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Workshops

 

CONNECTIONAL:

District Workshop

Each District's Mission Chair will host.

This workshop will be after lunch.

This workshop is a great opportunity to connect with mission minded folks in your district.  You will also be able to meet  your District Mission coordinator.  Don't miss this chance to build relationships and discern together what God has in store for your in your district.

INFORMATIONAL:

Connecting the Dots: How All This Mission Stuff Fits Together in North Georgia

Speakers: Julia Crim, Jeff Jernigan, Randy Saxon, Sara Worden, Mike Yoder

In this interactive session, representatives from Missions/Global Ministries, UMVIM, Disaster Relief, United Methodist Men, and United Methodist Women share how we are building bridges to expand God’s Kingdom in North Georgia and beyond.  Come and find out how you and your church can get plugged in!

Grant Writing: Where to Start, Where to Look, Best Practices, How to Do It?

Speaker: Rev. David Montanye

How does your church or organization fund its dreams and communicate its vision? One way is to write a grant. The key elements of grant writing involve telling an effective story, building a relationship with the funder, and inspiring others to action. In this workshop your will be given the tools to help you or your team earn the funding you need to get your project going and to allow God's abundance to come forth and meet human need.

BEST PRACTICES:

PLAN:

The Externally Focused Church-How Do you Begin?

Speaker: Rudy Heintzelman

A major cruise ship line uses the theme "Get Out There". I truly believe the folks sitting in the pews want to see their church "get out there". We will explore some very practical steps in ways churches can move their people from pew potatoes to curly fries and become a vibrant church reaching into their community, the nation, and the world.

"Ready, Fire, Aim" Won't Work: Getting Strategic and Intentional

Speaker: Tim Holt

With a well-planned and prayed-over strategy your mission outreach can attain specific goals and be impacting. Simply responding to needs, missionaries' personalities, and mission agency marketing abilities will keep you busy, but won't necessarily have the greatest impact for the Kingdom. In this workshop we will look at how to stretch your church's vision, set priorities, and implement an intentional Acts 1:8 plan.

Different Strategies for Funding the Mission Ministry of your Church

Speaker: Jim Lowry

How can we inspire people to support the Mission of our church?  We will look at tried and true methods and strategies for every size church.  You will hear about how other churches have come alive to missions across the street and around the world.  There will be an idea and or challenge for every church and every person.  There will be resources and aid available.  Come and see!

PARTY:

Missions Celebration Event: What is It, How Do We Do It?

Speakers: Brenda Westmorland, Chuck Shackelton

The Workshop has been designed to assist all Churches, no matter how experienced they may be with missions and no matter how many mission partnerships they maintain. We will take you through the five “P’s” of conducting an annual “party” to celebrate missions: Purpose, Planning, Preparation, Promotion and Prayer.

There are techniques for building mission connection within your church and we will share practical approaches that can be easily used to help the transformation to becoming a more mission focused church. Resources are available that can be incorporated into your mission committee and mission trips and local service that will assist the celebration process.

The missionary book is the Bible that calls us to serve Him and declares God’s desire that all the nations would come to know Him, love Him, and worship Him.  Mission’s needs to be about reinforcing the call to serve and helping all church members connect with the opportunity to share their gifts and commitment to Christ.  We will share specific experiences of successes from churches that have ‘gone beyond their walls’ to take the Gospel to the world.  Come and learn about turning mission compassion into action.

GO:

Do's and Don't's of Short-Term Missions Trips

Speaker: Carey Akin

What is the difference between a mission trip that transforms lives and just another missions trip?  God's kingdom matters to much to do just another mission trip! In this seminar we will explore those key Biblical principles that should guide every mission trip as well practical ideas of how to make the most of each of your mission teams.

Making the Most of Your Faith Growth Opportunity

Speaker: Bryce Norton

God has a plan to grow your faith and the faith of your team when you go on a mission trip. Have you done your part to plan for powerful spiritual growth? We will share some simple tools and ideas including devotional models, prayer challenges, and overall time management that will encourage greater spiritual growth for your team while you prepare and when you go.

Oops…I Didn’t Think of That

Speaker: Bryce Norton

Unless you have been on dozens of mission trips, you probably have not yet experienced everything that can go wrong while on a mission trip.  We want to help prepare you for risks and crisis so you will be prepared when they do happen.  From losing team members who can’t follow directions to having unplanned late night hospital visits, we want to provide a peace of mind that you are ready for any challenge God may allow you to endure.

Special Challenges for Leading Youth Mission Trips

Speakers: Laura Eason, Melinda Weaver

Youth Mission Trips can be life changing, but always bring special challenges. We will be discussing how to maneuver thru that sometimes rocky terrain, and sharing best practices along the way!  Please bring your ideas and be willing to share!.

The Disaster Prepared Church

Speaker: Mike Yoder

When disaster strikes, everyone is trying to figure out where to go, what to do, and who to call.  Local churches are in a unique position to be a positive force in responding.  Many congregations already address the special needs of their communities.  People will naturally turn to the church in times of crisis, seeking assistance, meaning and healing.

Disasters do not wait for training and preparation, so identification of potential disaster risks for your church and staff, membership, and community, anticipating what might happen, determine what can or cannot be done, and meeting the needs.  This also involves training and preparation for individuals and family, special needs individuals, church schools, and businesses in addition to church preparation.

Come and learn how you can be a Disaster Prepared Church and get connected.

Revitalizing Your Congregation with Urban Ministry

Speakers: Jim Ellison, Elliot Stotler

How engaged is your church in serving the poor and those in need in our urban areas? Many churches struggle with responding fully to the Gospel call while avoiding the common pitfall of too much inward focus. A healthy church must breathe in through worship and study and breathe out by serving others. This workshop offers specific strategies for getting beyond the walls of the local church and using contact with the urban poor to transform individual members and the church.  Learn ways to engage in transformational cross-cultural ministry right in your backyard, no airline ticket required.

The Ministry of Caring: Emotional and Spiritual Care Following Disasters

Speaker: Rev. Mary Hughes Gaudreau, LPC

Long after disaster news coverage ends, individuals, families, communities and congregations continue to deal with the emotional and spiritual effects of disaster. This course will offer a basic introduction to disaster spiritual and emotional care needs and ideas for response including ideas for a coordinated conference response.

Blending Mission and Evangelism on Mission Trips

Speakers: Winston Worrell

Within the Wesleyan tradition, several parts of our movement are creatively blending mission and evangelism as a part of the life of the church and further involving mission teams in this process.   In addition, more and more mission teams are searching for creative ways to weave evangelism into their mission trips.  This workshop will briefly deal with the biblical and theological grounding for blending mission and evangelism, then focus on practical outworking of this in mission across our movement, and then will invite involvement of participants in sharing their experiences in this regard.

PARTNER:

Making Your Partnership Work

Speakers:  Donna Goff

As our world changes, so do the needs of the church. This generation of the church in America is no longer interested in sending money to a missionary in Africa and feeling they have met the command of the Great Commission.  This generation wants to be involved in the fulfillment of this command:

As we look at the needs of the church on the local level and the needs of the church cross culturally, we see they can also meet in multi ethnic ministries in our communities.  We can see the need for ministries in our communities (Our Jerusalem); that are regional (Our Judea); ministries that are challenging or marginal in its outreach (Our Samaria); and those ministries that we partner with people groups and cultures outside the continental United States (Our Ends of the Earth)..

Covenant Relationships Roundtable Discussion

Speakers: Phil Schroeder, Millie Kim, Ari Arfaras, Roman Bagdasarov, Gideon Robi

Description of workshop to come soon.

Seven Bridges

Speaker: Stephen Soulen

Description of workshop to come soon.