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.
The Inspiration of Exponential’s Global Conference in Your Region
Speakers
Hear from Today’s Top Church Multiplication Practitioners
10+ national speakers in 5 main sessions!
Jon Ferguson
Jon Ferguson
Jon is the co-founding pastor of Community Christian Church in Chicagoland where he provides leadership in new ventures. COMMUNITY has grown from a handful of people to a church with hundreds of leaders and thousands of people celebrating at locations throughout Chicagoland. Jon is also one of COMMUNITY's Lead Teaching Pastors.
In addition, Jon led in the launch of NewThing, a church-planting movement, whose mission is to be a catalyst for movements of reproducing churches that includes over 1000 churches and sites in the US and abroad. Jon continues to lead in NewThing as one of the North American Apostolic Leaders.
He has co-authored Finding Your Way Back to God, with his brother Dave, which was recognized as a Resource of the Year by Outreach Magazine for 2016. Their follow-up book, Starting Over - Living Beyond Your Regrets, was released September 20, 2016. He has also co-authored The Big Idea: Aligning the Ministries of Your Church Through Creative Collaboration and Exponential: How You and Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement.
Myron Pierce
Myron Pierce
Myron is the founder and lead pastor of Mission Church in Omaha. At the age 18, he faced a life sentence in prison for his life of gang banging, drugs, and crime. Myron surrendered his life to the Lord Jesus and while leaving the courtroom he heard God whisper, 'I'm going to get you out of prison to plant churches.'" Through a series of miracles, the prison doors opened for him after 8 years.
His call is to saturate every U.S. inner city with new churches. Myron received his B.A. in Biblical Studies and Business Leadership at Grace University. Alongside leading the churches, Myron operates three small businesses. He trains leaders to plant businesses while planting a church.
Noemi Chavez
Noemi Chavez
Noemi Chavez pastors Revive Church, a multisite church in Long Beach, CA and the greater Los Angeles area. She is a speaker and cofounder of Brave Global, an organization which focuses on reaching out to girls that are on probation and in the foster care system. Noemi also serves as chair of the board for Exponential Español, and with Biola Church Relations Advisory Board. She is committed to raising leaders and bridging generations to serve the future of the Church and their communities.
Jarrett Stephens
Jarrett Stephens
Dr. Jarrett Stephens serves as Senior Pastor of Champion Forest Baptist Church, in Northwest Houston. A native of Louisiana, Jarrett graduated from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He received his Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and his Doctor of Ministry from Liberty Theological Seminary.
Jarrett is the author of two books, The Mountains Are Calling: Making the Climb for a Clearer View of God and Ourselves and The Always God: He Hasn’t Changed and You Are Not Forgotten. He also hosts the Forward with Jarrett Stephens podcast.
Jarrett and his wife, Debbie, have four daughters, Riley, Kelsey, Cameron and Landry.
Faith Cho
Faith Cho
Faith Eury Cho has been a gospel preacher since she was 19-years-old. Currently, she is a pastor, a pastor’s wife, writer, and an itinerant speaker.
Faith is the CEO and founder of The Honor Summit, a nonprofit organization that centers Asian American women in the mission of God. Alongside her husband, Pastor David Cho, she is also the co-founder and co-pastor of Mosaic Covenant Church in NJ.
Her most precious role, however, is being a mom to her 4 children— Moriah, Elias, River and Adalynn.
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.
Jaron Jones
Jaron Jones
Pastor Jaron is the Lead Pastor at Shine Bible Fellowship Church. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary-Houston (ThM 2016) and completed a church-planting residency at Crossover Bible Fellowship Church prior to launching Shine. Shine's mission is to daily pursue Christ, to daily transform our World. Pastor Jaron had been married to his lovely wife Eboni for 15 years and they have 3 wonderful children, Chloe, Kendal and Kyler. He is a diehard St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan and a smoked brisket lover.
Bruce Wesley
Bruce Wesley
Dr. Bruce Wesley is the founding and Lead Pastor of Clear Creek Community Church, as well as the founder and President of the Houston Church Planting Network. Bruce and Susan invest in three key areas for community transformation: planting churches, strengthening marriages and raising up leaders for the church of tomorrow. They have three married daughters and a growing number of incredible grandchildren. Bruce loves the mountains, fly-fishing and hiking trails.
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.
Jeremiah Morris
Jeremiah Morris
Jeremiah Morris is the founding and Lead Pastor at Seven Mile Road Houston. He is a husband, dad, disciple-maker and church planter. He loves preaching the gospel, the city of Houston, and anything wrapped in a tortilla. He is passionate about his wife, Ashley, and his 3 boys, Finn, Caleb and Judah (and the 4th on the way!). He sits on the board of HCPN, works extensively with City to City, and is helping provide leadership to the Together for the City collaboration initiative in the heart of Houston. Jeremiah graduated from Texas Christian University (B.A. Philosophy) and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (MDiv).
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EQUIPPING
LABS
October 26
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.
Speaker(s):
Bill Couchenour, Director of Learning Communities / Exponential
Myron Pierce, Lead Pastor / Mission Church in Omaha
Noemi Chavez 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):
Timothy Williams, National Sales Presenter / Faithlife
Noemi Chavez, Co-Lead Pastor / Revive Church
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, Outreach’s Director of Ministry Development
Income and Retirement Planning for Ministers – Hosted by Guardian Financial Group
In this pre-conference Equipping Lab, we will discuss the following:
• Housing Allowance
• Social Security/Medicare
• Providing for Your Spouse
• Market Volatility
Speaker:
Jerry Whitley, Founder of Guardian Financial Group
A Church of House Churches: One Church Distributed into Many House Churches – Hosted by Church Project
Rethink and Return to a Biblical Ecclesiology as a Church of House Churches with:
- Decentralized Community: Decentralized from place and priest, House Church is the primary place of community and discipleship.
- Distributed Leadership: House Churches are led by identified, trained, and empowered lay pastors, fulfilling all the qualifications listed in Timothy and Titus for an elder, carrying out all the functions of a pastor, and entrusted by the Church to shepherd people.
- Diverse Community: House Churches are cross-generational, diverse gatherings (including ethnic, spiritual maturity, gender, socio-economical, and generation diversity) of people in a home who share a meal, meet each other’s needs, and help one another grow in their faith.
- Common Oversight, Identity, and Mission: As a Church of House Churches, there are regular collective gatherings and House Churches are supported by Elders, given doctrinal and ecclesiological accountability, and live in community with other House Churches, helping ensure long-term health and missional impact in the community.
Speakers:
Jason Shepperd, Founder and Lead Pastor at Church Project
Calvin Williams, Director of House Churches at Church Project