where it is going, and how it is getting there. Join Jim to learn how to plant a church and have everything aligned with discipleship.
2- The Why, How and What of Disciple-Making - Alex Absalom
In order to build a dynamic discipleship culture, you need to create the undergirding vision and values, as well the practical vehicles people will interact with. This seminar will show you how to do this, especially through a 'Releasing Control, Choosing Accountability' mindset, as well as showing how Huddles (leadership investment in community) and mid-sized Missional Communities can help in your context.
3-From Weekend Services to Disciples Who Make Disciples- Jerry Harris
Jerry Harris leads a high impact church of around 4,500+ people that has launched multiple campuses in various small cities. Jerry is gifted in launching new campuses with effective weekend programming that draws people to the church and then leads them to discipleship in small groups. In this session Jerry will explain how to create high impact church services and how to lead people into personal discipling relationships through these services.
4-Discipling Everyone-Aaron Couch
Aaron Couch launched Real Life Moscow in October, 2007 and, with a core commitment to Relational Discipleship, the church grew within three years to a weekend attendance is excess of 1,000 people. Aaron will tell the story of how he led the church with this commitment to discipleship and how they created a discipleship system from the very beginning that was designed to ensure that everyone was discipled. Since discipleship is the mission, the key question is how do we make this happen for everyone in a practical Real-life setting? Aaron will tell the inspiring story of how a church in Moscow, Idaho made it happen.
Missional Track – Hosted by 3DM
Missional Discipleship
1-Discipling the least of These - Jeff Vanderstelt
So much of our understanding of and approach to discipleship is based upon the assumption that people are literate, well resourced and accustomed to being developed in a classroom setting. Jesus came to call and train people who were not the educated elite, religiously upright or socially astute…the least of these…and most of his training was along the way in everyday life. What would it look like to structure our lives and churches in such a way that the everyday people were part of your discipleship strategy and fruit? During this workshop Jeff will work through principles and strategies for everyday discipleship of everyday people.
2-Discipleship outside the Walls- Jim Putman
Jim Putman is the founding pastor of Real Life Ministries, one of the largest, fastest and most missionally minded churches within the USA in the last 10 years. Real Life Ministries is in Kootney County, Idaho, where the church serves as the largest non-governmental social service agency. On a weekly basis they minister to thousands - through their community service projects, thrift store, Recovery Ministry (with 700 people in weekly attendance), etc.,. Jim will share the story of how the church serves the community and how their service helped support their growth. Jim will explain how service is both a reflection of discipleship and a pathway back into the church where people learn how to become disciples.
3-Mentoring to Multiply: How to disciple the next generation- Neil Cole
In this break out Neil will share principles of how to invest in the next generation and prepare them to do the same.
4-How to Release a Missional Movement by Discipling People Like Jesus Did - Mike Breen & Doug Paul
Often people see discipleship as a disconnected reality to mission. In this workshop we'll look at the principles Jesus used to disciple people in mission and give you direction on how to do this yourself. In addition, we'll give stories from the United States and around the world along with practical insight on how using the discipleship vehicle of a Huddle has unleashed a missional movement.
Launching Missional Communities
1- Launching Service based missional Communities: 10 steps to building community through engaging need - Brandon Hatmaker
Brandon will take you through ten steps to building your community through engaging the needs in the Community.
2-How to launch Missional Communities-Jo Saxton
If you're interested in learning the nuts-and-bolts of launching, sustaining, growing and multiplying Missional Communities, this is the workshop for you. While it will start with theology and theory, the goal is for people to walk away feeling more equipped in doing Missional Communities in real life. The workshop will be led by Jo Saxton, who has been involved in the launching of more than 10,000 Missional Communities.
3-Essential Principles for Missional Communities- Jeff Vanderstelt
Presently, many are coming to see the necessity and potential of forming Missional Communities for the advancement of the gospel and the effective development of disciples. However, we need more than just passion and innovation. We need to learn and understand some transferable principles for forming and leading Missional Communities that can be developed into any context. During this workshop Jeff will both teach through these principles as well as give you tangible ways for how you can begin to form and lead a Missional Community in your own context.
4-Launching Missional Communities with Teenagers- Dave Rhodes
One of the largest and most fruitful mission field for Missional Communities is teenagers. But how does it work? Who leads them? How do they multiply? What do youth workers do? How are people discipled? This will be a nuts-and-bolts session on "the how" for Missional Communities and teenagers.
Reproducing Missional Leaders
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Planting Missional Churches from Scratch
1-Releasing the Primal Fire: catalyzing movements with the apostolic foundation-Neil Cole
In this breakout Neil will look at the gifts necessary to release a movement rather than just planting a church.
2-How to plant missional churches from scratch-Hugh Halter, Matt Smay
In this session Hugh will unpack the back story behind The Tangible Kingdom and show how unfunded missionaries can start churches from pure engagement of culture. This session is a must for any church planter who is serious about conversion growth, and finding the balance between scattered incarnational communities and appropriate gatherings.
3-How to plant missional churches from scratch-Mike Breen & Doug Paul
There are many ways to plant a church, but how do you plant one and not start by using the big-splash launch, Sunday-centric approach? Is there another way of going about it by multiplying Missional Communities? What if the worship service came later in the process and was a catching point for MC's? This workshop will explore this approach to church planting.
4-Open Q&A on How to Plant Missional Churches from Scratch-Hugh Halter, Matt Smay
Hugh and Matt will offer answers to your questions on “How to Plant Missional Churches from Scratch.”
Future Travelers
1-Introduction to Future Travelers - On The Verge- Alan Hirsch & Dave Ferguson
This session will introduce people to the missional vision, theology, and processes of the Future Travelers embodied in On The Verge the seminal book written by Alan and Dave
2-Mismatched: Attractional & Missional, Can You Do Both?- Greg Surratt & Mike Breen
Are missional and attractional by very nature non-compatable? Listen to Mike Breen, 3DM and Greg Surratt, Seacoast Church debate and discuss the either/or and both/and.
3- A Case Study of the New Beginning of Granger Community Church -Mark Beeson, Tim Stevens & Rob Wegner
The local church is on the verge of a massive, category shifting change. For 1700 years, the primary identity of the local church in the West has been "church as institution." Over the last 50 years, the church growth movement has brought much needed reformation within this expression. Although God continues to transform many lives through these prevailing models, it has not stemmed the decline of Western Christianity. We can't settle for winning a battle via contemporary church and multi-site, while losing the larger war. Simply producing more of the same will not be enough.
Our times require a different expression of the local church - church as apostolic movement, where every person is living a mission-sent life, where every person is a reproducing Christian, and every church a reproducing church.
In this work, Mark Beeson, Tim Stevens, and Rob Wegner will share the story of Granger Community Church as they are making the leap to church as movement. Granger is seeking to keep the best of what church growth has taught us, while simultaneously leveraging megachurch and multi-site as a launch pad for missional movements of their people.
4- Transitioning to a missional culture that actually makes disciples! -Greg Nettle & Alex Absalom
Almost 2 years ago God brought these guys together - Greg, a successful leader of a megachurch and a church planting network, and Alex, a leading practitioner and author on Missional Communities and discipleship both in Europe and the US. Together they will be sharing from the journey of RiverTree Church in transitioning into a more intentional disciple-making culture, as well as their insights into church planting in a missional mode. You will hear stories from the frontier, earthed in the realities of day-to-day church life, along with lots of practical tips and insights, as well as plenty of time for Q&A!
Creating Missional Centers
1-How to Lead a Missional Movement-Mike Breen & Jo Saxton
Leading a church and leading a movement require different skill-sets and most pastors are not equipped to lead a movement. This workshop will explore the different leadership skills necessary to lead a movement and how you can step more into movement and away from an institution-only approach.
2-Creating Apostolic Platforms -Jeff Vanderstelt & Alan Hirsch
Jeff and Alan will explore what it means to create a dynamic basis for mass movements by focussing on developing core practices and thinking (DNA) that can both generate and sustain movements over the long term.
3- Structuring to serve through Community: 8 critical steps to point small groups outward-Brandon Hatmaker
Brandon will take you through 8 critical steps to point your small groups outward to the Community.
4-From Institution a Movement- Alan Hirsch
Alan will explore the four areas of theology and practice that hold the keys to the revitalization and growth of the church in our times. This will explain why Christology, Discipleship, Mission, and Organization are critical focal points for recalibration and development.
Missional Paradigm Shifts
1-From Mega to Missional- Rob Wegner with Jack Magruder
“Missional.” For the past decade, the buzzword has been used to describe all things church—missional leadership, missional small groups, missional approach, missional communities. The concept has been written about, studied, argued over, questioned and celebrated. For the past 10 years, Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind., has explored, wrestled with and ultimately embraced what it means to be missional. We look at the potential and the tensions of moving from Megachurch and Missional. How is it that megachurch and multi-site can become a launch pad for a missional movement of God's people into every domain of society and every unreached pocket of people in a community?
2-Church 3.0: Upgrades for the Future of the Church-Neil Cole
Take an insider’s look at the important considerations necessary to release spontaneous church multiplication movements. We will look at addressing structural and leadership issues that must be understood if we are to see a movement in the west.
3-For the City -Darrin Patrick
In this session Darrin Patrick discusses his book For the City, and answers your questions on how a gospel-centered missional approach to planting churches can lead to city renewal and restoration
4-Missional Moms-Jo Saxton
Women are one of the most vital components of a sustainable missional movement. In this workshop we will explore the foundational role of women within any missional movement and talk the nuts-and-bolts, how-to of being a missionary woman with so many various hats to wear at once (wife, mother, employee, missionary, etc).
Missional - Engaging the World
1-Can a Church planter really change the world?- Bob Roberts & Omar Reyes
Bob and the team will present the concept; Kingdom/Disciple/Society/Church, that revolutionized the way we approach church planting.
2-Church planting by Engaging the City-Bob Roberts & Brian Hook
Bob & the team will present the concept of "Domain Engagement" and the new reality of working in a global environment effectively.
3-Missional imagination: Unleashing & mobilizing the people of God to live on mission-Kim Hammond
Kim Hammond is the director of missional imagination and has helped a large (7,000 person 12 locations Multi site church in Chicago (Community Christian Church) mobilize all of its people into mission. The goal for each person to have their own missional story.
4-Beyond MY Church -Jason Dukes
Have you ever prayed for revival, awakening, God’s work to happen in the community where you live? Your heart probably even aches for it. But does your heart ache for what Jesus’ heart ached for in the Garden the night before He died – for His followers to be one with the Father and thus be maturing in oneness as they love and serve the world together. No more thinking and living like it’s “MY church.” No more thinking and living in silos around town with no regard for the interests of other local church expressions in the community. Jesus prayed for our UNITY that the world might believe in the One who was sent. Let’s live as answers to His prayer. May we think and live beyond MY church.
Reproducing Models & Movement Making (Hosted by NewThing Network)
Multi-Site
1-Developing Multi-Site Leaders- Geoff Surratt
Based on his experience leading the multisite ministries of Seacoast Church and Saddleback Church, as well as connecting with multisite churches around the country, Geoff will share his Top 10 list of practical ways to develop campus pastor and ministry leaders for campuses.
2-Models & Approaches -Greg Ligon
Models and Approaches- Explore the latest models & approaches for multi-site churches.
3-3 Crucial Questions to Consider When You are Thinking About Taking the Multi-Site Plunge- Greg Surratt
Whether you are thinking multi-site or are already there and wondering, you won't want to miss this session that distills the do's and don¹t's into 3 basic questions. Multi-site pioneer downloads 10 years of learning into 3 basic principles.
4-7 Moves to Multi-Site- Eric Metcalf
Discover the seven moves to becoming a multi-site church.
Multi-Ethnic (Hosted by Mosaix)
1-Church Planting/Development in the Multi-Cultural Reality of the Next Evangelicalism-Soong-Chan Rah
The new realities of an increasingly diverse and ethnic population within North America require the identification of cultural captivity and the development of cultural intelligence among ministry leaders arising from theological depth. In this workshop, we will examine the changing face of American Christianity and the implications for local church planting and development in the 21st century.
2- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and the Multi-ethnic Church-Pete Scazerro
New Life Fellowship Church, located in Queens, NYC, is one of the most multiracial, multi-ethnic churches in the United States. Planted in 1987 with a commitment to bridge racial, cultural and economic barriers, God led them to develop a radical spiritual formation paradigm that deeply transforms people’s lives and creates a new culture under the lordship of Jesus. Pete Scazzero, the founder and senior pastor, will share hard lessons learned and key ingredients that made the miracle of New Life a reality.
3-The Post-Black, Post-White Church- Ephrem Smith
The local church must be both multi-ethnic and missional if it is to present a credible message of God's love for all people in an increasingly diverse society. The truth is you can't truly do one without the other! This workshop provides a biblical foundation and explores ministry models to gain insight on how the church can effectively respond to issues of race, ethnicity, class and justice, issues it will surely encounter, in the 21st century.
4-Fresh Air: Processing the Discussion-Mark DeYMaz
In this final session of the Multi-ethnic Church Planting Conference @ Exponential, join with leaders from the Mosaix Global Network to discuss any further thoughts or questions you might have in an informal Q & A setting.
Urban Planting
1- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and the Urban Church -Pete Scazerro
Pete Scazzero will share his story of planting and leading a church in Queens, New York City over the past 25 years. Out of the early years of failures and struggles, God birthed a radical spiritual formation paradigm (called today “emotionally healthy spirituality”), revolutionizing the personal lives of the leadership and the church as a whole. This seminar will look at the growth of NLF over the years and the hard lessons learned. We will also consider the impact of emotionally healthy spirituality on community development initiatives, leadership development and mentoring, preaching, marriage and family ministry, reconciliation efforts, as well as evangelism and the sustaining of a healthy church culture.
2- The Rebuild Initiative: Multiplying Urban Leaders with the Gospel – Larry Grays
Some of the greatest needs in church planter training are in the areas of urban church planting theology, philosophy and methodology. This session will unpack the five-fold strategy of The Rebuild Initiative's approach to planting and relaunching healthy urban churches.
3- Unlearn Everything: A New School In the Urban Context -Jon Ferguson and Brian Moll
5 lessons you must learn to help urbanites find their way back to God.
4- Hope Unleashed - Andy Hawthorne
Community Transformation one teen at a time. The Message Trust from Manchester England have developed a knack of reaching the hardest to reach. Each year they now touch the lives of over 100,000 such teens and are seeing amazing results in terms of church growth and community transformation. Come and hear the warts and all story, and the lessons learned along the way.
Small City (Hosted by The Sticks Network)
1-The Mission Matrix & the Craveable Church -Artie Davis
Making disciples is less about being told how and more about being told what. In this session you'll find out what a disciple looks like and what to do to make them.
2-The Movements & the Craveable Church -Ron Edmonson
Movements are more than just a Sunday service, they're what happens when people and churches move through the mission matrix of disciple making and begin to produce disciples and churches themselves. That's how towns, cities, communities, and the world are changed. In this session, you'll find out what it takes for your church to raise up disciples that start movements.
3-The Metrics & the Craveable Church -Brandon Cox
You can't know if it's working if you aren't measuring it. However, you have to measure the right things. It may be all about the numbers, if you are counting the right things. In this session, learn what numbers to count to determine how you're really doing.
4-The Multiplication Factors & the Craveable Church -Jonathan Pearson
God is all about multiplication and wants his church to be too. Find out the 'what' when it comes to multiplying disciples and churches. It's not as difficult as you might think.
Externally Focused (Hosted by Externally Focused Network)
1-If Your Church Vanished, Would Your Community Care?- Brian Mavis, Eric Swanson, Rick Rusaw
Thousands of churches will close their doors this year in America. Many churches will not close, but they aren’t making a difference. The guiding question of Externally Focused Churches is "If my church vanished, would my community care?" Unfortunately, for most churches the answer is "No." Oh sure, the people who attend those churches would care. But the city leaders wouldn't care. The schools wouldn't care. The business leaders and the community's non-profit agencies wouldn't care. The public and the down-and-out wouldn't care. The least and the lost wouldn't care. Learn what went wrong and what it will take to be a church that the community cares about.
2-How to Partner with Your Community and Make the Most of Your Assets- Brian Mavis, Eric Swanson, Rick Rusaw
Single parents, the hungry, at-risk kids, the homeless, the elderly, the poor, foster kids, the sick, public servants, schools, and more. There are so many people and places where your church can get involved. How do you know where to start and focus your efforts? Furthermore, should you create a new program or should you partner with someone in the community? Discover how to match your church’s giftedness with your community’s needs and assets. Additionally, All leaders have at their disposal the same missional resources to accomplish their mission. How could you be entrepreneurial by repurposing how you use those resources to become the best church for your community? Think about what you need to do to shift each of the six resources—people, facilities, prayer, finances, technology, and time—to higher productivity and greater yield.
3-Moving from Transactional Events to Transformational Living- Brian Mavis, Eric Swanson, Rick Rusaw
Success is defined by life change. We must evaluate our work based on the life change experienced by our people and the people we serve. As a leader, you can really help people move along the continuum from serving programs to serving people—from good deeds to good news. Teach your people to recognize the “God moment”—the time that God enters a conversation. God moments are characterized by curiosity and questions. When a person asks questions like “Who are you?” and “Why are you doing this?” you can be certain that God has entered that conversation.
4-The Good Hood: Major on the Majors by Loving Your Neighbors- Brian Mavis, Eric Swanson, Rick Rusaw
If your church could only be good at one thing, then it better be good at the thing that matters most to Jesus. What would your community look like if all Christ-followers were living out the Great Commandment? What could you do to get everybody to strive to be the best neighbors their neighbors have ever had? How could you help them in meeting the needs and dreams of the community? How could you structure church so that at then end of the year, every person had a story to tell of how, in ways great or small, he or she changed the world for someone? Discover how to mobilize your people to live the Great Commandment in everyday ways.
Launching with Momentum (Hosted by Next Network)
1-Taking your Church Plant Leadership to the Next Level- Steve Stroope & Ron Sylvia
Your church plant will rise or fall on your leadership so it is critical that you evaluate and strengthen your commitment to self-leadership. Learn to align tasks, delegate, explore situational leadership, personal motivators and more!
2-Raising and Managing Money in a Church Plant- Steve Stroope & Ron Sylvia
If you're planting a church and can't raise money, you'll have a difficult time sustaining a church plant. Come learn practical steps to raising and managing funds in a new church.
3-After the Call- Pat Furgerson & Doug Foltz
So you've been called to plant a church... That's awesome! But now what? Join us to learn how to put together a plan to lead you from your current reality to your desired future. You'll leave prepared to put pen to paper in determining your next steps in forming the church God has placed within you.
4-Marketing a Church Plant that Captures the Attention of a Community- Dave Page & Mark Lee
A critical step in launching a new church is getting the word out in a world that is already on information overload. Join pastors & planters, Dave Page and Mark Lee as they discuss new strategies for capturing the attention of the community.
Missional Communities
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Intentional Leadership
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Revitalization (Hosted by 21st Century Strategies)
1-Why Turnaround is so Difficult and What to Do about It-Bill Easum
The majority of turnarounds fail. Knowing why gives you a much better chance of success as well as avoiding common land mines.
2-Defining Reality before Turnaround -Bill Easum
Some churches can be revitalized. Other churches must be resurrected. A few churches need minor tune ups, but knowing the difference determines where you begin and how you proceed.
3-Nine Steps to Turnaround -Bill Easum
0ver twenty years of consulting has taught me there are only nine leverage pieces to turnaround. Deciding which pieces are missing and which ones to tackle first is the secret to turnaround.
4-The Role of the Pastor in Turnaround and How to Survival -Bill Easum
It’s one thing to turn a church around; it’s another to survive the turnaround. This session shows the role the pastor plays and how, once the turnaround has successfully begun, pastors avoid getting fired and the church returning to its old ways.
Reproducing Missional Leaders
1-Romancing Your City- Michael Frost
Incarnational mission involves more than just church planting. It involves truly loving your city. We can think of planting like marriage. It is a huge commitment, but we must not forget the everyday decisions to woo our neighborhoods. This workshop looks at missional ways to romance your city, to express the steadfast, generous, life-giving presence of the triune God in concrete terms our neighbors will understand and appreciate.
2-Reproducing Tribes: Groups & Team- Eric Metcalf & Carter Moss
Explore how to reach people who are far from God, how to restore our communities to the dream of God and how to reproduce the mission in others.
3-Reproducing Missional Leaders-Hugh Halter & Matt Smay
In this session the Missio Team will drive the discussion to the most important element of any church formation or growth. That is the reproducing of missionary leaders. Key points will center around incarnational life, farm systems, funding, and spiritual formation practices that produce street-level leaders.
4-Movement Starts with One- Jon Ferguson & Dave Ferguson
Discover the reproducing principles and the leadership path to create a movement of reproducing churches.
Church Planting Churches
1- Parent Church Landmines: Mistakes to Avoid When Your Church Plants Another Church- Tom Nebel
Now that your church is leaning toward reproducing itself, you'll want to do your best to help the process go smoothly. Avoid the top ten "Parent Church Landmines" and you'll be better positioned to see that happen. In this workshop you'll receive hands-on, practical help to see your church reproduce in a way that it will want to more than once.
2-The State of the American Church - Dave Olson
Join Dave Olson as he presents the reality the American church faces. Dave draws from his database of 200,000 churches to provide an up-to-the-minute profile of the opportunities and difficulties the American Church faces, plus why church plants are so critical for Christianity to be healthy in the United States. Prepare to be challenged!
3-How to Lead your Church to Multiply-Steve Pike
Is the trend toward multi-site venues and churches planting churches a fad or something much more significant? The AG Church Multiplication Network now has hundreds of multiplying churches of all sizes and locations throughout the nation. Come learn what they've learned about optimizing your church to
multiply!
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Intentional Leadership Track (Hosted by Auxano)
Personal Vision
1-It's Your Call: Finding and Aligning your personal Vision-Will Mancini
Do you ever feel stuck in your ministry or wonder about God's next step for your life? Are you tired of the same old personality assessments or identifying a list of strengths that never impacts your role description? If you are ready for a fresh approach to really grasping your unique life purpose, don't miss this session. Will Mancini will cover four imperatives that will move you toward the full engagement of your gifting and calling with tools for both the long-term horizon and immediate next steps.
2- How to Get Unstuck (It takes more than vision) -Tony Morgan
A football coach doesn’t just want to win, he also develops an offensive and defensive system built around coaches, players, strategies and plays to make it happen. The coach develops the system and then practices it daily with the hopes that it’ll lead to victory. Whether it’s discipleship, volunteer connections, leadership development or any other aspect of ministry, the systems and strategies we develop will ultimately determine the church we become and the life change it produces.
3-Unlocking Your Motivational View of the World-Will Mancini
Yes, you were created to glorify God and to follow Jesus. But many ministry leaders stop there when it comes to articulating their life vision. The result is an over generalized sense of purpose that fails to bring stunning clarity to personal leadership. What if you could know, with greater precision, why God put you on planet earth? What if you could name in a simple and compelling way, your totally unique contribution to the world? That's what your motivational view of the world is all about. Don't wait any longer to unlock this powerful perspective.
4-LB for LB: Redifining your Kingdom Effectiveness-Jeff Harris
Who is the greatest Boxer of all time? Most will say Muhammad Ali or some other famous Heavy Weight, but why? Boxing has measurable categories and the most effective boxers ever are likely not on your list. Churches are the same way! If we are measuring size and perceived influence then we are missing out on effectiveness. Pound for Pound is a workshop designed to move from the focus on size to Kingdom Effectiveness. Does your church, regardless of size or perceived influence steward it’s resources and energy in an effective way? Kingdom Effectiveness can be measured and you may be surprised by the results. Pound for Pound will help you quantify what matters, measure it and pursue Kingdom Effectiveness and not the perception of man.
Ministry Design
1-Clarity: Five Irreducible Questions of Leadership-Jim Randall
No leader should lead, no team should meet, and no initiative should start without clear and concise answers to the 5 Irreducible Questions of Leadership.
2-Innovation FLUX: Four Paths to your Ministry's Future- Wil Mancini
God has a better future for you and your ministry. But for too long church leaders have cooked with one recipe of success that can be labeled, “more of the same, the same way.” Unfortunately, fewer people are interested in “church as usual.” And now, with ever increasing cultural changes from social media and technology to post-Christian values and the economy, the church must be ready to adapt and innovate. But how do you rethink your basic recipe of ministry? How do begin to discover stunningly new possibilities for your church? In Four Paths to the Future, will provide a foundational perspective to guide every other conversation about church strategy and vision.
3-Culture: Five Stages of Cultural Formation- Dave Saathoff
Clear vision and good strategy are tools by which a spiritual community can serve the spiritual and social needs of a hurting world. But vision and strategy without intentional cultural development runs the risk of hollow success and a poisoned environment. Culture is environment – it guides the behaviors and beliefs of those executing strategy and vision. Yet culture cannot be microwaved. It must simmer over time. In fact, cultural development naturally progresses through FIVE STAGES. When leaders understand these stages, they can avoid unnecessary pitfalls. If you want the right stuff, you must create the right environment.
4-Extension: Atttuning the Culture of the Campus Pastor-Bryan Rose
The mulit-site model works, but how do you make it work for you? Where can church leadership focus their efforts and resources to have the most impact and the highest effectiveness in going multisite? You cannot replicate what you cannot communicate, so learn how Vision Clarity leads to a successful launch and shape the culture of your church.
Reproducing Missional Leaders
-SEE MISSIONAL TRACK
Team Leadership
1-Sticky Teams: Why Some Teams Win & Most Don’t -Larry Osborne
Discover the seven key traits that separate a winning team from a losing team. Larry Osborne will show you what it takes to build a team that sticks together and stays on mission for the long haul.
2-Intentional Team Leadership -Tim Stevens
Let’s face it: It is much easier to lead alone. We all know that teams accomplish more, but we often give up because it is so difficult. Tim Stevens has led the Granger team for more than 17 years, through hard times, fast growth, big wins and unbelievable stress. He will share ideas from their successes and their failures, and will unpack a recent challenging time when their team was stretched almost to the point of breaking.
3- Keys to Building Healthy Leadership Teams-Tony Morgan
Are you ready for a healthier approach to building your team and empowering leaders? This session will touch on your obedience, calling and influence. Based on practical ministry experiences and biblical principles, Tony will stretch how you look at your leadership. Rather than being trapped and running on empty, it's time for you to be making a big impact with your leadership and life.
4- Building a Leadership Development Culture-Mac Lake
Growing organizations have an ever-increasing need for more leaders. However, most struggle with the frustration of weak or non-existent processes for the development of new and existing leaders. They are aware that a failure to increase their leadership base will ultimately hamper the progress of their overall mission. This session offers solutions leaders can implement today and begin creating a leadership development culture that will keep their leadership pipeline full to overflowing.
Funding & Resourcing (Hosting Generis)
1-Funding Your Ministry – Pre Launch (Getting It Off The Ground)-Jim Sheppard, Julie Bullock, Brad Leeper, and Chris Willard
You have decided to plant a church and you were so excited about it until you remembered you are going to have to raise the funds. Is there anything more daunting than raising support for a church that doesn’t exist yet? We will focus on the fundamentals of success in the pre-launch phase, perhaps the most important funding phase of church planting. Reality is there are few other factors more tied to launching well and sustaining growth than funding. Without success in this phase, the church will have a hard time getting off the ground.
2-Funding Your Ministry – Launch Phase (Getting It Moving)-Jim Sheppard, Julie Bullock, Brad Leeper, and Chris Willard
You are past the pre-launch phase and now you are ready to go public. There will be a lot of activity at this phase and you will be tempted to overlook the importance on continuing to work on your funding. In this workshop, we will talk about the keys to success in keeping the momentum from the pre-launch phase.
3-Funding Your Ministry – Post Launch (Becoming Self Sustaining)-Jim Sheppard, Julie Bullock, Brad Leeper, and Chris Willard
Your church now has real people who are showing up on a weekly basis and they are beginning to give. You are still making ends meet from the support you raised in the pre-launch and launch phases, but you know you have to work on a plan to become self-sustaining as a body of believers. What does that look like? How do you navigate the challenges? This session will focus on moving the church to a point where it can live on weekly tithes and offerings.
4-Contagious Generosity: Creating A Culture Of Giving In Your Church-Jim Sheppard & Chris Willard
Churches that are getting it when it comes generosity can be a source of learning. How can we apply those lessons in our own church and move the generosity needle? Jim and Chris are keen observers of church trends in the area of generosity and they will introduce you to lessons some churches have learned. This is not about a formula for success, but rather a “what can we learn from others.”
Nuts & Bolts- Communication
1-Less Clutter. Less Noise - Communication beyond bulletins, brochures & bake sales - Kem Meyer
Every organization, especially the church, has to get over themselves and realize effective communications is really about “releasing the right response” not “sending the right message.” People are not looking for more information—they are looking for ways to survive too much information. Pastors, creative professionals, ministry leaders or volunteers part of the church should help people find those answers. Instead they end up adding to the confusion. Smart communication systems that help people connect with Christ and each other don’t have to be complicated.
2-Communicating Vision Visually-Jim Randall
Churches pump out communications all day long and miss the opportunity to constantly reflect and reinforce the vision. Yes, your church needs to brand—it’s not a four-letter word imported from corporate world. How does the church tell its story to its community? What can the church learn from its media savvy competitors? How can we capture culture with our brand? Have you simplified and created the tools to help you trickle your identity into every interaction a person may have with your church? Learn the essentials and nuances that teams often overlook and what you can do to create communication and environments that connect with people’s hearts and minds.
3-Less Control. More Influence - Communication that fosters buy-in and teamwork -Kem Meyer
Do you ever notice your ideas are met with lackluster reactions from those around you? Are you having trouble leading change—even with the brightest people, best ideas and virtuous intentions? It’s been said knowing how people grow, does not mean we know how to grow them. It’s tricky learning how to work with others on the same team. And, even in “Kingdom work” we often meet defensiveness and experience defeat. The candid truth? Most of us are ineffective because we are pushing our own agenda—our way. Under pressure to demonstrate results or validate our cause, we have the tendency to skip crucial “soft skills” of our job. Discover a few ingredients for getting buy-in and motivating others we work with (staff, peers, supervisors and volunteers).
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Nuts & Bolts - General
1-How to Develop Leaders in your Church by Coaching -Scott Thomas
Everything rises or falls on leadership, including fulfilling the mission of your church plant. Paul instructed Titus to put what remained into order and to establish elders in every church (Titus 1:5). Those two instructions are inextricably linked. Discover how Titus evolved as a leader and how coaching can help you develop the kinds of leaders that people in your church will follow.
2 - Building Leadership and Setting DNA With Your Launch Team -Steven Gray
Starting a new church involves more than simply putting together a great launch team. In fact, we may need to abandon the concept of a "launch team" and return to developing a "core". Developing a healthy core and implanting a lasting DNA is crucial in the early stages of a new church. How you develop your leadership will ultimately determine the strength, health, and sustainability of your churh. In this session we will discuss leadership pitfalls and how to create a strong leadership core that will carry the DNA of the church.
3- THE CONTAGIOUS CHURCH: Turning Mere Attenders Into Zealous Advocates-Larry Osborne
Discover what a pastor needs to know and what a congregation needs to experience in order for mere attenders to become zealous advocates for Jesus and the local church.
4-Jesus The Church Planter-John Worcester
Follow His timeless, transferable practices today. Discover how alive the gospels are with practical church planting principles and methods. Look closely at Jesus, the apostle who builds the church, Heb. 3:1-6.
Nuts & Bolts - General
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2-501(c)(what???) And All Those Headaches - Pat Furgerson & Doug Foltz
We know… the last thing on your mind is all the legal paperwork that has to be completed in order to get this church started. But the reality is if you want to be a good steward and obey the laws of the land, there is a lot that has to be accomplished and a lot that should be accomplished. Join us to get your hands around the basics and at least understand the what's, why's and some of the how's of the legal requirements of starting a church here in the U.S.A.
3 - Missionary Skills for the Church Planter - Larry McCreary & Caleb Crider
What can you learn from the underground church in East Asia, the persecuted church in the Middle East, and the postmodern church in Europe that will help with your church plant? If you're going to plant a biblical church in your unique context, you need to think and act like a missionary. We'll introduce practical skills that will revolutionize your missional church efforts, including mapping, cultural exegesis, and navigating social tribes.
4 -Discover Your Christian Leadership Style - Dave Olson
Learn about a new, free online tool for leadership development. The Leadership Stool provides a simple, yet powerful model to improve your leadership, and better lead your staff, your lay leaders and your whole church. You will learn about the 6 Christian leadership styles, receive a detailed report on your specific style and a team manual to use with your leaders.
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