Christian Education | Church Administration | Funding | Leadership
Rev. Dr. Teresa Fry Brown was the opening keynote presenter at the #RethinkingChurch Virtual Summit on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Her presentation focused on "R...
Tapestry of Faith: How Intersections of Culture and Spiritual Perspective Created A Historical Bond of Interfaith Dialogue Between Black Muslims and Black Ch...
Objective: Reinforce the need for creative and collaborative leadership amid our changing contexts as a gut check for those already in or considering vocatio...
Physicians of the Soul, Gatekeepers of the Mind Mental illness is not a sin. For many who seek psychiatric care, religion and spirituality significantly infl...
Reimagining Church Leadership/Administration Post Pandemic We can admit our default way of leading and administrating the church must change. Let's rethink &...
Systems, Structures, and Strategy: An Alternative Approach to Church Administration The goal is for attendees to walk away with new ideas to consider in the ...
Leadership & Followership: Partnering for a Transformation Successful church leadership is a partnership between the Pastor and Lay Leaders. The development ...
Congregational Cultivation - Building Community Capacity Churches leaders will have a better understanding of how to serve and thrive as a non-profit organiz...
Politics vs. Policy: The Business of Church Knowledge of the major items to be included in the church's governing documents and the duties of those chosen to...
Innovative Change: Navigating the Season of Rapid Change Provide Resources to Leaders to Help them to Navigate Seasons of Unchartered Territories of Change w...
Changing the Package without Changing the Product The Presentation will focus on how to hear the new Christian be able to teach and minister to them more eff...
New Wine, Old Wineskins: Rethinking the Content and Carriers of Christian Education To recognize the ways teachers and teachings help or hinder your congrega...
Leveraging Strategic Communications for Church Growth and Community Engagement Effective Communication Drives Membership and Community Engagement Let your sp...
Building Your Christian Education Ministry From Ground Zero Participants will learn the goals of Christian education, how to organize a local church departme...
Making Nonprofits Work Basics on the nonprofit sector and how to design your organization for success. This presentation will provide participants with an in...
Fishing Differently: Accessing Multiple Sources of Capital for Ministry Participants in our courses learn how to access multiple sources of capital (F.I.S.H....
Digital Discipleship | Marketing
Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley was the keynote presenter at the #RethinkingChurch Virtual Summit on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. His presentation focused on "The D...
Marketing Campaigns for Ministry Churches can create a successful marketing campaign Creating marketing campaigns isn't complicated. For some reason, there's...
No Child Left Behind: Designing Ministry for Teens and Young Adults The main takeaway of the presentation is to both inspire and assist church and community ...
FOSTERING A SPIRITUAL C.A.R.E. ENVIRONMENT FOR TWEENS IN A SWIPE SOCIETY WITHIN THE LOCAL CHURCH Creating an Effective Pastoral Care Model for Tweens in a Te...
iHomiletic™: Preaching & Teaching that Clicks Core values to keep in mind for doing ministry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Serving as a NextGen Pastor for a ...
"CSS" Consistency, Sustainability, and Success Build something that will not only be effective but that you can realistically maintain. If you want to allevi...
Michael W. Waters is the founding pastor of the Abundant Life African Methodist Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas. As a pastor, professor, award-winning auth...
How to Fish with a Net How to use social media and other digital platforms to reach the unchurched with relevant and engaging ministry "How to Fish with a Ne...
Are The Church Doors Still Open?: Visibility Beyond the Pew By the end of the presentation, spiritual leaders & influencers will consider digital presence as...
Advocacy | Culture | Evangelism | Social Justice
Dr. Miguel De La Torre was the opening keynote presenter at the #RethinkingChurch Virtual Summit on Thursday, July 23, 2020. His presentation focused on "Ret...
Advocacy: Mass Incarceration and the Role of the Church Advocate for Changes in the Criminal Justice Process America locks up more of its citizens than any o...
Evangelizing in a Digital World Educate attendees on doing evangelism in a digital way For years, evangelism has been a take it to the streets ministry. Howe...
How the Black Church can shape Public Policy at every level of Government With the emergence of Jim Crow laws and Black codes in the 19th century, African-Am...
Next Generation Evangelism: Speaking the Spiritual and Technological Language of Millennials Millennials are looking for a church that is authentic, casual, ...
Community Evangelism Small Groups...Class Leader System...A new face to Evangelism Evangelism in today's world has to have a new appeal with the same heart b...
Returning to Macedonia: Mission Trips and Engagement After COVID-19 "Mission Trips" are a staple of ministry across denominational lines and still can happen...
Job and Jesus: Rethinking God and Suffering Let's rethink God's role in human suffering. Let's move the paradigm from Job to Jesus. Dr. Joseph Scrivner is th...
Cultural Competence and the Church: Where Do You Fall? Cultural competence around different topics in the church Each one of us falls on different places of ...
Panhandling & Praise: Comprehensive Approaches to Help the Homeless Millennial Homelessness, Advocacy of services for vulnerable populations Homelessness is ...
Practical Principles For Effective Church Growth It takes a personal commitment to Christ, Prayer, and Witnessing to Win a Soul for Christ and Discipleship t...
Mental Health | Self Care
Rev. Dr. Mitzi J. Smith was the opening keynote presenter at the #RethinkingChurch Virtual Summit on Friday, July 24, 2020. Her presentation focused on "A Wo...
Reorganizing Space: Rethinking Prayer Rooms and Retreats Designing Virtual Prayer Rooms and Retreats that are intentional and meaningful. We attend prayer ro...
Trauma-Informed Congregations: Building the Framework for Congregations to Respond to Trauma Becoming a trauma-informed congregation means helping people lea...
You Can Have God and a Therapist Too A new way of thinking to overcome stigma and see a therapist without trading faith in God "In life comes a time when we ...
Lost Art of Connectedness: Imperceptible Perceptions Seeing is not always believing. Utilizing tools to de-stress, reset, and recover in a world of unknowns....
Leading With A Healthy Mind To have attendees foster dialogue and be provided an opportunity to have access to current and relevant information in the field ...
Being Resilient in Troubling Times Tools to help individuals navigate the various challenges they face in life. Life offers every person a unique journey fil...
Thoughtful Transitions: Navigating Grief and Loss During and After the Pandemic As communities navigate their way through unbearable loss in unfamiliar terri...
Soul Care In The Midst of a Crises To know that soul care goes beyond self-care, it is caring for the whole self The care of the self is very important. As a...
Suicide Prevention - What the Church needs to know & why Awareness and education about one of our nation's top societal ills: Suicide. Learn strategies and p...
Storytelling as the Pathway to Healing and Reconciliation By dismantling the problem narratives that distress us, we discover the beautiful truth that we are...
When the Bleeding is Internal The church needs to take a deeper look at behavioral health. The goals of the presentation are to define mental illness, commun...
Preventing a Post-Pandemic Playground for Predators The church as a community must implement systems to monitor and prevent virtual predators from online pla...
Health/Addiction Disparities in Urban Community Faith-Based Recovery & Health Programming The Imani Breakthrough intervention is based on the adaptation of t...
Self-Care as an Intervention for Vicarious Trauma In this experiential workshop, participants will assess personal self-care needs, explore a new and innovat...
Love Big: The Power of Radical Self Love for Leaders In order to lead well, you first have to be well and being well begins with loving self in holistically....