Church Planting and Revitalization Conference January 27 - 30

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Sponsor: Global Church Advancement

Conference Leader: Steve Childers

Trainers include:  Steve Childers, Steve Ogne, Scotty Smith, Tom Wood, Ruth Ann Batstone and more

Foundations, Essentials, Coaching and Women's Tracks plus more than 25 Advanced Workshops

The North America Church Planting Conference is designed to equip church planters and coaches with the principles and strategies needed for starting and developing healthy, growing, reproducing churches. In this highly interactive and comprehensive learning experience, planters and coaches will learn, in hands-on ways, how to develop a biblical vision for ministry, philosophy of ministry and church development.

Lectures, discussion, and guided discovery learning exercises will allow participants to formulate vision, values, mission, and strategy that can find immediate application in the field. Church planting methodology (Seven Seasons of Church Planting) will be surveyed from pre-birth to reproduction.

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Volunteer Church Planters Needed

You don’t have to quit your job to serve on a church planting team.  In fact, intentionally entering the marketplace in order to develop an understanding of the culture, cultivate relationships, and foster a sense of legitimacy in the community is a sound missiological strategy.  Phillip Connor in his book, Who is my Neighbor, explains:

How could we encourage these new disciples in Christ to live their lives as witnesses in their work life, when we had little experience or knowledge as to how that practically happened?  And, as churches began to emerge, how could we model newly appointed elders to lead the church while simultaneously meeting their financial needs by working a full-time job outside of their ministry?  After our two-year commitment with the missionary agency was complete, we continued on in a volunteer capacity.  This permitted us to still be connected to the greater work for reasons of accountability, encouragement, and prayer support…. Not only did we now approximate better the lifestyle of those we were trying to reach, but we also were now interacting with new groups of people, many of whom were internationals.  This provided us with even more contacts for ministry.