Aug 19, 2025 |
Description A model for bridging generational perspectives by sharing understanding, innovation, and continuity with a goal to ensure]everyone contributes to a unified mission. Workshop Leader: Stefanie Marsden Stefanie is an expert relationship grower, legacy...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description Your church has a membership roll with individuals between the ages of 22 and 30 who, according to rumors, have returned to town and are periodically attending worship services (if at all). When you encounter them in public, you inquire about their...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description Through a panel of faith formation presenters, we will look into the traditional model of VBS as we have known it to be over the past 50 years, what challenges that model presents for many contemporary churches, and what some churches are doing...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description Easter is a day for joy and celebration in worship, but sometimes young children and those with sensory issues get lost in the shuffle. Though congregations tend to offer a “family” service for Christmas Eve, Easter morning services are often...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description This Around the Table workshop invites faith leaders to explore how intentional storytelling and everyday spiritual practices can deepen both personal and faith formation of children and youth in households. Participants will learn the difference between...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description Hospitality is the quality of how we treat strangers. Fellowship is the quality of how we treat friends. Most churches excel at fellowship but struggle with hospitality. How might we be more hospitable to the strangers in our midst? Workshop Leader:...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description Children learn best through repetition and expectations. Parents need directions to give their children. This workshop will give you the tools to offer a workshop for children and their parents to explore the service, rituals, bulletin, creeds, etc. Also...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description The Co-Moderators of the 226th General Assembly, CeCe Armstrong and Tony Larson, took a Journey to Stand. After prevailing during the election, the work they do became a Journey to Serve. This workshop will look at how the Scriptures inform their work in...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description How does the church go beyond survival mode to a thriving posture even in turbulent times? How do we move into a faithful and creative future when the old ways of doing things no longer work? This workshop will introduce the tools of design thinking, a...
Aug 19, 2025 |
Description The journey between youth ministry and adult discipleship in the church has been a difficult one for young adults to navigate. When youth ministry programs are siloed from the rest of the congregation, they can look deceivingly strong and amazing. But...
