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Jeff Vanderstelt serves as the Executive Director of Saturate. He is also the Founder of Soma, a global family of churches committed to seeing every woman, man and child meet Jesus through His body on mission everyday. He regularly works with teams toward gospel saturation in greater Seattle, Charleston, and Tokyo. He also serves as an emotional health coach for Tin Man Ministries. Jeff has authored Saturate, Gospel Fluency, and Making Space.
He lives in Seattle, WA with his wife Jayne and their three children.
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.
Danielle lets Love lead her to inspire, challenge, provoke and disrupt the present, and to live the future now. Having lived in different cultures and contexts around the world she celebrates diversity and deeply longs for wrong things to be made right. Danielle practices following Jesus daily. This pursuit has led to exciting entrepreneurial exploits (like co-founding multiple charities and non-profits) and a whole host of failures (that we don’t as often talk about). All of this has convinced her of the deep need we all have for hope, faith, and love. Her deepest longing is to demonstrate what living that boundless life looks like.
Danielle has written six books (the latest is The Other Side of Hope), has a podcast called The Right Side Up, and speaks to people at events all over the world. Danielle leads Boundless Communications Inc., which launches creative exploits like Women Speakers Collective (liberating voices of women around the globe), IMBY (a tiny home movement IN MY BACKYARD), Brave Global (preventing human trafficking), Infinitum (a way of living deeply), and Hagar's Voice (support and advocacy for survivors of abuse). Her home is in Toronto, Canada with her three sons and husband Steve. Danielle loves getting outside, doing new things, physical adventures, and she can't seem to turn down a free lunch.
Evan Mawarire is a Zimbabwean clergyman who founded #ThisFlag Citizen’s Movement to challenge corruption, injustice and poverty in Zimbabwe. The movement’s main objective is to empower citizens to hold government to account. The movement organized multiple successful non-violent protests in response to unjust government policy. For his work, Mawarire was imprisoned and tortured in 2016, 2017 and 2019 and charged with treason facing 80 years in prison. Evan has addressed audiences at The Atlantic Council, Yale, Harvard, the Oxford Union (UK), the Oslo Freedom Forum and the Geneva Summit for Human Rights & Democracy. Foreign Policy magazine named him among 100 global thinkers of 2016. The Daily Maverick Newspaper of South Africa named him 2016 African person of the year. Evan Mawarire was a nominee of the prestigious 2018 Swedish government’s Per Anger Prize for democracy actors. He is a former fellow of Stanford University’s Centre for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law, Yale University’s World Fellows and a Regan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Mawarire is currently a visiting fellow at both the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. He serves on the advisory board of Yale International Leadership Centre and is currently the Director of Education at Renew Democracy Initiative in Washington DC.
Noemi Chavez pastors Revive Church, a multi-site in the greater Los Angeles area and Mexico. She is an international conference speaker and is cofounder of Brave Global, an organization that bridges relationships with girls that are on probation and in the foster care system and the local church as a preventative to human trafficking. Noemi also serves as Chair of the Board for Exponential Español, and serves on the board of Christianity Today and Exponential. Noemi is committed to raising leaders and bridging generations to serve the future of the Church and their communities. In her spare time, Noemi enjoys reading and going on hikes with family and friends.
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.
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.
Randy Frazee is the lead pastor at Westside Family Church in Kansas City. A frontrunner and innovator in spiritual formation and biblical community, Randy is the architect of The Story and Believe church engagement campaign. He is also the author of The Heart of the Story; Think, Act, Be Like Jesus; What Happens After You Die; The Connecting Church 2.0; and The Christian Life Profile Assessment. He and his wife, Rozanne, live in Kansas City, Kansas.
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.
Mandy Santos serves as the Spiritual Formation Pastor of Echo.Church, a multi-site church based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s a teacher and leader passionate about helping people experience a flourishing life with God and seeing churches thrive as a result. She and her husband, Filipe, have been married 21 years and have 5 kids. She loves reading, deep conversations, and traveling to new places.
Born in the central valley town of Bakersfield, CA, Dave began following Jesus during his junior year of high school. In 1997, he started working in vocational ministry and was ordained at the age of 21 as a youth pastor.
After serving vocationally in ministry for 10 years, he felt the Lord’s prompting and call to plant a church. In 2007, Dave and his wife Ashley moved to Carpinteria, to begin the process of planting with the Reality Family of Churches. It was there that they heard God’s invitation to move to San Francisco. After moving in 2009 and a year of prayer meetings around the city, the first Reality SF service was hosted on January 10, 2010.
In addition to serving as an elder, Dave serves on staff as the Teaching & Vision Pastor, responsible for the overall pastoral vision and teaching of the church.
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.
ChatGPT & AI 101 For Church Leaders – Hosted by Exponential Next
In this pre-conference workshop, we’ll dive into the world of ChatGPT, the groundbreaking generative AI technology that is revolutionizing the way we approach ministry and church work. Discover how AI tools can streamline sermon prep, enhance your church communications, support discipleship pathways, and even assist with strategic decision-making. Explore practical use cases for ChatGPT, learn the F.A.S.T.E.R. AI prompting framework, and gain insights into the ethical and theological considerations surrounding the use of AI in the church. If you’re just starting to explore the potential of generative AI, or have already started to use AI tools in your ministry workflows, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to harness the transformative power of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots to elevate your ministry and better serve your congregation. Bring your laptop to experiment and leave with new assets you can use immediately even before you return to the office.
Speakers: Kenny Jahng
CHISPA: Creando Una Cultura de Multiplicación – Hosted by Exponential Español
La realidad hoy en día es que la mayoría de las iglesias están estancadas o en declive. Menos del 7% de las iglesias se reproducen alguna vez. ¡Es justo decir que la multiplicación no es la norma! Para ver que las iglesias colectivamente comienzan movimientos de la manera que Jesús quiere, primero debemos ver que las iglesias valoren y practiquen individualmente la multiplicación de líderes y la plantación de nuevas iglesias.
En esta sesión de pre-conferencia, traeremos la experiencia de los eventos CHISPA de Exponential Español a Exponential. Comenzaremos 4 conversaciones que son temas vitales para la multiplicación: Adoptar una mentalidad del Reino, Multiplicar discípulos, líderes, misioneros y hacerlo en colaboración.
Speakers: Obe Arellano
Effective Church Marketing – 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.
Speakers: Tim Speweik, Jason Bowman
How to Build a Clear & Complete Discipleship Strategy – Hosted by RightNow Media
Dive deep into the heart of effective discipleship with our hands-on pre-conference intensive. We’ll tackle the crucial questions that shape your ministry’s impact like…
Together, we’ll navigate these challenges, providing you with a personalized 2-page roadmap for enhancing your church’s discipleship journey. No matter the size of your church—big or small—we’d love for you to join us. Transform your approach and achieve meaningful relational discipleship outcomes!
Speakers: Robby Angle
How to Help Your People Understand and Engage With the Holy Spirit – Hosted by Dandelion Resources
Most churches are nervous about more openly embracing the work of the Spirit – sometimes for good reason! Yet flaky theology, bad experiences, or lack of positive role models shouldn’t stop us from building cultures that are genuinely naturally supernatural.
In this pre-conference you’ll see how to develop a biblical and transferable theology of the Spirit, and how to help your people understand and engage with the Holy Spirit in their everyday lives, whatever your denominational or theological preference.
You’ll learn how to build a culture of response, and practically develop prayer ministry in your group life and public services, so that you can wisely steward the gifts of the Spirit in ways that are pastorally wise, invitational, and biblically rooted.
There will also be input on how to equip your church to listen to the Spirit as they go out on mission, so that the way they are impacting their lost friends, neighbors, and colleagues is highly contextualized and more fruitful.
Speakers: Alex & Hannah Absalom, Eric Hays
Moving from Addition to Healthy Kingdom Multiplication – Hosted by Exponential
This preconference will help equip church leaders with the process and understanding 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 Pre-Conference will discuss the “5 Levels of Multiplication” to help you:
We’ll also introduce the “3 Dimensions of Multiplication”: Disciplemaking, Mobilization, and Capacity and how they can translate into Multiplication.
Speakers: Bill Couchenour, Larry Walkemeyer, Ben Connelly
Starting, Leading, and Multiplying Networks of Disciple-Makers and Microchurches – Hosted by Exponential 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 in with the Kansas City Underground as we explore:
Speakers: Brian Johnson
Strengthening Your Heart as a Woman in Leadership – Hosted by Exponential Next
We will spend time reflecting on what is going well, what is hard, what is confusing as well as what you are dreaming as a woman in leadership. Share your reflections and receive feedback in safe circles with other women leaders.
With a passion for creating safe circles, Sue Ferguson and Janet McMahon will guide you through exercises and conversations that create space for you to hear from and connect with God and others.
Sometimes what we need is more connection, not more content.
Speakers: Sue Ferguson and Janet McMahon
Check out the full conference schedule and more.
9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Pre-Conference Sessions
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Registration Opens for Main Conference
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Main Session 1
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Workshop 1
3:30p p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Main Session 2
7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Bible Study
8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Workshop 2
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Main Session 3
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch / Networking Lunches
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Workshop 3
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Main Session 4
7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Bible Study
8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Workshop 4
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Main Session 5
Connect with the largest collection of church resourcing organizations.
5Q
10Ten Project
Advancing Native Missions
AE Global Media
Africans Reaching Africa
ArtSpeak Creative
Asbury Seminary
Auxano
Best Christian Workplaces Institute
The Bonhoeffer Project
BookBaby
BOSE Professional
Calvin Theological Seminary
Camp in the Box
Catapult
Chemistry Staffing
Christian & Missionary Alliance
Christian Healthcare Ministries
Church on Wheels
Churches By Daniels
ChurchTeams
ChurchTrac
Clark Productions
Compassion International
Concordia Supply
Converge
Courage to Lead
Covenant Eyes
CRU Church Movements
CTS AVL
David C. Cook
Digital Missions Project
Dynamic Church Planting Int’l
e3Partners
EasyWorship
ECFA
ECO
Empart USA
The Flourish Institute
Foreman Movie
Forge America
The Foundation for Evangelism
Full Strength Network
Generate
Global Coffee Break
Grace Bomb
Grace Church of Overland Park
Grace Theological Seminary
Imprints
Int’l Network of Children’s Ministry
InterVarsity Press
Knox Theological Seminary
Liberty Health Share
Lincoln Christian University
Living Undivided
Luke 9:23 Ministries
Made to Flourish
Man Camp
Ministry Grid
Mosaix Global Network
MultiTracks.com
National Group Church Insurance
NewThing
Newbreed Training
OMF International
Orchard Group
Outreach
Passion for Planting
Portable Church Industries
Pray.com
Pressure Washing Pastor
RaiseUpFaith
Red Letter Living
Reliant Mission
Renew.org
Renew Movement
REUP Mens Movement
Save the Storks
Share Talent
Stadia
StartCHURCH
StickersandMore
StoreHouse
Strategic Launch Network
Sweetwater Sound
Thrivent
Trueface
Tyndale Publishing
Upward Sports
World Impact
Worship Productions
Xulon Press
Zondervan
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