Exponential West 2023
OCTOBER 23-25, 2023
Castro Valley, CA
We need to revive evangelism in our churches. Come learn with us.
Lost Cause: Reviving Evangelism
We have a problem! Evangelism has become a taboo word and confusion about evangelism has left the church with a lackluster approach to reaching the lost.
There is a solution! We must be about the mission of Jesus: “to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10). That means we must revive evangelism. A church with a culture of evangelism will hold the Biblical values of evangelism, share the compelling narratives of evangelism, and live out the white-hot faith behaviors of an evangelistic church.
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Francis Chan
Francis Chan
Francis Chan is the best-selling author of Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and You and Me Forever. Currently, Francis is planting churches in the San Francisco area (wearechurch.com). Together, Francis and his wife Lisa raise their seven children in Northern California.
Ryan Kwon
Ryan Kwon
Originally from Los Angeles, CA. Ryan was called to plant a multi-cultural church in hard soil, which led him to plant Resonate Church in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is passionate about gospel centered preaching, making disciples, and has a vision to see many churches planted in his city. He currently serves on the board of Acts 29, and outside of spending time with his wife Jenni, their two sons and daughter, he enjoys planting succulents and the torture of both Crossfit and cheering for UCLA football.
Dave Ferguson
Dave Ferguson
Dave Ferguson is the lead pastor of Community Christian Church, a multi-expression missional community that is passionate about “helping people find their way back to God.” Community has grown from a few college friends to reaching thousands of people in Chicagoland and around the world. Dave also provides visionary leadership for the international church-planting movement NewThing and is the President of Exponential. He is an award-winning author of books that include The Big Idea, Exponential, On The Verge, Finding Your Way Back To God, Starting Over, Hero Maker and most recently B.L.E.S.S. 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World. Dave and his best friend Sue have three terrific adult kids - Amy, Josh and Caleb.
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.
Ed Stetzer
Ed Stetzer
Ed Stetzer, Ph.D., is the Dean of Talbot School of Theology at Biola University and Scholar in Residence & Teaching Pastor at Mariners Church. He has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches; trained pastors and church planters on six continents; earned two master’s degrees and two doctorates; and he has written hundreds of articles and a dozen books. He is Regional Director for Lausanne North America, is the Editor-in-Chief of Outreach Magazine, and regularly writes for news outlets such as USA Today and CNN. His national radio show, Ed Stetzer Live, airs Saturdays on Moody Radio and affiliates.
Shauna Pilgreen
Shauna Pilgreen
Shauna Pilgreen, along with her husband Ben, co-leads Epic Church, a multiethnic congregation in the heart of San Francisco. She serves on the teaching team at Epic and as a network director for Alpha USA. She writes for "everyday evangelists" on her blog. Learn more at www.shaunapilgreen.com.
Efrem Smith
Efrem Smith
Pastor Efrem Smith is an internationally recognized leader who uses motivational speaking and preaching to equip people for a life of transformation. He consults on issues of multi-ethnicity, leadership, and community development. Efrem is the former president and CEO of World Impact, an urban mission, church planting and leadership development organization. He’s the author of several books, including his latest, Killing Us Softly. Efrem is a graduate of Saint John’s University and Luther Theological Seminary, and received an honorary doctor of ministry degree from Ashland Theological Seminary, and most recently earned his Doctor of Ministry degree in Church Leadership and Reconciliation Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. Efrem is married to Donecia and has two daughters. He’s excited to be a part of all that God is doing in and through the Church.
Nancy Ortberg
Nancy Ortberg
Nancy Ortberg served as a teaching pastor for eight years at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. During that time she led Network, a ministry that helps people identify their spiritual gifts and find a place of service in the church, and Axis, a weekly gathering for the eighteen-to twenty-something generation.
She is a founding partner of Teamworx 2, a business and leadership consulting firm that provides fast-paced, practical, and compelling sessions to leaders and their teams. Teamworx 2 works with businesses, schools, nonprofits, and churches to address issues of organizational effectiveness and teamwork.
Nancy is a gifted communicator who is passionate about helping people connect what they believe with their everyday lives. She is currently the CEO of Transforming the Bay with Christ, a non-profit organization working to catalyze a holistic gospel movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nancy is the author of Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey Through Tattoos, Tofu, & Pronouns and Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands: Lessons in Non-Linear Leadership.
She and her husband, John, live in the Bay Area and have three children.
Filipe Santos
Filipe Santos
(Emcee)
Filipe Santos is the Lead Pastor of Echo.Church, a multi-site church based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2008, Filipe’s family joined three other families in moving across the country to start Echo.Church—with a vision to see the Bay Area transformed with the message of Jesus. He served as the Executive Pastor for 14 years before being commissioned as the Lead Pastor in 2022. Today, Echo.Church is a thriving church with over 2,000 people attending their local campuses weekly, as well as thousands attending online. Filipe is particularly passionate about empowering leaders, raising up the next generation, and uniting churches together for the sake of Kingdom expansion. He has been married to his wife Mandy for 20 years and they have five children.
Mark Clark
Mark Clark
Mark Clark founded Village Church, a multi-site church with locations in multiple cities across Canada and online around the world, that seeks to reach skeptics and challenge Christians. He is now one of the Senior Pastors at Bayside Church in Sacramento, California. He is the author of The Problem of Jesus (Zondervan, 2021) and The Problem of God (Zondervan, 2017), winner of the 2018 Word Award for Evangelism. Mark has been the subject of several articles in Christianity Today and Outreach Magazine voted him one of the Top 26 Leaders to Watch. He has three beautiful daughters with his wife, Erin.
Léonce Crump
Léonce Crump
Pastor Léonce B. Crump Jr. is an author, international speaker, and co-founder—along with his wife Breanna—of Renovation Church in Atlanta. Originally from Louisiana and raised Catholic, Léonce began following Jesus at age 16. Before committing his life to pastoral ministry, and civil rights activism, Léonce was a collegiate All American in wrestling, nearly made the World Team in wrestling, and a professional football player. The former professional athlete has strong transcultural appeal and connections in the world of professional sports and hip-hop music, as well as church planting and leadership circles. He has been in ordained ministry for nearly20 years, and holds multiple graduate degrees.
In 2008, Pastor Léonce answered God’s call to relocate from Tennessee to Atlanta and begin the process of planting Renovation Church. He details the obstacles he and his family faced and the revelations he uncovered during this process in Renovate: Changing Who You Are by Loving Where You Are. A champion for the Church’s participation in focused and intentional cultural renewal, Pastor Léonce is the leading voice of a generation committed to operating as God’s redemptive agents in the earth.
A prodigious reader and engaging speaker, Pastor Léonce regularly speaks and preaches across the country at conferences and churches of all denominations. Pastor Léonce enjoys boxing, MMA, studying theology, history, leadership, church structure and poetry. He like ssoul music like Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, and Jimi Hendrix (the blues albums), working out, watching football, UFC, and rugby, and playing with his children.
Pastor Léonce and his wife Breanna live in Atlanta with their son and three daughters.
Jason Shepperd
Jason Shepperd
Jason Shepperd planted Church Project, a “Church of House Churches,” in The Woodlands, TX, in 2010. The pursuit of Rethinking and Returning to what Christ originally intended His church to be began with a group of 40 people in two House Churches and has turned into a movement of thousands of people, gathered in many House Churches, in different cities, states, and countries. This Decentralized expression of church Distributes leadership to empowered lay pastors, who fully pastor Diverse Discipleship communities which carry out all of the functions of a church. Local House Churches are connected by common overseers and shared local and global ministries. One result of a connected movement of House Churches is simplicity that allows for radical collective generosity, focusing almost $10 million in their first 12 years toward gospel-centered ministries and church planting. Jason also leads Church Project Network, and House Church Network, which are collectives of churches aligned around the commitment to be a “Church of House Churches,” and Good City, a city centrality for local ministry collaboration and support.
Jason wrote the books A Church of House Churches: An Articulated and Applied Ecclesiology and Church Project: A Biblical, Simple, Relevant Pursuit of Church to explain the conviction and process that led to Church Project.
Jason pastors Church Project, writes and speaks about ecclesiology, and consults churches on how to become a Church of House Churches. Jason loves all things family, sports, competition, outdoors, travel, and trekking mountains. Jason lives in The Woodlands, TX, with his wife Brooke and their family.
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Our God doesn’t see the world as a lost cause. He is relentlessly committed to restoring a broken relationship with each of us. Romans 5:8 tells us that “God demonstrates his own love for us in this, while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”
Our commitment to the cause begins when we make it personal. We are all lost people. When we let that truth motivate us, we can’t help but be passionate about reaching people far from God.
Our God doesn’t see the world as a lost cause. He is relentlessly committed to restoring a broken relationship with each of us. Romans 5:8 tells us that “God demonstrates his own love for us in this, while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”
Our commitment to the cause begins when we make it personal. We are all lost people. When we let that truth motivate us, we can’t help but be passionate about reaching people far from God.
Pre-Conference Options
Monday, October 23
(9:00 – 11:30 am)
In-depth equipping from pace-setting practitioners and access to top thought leaders that prepare you for the journey ahead.
Pre-conference cost: $29. You can register for your Pre-conference option when you register for the conference.
Don’t Start a Church, Plant One! – Hosted by NewBreed Training
Church planting isn’t easy, but it also isn’t complicated. Nowadays, many church planters believe you need to raise a bunch of money, figure out how to gather a big crowd, and be a funny, relatable, extroverted, bible scholar if you’re going to succeed. But the Apostle Paul didn’t fit that bill, and you don’t have to either. There are just four steps to planting a church, and we’ll unpack how each of them gets applied on the ground in this interactive pre-conference:
1. Intense Spiritual Dependence
2. Sowing the Seeds of the Gospel
3. Watering Through Discipleship
4. Reaping a Church Plant as a Harvest
Speakers: Peyton Jones, Andrea Jones, Larry Acosta, Robert Frazier, Kurt Blake
Multipliers Journey: Shifting from Addition to Multiplication – Hosted by Exponential and Auxano
In this preconference, Exponential and Auxano collaborate to equip church leaders with the process and tools to accelerate healthy Kingdom multiplication. Attendees will gain confidence and clarity to begin to break free from addition-oriented thinking and to embrace a sending and releasing culture necessary for multiplication.
This preconference will discuss the “5 Levels of Multiplication” to help you:
• Understand the context of your current situation
• Identify a path toward reproduction/multiplication
• Give you practical guidance on what to expect on the journey.
We’ll explore the “3 Dimensions of Multiplication”: Disciple-making, Mobilization, and Capacity. Seasoned leaders will break down each of these dimensions for practical insights from their experience. You will also be equipped with tools to help turn awareness and discovery into action and Kingdom multiplication.
Speakers: Bill Couchenour, Ralph Moore, David Putman
Reach Them: Church Marketing That Works – Hosted by Outreach
Pre-launch or post-launch, God has the people for your church – but you have to reach them. In this session, we will show you the best cutting-edge marketing techniques to reach your community and grow your church. Marketing from a 360 spectrum. Using a multi-channel approach, reaching out and making use of all the tools available to you from social media to direct mail to community events to servant evangelism.
Speaker: Tim Speweik
Remembering Our Forgotten Ways as Church and Reimagining Our Future as Movemental Christianity – Hosted by Movement Leaders Collective
Topics we will cover:
● WWJP – What Would Jesus Plant? Beginning with the end in mind by unlocking movement potential in everybody across multiple contexts, cultures and generations in the way of Jesus – the ultimate Movement maker.
● 6 essential mDNA elements as levers for growth. Understanding the 6 key areas to leverage in your system for sustainable multiplication.
● See the whole system. Engaging a holistic view of ecclesia and unlock latent potential in your system.
● Rapid prototyping & building reproducible practices. Unlocking iterative learning to refine and strengthen communities and churches whatever the size (micro/church through to denominations).
● Everyone gets to play. Activating every agent in the system to purpose their calling and play their part as missional disciples
● Micro & Missional. Creating no/cost or low/cost cause-based communities that naturally multiply.
Speakers: Michael Beck, Jessica Schrock-Ringenberg, and Brenna Varner
Survival to Sustainability: The Why, How, and What of Structural Shift for 21st Century Ministry Effectiveness – Hosted by Mosaix
It’s been said (even prior to the pandemic) that most pastors today are only managing decline. Such a statement (whether true or not) calls attention to declining attendance, public interest, giving, budgets, and more, today challenging pastors and planters seeking to launch a church or (in existing churches) to advance mission, avoid layoffs, and keep the doors open. Where true, the statement likely describes leaders (vocational and lay) chasing 20th century metrics in the 21st.
In this pre-conference hosted by the Mosaix Global Network, you will learn from proven, forward-thinking guides that will share the why, how, and what of disruptive innovation as a model for 21st century church planting, growth, and development. Whether your congregation is currently growing, plateauing, or declining or you are a church planter, pastor, denominational or network leader, this pre-conference will provide you with the understanding, language, and tools needed to challenge conventional wisdom, promote promising new practices, and bring others onboard even in uncertain times and those that surely lie ahead.
Speakers: Mark DeYmaz, Harry Li, Carol Mijares
Women in Leadership: Maximizing for Mission – Hosted by Leadership Network
Ladies, Leadership Network invites you to join us for a conversation curated just for you, with trusted, experienced women leading the way. No matter your theological background, ministry position, or level of ministry experience, you belong in this conversation. Together, we will do a deep dive into what it means to optimize our lives for the Gospel while connecting with, encouraging, and learning with and from one another!
Speakers: Carrie Williams, Sarah Szarmack
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