Breakout Session #1
The One Conversation Model - How Axis can support your church in equipping and inspiring parents and grandparents to disciple tweens and teens.
David Eaton, Axis CEO and Cofounder
Young Adult Ministry Now: What young adults want, what churches have, and what it takes to meet young adults where they need you the most.
Rev. Dr. Steven Argue, Associate Professor of Youth, Family and Culture - Fuller Seminary and Applied Research Strategist, Fuller Youth Institute
Seven Roots Needed to cultivate a Disciple-Making Culture: Partnering with God, starting small, going slow, and establishing deep roots.
Lisa Johnson, Executive Director of Leadership Formation, ECO
Tending Your Inner Life: Flourishing on the Inside for Ministry on the Outside
Tim Fearer / Transitional Pastor / Community Presbyterian Church of Ventura, CA
Functioning as a Healthy Staff: Learn how to assess the health of your team and how to make necessary improvements. for effective ministry.
Dana Allin, Synod Executive, ECO
Pastoral Transitions: How to Flourish in A Transition Season
Andrea Messinger, Ecclesiastical Support Coordinator, ECO
Unlocking the Third Third Potential of Your Church: How to get started helping those age 55 and over live full and fruitful lives as disciples of Jesus.
Mark Roberts
The Power of Endowments - Endowments and legacy funds can mean the difference between sustainability and collapse for many churches and institutions. Join this session to learn how these carefully stewarded and professionally managed assets can leave a lasting legacy of generosity and support for generations to come.
John Furlow, Executive Vice President and Jake Wilson, Relationship Manager, Texas Presbyterian Foundation
Highlights and Challenges of Discipleship in the Global Church from a panel of Global Guests
Moderated by Jen Haddox, Director of Global Engagement
Crafting a Big Vision for the Small Church: Answer the five essential questions of leadership to discern and discover the flourishing future of ministry in your specific context.
Curtis Bronzan, Pastor of Preaching and Vision, Good Shepherd
Theology of Life: Introducing ECO's new Resource including Q&A and Discussion
Greg Wagenfuhr, Theology Coordinator, ECO
Breakout Session #2
Making it Personal: We are seeing an epidemic rise in bullying, emotional abuse, depression, self-harm, and suicide among kids and teenagers. Too many kids are feeling invisible or ignored. This breakout will help leaders connect more deeply and individually with the kids and teens in our lives—to really get personal.
Charlie Conder
Hearing the Voice of God - The Foundational Step of Discipleship
Alex & Hannah Absalom, DandelionResourcing.com
Flexible Tools for Discipleship: How to do Bible Studies, Small Groups, and Theological Training in Your Church
Rev. Dr. Clay Brown, Adult Discipleship Pastor, and Laurien Hook, MAT, Adult Studies Director, Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Houston, TX
Coaching and its Impact on Discipleship Culture
John Terech, Executive Director of Operations, ECO
Offering Grace and Truth: The Transgender Experience
Scott Kingry, Where Grace Abounds
Developing A Healthy Volunteer Culture in the Small Church
Dale Sellers
What We've Learned About Church Staffing Since March of 2020
Matt Steen, Co-Founder, Chemistry Staffing
Introducing our Own Seminary - The Flourish Institute of Theology: An an in-depth presentation about our own seminary and the plans for its continued development over the next few years.
Mark Patterson, President, Flourish Institute of Theology
Kingdom Collaboration: An interactive workshop for mission pastors and leaders to collaborate on how to set up and maintain healthy ministry partnerships, mobilize congregants to engage in missions, and share best practices.
Julie Wood, Minister of SERVE, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach, CA
The Upside - and Inside - of Anger and How to use it for Good
Andrea Gurney, Psychologist, Author, Professor
Breakout Session #3
Youth Alpha: Reviving Evangelism in the Next Generation
Jordan Biere, National Director, Alpha Youth, Alpha USA
Become a Church Planting Church
Luke Parker, Director of Church Planting, ECO and Nate Dreesmann, Executive Director of Ecclesiastical Support
Racial Reconciliation with Undivided
Troy Jackson, Co-founder and Courtney Walton, Chief Learning Officer, LivingUndivided
Practical Egalitarianism: Ideas for Embodying ECO’s Egalitarian Conviction in Your Local Congregation
Dr. Rob Dixon, InterVarsity Institute and author of Together in Ministry
Pathway to Peace – An Action Plan to Manage Conflict: Learn how to deal with difficult people, assess a conflict, choose an appropriate response, target interests, identify stakeholders, communicate more clearly, and negotiate a resolution.
Dr. Daniel Bord, Regional Director, PIR Ministries
Developing a Pipeline of Church Officers: How to train your whole congregation to be potential leaders so that you have officers who are trained and qualified even before they are nominated.
Dana Allin, Synod Executive, ECO
Practicing the Way
John Mark Comer, Founder of Practicing the Way and author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
God is Calling, Let your Journey Begin: Understanding both the ECO Ordination and Commissioned Lay Pastor process from beginning to end.
ECO's Ordination Team: Lisa Johnson, Kendra Norton, Bertram Wang, Taylor Woods
Celebrating Small Church Stories: Join us for a panel discussion that highlights discipleship pathways, community impact, creativity, planting and more wins specific to the smaller church context.
Kaitlyn Wood, Pastor, United Church of Cohoes, NY
What is the relationship of Jesus to Caesar? ECO's Standing Theology Committee will release a new theological resource, and will discuss what we in ECO might think and do in our own contexts.
Standing Theology Committee, ECO
Breakout Session #4
Do you feel called to be a church planter? Come hear more about ECO’s church planting process, and why you should plant with ECO.
Luke Parker, Director of Church Planting, ECO and Nate Stratman, Pastor, Hope Community, Wilmington, NC
Leading in Step with the Holy Spirit: Join us as we slowly walk toward a more RELAXED life. What do you have to lose? You’ll find out, it’s everything you’ve been hoping to lose all along.
Megan Marshman, Pastor/Speaker/Author
Laying New Foundations: Cultural Pillars for Mission & Evangelism
Jad Levi, Senior Director of Network Advancement, Alpha
Non-hierarchical Discipleship: Changing the paradigm from "top down" discipleship to mutual encouragement for more mature believers to invest in each other. Come learn about how to disciple and be discipled from a one-size-does-not fit all perspective.
Dana Allin, Synod Executive, ECO
Biblical, Christ-Centered Conflict: Working through Conflict in a Biblically Christ centered way is essential in building a flourishing church.
Nate Dreesmann, Executive Director of Ecclesiastical Support, ECO
Mentored Ministry: Learn all about the nuts and bolts of the exciting journey to becoming a mentoring pastor and church for candidates and FIT students - no matter the size or location of your congregation!
Lisa Johnson, Executive Director of Leadership Developments, ECO
The Changing Landscape of Church Economics: What can the church do to create additional streams of income?
John Terech, Executive Director of Ecclesiastical Support
Getting People out of the Pews and into Mission: Re-energizing mission service in your local church.
Phil Smart - ECO Church Relations & Chris Gibson - Groups Program Manager, World Renew
ECO's New Theology Document on Sabbath: Deep yet Simple
Greg Wagenfuhr, Theology Coordinator, ECO
