Top Ten Conferences for Children’s & Family Ministry Leaders
Monday, July 13, 2009 15:02
One of the things that must be a priority for anyone in Children’s Ministry for the long-haul is continuing education. In most professions continuing education is a requirement for leaders in their chosen field. Ministry professionals today have numerous opportunities to expand their knowledge base and at the same time network with others that share their calling and passion for ministry. With that in mind let’s take a look at the Top Ten Conferences for those involved with Children’s and Family ministry.
10. How 2 Conference – www.how2conference.com Multiple Dates
“At any of out regional How2Children’s Ministry Conferences, you’ll learn from the best and brightest in national children’s ministry leadership. Plus at last you’ll have the time to relax, think, and put a strategy in place that smoothes out the rough spots in your ministry…and that sets an unshakable course toward ministry growth! “
9. D6 Conference – www.d6conference.com Sept 23 – 25, 2009
“The vision of The D6 Conference is to champion a movement of parents connecting with their kids spiritually to transfer their faith and life values.”
8. Children’s Pastor Conference – www.incm.org Jan 4 – 7, 2010 or March 14 -17, 2010
“CPC is one of the premier Christian ministry conferences that focuses on children’s and family ministry.” It is an intimate conference with something for everyone.
7. Conspire Conference – http://www.willowcreek.com/conspireconference/index.shtml
“Plan now to bring your entire team to Conspire and join with more than 3,000 children’s ministry workers from around the world. Together, you’ll experience: Powerful main sessions, where you’ll connect with God and others as you learn creative, relevant, and powerful ways to grow your children’s ministry. Practical training experiences, where you can take your skills and ideas to the next level and gain inspiration from other children’s ministry leaders just like you.”
6. C3 – Creative Church Conference – http://www.fellowshipchurch.com/conferences – February 17-19, 2010
“Join Ed Young at an upcoming Creative Church Conference (C3) as he shares the life-lessons and raw truth you need as pastors and church leaders to realize God-sized dreams for your church. You will walk away with motivation, application, and innovation to take your ministry to the next level. The most important part of our conferences doesn’t happen at C3. It’s about what you take home.”
4. PDCM 2009 – Purpose Driven Children’s Ministry – www.pdcm09.com Oct 7 – 9, 2009
“Join the Saddleback Church Children’s Ministry Staff for a three day journey as they encourage your God-given leadership skills, empower you to defeat the ministry giants in your life and equip you to be a shepherd leader to your kids and volunteer leaders.”
3. Innovate 09 – Exposed – www.wiredchurches.com/innovate Sept 24 – 25, 2009
“What you’ve heard is true. Times are tough. The economy has tanked. Unemployment is up. Political and cultural upheaval is intense. How do you help when you have to do more with less? And who’s crazy enough to think a conference about INNOVATION makes sense in a year like this?
You are. We are too. That’s why we’re peeling back the layers and sharing the naked truth about what we’ve learned from being on the mountain top and in the valley. No matter where you are or whether you’re a church of 50 or 8,000 – you can take away some hard earned, practical next steps from Innovate.”
2. The Napkin Conference – http://www.thechurchlv.com/napkin-conference – Feb 25 – 26 2010
“Some of the biggest ideas in the world started as a little sketch on a napkin. We know you have ideas that you’ve written or thought about. We want to come together to bring these ideas to life. This is a conference, retreat, network and relationship building gathering of children’s leaders unlike any other. Bring your whole team and let’s have some fun.”
1. Orange Conference – www.theorangeconference.com April 28 – 30, 2010
SIMPLY THE BEST! “We are excited about seeing the changes coming to the churches of all 3,200 people that participated in Orange 2009. We had an incredible three days of challenges, conversations, debates, worship and encouragement in north Atlanta, and look forward to digging into the planning for an even more amazing event in 2010.”
There they are – 10 of the very best opportunities to be stretched and grow! I know that money is tight all over. I also know that there are few things that can benefit your ministry, increase your drive and your fire up your passion like attending one of these conferences. Let me know which ones you’ve attended and what you thought.
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Anthony Prince says:
August 14th, 2009 at 11:20 am
For me, #2 is something I’m going to be at for sure.
I’m going to try to being my entire team to #8 so that they can experience the “big conference” atmosphere.
I’d love to do Orange (#1) again… but 3 conferences in 3 months might be too much for our budget this year.
Thanks for compiling this list… it’s great to see a quick recap of everything that’s out there this year!
Mike Herbes says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Hi – I don’t comment on many blogs but had to on yours. It’s really nice! I really like how you write – very to the point, unlike a lot of other journals. Thanks for having this site. I’ll bookmark it and visit regularly. Keep up the outstanding work!