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!
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.
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.
Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds
Pastor Jason C. Reynolds is the Senior Pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Jose, CA. Since arriving at Emmanuel in 2012, Pastor Jason has renewed the church’s mission, vision, and values through a variety of endeavors, including a revitalized worship service format, a new and thriving prayer ministry with 13 groups gathering weekly morning and evening by phone for prayer, and the Legacy 50:50 Stewardship Campaign, which raised 1.4M above regular tithes to renovate the worship center and reshape the church’s financial standing.
Pastor Jason earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, a Master of Arts in Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, and an Executive Education certificate from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. In 2018, he became a Senior Fellow of American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley.
Pastor Jason has been happily married to Poch'e (“Po-Shay”) Reynolds since 2008, and together they have two sons - Jadon Reynolds and Jason Reynolds, II (affectionately called “Bubba”). Pastor Jason is an avid tennis player and loves spending time watching movies and discussing the intersections between culture and faith.
James Grogan
James Grogan
James Grogan is the senior pastor of Community Church Movement, a growing network of churches founded in Chula Vista, California, which includes congregations in Southern California and Baja California, Mexico. He is the lead pastor of EastLake Church which is the founding church in the Community Church Movement. He is also a catalyst leader of the San Diego Church Plant Movement. SDCPM works to bring pastors and church leaders together across all denominations and tribes to plant more Gospel-centered churches in San Diego.
James has worked in full-time local church ministry for over 26 years, with the last 20 spent on staff at EastLake Church. James and his wife Rebecca have been married for 25 years and have three children and have also served as foster parents for a few amazing children.
Darren Rouanzoin
Darren Rouanzoin
Darren Rouanzoin has lived in Southern California his whole life and moved to Long Beach, CA, in 2008 to plant Garden Church with his wife, Alex. Alex and Darren have been married for 15 years and have two wild and free boys — Ezra (8) and Amos (5) — and love to camp, surf, hike, paddle board, and adventure as a family.
Darren is the Lead Pastor of Garden Church, a community in the heart of one of the most diverse cities in the US. Darren’s passion and vision are to make resilient disciples who are formed in the way of Jesus and empowered by the Holy Spirit to live a naturally supernatural lifestyle.
Andy Wood
Andy Wood
Andy Wood is the new second-generation Lead Pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA, one of American’s largest and best-known churches founded by Pastor Rick and Kay Warren.
Andy has a heart for developing leaders and church planters, teaching God’s Word in relevant ways, and creating environments where those far from God come to know Him personally.
For 14 years, Andy was the Founding and Lead Pastor of Echo.Church, a multi-site church of 3,000 people based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2008, after receiving a master’s degree from Southwestern Theological Seminary, he and his family, along with 3 other families, moved cross-country to start Echo.Church - with a mission to urgently lead people to say yes to Jesus and passionately follow Him.
Andy and his wife Stacie said yes to Jesus and a new call to love Saddleback Church. They moved their family from the Bay area and now live in Orange County, California, with their three children, and beloved dog Mercy.
Will Chung
Will Chung
Will Chung and his wife Andrea are the founding and lead pastors of Beloved Church in Buena Park, California. They also have three beautiful children, Karis, Kairos and Zoey. The deepest desire of Will’s heart is to live in ever increasing union with God and to help others to do the same through wholistic discipleship. For more information about Will and Andrea you can visit: www.thebelovedchurch.com.
Alex Absalom
Alex Absalom
Alex Absalom has been in church leadership since 1994, serving in a wide range of settings from church plants to megachurches. Together with his wife Hannah, he leads Dandelion Resourcing (dandelionresourcing.com), which focuses on naturally supernatural discipleship and mission. Originally from England, in 2007 the Absaloms were called as a family of missionaries to the US. Today they live in Long Beach CA, and have 3 cheeky but charming young adult sons, and welcomed their first daughter-in-law this summer!
Matt Larson
Matt Larson
Matt, along with his wife Kristen and their 5 kids—Andrew, Jeremy, Tyler, Lily and Rose—lead Anthem Church in Thousand Oaks, California. Along with a few friends, they planted the church in the fall of 2009 and over the years have seen the joy of sending out church planters and leaders to continue to carry the gospel into this big and beautiful world. In addition to leading Anthem Thousand Oaks and the Anthem family of churches here at home, Matt and Kristen serve on the leadership team of the Genesis Collective which is committed to raising up leaders and planting churches into the nations. Whether it’s at home or somewhere else in the world, Matt loves serving alongside leaders to help equip people to carry the gospel message. If he could tell you anything it would be that God is SO big, His good news is SO good, His world is SO beautiful, His Spirit is SO powerful and His people are SO worth it…so do not miss out on the adventure of following Jesus! (And yes, he is an optimist.)
Jodi Hickerson
Jodi Hickerson
Jodi Hickerson serves as Teaching Pastor and Programming Director for Mission Church in Ventura, California. Jodi and her husband Mike, along with their three daughters, are a part of the team that planted Mission Church in September of 2011, which continues to be the adventure they cannot imagine missing.
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.
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FREE
EQUIPPING
LABS
OCTOBER 6
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.
Noemi Chavez, Darren Rouanzoin, and James Grogan 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
Noemi Chavez, Co-Lead Pastor / Revive Church
Darren Rouanzoin, Lead Pastor / Garden Church
James Grogan, Lead Pastor / EastLake Church
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
The Great Collaboration – Hosted by Long Beach Church Collective
In this pre-conference Equipping Lab, we will take a look at:
• How churches are partnering with local young leaders to plant more churches
• How churches are seeing hundreds of youth find Jesus through parachurch partners
• How a local church partnered with a housing agency (and a coffee shop) to provide housing for low-income single moms
• How the Long Beach Collective became the city’s central church networking and prayer organization
• Helpful tips for collaboration and against competition
Speakers:
Sean Fenner, Lead Pastor of Light & Life Church
Eric Marsh, Executive Director of the Long Beach Church Collective
Ralph Moore, Exponential’s Church Multiplication Catalyst
And others from Long Beach
3 Ways to Cultivate Giving in Your Church – Hosted by Thrivent
Churches need adequate resources to maximize their mission and vision. In this free equipping lab, learn how to engage your congregation to support the financial needs of your church, including your short-term, mid-term and long-term priorities.
Speaker:
TBD
Innovation in Ministry: Reach and Equip More People for Christ – Hosted by He Gets Us & Gloo
Leveraging platform principles to help churches do the FIVE things they must do to thrive!
Thriving churches must:
- Attract people–make people in the community aware that you exist
- Get people in the door to an event or service for the first time
- Keep people–consistently engage congregants to close the back door
- Grow disciples
- Multiply leaders
Over the past 10+ years Gloo has been helping churches discover how well architected platforms can help them do these FIVE things better than ever. This seminar introduces you to the basics of becoming a platform architect, a data informed ministry leader, and how to participate in campaigns like He Gets Us to reach people in your city. You don’t want to miss this conversation.
Speakers:
Eric Swanson, Faith Ecosystem Developer at Gloo
Matt Smay, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Gloo
Digital Discipleship: Equipping Families, Resourcing Groups & Developing Leaders – Hosted by RightNow Media
As a pastor, do you feel overwhelmed because you only have so much time to help those in your church? Or do you feel like you’re losing your people to the culture and want to find ways to help each person individually with resources that meet them where they are in their faith? In today’s world, the church has a limited amount of time to (hopefully) make a life-changing impact to each person on Sunday—but what if there was an option to find more time to do the ministry you were called to AND provide personalized resources for every person in your congregation to help equip and disciple them beyond Sunday?
We want to show you how you can use digital discipleship tools to equip families, resource small groups, and develop leaders and volunteers. Join us for this Equipping Lab to see digital discipleship in action and get your questions answered about how to equip everyone in your church every day of the week.
SPECIAL NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
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Income and Retirement Planning for Ministers Lunch
Thursday, October 6 | 11:30am-12:30pm – Hosted by Guardian Financial
Join Guardian Financial for a FREE lunch. During our time together, we will discuss:
- Housing allowance
- Social Security/Medicare
- Providing for your spouse
- Market volatility
Funding Your Ministry Vision Lunch
Thursday, October 6 | 11:30am-12:30pm – Hosted by CDF Capital
Join CDF Capital for a FREE lunch. Learn the five most important things to factor in when deciding to buy, build, or remodel.
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9:00am Pre-Conference Equipping Labs
12:30pm Main Session 1
2:30pm Main Session 2
4:30pm Main Session 3
9:00am Main Session 4
11:00am Main Session 5
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