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SUNDAY SCHOOL
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Beginning and Surviving Multiple Sunday Schools
Discover several things to consider as you begin or continue providing multiple opportunities for Sunday School.
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Building a Multiplication Mindset Through Sunday School
New classes and groups lead more persons to Jesus Christ and grow more leaders than do longer, more established ones. Discover several simple ways to build a multiplication mindset that leads to reproducing groups and classes.
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Enlisting Leaders
Avoid the pitfalls and the poor results of enlisting leaders in the hallway at church on Sunday morning. Discover proven strategies for enlisting leaders who “stick.”
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Overcoming Barriers to Sunday School Growth
Identify barriers and discuss ways to overcome the things that may hinder Sunday School growth.
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T.E.A.M. Sunday School: An Overview
Adults and general Sunday School leaders will discover ways to work together as a Sunday School TEAM to make disciples who live like Jesus and lead others to Him. Overview the four strategies of transformational teaching, effective evangelism, automatic assimilation, and meaningful ministry.
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T.E.A.M. Sunday School: Transformational Teaching
Adults and general Sunday School leaders will discover ways to work together as a Sunday School TEAM to make disciples who live like Jesus and lead others to Him. Using a Kool-Aid example, this session will focus more closely on teaching that goes beyond learning facts to living out the truth from God’s Word.
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T.E.A.M. Sunday School: Effective Evangelism
Adults and general Sunday School leaders will discover ways to work together as a Sunday School TEAM to make disciples who live like Jesus and lead others to Him. This session will focus more closely on personal, practical, and positive strategies for effective evangelism using the illustration of apples and seeds.
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T.E.A.M. Sunday School: Automatic Assimilation
Adults and general Sunday School leaders will discover ways to work together as a Sunday School TEAM to make disciples who live like Jesus and lead others to Him. This session will focus more closely on assimilating people using a comparison of Sunday School and a swim club.
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T.E.A.M. Sunday School: Meaningful Ministry
Adults and general Sunday School leaders will discover ways to work together as a Sunday School TEAM to make disciples who live like Jesus and lead others to Him. This session will focus more closely on meaningful ministry. Using an illustration of a cup, you’ll discover how to help adults find JOY as opposed to a JOB as they live out the Christian life.
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Finding God in the Movies
Discover ways to use movies as visual parables to positively impact viewers lives for Christ. Learn how to determine a film’s redemptive value in helping move persons toward faith in God.
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SMALL GROUPS
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Are Lives Being Transformed Through Your Small Groups?
Learn key leadership strategies necessary to create an environment that encourages real life change for group members, including clarifying the desired end result, understanding members’ spiritual goals, and building loving relationships that build trust, authenticity, and accountability.
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SPIRITUAL GROWTH/
DISCIPLESHIP
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Disciple Making: Which Way—His or Ours?
A comparison between Jesus’ approach to making disciples and the approach used by many churches will be examined. Through assessment and reflection participants will discover options that better reflect the process found in the New Testament |
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Is Your Church Missional or Doing Missions?
In this conference an effort will be made to identify what might be some of the key aspects that contribute to a church’s missional identity. Summaries will also be given of what each indicator looks like when present in a congregation.
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Leadership Lessons From Life
Explore ways to create an environment in which people can naturally discover and practice their God-given gifts and abilities. Ideas and resources for discovering and developing potential leaders will be relevant and represent a variety of practical approaches.
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Finding God in the Movies
Discover ways to use movies as visual parables to positively impact viewers lives for Christ. Learn how to determine a film’s redemptive value in helping move persons toward faith in God.
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Why Do Church Members Leave and New People Stay Away?
Explore stereotypical perceptions, myths, and realities about why some church members leave our churches and new people do not come. Discover effective strategies to reach and retain those we have labeled as uninterested in our culture.
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FAMILY MINISTRY
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Marriage and Family Enrichment Ministry
Church family ministry staff and lay leaders will develop ways to move “beyond the walls” to include ministry with and to traditional and non-traditional families.
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Evangelism and Outreach Through Family Ministry
The nuclear family represents about a third of United States families, so learn about the “new majority” and various ways to reach out to churched and unchurched families.
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Reaching the Single Parent Families in Your Church
Discover how to minister to single parents and their children in ways that involve and excite them. There is a tremendous outreach opportunity available to all of us in this ministry.
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Keeping Families Safe in Their Internet Use
Discover how easily online affairs, Internet predators, online harassment, and cybersex/pornography are destroying families today. Participants will also discuss proactive solutions and available resources to keep families safe while they “surf” the Internet.
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Developing Ministries for Victims of Domestic Violence
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence reports South Carolina ranks sixth in the country for the number of women murdered by men. Discover ways to create awareness for and provide ministries to victims of domestic violence.
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SENIOR
ADULT
MINISTRY
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Snapshots of Senior Adult Ministry
Discuss your present snapshots of senior adult ministries and think through some questions that may help you begin to develop or expand God’s vision for your future senior adult ministry.
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The New Faces of Senior Adult Ministry
How can senior adult ministry strategies address the new, younger senior adult without alienating those involved in the existing senior adult ministry? Discover ways to transition existing ministries to help those 50 plus as well as 100 plus come to know and continue to grow in Christian service.
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Help! I’m in Charge of Those Monthly Senior Adult Meetings
Experience ways to involve older adults in developing a year’s worth of monthly meeting ideas that meet fellowship needs, as well as build a “menu” of ways to involve older adults in Christian service regardless of age or health issues.
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Senior Adult Trips “With a Purpose”
Do you wonder why all senior adults aren’t signing up for your fun trips? Discuss ways to reshape your senior adult trips into opportunities to partner with existing ministries along the way or at your destination. After all, missions and ministry can be fun!
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SINGLE
ADULT
MINISTRY
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Growing a Single Adult Ministry
Explore ways to connect with single adults in your community. Participants will focus on building relationships, training and empowering leaders, and celebrating life transitions in the home and workplace.
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Reaching the Single Parent Families in Your Church
Discover how to minister to single parents and their children in ways that involve and excite them. There is a tremendous outreach opportunity available to all of us in this ministry.
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SMALLER
MEMBERSHIP
CHURCH
SOFTWARE
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Small Church Solution Overview
SCBC churches averaging less than 300 in worship have the opportunity to use industry-leading software at reasonable prices. In partnership with ACS Technologies, discover how this tool can help you grow God’s kingdom through His church.
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