| 2010 Labor Day Conference |
Becoming Effective House Church Leaders
According to recent Pew Foundation Research, 7% of American Christians now identify a house church as their primary expression of church. This is exciting news but it also points to a significant problem. An increasing number of believers are now meeting in homes but they are bringing with them leadership patterns from their traditional church background. The result? Burned out and confused leaders and struggling house churches.
The 2010 National House Church Conference will be addressing just this problem at several levels.
- Wayne Jacobson will be helping us think through what it looks like when you really believe that following God is a 24/7 description of walking with Him.
- Our breakout times will explore everything from basics of house church life to understanding the transition process for pastors from traditional setting.
- The House2House board/team will be exploring with us the role of transformational leadership teams to help provide infrastructure to fresh moves of the Holy Spirit. Infrastructure is generally not seen, not noticed, but vital to the functioning of society. Godly, servant leadership is like this!
We need your help to get information about this conference into the hands of those who will consider coming, as long as they know that it is happening! Our conferences always rely primarily on word of mouth advertising, or what many call now-a-days a “viral” approach to advertising. We want to ask each of you receiving this e-letter to specifically ask the Lord if you should be joining us in Dallas for this year’s National Conference. We also want to ask you to forward this e-letter to anyone that the Lord puts on your heart as a person who will want to consider coming if they know about the conference. Alternatively, go to the conference page and use the share button just below the right column to let your contacts know about the conference.
- Wayne Jacobson, our main speaker and the author of “So You Don Want to Go to Church Anymore”, will bring his unique perspective to what is happening in and through the current exodus from traditional structures.
- Tim Bach will be talking to us about iconcity, the adventure that God has him and others engaged in as they seek to bring transformation to a small town in Oregon. Tim and other members of the team spent time in various Christian bands, including Petra. From “I’m with the band” to helping homeless kids – it’s quite a story!
- Various of the House2House board members will also be catalyzing our thinking through highly interactive sessions focused around the training and releasing of people into their God given calling.
We really hope that you can be with us for this time, and encourage you to book now using the exception code “2ndC” which provides anyone signing up between now and July 27th – and staying in the hotel – with the original early-bird conference rate. You will find the site for signing up at this link.
The next e-letter will bring a wider focus, but this time I just wanted to encourage you to take seriously the possibility of joining us in Dallas over the Labor Day weekend. Please also pass on this link about the National Conference to any others that you believe would benefit from being a part of a time like this.
Tony and Felicity and the H2H team.
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