Breakouts - Empower 2024
Keith Baldridge | Ready For Impact - How to Maximize Your Church’s Potential for Greater Kingdom Imp
February 27, 2024 • Keith Baldridge
God has specifically given you a unique vision to reach your community in your specific context. This session will help empower and define your unique kingdom vision to have greater kingdom impact in your life and through your ministry.
Connor Bales | The Power and Possibility of Disability Ministry
February 27, 2024 • Connor Bales
As a local church pastor and father of children with significant disabilities, Connor Bales will help shape a conversation aimed toward encouraging church leaders to embrace the difficult work of disability ministry.
Stephanie Chase | How to Have an Evangelistic Kids Ministry
February 27, 2024 • Stephanie Chase
In this fun, interactive session, you’ll learn eight steps to seeing kids’ and families’ lives changed through the power of the gospel. Discover how to adapt this simple evangelism process to fit the vision of your church and the rhythm of your ministry. Let’s learn how to lead children and families to Christ and put them on the path to do the same.
Leah Holder Green | When You Feel Like Quitting, Don't!
February 27, 2024 • Leah Holder Green
Have you ever considered giving up? Perhaps not on your Christian faith altogether (although you may have), but perhaps on your purpose for God’s kingdom? In this session, we’ll discuss what can lead us to these feelings of quitting and how to overcome them.
Ed Johnson III | Evangelism for the Rest of Us
February 27, 2024 • Ed Johnson III
Sharing the good news of Jesus with others can be intimidating and difficult, especially for those of us who are not evangelists or are in normative-size (small) churches with limited resources. This session will seek to encourage and equip the rest of us to engage in evangelism.
Jeremiah Johnston | How and Why Christianity Continues to Change the World
February 27, 2024 • Jeremiah Johnston
Secularists claim Christianity is outdated and the answer to yesterday’s questions. Gen Z wonders what difference Christianity makes—if any. This session will empower you to understand how the Church, unified and mobilized, is the greatest force for good on earth.
Kevin Jones | Positioned to Engage
February 27, 2024 • Kevin Jones
We must be spiritually prepared when engaging the world and prepare ourselves for the task of reaching the lost. We should be like Paul: eager, obligated, and unashamed to share the gospel. Our location is a strategic design from God to give us access to people.
Donald Kim | From Crumbs to Feasting: Table Seating for the Nations
February 27, 2024 • Donald Kim
This session navigates through the theology behind Jesus’ encounter with the Syrophoenician woman and His profound mission-focused heart. Explore who is invited, how they are invited, and the compelling question of our ultimate response
Sean McDowell | Understanding and Reaching Gen Z
February 27, 2024 • Sean McDowell
What does Gen Z believe? What unique beliefs do they hold? In this session, Sean will provide a glimpse into the beliefs of Gen Z in contrast to other generations and provide a road map for how to best equip, challenge, and reach this generation.