Change the World Kickoff

DAY 1 - Wednesday, October 20

PEOPLE FOR THE MISSION
Time
Topic
Speaker
8 a.m. Registration/Check In  
8:45 a.m. Praise & Worship
  
9 a.m. Team Training #1: Thy Kingdom Come - missional movements
  • Casting the vision and building momentum for being a missional movement
  • Bringing God's kingdom to earth through ministry with the poor
  • Making your church relevant and inclusive in the 21st century
  • Developing strategic partners
 Mike Slaughter
10 a.m. Training #1: Team processing  
10:30 a.m. Break & Bookstore Browse
  
11 a.m. Team Training #2: Unleashing Unpaid Servants
  • Learn how to connect with your church attendees to unleash servanthood in your local church
  • How do you invite, train and deploy servants to work within their strengths and passions to grow God's mission
 Sue Nilson Kibbey
12 p.m. Training #2: Team processing
  
12:30 p.m. Lunch & Learn

  • Children on Mission
  • Life Application Bible Study for the Mission
  • Motorcycle & Other Special Interest Ministries
  • Students on Mission
  • Missional Hospitality
  • Growing the Mission in Worship
  
1:45 p.m. Team Training #3: Growing Members for the Mission
  • Moving people beyond simply making decisions for Christ to becoming disciples of Christ
  • Closing the discipleship gap through discipleship training and a strong membership process
  • Making the commitment to cell, celebration and call
 Carolyn Slaughter
2:30 p.m. Training #3: Team processing
  
3 p.m. Break & Drive to "In the Field" Locations
  
3:45 p.m. Team Training #4: "In the Field" - 7 experiential trainings to choose from daily (includes church/community revitalization;
food pantry, car, furniture, clothing, medical
equipment, and after-school tutoring
ministries; process and pitfalls for setting a 501c3;
and funding/marketing major missional movements)		  
5:30 p.m. Dinner on your own or dine with the Ginghamsburg Church family at the Wednesday Cafe
  

Change the World Kickoff

DAY 2 - Thursday, October 21

MULTIPLYING THE MISSION
Time
Topic
Speaker
8:45 a.m. Worship Together  
9 a.m. Team Training #1: The Missional Church
Learn from a leading global mission strategist what it means to be a missional movement		 Alan Hirsch
10 a.m. Training #1: Team processing  
10:30 a.m. Break & Bookstore Browse
  
11 a.m. Team Training #2: Multiplication vs. Expansion
  • Learn how to church the area, not become the biggest church in the area
  • Starting to "fish" in new places: finding 3rd places, revitalizing dying or underutilized churches, multiplying within your own walls and more
 Mike Slaughter
12 p.m. Training #2: Team processing
  
12:30 p.m. Lunch & Learn

  • On Mission to the Recovery Community
  • Putting Together Mission Trips
  • Circles - Breaking the Poverty Cycle
  • Cyberministry on Mission
  • Missional Hospitality
  • Organizing for the Mission (with the Ginghamsburg Senior Management Team)
  
1:45 p.m. Team Training #3: Micro vs. Macro
  • Growing the mission bigger by getting smaller and simpler
  • Developing micro churches
  • Connecting micro groups to macro mission
  
2:30 p.m. Training #3: Team processing  
3 p.m. Break & Drive to "In the Field" Locations  
3:45 p.m. Team Training #4: "In the Field"
(includes church/community revitalization;
food pantry, car, furniture, clothing, medical
equipment, and after-school tutoring
ministries; process and pitfalls for setting a 501c3;
and funding/marketing major missional movements)		  
5:30 p.m. Dinner on your own  

Change the World Kickoff

DAY 3 - Friday, October 22

RESOURCES FOR THE MISSION
Time
Topic
Speaker
8:45 a.m. Praise & Worship  
9 a.m. Team Training #1: Mission vs. Mortar
  • Developing a tent versus temple theology
  • Eliminating debt
  • Missional budgeting to minimize brick while maximizing mission
 Mike Slaughter
10 a.m. Training #1: Team processing  
10:30 a.m. Break & Bookstore Browse  
11 a.m. Team Training #2: Missional Money Matters
  • Talking about money like Jesus did
  • Empowering financial freedom for your people
  • Implementing a year-round stewardship program where money follows mission
 Mike Slaughter
12 p.m. Training #2: Team processing  
12:30 p.m. Lunch & Learn

  • Extreme Makeovers on a Missional Budget
  • Finding Missional Funding
  • Micro Finance Missions
  • Transformation Journal--growing the mission through the word
  • Revitalizing a Dying Church--success stories
  
1:45 p.m. Team Training #3: Courage vs. Compliance
  • Growing the miracle where you are
  • Practical steps and strategies for implementing change
  • Focusing yourself and your church forward
 Mike Slaughter
2:30 p.m. Training #3: Team processing  
3 p.m. Break & Drive to "In the Field" Locations  
3:45 p.m. Team Training #4 "In the Field"
(includes church/community revitalization;
food pantry, car, furniture, clothing, medical
equipment, and after-school tutoring
ministries; process and pitfalls for setting a 501c3;
and funding/marketing major missional movements)		  
5:30 p.m. End of Network Gathering