Join us for the New Church Leadership Institute, August 9-13, 2010. We will explore the Seven Secrets of vital, progressive, transformational church leadership. Whether you are exploring being a church planter, or are working to renew existing congregations, this conference will provide inspiration and practical tools for making your ministry more effective. This year’s conference will include:

• Four diverse, inspiring and educational worship experiences.

• Seven plenary sessions led by world renowned experts on the Seven Secrets to becoming an effective church leader.

• Thirty-three workshops led by 24 specialists. These workshops will be focused for new church planters, church revitalization specialists, and conference and denominational leaders. You will be able to choose from a wide range of options to meet your needs. Since at least four workshops are offered in each time slot, bringing a partner or team is encouraged.

• Networking time with colleagues, including a reception with Rev. Steve Sterner, the Executive Minister of Local Church Ministries; Rev. Doug Pagitt author of "A Christianity Worth Believing"; Bishop Yvette Flunder, founder of City of Refuge and The Fellowship; and the Center for Progressive Renewal staff.

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Seven Secrets Preview...

Assets - Beginning Where You Are: Through processes like Asset Mapping and Appreciative Inquiry each individual and church discovers their unique strengths, passions, competencies, and assets.  This must be the starting place on the journey to vitality.

Vision – Seeing Where You Are Going: Having identified our unique strengths we now move to discovering where the Spirit is leading us. Through discernment, goal setting, strategic visioning, etc we articulate the future into which God calls us.

Mission – Turning the Church Inside Out: Having discovered our strengths and seen the future our church could have we begin the process which moves a church from being internally to externally focused, from a program and management orientation to a service and missional orientation.

Communication – From Identity Formation to Market Saturation:  Learning to be “as cunning as a serpent and as innocent as a dove” in terms of branding/re-branding and effectively communicating the values and vision of the church in a way that is irresistibly attractive to those who need its message and ministries.

Connection – Creating Transformational Community:  Creating transformation connections by practicing extravagant hospitality.  Recognizing the new kinds of connections such as Facebook, the church must offer opportunities for authentic community to in which people are changed

AdMinistryation – Managing for Mission:  Shifting from managing for maintenance to creating systems and structures that support and enhance the ministry of the church and its mission in the world.  Managing data is more important in today’s culture than managing money.

Transformational Worship – The Heart-beat of Vital and Vibrant Church:  Any church that offers 52 energetic, relevant, and transformational worship services a year will grow.  The community gathers for an authentic experience of God and an hour or so later scatters to be the Church.

FINAL Full Schedule for the Week (PDF)

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Workshops Include

Intuitive Spiritual Discernment Asset Mapping for Leaders and Churches Managing and Organizing a New Church Re-Branding and New Identity Denominational Trends in Growth Renewal through Spiritual Practices Transformational Worship Mastering the Media (Press) Planting Hispanic Congregations

Fundraising and Stewardship in Tough Times Spiritual Grounding Strategic Renewal Building Your Data Base Ministry at the Margins Transformational Mission Turning Your Church Inside Out And more than two dozen others …