Breakout B
Featured
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Shane Farmer — Follow Me
How many of us can imagine standing in front of our students and saying, "Follow me as I follow Christ," just like the Apostle Paul? Unfortunately for many, the demand of ministry on pastors' lives drains them of the spiritual vitality that led them into ministry in the first place. And, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the most challenging and important person to lead is never someone in our church . . . it's ourselves. If you are hoping to regain the fire in your belly in the midst of your fast-paced life, this is the Featured Breakout for you.
Shane Farmer
Shane Farmer is the Director of Student Impact, the thriving high school ministry of Willow Creek Church. Formerly a Youth Director at a small Baptist church in Oklahoma, Shane moved to the Midwest and spent three years serving in Axis, Willow's 20-something ministry, while completing his M.A. from Bethel Seminary. After graduation he became the Community Life Director of Student Impact, where he developed his passion for intentional and developmental discipleship for high school students. Shane has a lot to say about ministry philosophy, strategy and tactics, but feels very strongly that the best growth and health for any ministry comes from well practiced self-leadership in the leaders' own lives.
General
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Scot McKnight — Teaching Jesus and His Teachings
How do you teach the teachings of Jesus in a postmodern culture? Start with the Story—the big picture of a Jesus who was theologically shaped for his world. Learn how Jesus' background, life, and the themes of his teaching help us see how he spoke into his world, and show us how we can live the kingdom in ours.
Scot McKnight
Scot McKnight is a widely recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. He is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University in Chicago, Illinois, where he is also the Department Chair and the Director of the College of Christian Life and Thought.
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Walt Mueller — Youth Culture 101
Youth workers and parents are cross-cultural missionaries, whether they realize it or not. In this seminar Walt Mueller will walk through the landscape of contemporary youth culture, pointing out the significant trends that are shaping students' lives. In addition, he'll suggest ministry responses that will equip you to help students hear how God's Story speaks to their lives at the point of the particular cultural issues and pressures they face very day.
Walt Mueller
Walt Mueller is the founder and President of the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding (CPYU) and has been working with young people and families for 32 years. As a result of his work with CPYU, Walt has become an internationally recognized speaker and author on contemporary youth culture. He has written extensively on youth culture and family issues and is the author of many books, including his most recent, Opie Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Where Faith, Family, and Culture Collide.
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Bubba Thurman — Building a Team of High Capacity Leaders
You can't do it all. Your staff can't do it all. Even Jack Bauer, the fictional counterterrorism-expert-and-savior-of-the-free-world needs a highly skilled support staff back at CTU, right? Volunteer teams can help carry the load of ministry. In this breakout, we'll discuss how to put them together and make them work effectively.
Bubba Thurman
Bubba Thurman is the Student Pastor at Lake Pointe Church in Rockwall, Texas. He is responsible for directing ministry to students from birth to high school seniors. Bubba is an 18-year veteran in student ministry with a passion to teach and train student pastors and lay leaders so that they may be able to impact students throughout the world with the message of Christ.
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Jon Peacock — Leading Missional Communities
This generation responds only to the unfiltered love of Jesus, delivered with authenticity via communities on mission. Over the last 2 years, Willow Creek Community Church's Axis Community has seen hundreds of lives changed through structuring themselves around community—not programs. In this breakout, Jon Peacock will share some of the breakthroughs that they have experienced that facilitated this transformation.
Jon Peacock
Jon Peacock is the Ministry Director of the Axis Community, Willow Creek Community Church's ministry to twenty-somethings. Jon provides strategic oversight, teaching, and the development of his staff.
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Tim Mannin — Creating Leadership Artists: Building the Student Community
Student leadership development is an ever-present hope, but for most it's honestly not a strength in our ministries. How do we lead students to pursue dreams and become creators in leadership? In this breakout Tim Mannin will lead you in discussing the essentials and creative ideas behind the rewarding effects of student leadership development.
Tim Mannin
Tim Mannin has been serving in student ministry for over a decade. Since starting in ministry, his passion and purpose is to live an authentic life with his family, friends, and ministry community, helping others realize their God-given dreams and potential and empowering them to experience what God has created them for. Tim is currently the Executive Pastor to Students at Journey Church in Norman, Oklahoma, where he provides leadership and oversight to the Jr. High, High School, and College ministries and their staff teams. Tim and his wife, Christie, have two daughters, Emily and Carys.
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Todd Lovelace — Equipping Students to be Influencers in Their World
Could the lack of influential students and mentors be a big part of the reason we lose so many Christian students when they enter college? As good as our student ministry environments might seem, developing students of influence should be our top priority. What is your strategy for raising up students of influence? In this breakout, we will look at a strategy of ministry based on core students becoming influencers in their world, how campus ministry plays a part in that strategy, and what to do with parents.
Todd Lovelace
Todd Lovelace has been investing in the lives of students in Oklahoma City, OK for 13 years. He oversees the suburban campus ministries for Youth for Christ as well as the Family Ministry of Skyline Church in downtown Oklahoma City.
Experiences
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Lilly Lewin — Creating Sacred Space
Today we live in a culture that needs to engage the Story of God—since only 20% of our students learn best listening to the spoken word, it's time to develop skills to reach the other 80%! In this Breakout Experience, you'll learn how to move worship beyond singing and teaching beyond preaching. You'll look at what experiential worship is, specific ways to design and create worship experiences using art and interactive prayer, discuss how to develop a team, and you'll actually get to sample the experience yourself.
Lilly Lewin
As a worship consultant, Lilly is the curator of Thinplace, where she helps leaders think creatively about worship, teaching, and youth ministry. In Cincinnati, she started an experiential worship service called Sacred Space, which uses multi-sensory prayer, silence, art, discussion and multi media, integrating ancient and future forms of worship to bring liturgy new life. In 2004, she helped found Map Room—an ecumenical experiential worship community for college and post college adults in and around the University of Cincinnati. Lilly is the coauthor of the recent book Sacred Space.