Focus on Return on Ministry
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The Return On Ministry track is loaded with industry experts, top trainers and interactive sessions for pastors & leaders. Sessions are one-hour discussions with church leaders & deep subject experts. Your leadership staff will learn practical applications for multi-site, children’s ministry, visitor strategies, volunteer training & job matching, stewardship, and much more.
Church Diversity – Sunday; The Most Segregated Day Of The Week -Scott Williams
Nearly 50 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “We must face the sad fact that at the eleven o’ clock hour on Sunday morning when we stand to sing, we stand in the most segregated hour in America…” Unfortunately, that statement still rings true today. This session will help those that call themselves Disciples of Christ to confront the age-old elephant in pew.
This session will outline the importance of having a Social Media and on-line presence. Additionally, this session will provide practical tools, methods and insights to leverage Social Media to make a lasting difference in your local church, while expanding the kingdom.
Matching Volunteers with Strengths Finder 2.0 - Allan Kelsey
As the Pastor of Staff Development at Gateway Church in Southlake TX, my job is to leverage the leadership value of our Strengths and our Identity, in leading the staff to their strongest contribution and their greatest joy. Managing that for 300 staff would be challenging without Fellowship technology software and virtually impossible for the congregation. As an ex-CEO I strongly endorse the power of who over the traditional what.
Children’s Ministry Security - Jeff Kowell
Church Security should be a vital ministry at your church. Learn about the people, systems and technology that can help you protect God's treasures...people! Taught by the Director of Safety at New Life Church, this session offers great leadership from the experience of tragedy at church.
Digital communication makes it possible for anyone to present the gospel and disciple others from anywhere. This session is your opportunity to observe and participate in live online evangelism. Explore new ministry options made possible by cutting-edge emerging technologies.
"In the beginning God CREATED..." The church was once the mecca of creativity. What happened and how do we regain our position? Isn't it time that we broke through the mediocrity that is so prevalent in church design today and begin to communicate in a way that has a lasting effect? We will explore the right way to weave pop culture into design, the importance of story and seven different ways to tell your story.
How are you communicating to your community and to those who walk through your doors? Do they see your best? In talking about the Art of Church we'll ask questions like do we need a bulletin? If so, how should it look? Are people using it? How do we build foundation of a strong brand strategy that all of our other communications can rise from. While things like advertising campaigns, social media, logos, posters, direct mail can certainly translate to butts in seats, it goes beyond that and gives an outside voice of how people are receiving you and all the messages of the church; it's about how we are communicating.
Volunteer Recruiting & Management - Brad Stahl
Inviting, training and retaining volunteers means building the systems and processes to spread the work of the ministry to volunteer leaders. Gateway Church has grown from 700 to over 5,500 volunteers – 1,300 every weekend – and Brad Stahl has helped lead the push for scalability and personal accountability. Learn how your volunteer ministry can implement these processes for growth.
Strategic planning is the process that an organization such as the church pursues to envision or re-envision itself. This session will briefly take you through the five key components that make up the strategic planning or envisioning process. The components are the development of a Great Commission mission, the discover of your core empowering values, the development of a compelling vision statement, and the articulation of a five-fold strategy to accomplish these.
The Importance of E-Giving - Casey Graham
Online giving, giving kiosks and the strategies for leveraging E-Giving. Learn how churches are increasing giving – in a down economy – through this practical session.
Stewardship: Teaching Your Church About Generosity - Casey Graham
Step-by-step strategies to increase regular giving by 11% - 39% in 90 days. Ditch the gimmicks & campaigns and discover the simple, time-saving system to financial increase!
This session will focus on "best practices" for relevant Capital Campaigns in todays' church. Learn how to use capital campaigns to not only raise funds but to build unity, leadership, your existing ministries, and spiritual maturity in your congregation. We will discuss new and innovative ways to make your capital campaign a time ofspiritual growth and expansion for your church.
An Introduction to Social Media - Anthony Coppedge
Social media is new to many churches. Learn in a fun and informative session about the two biggest social networks – Facebook & Twitter – and how your church can leverage these rapidly growing technologies.
Return On Ministry: A Balanced Scorecard -Eric Soon
What is Return on Ministry? Explore three tools that will help you determine how each ministry and church as a whole is functioning. Using a balanced scorecard approach, you can evaluate where your team or church is currently performing against key performance indicators.
Return On Ministry: Using Process and 3D Metrics -Eric Soon
It has been said that you can only manage what you measure. This session will guide you through the three dimensions of metrics and will explain how identifying these metrics will help in building processes that incorporate consistency, quality, accountability, creativity and effectiveness.
Return On Ministry III: Using Change Management to Build Strong Teams -Eric Soon
Your staff, staff structure and technology decisions are impacting your church growth. In this session, you'll gain understanding of how to manage change by building cross-functional team as well as making the right technology decisions by asking the right questions.
Return on Ministry Part IV: Making Sound Technology Decisions -Eric Soon
In this session, we will discuss current trends in technology and how to make the right decisions with the goal of developing a data strategy that promotes high data integrity.
Best Practices: Cloud Financials- Jacqueline Tiso, Dan Druker, Aaron Goin
As a faith-based organization, your accounting needs are more challenging than for-profit businesses, but your resources are scarce. Your first focus is on your mission, not managing and maintaining software. In this session you’ll learn why moving your financial systems to cloud computing is a more effective and efficient, lower cost option and you’ll hear the tangible and intangible benefits Faith Promise Church has seen by moving their financial applications to the cloud.