Empowered: Moving with The Spirit
The single command that Jesus gave his followers before igniting a movement was “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised…” He was telling them to wait for and then move with the Spirit. In 2022, we’ll discover a growing awareness of the Spirit’s work and leadership while also realizing that we will always be more effective if we move with the Holy Spirit.
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Speakers
Hear from Today’s Top Church Multiplication Practitioners
10+ national speakers in 5 main sessions!
Dave Ferguson
Dave Ferguson
Dave Ferguson is the lead pastor of Community Christian Church, an innovative multi-site missional community that is passionate about "helping people find their way back to God." Community has grown from a few college friends to thousands every weekend meeting at multiple locations in the Chicago area and has been recognized as one of America's most influential churches.
Dave provides visionary leadership for NewThing, a global movement of multiplying churches. He is the president and board chair for Exponential, the largest church planting conference in the world and is on the board of Leadership Network. He is also an adjunct professor at Wheaton Graduate School and an award-winning author of eight books, including Hero Maker: 5 Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders.
Dave and his wife, Sue, live in Naperville IL. They have three adult children - Amy, Joshua and Caleb.
Drew Hyun
Drew Hyun
Drew Hyun is the Founder and Pastor of Hope Church Midtown, as well as the Founding Pastor of Hope Church NYC, a family of diverse churches in and around NYC. Drew is also the Co-Founder of the New City Network, a network of urban churches that value multi-ethnicity, Spirit-filled ministry, emotional health, and mission. Drew loves cities, ESPN, and naps, and finds it a restful Sabbath when all three come together. He resides in New York City with his wife Christina and their son David and daughter Avery. Drew is the author of no books.
Todd Proctor
Todd Proctor
Todd Proctor serves on the Executive Leadership Team of Alpha USA, journeying with pastors of key churches across the nation to explore the Alpha course within their own context. He also serves as the interim Lead Pastor of Rock Harbor in Costa Mesa, a community he planted and pastored through past seasons of multiplication that birthed new campuses and churches across Orange County. Through regional “One Table” pastors’ gatherings, the national “Searock Sessions” emerging leaders cohort, and other initiatives - Todd’s passion is convening and envision those who will take the Church forward to lay new foundations for the future together.
Michael Carrion
Michael Carrion
Rev. Carrion serves as Vice President of Church Planting and Leadership Development at Redeemer City to City in New York City and is the regional coach for church planting and development for the Evangelical Covenant Church. Rev. Michael Carrion, is the founding pastor, and now Bishop of The Promised Land Covenant Churches in the North and South Bronx, and the founding chairman and superintendent of the Bronx Academy of Promise K-8 Charter School. He also serves on the board of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition and is currently on the Mayor's Faith Sector Advisory Council.
Michael has been married to his wife Elizabeth for 30+ years. They have five adult children and three grandchildren.
Daniel Yang
Daniel Yang
Daniel is the Director of the Church Multiplication Institute, leading and overseeing all of its initiatives. Prior to directing the institute, he planted a church in Toronto where he also helped recruit, assess, and train church planters through the Send Network and the Release Initiative. Daniel has served on various church staffs including Northwood Church, led by Bob Roberts Jr., where he was trained as a church planter and involved in global and multi-faith engagement.
Prior to church planting, Daniel was an engineer for eight years. He earned an M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is also the co-author of Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church (InterVarsity, May 2022).
Daniel and his wife, Linda, have five children and live in Chicagoland where they are helping to mentor leaders from The Prodigal Network.
Aubrey Sampson
Aubrey Sampson
Aubrey Sampson (M.A. Evangelism and Leadership) co-planted and serves on the preaching and leadership teams at Renewal Church, a multiethnic congregation in West Chicago. She is the author of several books, including Known: How Believing Who God Says You Are Changes Everything and The Louder Song: Listening for Hope in the Midst of Lament. Aubrey cohosts The Common Good teach and talk radio show in Chicago and the Nothing Is Wasted podcast. She also contributes regularly to Propel Women and Christianity Today’s The Better Samaritan. Aubrey and her husband and three sons live and minister in the Chicagoland area.
Dave Clayton
Dave Clayton
Dave is a disciple, husband, and dad to 3 boys. Along with his wife, he planted and helps lead Ethos Church, a young, urban church in Nashville, TN that is passionate about reaching the lost, serving the poor, and releasing ordinary people to make disciples and plant churches all over the world.
In addition, he is the founder and lead visionary for Onward, a global family of leaders who are committed to making disciples and planting churches across the world and Awaken, a city wide movement unifying churches in strategic initiatives of prayer and fasting in the greater Nashville area and beyond.
Derrick Puckett
Derrick Puckett
Derrick grew up near Chicago in Gary, Indiana, spending chapters of his youth between the two neighboring cities. As a high school student, Derrick was introduced to Christ through a relationship with a young woman, Kaley, who would later become his wife. Together at Indiana University, they quickly became involved with Campus Crusade Ministries while they earned their degrees. Blessed with a natural ability to lead others, the couple eventually became leaders within Campus Crusade. Burdened by the division they saw on campus along racial lines, Derrick created a new ministry for Crusade within the Impact Movement that reached out to African-American students on campus.
After college, Derrick and Kaley moved to Indianapolis, IN to work on staff with Campus Crusade and helped develop a ministry in the inner city of Indianapolis where Churches, College students, and high school students worked together. This ministry brought about needed community in the city while giving churches a natural way into the colleges and high schools in Indianapolis. This work in Indianapolis is where Derrick and Kaley’s heart became burdened for the local church.
After a few years in Indianapolis, the couple moved to Memphis, TN, where Derrick earned an MDiv at MidAmerica Baptist Theological Seminary while serving in the Residency Program and as a Campus Pastor at Fellowship Memphis Church. It is at this multiethnic church where Derrick deepened his passion for seeing the Gospel’s power to reconcile people of all walks of life.
Derrick and Kaley relocated to Chicago in the Fall of 2013 to plant Renewal Chicago. They have four beautiful girls and one little man: Ramiyah, Elyana, Isabelle, Nalah and Derrick III.
Watson Jones
Watson Jones
Watson Jones III is the Senior Pastor of Compassion Baptist Church on Chicago’s Southside. He served as the Lead and Founding Pastor of Restoration Church of Philadelphia. Watson’s church planting experience was chronicled by This American Life and The StartUp Podcast. Before starting his church, Watson served in a dual two-year church-planting residency with Epiphany Fellowship in North Philadelphia and Fellowship Associates in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Before moving to Philadelphia, Watson served as a staff pastor at his home church, Salem Baptist Church of Chicago, where he served as Children's Pastor and eventually Youth Pastor while leading a group of 1,000 members in various church-wide activities.
Watson has a Bachelor’s of Art in Business from Trinity International University, a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric.
Watson is married to his wife Kelli, and together they have three children, Yeshaya, Watson IV, and Ellison.
Grant Skeldon
Grant Skeldon
Grant has a deep passion for finding, uniting, and developing diverse and dynamic young leaders to reach the most lost generation our nation has ever seen. In 2020 Grant married his wife Cheyanne and moved to Nashville to become the Next Gen Director for Q Ideas with Gabe and Rebekah Lyons.
Tara Beth Leach
Tara Beth Leach
Tara Beth Leach is a pastor at Christ Church of Oak Brook in the western suburbs of Chicago. She previously served as senior pastor of First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena ("PazNaz") in Southern California and has pastored in Illinois and New York. She is a graduate of Olivet Nazarene University and Northern Theological Seminary.
Tara Beth is a regular writer for Missio Alliance and writes and speaks widely about women in ministry and church leadership. She is the author of Emboldened, Radiant Church, and Forty Days on Being a Six. She has two beautiful and rambunctious sons, and has been married to the love of her life, Jeff, since 2006. You can find her at tarabethleach.com.
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EQUIPPING
LABS
October 12
9:00 am – 11:30 am
In-depth equipping from pace-setting practitioners and access to top thought leaders that prepare you for the journey ahead.
Multiplication: Five Levels of Multiplication & Three Dimensions of Multiplication – Hosted by Exponential
The Multiplication Equipping Lab will unpack the “5 Levels of Multiplication” to help you:
• Understand the context of your current situation
• Identify a path toward reproduction/multiplication
• And give you practical guidance on what to expect on the journey.
We’ll explore the “3 Dimensions of Multiplication”: Disciple making, Mobilization, and Capacity. And we’ll have veteran leaders break down each of those dimensions for practical insights from their experience.
Speakers:
Bill Couchenour, Exponential’s Director of Learning Communities
TBD
Starting, Leading and Accelerating Decentralized Networks of Disciple-Makers and Microchurches – Hosted by Leadership Network Microchurch NEXT
Now is the time for a return to the microchurch in the West for biblical, cultural, and missiological reasons. We are well past the proof of concept, ordinary people can and will lead these simple expressions of the church. Microchurches are a potent relational environment for disciple-making and they are also adaptable and scalable enough to fill a city with a gospel presence, a gospel proclamation, and a gospel demonstration.
Join Rob Wegner, one of the founders and directors of the Kansas City Underground, and Director of Microchurch Next for Leadership Network, as we explore:
- Organizing Identities for a Microchurch Movement
- Disciple-Makers, Microchurches and Gospel Saturation
- How to create and multiply a culture and system for Decentralized Leadership
- The Training Pathway and Ecosystem to Equip Disciple-Makers and Microchurch Leaders
Michael Carrion, Daniel Yang, and Tara Beth Leach on Teaching Preparation & Bible Study – Hosted by Logos Bible Software
Meet and learn from Exponential’s Keynote Speakers on how they prepare to teach and study the Bible. You want to dig deeper into the Bible, showing the way for your people; Logos is the answer. Logos integrates cutting-edge technology, media resources, and a massive theological library to deliver 40-50 hours of Bible study and sermon prep in seconds. Explore cultural and historical context, do in-depth exegesis, study the original Greek and Hebrew, and much more with interactive tools created for today’s ministry; features that help you do the work of ministry—without the busywork. With Factbook you can look up lemmas, counseling topics, specialized theological terms, manuscripts, and so much more. With counseling guide, you can search for topics like marriage, grief, and addiction to discover what trustworthy biblical counseling resources have to say. In this interactive training, learn how you can use Logos to equip the Church to grow in the light of the Bible.
Speaker(s):
Chivo Hawkins, Partner Growth Executive / Faithlife
Michael Carrion, Founding Pastor / The Promised Land Covenant Churches
Daniel Yang, Director of the Church Multiplication Institute
Tara Beth Leach, Pastor / Christ Church of Oak Brook