Recent Events

The Emerging Church for the Existing Church

In April of 2008 we held a conference at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Denver, Colorado to help pastors in the existing church better understand the Emerging Church movement. Key speakers included Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, Bob Whitesel, Karen Sloan, Lilly Lewin, as well as several others from the Denver area. Participants spent three days learning about this post-modern movement, with workshops and small group meals with the speakers. You can see the event brochure here.

 

Creativity and the Church

In October of 2007 Leadership Nexus held its second annual Creativity Conference featuring people who work in the creativity industries at Disney, Universal and others. They are all deeply committed Christian who share their techniques of creativity in the context of their experience as lay leaders in local United Methodist Churches. It was an exciting three-day conference, and it will be scheduled again in January of 2009.

 

Upcoming Events

Church Leadership and Effective Management for Pastors, Staff and Lay Leaders

This conference will be September 23-25 at First United Methodist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana. Leadership Nexus is offering this event to provide training in a much needed area of a local church’s life. Too often local churches make mistakes in the simple management of their ministries that are costly, stop growth, and create ineffectiveness in making disciples of Jesus Christ. This conference is dedicated to help church leaders lead their church well with techniques covering finance, personnel management, organizational development, public relations, conflict management, and more.

 

Traditional Worship Conference

The “worship wars” have created many casualties among music staff, clergy, and laity. The battle between traditional, contemporary, blended, emergent, Taizé, or cowboy worship goes on and on. The great worship renewal movement of the mid-twentieth century was built upon the concept of regaining the great traditions of the church. Many churches found new vitality in this worship renewal movement that has lost its vigor and vitality today. Many churches would prefer traditional worship, many individuals know that traditional worship works best for them, yet so often attendance is dropping, people are complaining, and the service is without feeling. New Christians and long-time Christian alike are searching for vital, traditional worship. In the late fall of 2008, Leadership Nexus will present a conference on traditional worship at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas, James Bankston senior pastor. This conference will feature workshops and plenary addresses by some of the major leaders who have been led by God’s spirit to craft traditional worship that leads people to the presence of God, attracts new Christians and interests secular spiritualists. This conference will feature some of the major leaders in effective, quality, creative traditional worship.