Nexus Conference

Saturday Breakout Sessions

How to Shift Church Culture from Stagnation to Expectation of Growth (Sam Rainer)
Healthy church growth begins with a culture that expects God to work. Discover why growing younger is as important as growing larger and learn practical steps to move your congregation from stagnation to a renewed expectation of growth and gospel impact.

Flourishing in Renewal (David Jackson)
Explore insights and principles of personal and corporate renewal vitally needed in our lives and the experience of the church. Learn principles that will help you to find renewal and lead others to do the same.

Preparing Your Leaders to Flourish: Building a Legacy Through Seasons of Transition (Darryl Craft)
Every ministry will face seasons of change, and healthy transitions don't happen by accident. This breakout will explore how to intentionally develop leaders, create a culture of mentoring, and prepare the next generation to carry the mission forward. Discover practical strategies for succession planning, navigating leadership transitions with confidence, and leaving a lasting legacy that enables both your leaders and your church to flourish for years to come.

Cultivating a Flourishing Generation of Young Adults (Mission Force Team)
What does it look like to help young adults flourish in their faith and calling? This breakout session explores practical ways to equip, empower, and encourage young adults for meaningful service in their local ministries, communities, and around the world. Our session together will be built around the model to "Know, Grow, and Go". We will provide you with practical tools that you can use to disciple young adults to live with purpose and engage in God's mission ~ locally and globally. Whether it's for your young adult ministry, small group, college students, young professionals, or a younger adult you mentor, this session will be able to be contextualized to be most impactful and applicable for you!

Creating a Worship Ministry That Flourishes (Billy Jones)
A flourishing worship ministry is about more than great music, it is about cultivating a team that leads people into meaningful encounters with God. This breakout will explore practical ways to build a healthy worship culture, develop and disciple team members, navigate change, and create worship experiences that are both spiritually vibrant and missionally effective. Leave with fresh ideas and practical tools to help your worship ministry thrive in every season.

Rooted Together: How Local Jewish Connections Deepen Israel Experiences for Christian Congregations (facilitated by the Israeli Department of Tourism)
A trip to Israel has the power to transform your congregation, and when rooted in a relationship with your local Jewish community, that transformation lasts a lifetime. Through the Israel Ministry of Tourism's new Pastor Partnership initiative, developed with Rabbi Bob Kaplan in coordination with JCRCs nationwide, this breakout session explores how Jewish-Christian connections deepen the Israel travel experience and bring it alive back home. Leave equipped with practical tools to build lasting interfaith friendships that enrich your congregation's faith, purpose, and connection to the Holy Land.

Surviving to Flourishing: Building a Practical Plan for Your Church's Next Season (Revitalization Team)
This interactive workshop will help pastors move beyond identifying challenges to creating a practical plan for growth. Working alongside experienced BCNE coaches and revitalization leaders, participants will identify their most pressing ministry need and develop a personalized six-month action plan. Leave with greater clarity, practical next steps, and ongoing encouragement to help your church flourish.

From Redemption to Renewal: Flourishing Through Prayer (Daniel McGhee)
Come and discover how to move beyond simply knowing they're saved to actually living in the freedom and fullness Christ has secured for them. Prayer is one of God's primary means of renewing our minds, replacing lies with truth, and learning to pray God's promises rather than simply our problems.

Flourish This Summer: Planning a Vibrant and Impactful VBS (TBD)
Practical ideas and strategic tips to help your summer ministry grow, engage families, and make a lasting impact.

Developing Young Leaders Today for a Thriving Ministry Tomorrow (Fady Ghobrial)
Healthy churches do more than gather people; they raise up leaders who multiply ministry. In this breakout, we'll explore how churches can intentionally develop college students and young adults into servant-hearted leaders. We'll look at practical systems for leadership identification, training, coaching, and deployment, while also addressing the heart-level vision needed to call young leaders into meaningful ownership of the mission.

Partnerships that Flourish: Cultivating Beneficial Relationships with Mission Minded Churches (Sharon Haller)
Learn how to maximize a mission partnership as well as how to strategically invest with others locally, regionally and globally for gospel impact.

From Seed to Fruit: How to Preach Towards Growth (Randall Curtis)
Healthy church growth begins with faithful preaching. Drawing from Scripture and practical ministry experience, Randall Curtis will explore how God uses the preaching and teaching ministry of the church to cultivate both spiritual maturity and numerical growth. Discover biblical principles and practical strategies for preaching that produces lasting fruit and helps your congregation flourish.

Urban Evangelism
Discover important principles to help churches share the gospel effectively in the urban context.

Reaching and Discipling Your Next Generation of Men (Matt Orrico)
What has changed and what remains the same when it comes to building godly men? Check out this interactive session of church based ministry to men and through men with the focus on tips and tools to reach and disciple younger men.

Women's Ministry (in Portuguese)

Leadership (in Portuguese)