Verge 2010 Breakouts

BREAKOUTS

  Thursday, Feb.4th  Gospel Movements Intro Dave Garrison is recognized around the world as a pioneer in the understanding of gospel movements. Find out how God is redeeming a lost world through these movements. We will be taking a look at movements of the Gospel in India, China, the Muslim world and Latin America. Garrison will also be walking through the lessons learned in each of these gospel movements as well as giving practical next steps for starting movements in your context.

For the Nations: Theology, Principles & Practices Joey Shaw will be walking through God’s heart for the nations. This session will help you understand the theology, the principles of ministry and the practices of reaching every unreached and unengaged people group.

For the City: Theology, Principles & Practices Find out what it means to be a church, or a missional community, that is for the city. In Jeremiah 29, God says to His people, “Seek the shalom (well-being, flourishing, peace) of the city to which I have sent you.” God has sent each one of us, each one of our missional communities and our churches to some kind of city. Discover the theology of being for the city, the principles of ministry, the ministries of mercy to the poor, oppressed and marginalized, and the practices of being a community for the city.

Breaking the Discipleship Code This session will teach you what it means to personally be a missional follower of Jesus in relation to every aspect of your changing world. It invites ordinary believers to begin having an extraordinary spiritual impact in their unique context by equipping them for their most important task: making disciples.

  Friday, Feb. 5th  Developing Leaders & Pioneers What kind of practices, systems, habits and values do you need in order to create an environment where leaders are made and reproduced and where pioneers are made, reproduced and unleashed? Jon plays a lead role in identifying and developing leaders, coaches and staff at Community Christian Church, a multi site church of over 5000 people in 9 locations across Chicago.

Movement Practicals: Part I 

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In this break out you will learn practical steps to starting and sustaining a gospel movement in your context.

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Gospel Centered Missional Community What is the message and the motivation behind creating, developing and reproducing gospel centered missional communities? Jeff and Caesar, pastors of Soma, will be walking us through the answers to this question. Soma is a network of missional communities in Tacoma, Washington with 8 congregations.

“How Missionaries start churches” Since the US is now a mission field, what are the unique differences in church planting when you start as a missionary instead of as a pastor or church planter? In this session Hugh Halter, author of The Tangible Kingdom, will unpack the story of Adullam and how a church formed from the natural incarnational activities of a small band of missionaries. Can church “just happen?”

Guide to Multiplication Do you want to learn how to effectively multiply at every level? This break out will provide an effective framework for making and multiplying disciples, leaders, missional communities and churches. It will focus on biblical principles that give the patterns and practices that lead to multiplication and reproduction.

Multi-Ethnic Missional Communities: 7 Principles Multi-ethnic missional community is biblical and critical to the advance of the gospel in the 21st century. Find out the 7 core principles for developing multi-ethnic community?

 Saturday, Feb. 6th  HCBC Leadership When you hear the word “kingdom” everyone jumps to social action, holistic gospel, or benevolent works. Whereas all these are critical, The Kingdom is also about transformation, new life, and conversion. In this session Hugh will address the big question, “How do people come to Christ in the new missional church?”

Movement Practicals: Part 2 

\\  Designated for the 100 people network

This is the continuation of Friday’s break out session; Movement Practicals: Part 1. You must attend Part 1 on Friday in order to participate in this break out.

ASCC Missional Community Leaders In this session, we will be exploring the concepts from the Verge conference and applying them into our immediate contexts of The Austin Stone’s missional communities in the city of Austin. We will take some time to process together and plan for the months ahead, as well as to intentionally connect leaders in similar areas and leaders with similar mission to one another.

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Taste of Greenhouse The Greenhouse is a relational context for leaders from a city or region to gather together in a supportive environment and learn more about Organic church and Organic church planting from one another and the Scriptures. This will be an introduction to the Greenhouse Intensive on organic church planting.

Q&A: The DNA of Gospel Movements Was there something in the main session that struck you that you would like to learn more about? This will focus on the questions you may have about the DNA of gospel movements.

How someone like you can start a movement? In this workshop you will discover and practice the simple steps to starting a movement of missional communities. This is for any person who has a desire to make and multiply disciples that reproduce.

Orphan Care Gospel movements are about the heart of God to see His name made famous, which includes care for the alien, orphan and widow. In this session, Jason Kovacs, director of ministry development for ABBA Fund, will explore more deeply how you can engage the global orphan care crisis, and how movements of the gospel are essential to justice for the orphan.

For the City: Theology, Principles & Practices of Mercy Ministries In order to reach and meet the needs of the city it is vital that we, as the Church, collaborate with the community and other organizations. The Church should take on the critical role of being the centerpiece of such collaboration. This session will address what this looks like and how to make it a reality in your church and community.

Transformational Development We will learn the principles and practices of transformational development with a focus on the relationships and stories that are particularly helpful in developing a holistic view of ministry among the poor and oppressed.

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