Evangelism and Church Growth’s 2012 conference

JULY 29 – AUGUST 2, 2012
ST. PETE BEACH, FLORIDA

Influence culture. Live out your mission. Develop disciples. Grow spiritually.

Join Evangelism and Church Growth for ECG 2012, an all area ministry conference, to discover how to become the church God intended us to be.

Learning tracks will be available for Evangelism, New Church Development, Transformation, Collegiate Ministries and Youth Workers.

LOCATION

Tradewinds Resort
5500 Gulf Blvd.
St. Pete Beach, Florida

RATES

Early Bird Registration $250

Housing: Private Room $115, Double $56, Triple $39

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Len Sweet
Highly influential in social media, best-selling author.

Linnea Nilsen Capshaw
Empowering leaders discern and live out mission.

Jo Saxton
Helping churches live into a discipling and missional way of being.

Mark Yaconelli
Exploring ground breaking spiritual direction and practice in Youth Ministry.

**Online registration will be open in early 2012.**

Go here to visit the official  ECG 2012 website.

A coffee house that’s a church?

A worshiping community that draws young artists?

A ministry that focuses on Houston’s growing Vietnamese population?

These are some of Dynamic New Churches in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).  Click on the link below to learn these and other  PC(U.S.A.) new church developments are serving their contexts in unique and inspired ways.

Go here to learn more.

Registration Fee: $150 (includes meals, local transportation, and a small group coach)

Location: Sterling, VA

Sponsored by: The Training Center for Innovative Church Leadership

Countless church and presbytery teams are trying to discern ways to reach out to changing communities. Many are unsure about how to break through cultural and language barriers, yet have a strong desire to reach out and share the compassion and hope of the gospel. This conference will help participants walk through a discernment process. Racial ethnic ministry leaders will offer insights around the unique nature of this kind of ministry. They will share examples of ministry that is making a difference, and will share tools that will help participants consider possibilities in their own context. Participants will intersect with community outreach ministries in northern Virginia, and will learn how to walk their own neighborhoods to discern how God is calling them to reach out to their neighbors. This conference is for leaders considering racial ethnic outreach through existing congregations and for those considering planting new church communities.

Led by:

Rev. Edwin Andrade, Co-Pastor Riverside Presbyterian Church, Organizing Pastor Nueva Rivera Edwin

Rev. Dr. Hector Rodriguez, Associate for Hispanic/Latino-a Congregational Support

Patrick Nam, Youth Pastor, Pilgrim Church, Paramus, New Jersey

Click here for more information and to register!

A Partnership between the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Church Growth and Riverside Presbyterian Church, Sterling, VA

Mission

• To train and equip churches, teams, and church planters to multiply spiritually dynamic communities of faith.

Purpose

• Provide training and conversations to strengthen vision for new church development and community outreach/discipleship.
• Provide intentionally smaller conferences to allow for individual/team discernment and collaboration.
• Provide follow-up support and coaching after the event to encourage individuals and teams to continue moving forward with their vision.
• Provide intentional intersection with the culture of a “church planting church” which hosts these training events.

For a list of upcoming events, go here.

To download a brochure, go here.

The Office of Church Growth is pleased to announce the arrival of our hotly anticipated Congregational Transformation discernment process.  Like the “Starting New Churches” resource for New Church Development, “Starting New Initiatives” is not designed as a “quick fix,” but rather, is a process of prayer, discernment, conversation, and reflection for congregations to decide how they can best minister in their particular context(s)

To download the booklet, click here.

Paper copies of the booklet are available from the Office of Church Growth by calling 1-888-728-7228, ext. 5088 or emailing at meredith.kemp-pappan@pcusa.org.

for Church and Presbytery Teams

November 3-5 2010

March 16-18, 2011

Hosted by: Riverside Presbyterian Church

Sterling, VA

**Important update: this event has been “pushed back” to March, 2011 in order to accommodate the revisions being made to the Starting New Churches Resource.

Discern the core values and plans for ministry, outreach and leadership for starting a church today.   The “New Church Development Training for Church and Presbytery Teams” event at Riverside Presbyterian Church will focus on the of Starting New Churches resource.

For more information, go here.