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National Leadership Conference | 2005 | General Sessions and Workshops

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The 2005 National Leadership Conference has been arranged by workshop tracks instead of workshop times. As they become available, workshop notes and audio will be made available online for selected workshops. Click here to see all workshops in a grid layout.

Workshop Track/Title   Speaker
Notes
General Sessions    
 
Perspectives on Ministry   Tim Jordan
 
Propositional Preaching in a Pluralistic Age   Sam Harbin
[Wednesday evening, February 23]   Chuck Phelps
 
[Thursday morning, Febrary 24]   Lukus Counterman
 
Success or Failure in Ministry   Dave Jaspers
 
Promise Unfulfilled   Rolland McCune
 
A Statistical Study of What Fundamentalists are Really Thinking (and Doing)   Jason Janz & Dave Burggraff
 
Joseph   Tony Fox
 

Church Plants
   
 
CP1 I'm Ministering to 100 When I Always Dreamed of 1000   Cecil Cogswell
 
CP2 Creative Outreach (Part 1): Targeting Your Community for Evangelism: When the "Usual" Didn't Work, I Tried This   Steve Scheibner
 
CP3 Creative Outreach (Part 2): New Wine Skins: Focusing on the Essential for Growth   Jason Young
 
CP4 Beyond the One-Person Show: The Challenge of an Effective Worship Service in a Church Plant   Jason Young
CP5 We Need a Bigger, Better Building! Where Do We Turn?   Vince States
CP6 Small Church, Big Sound: The Music Ministry in a Church Plant   Kurt Woetzel
 
CP7 Young Pastor, First Pastorate: Gaining and Keeping the Respect, Love, and Support of Older (MUCH Older!) Church Members   Andy Burggraff, Ryan Dupee
 
CP8 Our Church Has a Burden: We Want to Plant /Mother A New Church: What is the Process? What Must We Not Overlook?   Wayne Burggraff, Steve Davis

Counseling
   
 
C1 Definition, Demographics & Dynamics: What is Abuse?   Chuck McLain
 
C2 Abuse: Through the Eyes of a Victim   Sue McLain
 
C3: Abuse: Through the Eyes of a Spouse   Chuck McLain
 
C4 Symptoms: Where the Healing Begins   Sue McLain
 
C5 Forgiveness: The Key to Healing (Part 1)   Tim Jordan
 
C6 Forgiveness: The Key to Healing (Part 2)   Tim Jordan, Sue McLain
 
C7 Abuse Dynamics & Counseling Strategies: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Prescription   Chuck McLain
 
C8 Dealing with Children & Teens   John Hodnett, Kim Horrocks
 

Ladies
   
 
L1 What Every Beginning Pastor's Wife Needs to Know   Carol Auckland
L2 How to Mobilize Women in Your Church   Lucy Burggraff
 
L3 The Titus 2 Curriculum for Teaching; Overview of What We are to be Teaching Those Following Us   Betty Brock
L4 Pressure-Cooker Living: Where are the Stresses of Everyday Life Coming From, and What Do We Do with Them?   Betty Brock
L5 Just Say "No" Without Guilt   Gayle Tuttle
L6 How to Grow Personally While Your Church Grows Numerically   Megan Scheibner
 
L7 Neighborly Friendship: Reaching Our Neighborhood   Sue Yzzi
 
L8 When Women Walk Alone: Encouraging Single Women, and Helping Women with Unbelieving Husbands Frank & Stephanie Taylor   Steve Scheibner
 

Legal/Financial
   
 
LF1 Creating a Policy Manual   Walt Brock
LF2 Salary Packages and Compensation Issues: How to, Resources, Surveys, Calculations   Craig Hartman
 
LF3 Personnel Issues: Hiring Practices, Organization Handbooks, Employer/Employee Relationships   Jeff Drake
LF4 Legal Minefields: Reporting of Abuse, Background Checks, Political Involvement by 501 (c)(3) Non-Profit Corporations, Discipline of Members   Jeff Drake
LF5 Giving Programs: Charitable Gift Annuities, CRUTS, CRATS, Life Estates, Life Insurance Policies   Nick Yzzi
 
LF6 Accounting and Your Church: Internal Controls, Handling Cash, Investments, Record-keeping, Safeguarding Your Church's Assets, Plate Collections, etc.   Nick Yzzi, Craig Hartman
 
LF7 When Your People Have Made Poor Financial Choices, What Do You Say? How Can You Help? Basic Financial Principles to Pass On   Jim Rollick
 
LF8 Teaching Your People All that Biblical Stewardship Involves: How to Arrange and Offer One of the Most Helpful Seminars for Your Ministry   Mike Duffy
 

Ministry/Leadership
   
 
ML1 How to Keep from Getting Lost on the Way to the Future   Kevin Schaal
 
ML2 Casting a Vision: The Most Important Skill They Never Taught You in Seminary   Walt Brock
ML3 Following God's Vision: Facing the Future When It's Not the One You Planned   Walt Brock
ML4 What Leaders Can Do to Motivate Those Who Follow Them to, in Fact, Follow Them: Leading People Who Don't Want to Follow   Walt Brock
ML5 Leadership is Not for Wimps: Conflict Management   Dave Doran
 
ML6 Take That Leadership Off the Organizational Chart and into the Church: Practical Ways to Train Others to Take on Leadership Roles   Mike Sproul
ML7 Philosophy of Ministry: Developing, Writing, Communicating Yours   Dave Doran
 

Outreach/Missions
   
 
OM1 How Do I Organize and Prepare Our People for Short-Term Missions?   Steve Davis, Tony Fox, Vince States
OM2 Moving from Mono-cultural to Multi-cultural Ministry: Isn't It Time for Our Fundamentalist Churches to become Truly Indigenous?   Gary O'Neill
OM3 An Effective Missions Conference: How to Get Your People Interested, Involved, and Investing in MISSIONS   Ron Campbell, Steve Davis
OM4 Do You Have a Ministry to Your Missionaries: What More Can You Do?   Ron Campbell, Jeff Tuttle

Preaching/Worship
   
 
PW1 Preaching for Emerging Generations: What is it About our Models that Must Change?   Sam Harbin
PW2 Principles for Choosing Right Music: From a Theologian's Point of View   Chris Barney
 
PW3 Is Music Amoral?   Kurt Woetzel
 
PW4 "Minister of Music," "Music Pastor," Worship Leader," "Music Man," "Platform Man" - What's in a Name? Roles, Expectations, and Responsibilities for Those Who Lead Worship in the "Real" World   Panel
 
PW5 The Sermon as Story: Using the Homiletical Plot to Combat Sermonic ADD   Doug Finkbeiner, Sam Harbin
PW6 Preaching Narrative Sermons from Narrative Texts   Doug Finkbeiner
PW7 Thinking Through Your Worship Services While Not Being Afraid to Rethink What We Do in Worship: Creating a Meaningful Worship Service   Ron Jones, Peter Radford
PW8 Training Our People About Worship and Music: Where Do We Start? Who and How Should We Be Training Our People?   Dean Kurtz
 

Teaching, Discipleship, Education
   
 
TE5 Raising the Dead: Breathing Life into Your Mid-Week Service, A Consideration of a Mid-Week Bible Institute.   Jay Knolls
 
TE6 Creativity in Ministry: Creative Teaching Methods (Part 1) . . . Have You Tried These Ideas?   Chris McLain
TE7 Creating a Learning Environment in Your Ministry   Chris McLain
TE8 Creativity in Ministry: Creative Teaching Methods (Part 2) . . Let's Talk About Some Non-Traditional Ideas   Steve Scheibner
 

Teens/Singles
   
 
TS1 Family-Based Youth Ministry: The Importance of the Nuclear Family in the Development of Young People   Troy Gahman, John Buckley
 
TS2 Family-Based Youth Ministry: The Importance of the Church Family in the Development of Young People   Troy Gahman, John Buckley
 
TS3 Family-Based Youth Ministry: Home and Church Q & A   Panel
 
TS4 Youth Worker and . . . Counselor?   David Brock, Troy Gahman
 
TS5 Helping Single Adults See Themselves as God Sees Them   Frank Taylor
 
TS6 Helping Our Church See Single Adults as God Sees Them: "Why" a Single Adult Ministry?   Frank Taylor
 
TS7 The Basic Essentials of Single Adult Ministries   David Brock
 
TS8 Starting & Implementing a Discipleship Ministry in Your Local Church   Jason Janz
 

Theological/Biblical
   
 
TB1 The Emerging Church: What Is It? Why Is It Becoming "The Model" of Evangelicalism? How Will (and Should) It Affect Us?   Dave Burggraff
 
TB2 The Emerging Church and Worship   Sam Horn
TB3 The Nature, Essence, & Elements of Biblical Worship   Sam Horn
TB4 Theology: 2005! - Do You Know That . . .? (Current Issues on the Theological Scene - Pastor, Beware, and Be Informed!)   Kevin Bauder
 
TB5 Do I Have to Be Both a Pastor and a Theologian? Must I Choose? Practical Helps and Tools to Theologically Inform   Mark Farnham
 
TB6 The Paradoxes of Paul: Justification and the New Perspective   Al Huss
 
TB7 Jihad or Christian Proclamation? An Exegesis of OT Holy War Theology and Its Relevance to Christians   Steve Horine
 
TB8 The Many Faces of Fundamentalism   Kevin Bauder
 

 

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