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This conference is intended to help planters, pastors, and leaders better navigate through the minefield of competing missional ideas while remaining faithful to the rich story-line of the bible.  

Over the last 20 years N.A. churches have shown a growing interest in God’s mission through his church.  This encouraging trajectory is not without its challenges.  As the church explores and adopts a more missional posture, there is a growing discomfort that these practices have become another pragmatic growth strategy.  Sadly, the term “missional church” is more commonly used as a slogan to indicate a trendy way of doing ministry rather than a deeply understood narrative running through Genesis to Revelation.  

How can the church encourage its missional identity in a biblically faithful way?  What are the unique contemporary challenges the church must grapple with?  What biblical and missional history can we glean from?  What influence does the emergent church literature have in shaping our missional understanding and practice?  What idols must we avoid and what truths can we turn to so that our practices are arrived at through deep biblical reflection?  These questions and more will be the focus of our time together.

Schedule

Friday, March 11

9:10a: Greetings
9:15a: Worship
9:30a: S1-Our Missional God: His Church in the World
11:00a: R1-Reflection Questions & Discussion

12:00p: Lunch
 
1:30p: S2-Our Missional Movement: Gathered and Scattered
3:00p: R2-Reflection Questions & Discussion
4:30p: Worship

Saturday, March 12
 
9:15a: Worship
9:30a: S3-Our Missions: The Church’s Horizon
11:00a: R3-Reflection Questions & Discussion

12:00p: Lunch
 
1:30p: S4-Our Missionary Encounter: Culture
3:00p: R4-Reflection Questions & Discussion
4:30p: Worship and Wrap-up

Acts 29 Regional Training
March 11-12, 2011
Mission: More than a Slogan
God, His Mission and the role of the Church
Cost: $79
Location: Infusion Church (Escondido)
Speakers: Mike Goheen & David Fairchild

You will get to hear from, meet and interact with leaders who are daily practitioners, living in gospel communities on mission in their cities. This is a unique experience that will present the why, what and how-to of starting, leading and multiplying missional communities. Interactive plenary sessions, breakouts and unique training experiences will fill our days both on-site and off.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28TH
3:30 – 5:00PM Pre-Conference: Forming a Collective Drew Goodmanson
7:00 – 9:00PM Main Session ONE: GCM Collective Vision Panel Discussion
9:00PM – Meet-Up at Gingerman Pub

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29TH
9:30 – 10:30AM Main Session TWO: What is the Gospel? David Fairchild
10:45 – 12PM Breakout Session [ 1 ]
12 – 1:30PM Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:45PM Main Session THREE: A Post-Christendom America Ed Stetzer
3:00 – 5:00PM Breakout Session [ 2 ]
5:00 – 7:00PM Dinner Break
7:00 – 9:00PM Main Session FOUR: Gospel Rhythms Caesar Kalinowski
9:00PM – Downtown Experience

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30TH
9:00 – 10:30AM Main Session FIVE: Making Disciples on MIssion Jeff Vanderstelt
10:45 – 11:45AM Breakout Session [ 3 ]
12 – 1:30PM Main Session SIX: Stealth Church Steve Timmis

Learn more: GCM Collective Conference 2010

This is our second Total Church Conference and will take much of what we discussed last year and move forward what it looks like to live in Jesus community on Jesus mission motived by the Gospel of Jesus Kingdom.

The conference format will foster greater discussion and participation from all who come to participate. Each day we’ll have several groups that we’ll break into in order to think through the implications of the sessions. Then we’ll take the findings of each group and discuss them together with the session speakers who will interact with their ideas. This is an ideal conference for those wanting to guide their church into a more community oriented mission. It will also greatly help new or potential church planters as well as leaders, thinkers and congregates that are interested in living more intentionally for mission as they are empowered by the Gospel of God’s scandalous grace. Jesus is the central figure of this conference and we’ll be discussing his life, work, teaching, purpose, plan and power for the transformation of His glorious bride, the Church.

- Michael Foster

• Create a community centered on the gospel, equipped to do the work of the ministry.
• Make your community a community of church planters.
• See what it means to be the church on mission through ordinary life with gospel intentionality.
• Dialog with missional church leaders from across the world.
• Learn from seasoned practitioners how to form missional communities and transition traditional churches toward mission.

Dates: August 12-14, 2008

Location: San Diego

The first Total Church was held in Sheffield, UK, in 2007 at the end of October, hosted by the Crowded House. The conference is named for the book, Total Church -A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community which will be released in the Fall in the US.

Looking for previous conference audio from 2006, 2007 & 2008? Visit the Past Sessions page.