The 2007 Group Life Conference at a Glance

The 2007 Group Life Conference at a Glance
Thursday, September 27
Main Session One
9:00 - 10:30 AM

Recovering Community

Scot McKnight
Break: 10:30 - 11:15 AM
Point Leader Session*
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
General Session
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Bill Donahue & Henry Cloud: The Ancient-Future Leader
Lunch: 12:15 - 1:45 PM
Point Leader* Breakout
1:45 - 4:45 PM

Session PL1
General Breakout
1:45 - 3:00 PM

Session A
Break: 3:00 - 3:30 PM
General Breakout
3:30 - 4:45 PM

Session B
Friday, September 28
Point Leader Breakout*
9:30 - 12:30 PM

Session PL2
General Breakout
9:30 10:45 AM

Session C
Break: 10:45 - 11:15 AM
General Breakout
11:15 - 12:30 PM

Session D
Lunch: 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Main Session Two
2:00 - 3:30 PM

Restoring Community


Worship with Wayne Alguire

Will Miller
Refrigerator Rights
Community Experiences & Team Time
Beginning at 4:00 PM
Saturday, September 29
Main Session Three
9:30 - 11:30 AM

Re-Imagining Community

Bill Donahue with:
Mike Breaux
Ageless Influence
Conference Concludes: 11:30 AM
*Point Leader Track, separate registration is required. Click here for pricing.

Main Session 3: Re-Imagining Community

The foundations of biblical community were built for the future, allowing us to soar on the wings of innovation. In this session, Bill Donahue talks with three church leaders about emerging trends in community life that portend both chaotic change and unprecedented opportunity.



Denise VanEck – Missional Communities

Denise is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer, specializing in team building and leadership development. She is a founding partner in Deep Shift Coaching and Consulting and recently served at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Mich. as pastor of community life. Denise has been published in Leadership Journal and is the author of Leadership 101. She has four children and three grandchildren.

Bobby Gruenewald – Virtual Community

Bobby is a pastor and innovation leader at LifeChurch.tv, one of the largest and fastest growing churches in America. Bobby’s forward-thinking leadership and vision have helped pioneer new approaches to ministry using technology, including the LifeChurch.tv Internet campus and a campus on the Web-based virtual world Second Life. Through Bobby’s leadership, the church has made it a practice to share the creative resources and innovative ideas that it has developed with other ministries and churches free of charge through its LifeChurch.tv/Open initiative. Bobby and his wife, Melissa, have a daughter, Audrey.

Steve Wu – Urban Community

Steve spent years working in California’s Silicon Valley, providing leadership in various capacities to Genesis Technology, Inc. and Twin Peaks Software. Then, 12 years ago, he started a church and most recently served as a pastor at Crosswinds Church in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wu is now committed to building Willow Creek Community Church’s Chicago regional campus.

 

Ageless Influence

 

 

The results of building authentic community aren’t always immediately apparent. Mike Breaux, teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, reminds us of the ageless influence we have through relational ministry and that life change is the legacy we leave.

 

Mike Breaux

Mike has served as a teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church since 2003. He also serves as a teaching pastor for Heartland Community Church, an innovative ministry in Rockford, Ill. Before moving to Chicagoland, Mike spent eight years as the senior pastor at Southland Christian Church in his hometown of Lexington, Ky. Prior to that, he led a team to start Canyon Ridge Christian Church in Las Vegas, Nev. Mike is a graduate of Lincoln Christian College and Seminary in Illinois. Mike has a passion for seeing people’s hearts connect to the life-changing grace of God, and his engaging style of teaching often makes room for that to happen. His teaching began with youth and since 1988, he’s been doing what he calls “youth ministry for big people.” He is the author of Making Ripples and Identity Theft. Mike and his wife, Debbie, have three children and two grandchildren.

 

Related Links & Resources

Denise VanEck

Mars Hill Bible Church

"The ideal of community is not the forcing together of separate individuals into the spurious unity of community… community somehow already exists. When we come together in compassion and generosity, this hidden belonging begins to come alive between us."                                                 John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes

Mars Hill Neighborhood Networks

Neighborhood Hospitality with Jon & Kelly Peacock (2007 Group Life Conference Breakout)

Bobby Gruenewald

LifeChurch.tv

LifeChurch.tv Internet Campus

LifeChurch.tv Facebook App

Second Life

More on LifeChurch.tv Second Life Campus

Swerve Blog

Steve Wu

Willow Creek Chicago

Building Community in Urban Culture with Steve Wu (2007 Group Life Conference Breakout)

Mike Breaux

Waffle House

Jesus and the disciples reclining together: Matthew 26:20

Jesus and the disciples eating together: Matthew 26:26-29

Jesus washing the disciples’ feet: John 13:1-17

Jesus and the disciples singing together: Matthew 26:30

Curb Appeal Willow Creek weekend message series by Mike Breaux

 

Worship & Programming

This is the Day

Public Domain

Lord, I Lift Your Name On High

Rick Founds

© 1989 Maranatha Praise, Inc.

Here I Am To Worship

Tim Hughes

© 2000 Thankyou Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing)

Everlasting God

Brenton Brown / Ken Riley

© 2005 Thankyou Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing)

History Maker

Martin Smith

© 1996 Curious? Music UK