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Member's Conference 2012: Leading Your Church to Impact the World

Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 1:00 PM - Thursday, February 02, 2012, 1:00 PM

Location: Vision 360, 11002 Lake Hart Drive, Orlando, FL US 32832

Cost: $29.00

Who is this for?

Acts 29 Members, Candidates and leaders within their church. This is a closed event to Member and Candidate churches.

What is this for?

We want to provide you with the practical, kingly-oriented training you need to help your church multiply—both as a church and by planting churches.
We want to provide a place for you and your staff to learn from other A29 guys that have done what you are trying to do.
We want to provide an opportunity for non-lead pastors to network, build relationships, and learn from one another.
We want to keep the lead pastor’s retreat a retreat and not turn it into a conference.
We want to give you an excuse to come to Orlando in February. (We chose the East Coast because the retreat is on the West Coast.)

The conference will focus on you and your team, helping equip you to lead a growing church so that your church is able to impact the world through the planting of church-planting churches.

A separate group gas been created on The City for all information related to the conference. Join the Acts 29 Member’s Conference group if you plan on attending. We will post conference updates there. That will also be the place to use to find a roommate or someone to share a rental car.

Plenary Speakers

Scott Thomas is President and Director of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network and Pastor of Global Church at Mars Hill Church. Scott has been a pastor for 30 years—first as a youth pastor and then as a lead pastor and church planter/church replanter for 16 years.

Ray Ortlund is the pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Ray served on the Old Testament faculty at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and has pastored churches in California, Oregon, and Georgia. He's written numerous books and articles, participated in the NLT and ESV translations, and wrote the study notes for Isaiah in the ESV Study Bible. He holds a Ph.D. from The University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has been married to Jan Giles Ortlund for 38 happy years, and they have four delightful children. He also blogs at Christ Is Deeper Still.

Sam Storms Sam has spent 37 years in ministry and in 2008 became Senior Pastor of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he currently serves. He has ministered in churches in Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, & Missouri and was Associate professor of Theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, 2000-2004. After leaving Wheaton, Sam established Enjoying God Ministries in Kansas City, Missouri (www.samstorms.com), and traveled extensively, speaking and consulting in churches across America and overseas. He has authored or edited 20 books and has published numerous journal articles and book reviews. He is a graduate of The University of Oklahoma (B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M), and The University of Texas at Dallas (Ph.D.). He and his wife Ann have been married for 39 years and are the parents of two grown daughters and have four grandchildren.

Matt Carter is the Senior Pastor of The Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, TX, one of the 100 fastest growing churches in Amercia. Matt has been the featured speaker at Houston Metro and various camps and conferences nationwide. He currently lives in Austin with his wife Jennifer and his three children, John Daniel, Annie and Samuel.

Dusty Thompson serves as Lead Pastor at Redeemer. He started following Jesus at the age of 12 and his relationship with God became progressively more real to him in high school and when he attended Texas Tech. Dusty has been married to Amy since 1995 and they have two sons, J.J. and Roman. He graduated Texas Tech in 1994 with a B.B.A., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1998 with a Master of Divinity, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2007 with a Doctor of Ministry. Dusty has a lot of fun leading Redeemer, coaching Roman's baseball team, climbing an occasional mountain, catching an occasional trout, watching Tech sports, and reading

Steve Brown is a radio broadcaster, seminary professor and author. He previously served as a pastor for over twenty-five years and now devotes much of his time to the radio broadcast, Key Life. With such varied experience and unique perspective on life, Steve is an original. He refuses to be a "guru," doesn't want to be anyone's mother and gives, in his teaching, the freedom to think. Overall, Steve has become known for his refreshing and practical Biblical applications. Steve serves as Professor Emeritus of Preaching and Pastoral Ministry at Reformed Theological Seminary. He sits on the board of the National Religious Broadcasters and Harvest USA. Steve is the author of numerous books including A Scandalous Freedom, What Was I Thinking? and Approaching God. His articles appear in such magazines and journals as Leadership, Decision, Plain Truth and Today's Christian Woman.

Breakout Speakers

Lead Pastor Breakouts
Matt Adair | Planting and Pastoring in a University Context
Bob Thune | Merging Your Church
Bob Thune | Developing Elders
Tyler Jones | Kingdom-Centered Church Planting
Don Sweeting | Pastoring a Family While Pastoring a Church
John Bryson | Church-Based Residency
Patrick Bowler | Church Planting and the Small Town
Lorenzo Elizondo & Tom Weaver | Planting in the Urban Core
Ray Ortlund | The Church Planter’s Family
John Ryan | Praying with Your Staff and Leaders
Luke Simmons | Serving as a Multi-Site Pastor
Hunter Beaumont | Going to Multiple Services
Ed Marcelle / Phil Taylor | Vision and Implementation: The Lead Pastor / Executive Pastor Relationship
Alex Early | The Missional Pastor
Ron Tobias | How to Raise Money to Plant Your Church: Developing a Vision
Steev inge | Don't Waste Your Disaster
Ryan King | Mobalizing Your Church for the World
Yancey Arrington | Pastors v. Sin
Josh Khouri | Seven Things I Learned the Hardway
Tommy Kiedels | Developing Missional Leadership

Worship Pastor Breakouts
Reggie Kidd / Vernon Rainwater
Donald Zimmerman | Worship Auditions

Community Group Pastors
Todd Engstrom | Community Groups: Leadership Development
Todd Engstrom | Practices of Healthy Missional Communities
Trevor Joy

General Breakouts
Logos Bible Software | Logos 101
The City | Using The City in Your Church
Boz Tchividjian/GRACE | Minimizing Opportunities: Abuse Prevention in the Church

Wives Breakouts
Rachel Turner
Kimberly Jones
Jani Ortlund

Church Size Breakouts

-Separate track for churches over 800 in average weekly attendance-

Schedule

Day 1: Tuesday, January 31

Day 2: Wednesday, February 1

Day 3: Thursday, February 2

Hotel Information

Fairfield Inn – $92
(407) 888-2666

SpringHill Suites – $112
(407) 816-5533

Residence Inn – $122
(407) 856-2444

Marriott Orlando Airport– $159
(506) 474-2009

Hampton Inn – $97
(407) 888-2995

Hilton Garden Inn – $107
(407) 240-3725

*All rooms include breakfast, parking, and internet access. When calling to book rooms, ask for the Acts 29 rate. All properties are less than 15 minutes from the event location.

For questions, please e-mail