Louisville Boot Camp | Louisville, KY
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
"and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named... " Romans 15:20
THIS BOOT CAMP IS NOW FULL AND REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.
Acts 29 Boot Camps are church planting conferences open to the public that focus on the vision of church planting, calling of the planter, mandate to multiply churches and the theological foundation for gospel-centered church planting. The Louisville Boot Camp will be hosted by Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Kentucky
Boot Camp Location:
Sojourn Community Church
930 Mary Street
Louisville, KY 40204
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If you are interested in undergoing assessment as an Acts 29 Network Church Planter, please complete the online application. **Note: the wife of the planter is required to be at assesment. Assessments will take place on Thursday, November 12 for those who have completed Phase 1 in the application process. Cost for assessment is $99 per couple. If you would like to be assessed please contact . Assessment times can only be reserved once you have completed Phase 1: Slot #1: 8:00 -10:00 am | Slot #2 10:15 - 12:15 pm | Slot #3 1:30 - 3:30 pm | Slot #4 3:45 - 5:45 pm
SCHEDULE (subject to change)
Tuesday, November 10th
8:00 am Registration
9:00 am Welcome: Scott Thomas
9:10 am Worship:
9:30 am Session #1: “The Gospel & Ambition” – Dave Harvey
Testimony: David Thew
10:30 am Session #2: “Church Planting & Ambition” – Ed Stetzer
Testimony: Kevin Jamison
11:30 am Lunch (provided)
12:30 pm Workshops
2:30 pm Session #3: “The Church & Ambition” – Steve Timmis
Testimony: Matt Adair
3:30 pm GCM Presentation, Logos Presentation
4:00 pm Break
4:15 pm Session #4: “Leadership & Ambition” – Darrin Patrick
Testimony: Nick Nye
5:15 pm End of day 1
Wednesday, November 11th
10:00 am Welcome: Scott Thomas
10:10 am Worship
10:30 am Session #5: ”Decoding your City & Ambition” – Kevin Cawley
Testimony: Keith Watson
11:30 am Session #6: “Discipleship & Ambition” – Bob Thune
Testimony: Rick Long
12:30 pm Lunch (provided) – Q&A with Scott Thomas about A29
1:30-2:20 pm Workshops
2:30-3:20 pm Workshops
3:30 pm Session #7: “Speaking Past Demons: Christian Preaching as Expository Exorcism" –Dr. Russell Moore
Testimony: Dustin Neeley
4:30 pm Break
5:00 pm Session #8: “Ministry for the Long Haul & Ambition” – Matt Chandler
6:00 pm End of Day Two
Workshops:
Tuesday:
12:30-1:20
- Church Planting from the Ground Up track: Kevin Jamison (Core Development)
- Total Church track: Steve Timmis (Total Church)
- Wives track: Jani Ortlund
- Worship track: Tim Smith (Worship that is Missional, Contextual, and Gospel-Centered)
- Executive Pastor track: Jamie Munson (Mars Hill Church) , Phil Taylor (Terra Nova Church), Bryce Butler (Sojourn Community Church), and Nate Williams (Vintage21)
- Pastor as Resident Theologian track: Ray Ortlund (Revival-When God comes to Church)
1:30-2:20
- Church Planting from the Ground Up track: Keith Watson (Vision & Values: Great Church or Great City?)
- Total Church track: Steve Timmis (Total Church)
- Wives track: Mandy Montgomery
- Worship track: Panel Discussion on Worship Ministry featuring Tim Smith, Kevin Twit, Marc Heinrich, Mike Cosper, and Chip Stam.
- Executive Pastor track: Jamie Munson (Mars Hill Church) , Phil Taylor (Terra Nova Church), Bryce Butler (Sojourn Community Church), and Nate Williams (Vintage21)
- Pastor as Resident Theologian track: Joe Thorn (How Theology Can Kill Your Church)
Wednesday:
1:30pm-2:20pm
- Church Planting from the Ground Up track: Rick Long (Calling to Commitment: establishing elders, deacons, and members)
- Total Church track: Steve Timmis (Total Church)
- Wives track: CP wives panel discussion
- Worship track: Kevin Twit (Singing Theology)
- Executive Pastor track: Jamie Munson (Mars Hill Church) , Phil Taylor (Terra Nova Church), Bryce Butler (Sojourn Community Church), and Nate Williams (Vintage21)
- Pastor as Resident Theologian track: Gregg Allison and Reid Monaghan (Church History)
2:30pm-3:20pm
- Church Planting from the Ground Up track: Matt Adair (Forming strategic partnerships)
- Total Church track: Steve Timmis (Total Church)
- Wives track: Jani Ortlund
- Worship track: Panel Discussion on Songs and Songwriting featuring Sandra McCracken, Kevin Twit, Neil Robins, and Tim Smith
- Executive Pastor track: Jamie Munson (Mars Hill Church) , Phil Taylor (Terra Nova Church), Bryce Butler (Sojourn Community Church), and Nate Williams (Vintage21)
- Pastor as Resident Theologian track: Daniel Montgomery
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Workshop descriptions:
Total Church:
You’ve all read the book (and if you haven’t, you should) – in this track Steve Timmis will delve into the gospel-centered community on mission. Like the book, this track will drive toward healthy practice, driven by healthy reflection, for planting churches that are strong with both fists: community and truth.
Worship Track:
Led by some of the best practitioners in the field, this track will cover everything from theologically rich songwriting and liturgy to a bird’s-eye-view of planning your worship calendar and building a worship team from the ground up. This track is for worship leaders and pastors alike as they seek to equip the Body to worship God with their whole lives, both through Sunday gatherings and day to day teaching and modeling.
CP From the Ground Up:
From the trenches for the trenches. This track gathers Church Planters from around the country who are in the thick of establishing a thriving plant. They will offer reflections on what has worked, what hasn’t and what God has done to sustain them through the difficult journey so far. This track will cover everything from gathering your core to establishing vision and values in your people. The track is ideally suited for planters in years 0 to 3.
Wives track:
This track will feature Jani Ortlund, author and wife of Acts 29 pastor Ray Ortlund. Planting a church is a high and difficult calling for a man, and also a high and difficult calling for his wife. Aside from Christ, no one will have as much impact on a pastor’s heart for mission as his wife. Jani Ortlund and Mandy Montgomery will offer their insights on being a wife on mission with her husband. In addition, the track will include a panel and Q&A session with wives of church planters in various stages of church planting.
Pastor as Resident Theologian:
Theology and Mission are inextricably bound for it is mission – the day to day mess of relationships and engagement – that drives us to theology. The local church pastor must be a practitioner of sound doctrine while engaged in the work of daily mission and cannot rely on theology produced solely in academe. This track will examine the interaction between deep reflection and radical action from various angles including church history and church planting.
Executive Pastor Track:
This track brings together some of the premier executive leaders from growing churches across the country. How do you lead and structure churches in order to bring the whole gospel to the whole world? From strategic planning and communication (internal and external) to missional systems and structures, this is the track for those kingly men who want to keep the mission organized and focused (and even funded).
Speakers:
Kevin Cawley is the directional leader of Redeemer Fellowship in the Midtown neighborhoods of Kansas City. He planted Redeemer together with a team of elders in the summer of 2008. Because they are in the early phases of church planting, Kevin spends most his time trying to maintain his sanity.
Redeemer Fellowship is committed to gospel centered community development and Kevin is passionate about cultivating leaders and seeing the truth of the Gospel transform lives for God’s glory and the good of the city.
Kevin holds a M.A. in Biblical Exegesis from Wheaton College and is completing his ThM in Philosophical Theology from Regent College. He and his wife Katie have one son Quinn.
- Redeemer Fellowship: redeemerkansascity.org
Matt Chandler is the lead pastor of The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas. He describes his six years at The Village as a re-planting effort where he was involved in changing the theological and philosophical culture of the congregation. The church has seen a tremendous response, growing from 160 people to over five thousand. Alongside his current role as lead pastor, Matt is involved in church planting efforts locally and internationally. Before coming to The Village, Matt had a vibrant itinerant ministry for over ten years where he spoke to hundreds of thousands of people in America and abroad about the glory of God and beauty of Jesus.
- The Village Church: thevillagechurch.net
- Matt Chandler’s blog: dwelldeep.net
Dave Harvey is responsible for church care, church planting and international expansion for Sovereign Grace Ministries. He has served as a member of the Sovereign Grace Ministries leadership team since 1995.
Dave has been in pastoral ministry at Covenant Fellowship Church since 1986, was ordained in 1988, and served as senior pastor from 1990 to 2008. He received a Master of Arts in Missiology from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1989, worked toward a Master of Divinity from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1993 to 1995, and in 2001 became a graduate in Westminster’s D.Min. program. The subject of his doctoral thesis was the identification and equipping of church planters.
Dave contributed a chapter to Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World (Crossway, 2008). He is also the author of When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage (Shepherd, 2007). Dave’s newest book, Rescuing Ambition, is forthcoming in May 2010 (Crossway).
Dave lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Kimm, their four children, and despite his many protests, one stray cat.
- Sovereign Grace Ministries: sovereigngrace.com
- Covenant Fellowship Church: covfel.org
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Darrin Patrick founded The Journey in 2002 with a desire plant a church in the heart of St. Louis, Missouri. Darrin is Vice President of The Acts29 Church Planting Network, and also serves as the executive director for another church planting movement called 360-St Louis, a network which joins the church and the business community in planting gospel-centered churches. Darrin’s passion is to equip the church to live the gospel in the world. Darrin is working on his first book, The Man, The Message, The Mission. Today, The Journey runs four services across three campuses, while continuing to being aggressive in church planting in St Louis and beyond.
- The Journey Church: journeyon.net
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Ed Stetzer has planted churches in New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and transitioned declining churches in Indiana and Georgia. He has trained pastors and church planters on five continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and has written dozens of articles and books. Ed served for three years as a seminary professor at the Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and has taught at fifteen other seminaries. Ed’s primary role is President of LifeWay Research and Lifeway’s Missiologist in Residence. His books include Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age, Breaking the Missional Code, and Comeback Churches.
- LifeWay Research: lifewayresearch.com
- Ed Stetzer’s blog: edstetzer.com
Bob Thune is the Lead Pastor of Coram Deo Church Community in Omaha, Nebraska. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Reformed Theological Seminary and served as a parachurch campus minister and a teaching pastor before planting Coram Deo in 2005. He and his wife, Leigh, have been married for 12 years and have 4 children: Parker, Sophie, Lewis, and Grace. Bob is the co-author of The Gospel-Centered Life, a missionally focused small-group curriculum recently published by World Harvest Mission. He is zealous about gospel-centered, missional church planting and longs to see the church recover the centrality of the gospel.
- Coram Deo Church Community: Coram Deo
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Steve Timmis has been married to Janet for 29 years and they live in Sheffield. Steve is the Western Europe Director for Acts 29. He also directs The Porterbrook Network - a training initiative aimed at equipping the church for mission and church planting. Steve is an elder in The Crowded House - an international church planting network. With Tim Chester he co-authored the book Total Church.
- The Porterbrook Network: theporterbrooknetwork.org
- The Crowded House: thecrowdedhouse.org
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