Create a Custom Battle Plan with Strategic Prayer Integration (Coaching Table)
Would you like personalized coaching for building a strategy plan for prayer within your ministry? Do you desire to empower your team, support team, and/or family with ongoing plan implementation support? Join us – this is the place for you! (While attendance at the previous Better Together Room is encouraged, it is not required.)
Made to Connect: Building Effective Children’s Ministries
Children’s Ministry is one of the most vital ministries of any church. This workshop will help ministry leaders understand childhood trauma and create a plan of action to empower their leaders and volunteers to serve the kids in their care better.
What’s Next for Our Church’s Ministry? (Coaching Table)
Join in on a discussion of strategies and principles to help you identify the next steps to take in your foster care, adoption, or global orphan care ministry.
How Can I Leverage Stand Sunday to Achieve More than Enough in My Community? (Coaching Table)
Are you interested in using Stand Sunday as a tool to engage your church or community for year-round collaboration towards More than Enough? Are you an experienced Stand Sunday coordinator or advocate who needs help with moving forward? This is the table for you! Speak to a seasoned U.S. Regional Ambassador and get your questions […]
Preaching and Teaching about the Gospel and God’s Heart for the Hurting and Vulnerable
How do we faithfully preach and teach scripture in a way that accurately reflects the heart of God for vulnerable children and families, affirms the struggle of brokenness, points to the hope of healing, and invites everyone to find their “something” and get involved? If you are a preacher or teacher in your church, come […]
The Way Forward for Church + Non-Profit Partnerships
We all believe in the power of the local Church. We also understand the need for parachurch organizations. Healthy partnerships between these two are not merely aspirational. This session will outline key pillars for generous, mutually respectful, and supportive relationships through which congregations and nonprofit ministries can accomplish more together than they could alone. If […]
Making a Relational Investment: How the Church Can Serve and Support Vulnerable and Reunifying Families
There is a growing movement by the Church to advocate for the needs of families requiring CPS intervention. Compared to an agency, the Church has the God-given ability to equip moms and dads with Biblical instruction and support them on a permanent basis. When there is this type of Gospel-investment in the lives of vulnerable […]
Gather: Church Staff Leaders Hired to Lead Foster Care, Adoption, and Family Support Ministries
Are you on staff at a church and your job is to lead areas of ministry related to foster care and adoption? As church staff you sit in a unique seat few around you can relate to. But there’s a large community of you out there around the country! Join us to connect with other […]
Words Matter: Showing Hope in Our Storytelling
With the ever-changing media landscape amid often-divisive cultural movements, we hold a great responsibility to tether ourselves to words and images that restore hope and healing among the adoption and foster care communities – as well as inspire and educate the larger population. Come learn how to communicate needs in a thoughtfully holistic manner. Be […]
Volunteer Magnetism: Leadership That Attracts and Retains High-Quality Volunteers
You ask, beg, plead, cast vision, explain, smile, laugh, cry, cajole, and…sometimes even resort to guilt. It never seems to be enough – you always need more volunteers! And so often the good volunteers you do have never seem to stick around long enough!