Sonji Pass — How do you move missions from a program of the church to the heartbeat of the church? This shift won’t happen without intentionality. The first step in a church's journey is to create a strategic missions outreach plan.  The goal of the workshop is to present core principles and key practices in developing a customized mobilization plan that spans local, national, and international mission outreach. 

We will uncover four key shifts that must be made to have high mission outreach (local and global). And we will explore six key strategies that when implemented, move missions from a program of a church to the core DNA of the church.  This will begin to help conference participants answer questions after attending Beyond These Walls-- What next? Where do we go from here?  How?  

John Rinehimer — Transformational strategies for engaging the next generation in God’s Great Commission.

Dan Slagle — Every church and organization needs a way to identify and develop great mission leaders. Dr. Dan Slagle has discovered the keys to finding, training, and empowering ordinary people so they become leaders, and even leaders of leaders. He has successfully built and led teams within the local church, in USA non-profits, and with a global organization. Dan will mix biblical wisdom with practical insights and a dose of humor as he equips you raise up great mission leaders.

Kevin Watson — What happens next? What do you do after someone comes to saving faith in Jesus Christ? One of the most urgent needs facing the church today is helping people who become Christians grow in their faith, to become life-long, mature, deeply committed disciples of Jesus Christ. This workshop examines the urgent need for discipleship in the contemporary church and offers some practical steps to begin to build a disciple-making culture in your churches.

Nathan Cook - Twenty years ago, a handful of people decided to move into an urban community to love our neighbors and “be the church together.” We committed to a single purpose of glorifying God, employing two primary strategies: caring for the poor among us and making disciples of all nations. Following the example of the early Christians we met in homes and used our financial resources to help people in need.

Today there are over 50 families from our small house churches serving as long term missionaries among unreached people groups. Young professionals are integrating their faith in their vocations as teachers and physicians addressing systemic causes of poverty. Ordinary Christians are being equipped to make disciples and lead house churches. This workshop will bear witness to the life of the Holy Spirit among us and delineate the simple frameworks we used for following Jesus and starting house churches.

Billy Coppedge — In a digital-oral age where fewer and fewer people are reading, whether because of lack of education or simply lack of interest, how do we foster Scripture engagement in our making of today’s disciples throughout the world?

Dr. Maria De Pirona — What is the opportunity for sharing the Gospel through medical service? How do we raise up and support a Medical Mission in an economically distressed country? How do we share the gospel as we treat our patients? How do we perform intervention with food, medicine, and pastoral care? Is medical mission an opportunity for church planting?

Paulo Lopes — "Location, location, location" - said just about every real estate agent you've ever met. Why? Because they all realize this one simple truth: the more they know about the places, the people, the culture, and the history of a community, the easier it is to know a good deal from a bad one. In other words, CONTEXT MATTERS!

Yet, we often venture out in mission with little to no real understanding of the contexts we are serving. The result is often frustration and discouragement. In this workshop, you will be given tools to better understand your missional context, giving you a better launchpad towards the vision God is giving you and your team.

Ben Birdsong — Through locking arms with other ministries, we can join God in His work in our community and in the nations. In the Uniting Together for Kingdom Work breakout session, Dr. Ben Birdsong will explore how your church can best discover, evaluate, engage, and support other ministries in a relational partnership where the church and the ministry both support each other for combined kingdom impact in your congregation and on the mission field.

Brian Fikkert — Caring for people who are poor is central to the mission of Jesus Christ and His church. However, good intentions are not enough. It is very possible to hurt poor people in the very process of trying to help them. What strategies can Majority World (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) churches and ministries use to truly empower low-income families and communities? And what can the global church do to partner well with these frontline churches and ministries? Drawing on decades of field experience, this workshop introduces participants to effective strategies of gospel-centered economic and community development.

Sonji Pass — How do you move missions from a program of the church to the heartbeat of the church? This shift won’t happen without intentionality. The first step in a church's journey is to create a strategic missions outreach plan.  The goal of the workshop is to present core principles and key practices in developing a customized mobilization plan that spans local, national, and international mission outreach. 

We will uncover four key shifts that must be made to have high mission outreach (local and global). And we will explore six key strategies that when implemented, move missions from a program of a church to the core DNA of the church.  This will begin to help conference participants answer questions after attending Beyond These Walls-- What next? Where do we go from here?  How?  

John Rinehimer — WORKSHOP FULL - CHECK REPEAT IN SESSION 2 Transformational strategies for engaging the next generation in God’s Great Commission.

Rev. Dr. Steve Cordle — Your church, whether big or small, can participate in God’s purposes by helping to start a new church. The number of Christ-followers in the USA is decreasing rapidly, and planting a new church is the most effective way to reverse that. This is true in most nations of the world.

In virtually every community there are more people that God calls us to reach than can fit in existing churches, even if they all have multiple services. Helping to start a new church can reignite the missional fire in your church.

Janis Albergotti and Lynette Fields — The Circles USA mission has always been to inspire and equip families and communities to thrive and resolve poverty. We believe strongly that responsibility for both poverty and prosperity rests not only in the hands of individuals, but also with societies, institutions, and communities. It’s the underlying foundation of the Circles model – engage people and organizations in the community to end poverty.

The Circles model was developed after the organization discovered that social service agencies could reach only a small portion of the population living in poverty with real long-term solutions. Since that time, Circles has worked to address poverty by increasing the capacity of communities. Our approach combines best practices in several disciplines including community organizing, case management, grassroots leadership, S.M.A.R.T. goal setting, financial literacy, mentoring, peer-to-peer counseling and learning, and child/youth development.

Amber Tolbert — What does it mean to be an intentional neighbor in your city? How can churches from the suburbs serve the urban poor more effectively? In this workshop, we will discuss:

- Principles for meaningful cross-cultural learning & listening
- Approaches for suburban churches seeking to serve in urban settings
- How you can live intentionally on mission wherever God may plant you