Ed Stetzer will address the cultural moment, looking at trends in culture and how pastors and churches are navigating the moment of division and disruption. He will draw lessons from the past about how to move forward in 2023 and beyond.
Ed Stetzer is dean of the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University and teaching pastor at Mariners Church. As a church planter, he has trained pastors on six continents. He is a prolific author and host of a national radio show.
What is your church’s plan for making disciples? Dave Turner will explore why a clear plan for making disciples is vital, how to create one to fit your context, and how to infuse prayer, the Bible, community, and mission into your plan.
Dave currently serves as pastor of discipleship and multiplication at The Summit Church. He has been married to Lauren for sixteen years, and they have four kids. Dave enjoys doing anything in the mountains, a good road trip, and adventures with his family.
World Vision and Barna Group will equip you to better understand the emerging leaders of Generation Z in and outside your church. Participants will receive a free digital Barna Group Open Generation US Report.
Richard “RichRel” Reliford serves as senior partnerships manager at World Vision on the church and ministry partnerships team.
Savannah Kimberlin serves as associate vice president of church engagement at Barna.
Reward Sibanda is senior advisor for church and community relations at World Vision International and also serves as a teaching pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California.
Whether you lead small groups, youth groups, parenting and marriage classes, or mentorship programs, RightNow Media has content, tools, and features to help you create a culture of discipleship. Hear from the RightNow Media team as they walk through best practices and answer your questions.
Scott Mosley, RightNow Media’s vice president of software and experience, leads the software development team responsible for building and maintaining all of the RightNow Media websites and apps.
Taylor Empkey is director of account managers at RightNow Media, where he leads a team of people who help communicate the mission of RightNow Media to churches and schools.
Learn how to position your church to involve and retain younger generations in a way that breathes life into the whole church. Meet the TENx10 Collaboration—a movement helping faith matter more for 10 million teenagers in the next 10 years.
Jake Mulder, M.Div., is assistant chief of leadership formation at Fuller Seminary, executive director for FULLER Equip, and is completing a ministry-focused Ph.D. Passionate about helping individuals and churches achieve their full potential, he is the coauthor of Growing Young.
What would it look like to worship with greater intentionality around spiritual formation? How can you make your entire church service more potentially formative? Join us as we explore the significance of corporate worship as a spiritually formative practice.
Rory Noland is director of Heart of the Artist Ministries, a published songwriter, and author of five books, including the bestselling book, The Heart of the Artist: A Character-Building Guide for You and Your Ministry Team.
Whether staff or volunteer, women serve in many leadership roles within the church. Carolyn Taketa will discuss how churches can identify, invite, equip, and empower women to exercise their leadership gifts in ministry.
Carolyn Taketa is a certified coach and ministry consultant with thirty-plus years of leadership experience as a small groups pastor, attorney, writer, and podcast host. Carolyn focuses on topics related to women in ministry, organizational leadership, life transitions, and communication skills.
The digital space can be deeply relational, transformative, and honest. Mark Lutz will explore how your leadership skills and gifting equip you to create a powerful digital strategy for your church.
Mark is lead pastor of Lux Digital Church. A gamer his entire life, Mark has been deeply invested in video games, board games, and tabletop RPGs since middle school. His heart is to help the church reach the post-millennial generations.
With most of a generation viewing Christians as repulsive for being the opposite of who Jesus called us to be, is it time to rethink how we produce disciples? We will take a fresh and urgent look at how we can reexamine our approach to produce the right fruit in people’s lives.
Jeff Jones is senior pastor of Chase Oaks Church, a large multi-campus church in North Texas. He is also the author of Distinct by Design and co-author of The Leadership Baton.
Need a breather from all of the teaching coming your way? Enjoy a midday laugh break with a comedy set from Dustin Nickerson.
Dustin Nickerson is a popular stand-up comedian who has been featured on television, radio, podcasts, and streaming networks. He’s the author of How to be Married to Melissa and host of his own podcast, Don’t Make Me Come Back There.
What is your church’s plan for making disciples? Dave Turner will explore why a clear plan for making disciples is vital, how to create one to fit your context, and how to infuse prayer, the Bible, community, and mission into your plan.
Dave currently serves as pastor of discipleship and multiplication at The Summit Church. He has been married to Lauren for sixteen years, and they have four kids. Dave enjoys doing anything in the mountains, a good road trip, and adventures with his family.
How can being a data-informed leader strengthen your church ministry for years to come? Join us as we unpack four vital, measurable metrics that will help you see clearly and ultimately grow to be a whole, healthier church.
Craig Springer serves as vice president of church engagement and executive director of the Spiritually Open Project at Barna Group.
Savannah Kimberlin serves as associate vice president of church engagement at Barna Group.
Whether you lead small groups, youth groups, parenting and marriage classes, or mentorship programs, RightNow Media has content, tools, and features to help you create a culture of discipleship. Hear from the RightNow Media team as they walk through best practices and answer your questions.
Scott Mosley, RightNow Media’s vice president of software and experience, leads the software development team responsible for building and maintaining all of the RightNow Media websites and apps.
Taylor Empkey is director of account managers at RightNow Media, where he leads a team of people who help communicate the mission of RightNow Media to churches and schools.
Let’s retire the tired tropes of quirky aunts and commitment-shy bachelors, and discover the real single adults in (and considering leaving) our churches. Nika Spaulding will sketch the current situation, challenges, and untapped potential waiting for us if we take discipleship of single adults seriously.
Nika Spaulding is a church planter and the resident theologian at St. Jude Oak Cliff. She has a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary and co-hosts the Honestly, Though podcast.
What would it look like to worship with greater intentionality around spiritual formation? How can you make your entire church service more potentially formative? Join us as we explore the significance of corporate worship as a spiritually formative practice.
Rory Noland is director of Heart of the Artist Ministries, a published songwriter, and author of five books, including the bestselling book, The Heart of the Artist: A Character-Building Guide for You and Your Ministry Team.
Leaders increasingly struggle with facilitating real discipleship when they themselves aren’t sure what the future holds. Jeff will share his own successes (and failures) in promoting discipleship in a mid-sized, rural church through unprecedented times.
Jeff Dunn currently serves as preaching minister for the Huntsville Church of Christ. He has also served as a youth minister, teacher, trainer, and behavior coach in public schools. He has published two books, with another in production.
The digital space can be deeply relational, transformative, and honest. Mark Lutz will explore how your leadership skills and gifting equip you to create a powerful digital strategy for your church.
Mark is lead pastor of Lux Digital Church. A gamer his entire life, Mark has been deeply invested in video games, board games, and tabletop RPGs since middle school. His heart is to help the church reach the post-millennial generations.
Small groups. Life groups. Home groups. Whatever your church calls them, we can all agree groups are critical to a church’s discipleship strategy. Learn the five core components that can help your group create meaningful relationships, deeper faith, and changed lives.
Robby is president and CEO of Trueface. He previously served at North Point Community Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where he utilized Trueface resources in his various positions on pastoral staff. He and his wife, Emily, live in Dawsonville, Georgia, with their eight children.
Jennie Allen discusses what she’s seen through her experiences in the past year at college campuses like Asbury, Baylor, and Auburn. Join Jennie as she’s interviewed by RightNow Media’s president, Brian Mosley, about how young adults are hungry for God and ready to fulfill Jesus’s commission to make disciples.
Jennie Allen is a speaker and Bible teacher, the founder and visionary of IF:Gathering, a ministry that seeks to equip women to make disciples of Jesus, and the New York Times bestselling author of Find Your People and Get Out of Your Head.
In this workshop, we explore what we (should) mean by “discipleship” and how we can accomplish it in medium and larger settings through preaching and teaching. We will engage with principles and perspectives that engage hearts and minds and lead to transformation.
A longtime pastor, Bill Search has overseen small groups in large churches and is a trusted voice regarding small groups. He is the author of The Essential Guide for Small Group Leaders and Simple Small Groups and a regular contributor to smallgroups.com.
What are the moral and ethical ramifications of using AI in ministry? What tools best promote responsible use of AI in the church? In this session, experts from Gloo will answer questions and show live demos of tools every pastor should see.
Steele Billings is a technologist and leader at Gloo where he currently leads the AI work, which includes a $25 million fund that invests in faith-driven organizational research and development around the responsible use of AI in ministry.
Whether you lead small groups, youth groups, parenting and marriage classes, or mentorship programs, RightNow Media has content, tools, and features to help you create a culture of discipleship. Hear from the RightNow Media team as they walk through best practices and answer your questions.
Scott Mosley, RightNow Media’s vice president of software and experience, leads the software development team responsible for building and maintaining all of the RightNow Media websites and apps.
Taylor Empkey is director of account managers at RightNow Media, where he leads a team of people who help communicate the mission of RightNow Media to churches and schools.
Learn how to position your church to involve and retain younger generations in a way that breathes life into the whole church. Meet the TENx10 Collaboration—a movement helping faith matter more for 10 million teenagers in the next 10 years.
Jake Mulder, M.Div., is assistant chief of leadership formation at Fuller Seminary, executive director for FULLER Equip, and is completing a ministry-focused Ph.D. Passionate about helping individuals and churches achieve their full potential, he is the coauthor of Growing Young.
All men face struggles in life. How can we be role models who positively disciple others? Mike Satterfield will speak from Ephesians 6:10–20 about kingdom principles designed to help men develop godly character to overcome struggles they face.
Mike Satterfield, former teaching pastor at Fielder Church in Arlington, Texas, is founder of Field of Grace Ministries, an evangelism endeavor that allows him to take the gospel into national and international communities.
Leaders increasingly struggle with facilitating real discipleship when they themselves aren’t sure what the future holds. Jeff will share his own successes (and failures) in promoting discipleship in a mid-sized, rural church through unprecedented times.
Jeff Dunn currently serves as preaching minister for the Huntsville Church of Christ. He has also served as a youth minister, teacher, trainer, and behavior coach in public schools. He has published two books, with another in production.
With most of a generation viewing Christians as repulsive for being the opposite of who Jesus called us to be, is it time to rethink how we produce disciples? We will take a fresh and urgent look at how we can reexamine our approach to produce the right fruit in people’s lives.
Jeff Jones is senior pastor of Chase Oaks Church, a large multi-campus church in North Texas. He is also the author of Distinct by Design and co-author of The Leadership Baton.
We know that sound strategy and better volunteer leaders lead to more effective discipleship efforts. Learn four elements of a comprehensive, effective discipleship approach and leave with practical ideas on taking your adult ministry to the next level.
Robby is president and CEO of Trueface. He previously served at North Point Community Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where he utilized Trueface resources in his various positions on pastoral staff. He and his wife, Emily, live in Dawsonville, Georgia, with their eight children.
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