J.D. Greear
Saturday Morning Gathering
Keeping the Mission Central
What role does serving the community have in evangelism? Is it a distraction, or is it essential to preaching the Gospel? You’ve heard the phrase, “preach the gospel, when necessary use words.” Is that possible?
David Platt
Friday Evening Gathering
Gospel Urgency
The Great Commission in the Local Church
We are tempted to do everything except the one thing Jesus told us to do in the Great Commission. So how do we put the Great Commission back at the center of the local church and sacrifice everything else in order to make disciples of all nations?
Landon Reesor
Saturday Afernoon Gathering
Sharing the Jesus Story in a Post-Christian Culture
Randy Adams
Living on the Edge of Time
Both Scripture and history teach us that those who have maximum impact live on the edge of time. They have a sense that their life matters and that their time provides critical opportunities concerning God’s eternal purpose. This realization has profound meaning for those who lead God’s people, and this conference will explore this meaning in practical ways.
David Alexander
Inside the Numbers - A Missionary Look at the Census
There are demographic statistics for everything. Companies spend small fortunes having surveys done and many trees are killed to provide analyses of the stats. God had a census done several times in the Old Testament. What if there was a way to get some of these stats for free? What if you could analyze these numbers quickly? What if you knew how these numbers could help you in your mission field to reach, teach, and minister to people in more effective ways? Would that be of value to you?
Chuy Avila
¡Caminatas de Oración, Iglesias en Casa y Discipulado
Personal es mi manera de andar!
almost an m
The Church as Missionary
This is a seminar where we take some cross cultural missional elements and discuss them. We believe it can help the church inengaging in the Great Commission.
Back to the Future
A Look into ministry in Europe: Is the North American Church Ready?
Co-teaching with Larry McCrary
Tillman Boyd
Building-Missions
For Baptist Builders this workshop will focus on how to build and train an effective building-mission team within your church or association. Learn how building-missions strengthens individuals, families, churches and associations. Discover the three P’s that are keys to any successful builder-mission. “And in the church God appointed…those able to help others” – 1 Corinthians 12:28; “Let us arise and build”
Nehemiah 2:18.
Brooke Brandon
Mobilizing Students to be World Christians
Are you a student with a desire to live for a cause greater than yourself? Do you want to join in the work God is doing around the world? Do you know how to challenge and encourage other students to live out of the box for the glory of God among the nations? If you are a student or a student minister, join this session to get connected with resources and to learn practical ways to mobilize students on your campus.
Barry Calhoun
Male Leadership: Being God’s Man through Servant Leadership
This workshop will address the missional aspects of training and becoming God’s man and a servant leader. We will briefly examine what happened to Adam in the “fall of man,” define biblical manhood, and high-light 25 ways to be a servant leader at home, work, and on the mission field.
Jason Carlisle
Ben Carr
Developing Students Of Influence In The Local Church
Do you ever wonder why this generation of students leave the local church after graduation? This is a great question that needs to answered. There are incredible ways to involve Students in the local church. Teach them about SERVICE. This session will cover various elements to engage students to have ownership in missions and service.
Loui Canchola
REACHING LATER GENERATION HISPANICS
The census numbers show that Hispanics are the fastest growing segment of our population. Later generation Hispanics are asking the question "where do we fit"? Being fully acculturated, they are seeking places to contribute in society. Is your church ready for their contribution? Have you developed a strategy for reaching later generation Hispanics? This workshop will help you develop a simple and powerful strategy to reach them as you reach your world for Christ.
Marty and Melissa childers
Exploring the Worldview of Syncretistic Catholicism
Possible misunderstanding becomes probable when we attempt to minister cross culturally. This workshop will look at how important is is to understand syncretism in Latin America, and how to become agents of redemption in a cross cultural context.
Explorando la Cosmovisión del Sincretismo Catolico
Malentendidos posibles resultan ser probables cuando
intentamos ministrar
transculturalmente. Este taller analizará la importancia de entender el sincretismo en
America Latina, y cómo ser agentes de la redención en un contexto transcultural.
Felix Cornier
La Escuela Dominical: Donde se siembra semillas y cultivan la Mente Misionera
Usando la Escuela Bbilca Domincal para sembrar y cultival mentes misionera de nuestras congregaciones.
Sunday School: Where the Seeds for Missional Minds are Planted and Cultivated
Using our Sunday School to plant and cultivate missional minds in nour congregations.
Caleb Crider
The Church as Missionary
This is a seminar where we take some cross cultural missional elements and discuss them. We believe it can help the church inengaging in the Great Commission.
Back to the Future
A Look into ministry in Europe: Is the North American Church Ready?
Co-teaching with Larry McCrary
Lance Crowell
A Missional Paradox: Living SENT without the Gospel
Missions or Evangelism?? Social Justice or the Gospel?? Why does it seem like we chose one or the other to pursue? This session will look at how a generation can be intentionally “missional”, yet neglect to share the Gospel message in the midst of incredible acts of service. We will examine how Jesus incorporates social justices into the ongoing mission of proclaiming and living the Gospel.
Jason Dukes
LIVE SENT: from philosophy to pragmatism
As a leader, you may talk missional. You may teach that the "church" is people (most do). But, your discipling efforts and ministry strategies and church emphases, do they practically reflect your "sent" philosophy? Here are some practical suggestions to both help you lead a culture of people to live sent as well as practically send those people into the daily.
Joel Engle
Building A Missional Community Through Cell Groups
Many people have a serious misunderstanding of the nature of the church. The church is not an organization or a building but a spiritual body filled with the living presence of Christ. When the church is functioning properly in true biblical community then cities, nations and cultures are impacted eternally.
Mike Gonzales
The Importance of Hispanics getting involved in International Missions - One will learn why Hispanics should be encouraged to get involved in international missions.
La importancia de hispanos involucrándose en misiones internacionales Se compartirá las muchas ventajas que hispanos tienen para involucrarse en misiones internacionales.
Damon Halliday
What type of fish are you catching?
Jesus came to upgrade our purpose in life from fisherman, to fishers of men. When going fishing the first thing you need to decide is the type of fish your trying to catch. That decision will make all of the other decisions for you, like location, time, bait, equipment and style.
Ben Hays
The World on My Street: Engaging Multi-Ethnic Urban Neighborhoods
In this conversation, we will cast a vision for reaching the nations without leaving a Texas zip code. We will uncover God’s heart for forming a family comprised of all peoples, we will take a look at some staggering demographical data from the Houston area, and we will talk about some practical methods for identifying, engaging, and sharing the Gospel with our global neighbors. Along the way, I will share some stories that are still being written as I learn to interact with internationals while planting a church in an extremely diverse context in inner city Houston.
Dr. Ken Hemphill
Splash them with Jesus! (an evangelism strategy that actually works)
We have made evangelism a program of the church rather than a natural process of daily living. We have focused on a 'canned presentation' rather than 'fresh personalization.' Teach your people how to "gossip Jesus" in their daily walk. The most effective and inexpensive evangelism strategy available.
A Personal Discipling Strategy (Splash 2)
General agreement exists that what we are presently doing is not working when it comes to discipleship. Consider a new personalized strategy that will train those leading someone to Christ to begin the discipling process. Splash2 stands for Scripture, Prayer, Love, Accountability, Stewardship, and Heart.
Building Kingdom Sized Faith
Do your people actually know what they believe? Studies indicate that a large percentage of professing evangelicals do not have a grasp of the basics of the faith. A new strategy for building Kingdom Faith in bite sized nuggets.
Paula Hemphill
Kingdom Women: Embracing God's Heart
Scripture provides women and girls who follow Jesus with a foundation to live missionally. When we love God we find His heart for the nations beating in us. How can I live as a kingdom woman, reaching up and out for His glory?
Battle Cry- Suited for Spiritual Warfare
Missionaries live in the heat of spiritual warfare. Their biblical wisdom and life experience can inform us as we seek to live as overcomers. Even in tribulation we can learn to be more than conquerors!
Darrell Horn
Chronological Bible Storying
If you’re looking for something that is reproducible, little to no cost to implement, and has tremendous potential for evangelism and discipleship, then this is for you. The difference between chronological Bible storying, Bible storying, and chronological Bible teaching will be addressed. Story telling in general will be considered
along with the benefits of using such methods to communicate in more
effective ways to all age groups.
Worldview and Orality
Worldview is the overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world. We will discuss how to discover the worldview of a target group along with worldview documentation and multi-year ministry strategy development. The issues of orality will be discussed in relation to effective communication in a post-literate world.
Carl Lorey
Teaching English Language Learners
--Around the World or Around the Block
You’ve got it! They want it! Use it to share Christ--teach them to speak English! This session will give you ideas to teach internationals to speak conversational
English and share the gospel of Jesus in the process.
tony matthews
Wow! My Church is Becoming Multiethnic
In this workshop we will look at the missional and practical aspects of a church's role in transitioning into a multiethnic congregation. We will also explore ministry ideas and suggestions for fostering relationships across racial and cultural lines. Lastly, we will talk about how to keep our mission in the mix.
Elvin McCann
Dynamics of Effective Partnerships
Missions is done best when it is done together. Learning how to do it together is found in building strong partnerships. This workshop will address the Biblical basis, key questions, strategic benefits, the process, effective qualities, and roadblocks to good partnerships. Having examined the basic building blocks of good partnerships, we will look at how to evaluate them so that a helpful review and revision of the relationships, goals, and outcomes will enable even greater effectiveness. Several resources will be shared with session participants.
Roy McClung
Disciple-Making Movements: Making Disciples Who Make Disciples
Larry McCrary
The Church as Missionary
This is a seminar where we take some cross cultural missional elements and discuss them. We believe it can help the church in
engaging in the Great Commission.
Back to the Future
A Look into ministry in Europe: Is the North American Church Ready?
Jared McIntire
Divine Interruptions
We all have times when someone interrupts the course of our day. Have you ever considered that those intrusions might be divine interruptions? Sometimes God sends people into our lives so we can love them, serve them, and reach them for Jesus Christ. Their interruption can be orchestrated by God so we can share the hope of the gospel.
Bruno Molina
Your Evangelism Team
This workshop will focus on how to set-up and maintain an effective evangelism
team within your church. Special attention will be given to the importance of prayer in evangelism as well as the responsibilities and action plans of the evangelism team.
Su equipo de evangelismo
El enfoque de este taller es como establecer y mantener un equipo de evangelismo efectivo en su iglesia. Se enfatizará la importancia de la oración en el evangelismo tanto como las responsabilidades y los planes del equipo de evangelismo.
Barbara Oden
It's All About Relationships
Looking at reaching those who live in apartment communities. We will be looking at beginning relationship with Apartment Staff and how to open doors to their properties for ministry. We will also look at ways to develop relationships with residents so we can reach them For Christ. Lastly, we will talk about local church members to help them understand and implement relationship evangelism and discipleship
Robby Partain
Building and Leading Effective Mission Teams
Been on some bad teams before? This workshop will help you lead
teams effectively, whether it is the Missions Team
for your church or a team going on a short-term mission trip.
It will also help you be a more effective team member.
Susan Partain
Mission Trip Basics - The Do's and Don'ts of Trip Planning
God has called you to go, but what do you do next? This session will provide information on logistical planning, spiritual preparation and team building as you prepare for your trip.
Mike price
Ministering to Families of Inmates
Family members numbering in the thousands are dealing with the crisis of incarceration. Does the local church have a role helping to restore these families? Yes! The Mercy Heart Chapel Program is a local church model for ministry (established in 1995) with at-risk families and childern of inmtates. This worshop will point you to tools for helping the families left behind when a loved one goes to prison.
Jim Richardson
Sharing the hope of Jesus through Disaster Relief ministry in different areas, Clean up and Recovery, Feeding, Communications, Operations, Childcare, and Chaplaincy.
Larry Riley
Kids on Mission!
The purpose of this session is to discover resources and applications
that will help children understand that the Peoples of the world are created in
God’s image, are loved by Him and need someone to share the Good News of
Christ with them. We will explore how children can engage in missions NOW!”
Mary Jo Sharp
Why Jesus in a World Embracing Many Beliefs?
"You Christians are just too narrow-minded! You think that your way is the only way to heaven. Well, there are many ways to God." In this session, we will see why the belief that all religions are basically the same is a misunderstanding of even the basics beliefs of most religions. We will also look at the reasons for why only Jesus answers the problem of the human condition.
Terry Sharp
Leading My Church to Become a Virtual Missionary
There are not enough missionaries to reach all the people groups in the world. Find out how your church could become a virtual missionary for an Unreached People Group. In this conference you will learn how to become a (Virtual Missionary),why have a Virtual Missionary Church. What is the process of becoming a Virtual Missionary Church. Hear from a pastor and a director of missions who have lead their church and association to become a Virtual Missionary Church.
Leading My Church to Pray for the Forgotten
You will learn how to select a people group as well as ideas to involved your entire church
in praying for this unreached people group.
Dr. David Sills
Reaching and Teaching: The task of international missions
Faithful obedience to the Great Commission requires that missionaries go beyond merely obtaining decisions and forming people into churches. Jesus has commanded His followers to make disciples of all nations and teaching them to observe all that He has commanded. This session addresses challenges to fulfilling
Christ's commands and teaching the nations.
The Missionary Call
The confusion that Christians have felt about the missionary call has been one of the primary reasons for keeping them from the mission field. This session looks at the missionary call biblically, historically, and practically.
Margaret Slusher
The Power of the Story
(Story Evangelism) is a unique customized approach to reaching the lost, preventing drop-out and reclaiming drop-outs. It is a skill-based process for sharing the Gospel in a more effective personalized manner by listening for people's real story and not just what is said to understand their situation, and learning styles, and then select appropriate Bible stories, parables, and/ or methods for them. By designing your approach for witnessing based on the individual, you can become more effective in reaching and assimilating people into the church.
Mark Snowden
Truth That Sticks: Where Storying and Discipleship Meet
Where storying and discipleship meet. This is a must for church leaders seeking to make disciples of more than half of the US who have a non-reading learning preference. You will learn how to be comfortable telling a Bible narrative and how to weave a series of Bible stories together to evangelize networks, disciple disciple-makers, train leaders who will raise up new leaders, conduct special
workshop such as a marriage seminar, and many more applications.
TruthSticks is part of the DNA21 Discipleship Revolution launching in 2010.
WJ Subash
Introduction to the Asian Immigrants in the US
In this session, we will look at the demographics, language, caste, first and second generations of Asian immigrants, and their attempt to adapt to the US culture and American dream.
Introduction to philosophical and popular Hinduism
In this session, we will examine the philosophy, practice, and scriptures of Hindus.
Also, we will investigate various sects that make Hinduism a complex religion.
Reaching Hindus in America
In this session, we will discuss practical and doable methods by which we will be able to share the Gospel with this huge immigrant community of Hindus in America.
Paul Michael Vacca
Engaging Students in Ongoing Purposeful Missions
Most of us want our students to catch a world vision for missions that begins in their own backyards and extends to the ends of the earth. But, how we accomplish that goal is another question. Come join the conversation of how we can engage students in ongoing purposeful missions.
Chad Vandiver
People Group Champions Forum
How will your church reach the people groups moving in and around your community? What needs to change in order to begin strategically reaching these people groups? This forum is an open discussion about ways to improve our involvement in carrying out the Great Commission amongst people groups living in our communities.
How to Become a People Group Champion
Have you noticed a people group moving into your community? If so you have the unique opportunity to serve as a missionary in your community. This class will give you the necessary tools to begin sharing Christ with members of this people group.
How to Win Muslims and Befriend Imams
How many mosques do you drive by each day? Have you ever considered a mosque as a mission field? As more and more mosques are planted each year we must be about the business of sharing God's Word with our Muslim friends in their place of worship. This class will give you the tools to faithfully serve as a missionary to the mosque.
Strategic Bridges For Muslim Evangelism
As Christians we have a responsibility to show our Muslim friends what it means to truly submit to God. We must show them their Christian Arabic heritage by studying the Ishmaelite line in God's Word. We must show them who they can become through faith in Jesus Christ alone. This class will provide students with strategic bridges for sharing Biblical truths with Muslim friends.
