Podcast

Fredrick Johnson and Marie Moy will share about church partnering with the community in their contexts. Embedded in Christian Community Development, Fredrick and Marie will provide tools for engagement that are easily transferable to urban, suburban, or rural settings to connect churches with their surrounding neighbors.

You can read more at nes.edu/connectingchurches

This workshop will present ideas to understand the role patriarchy has played historically, and presently, that undermine, devalue, or otherwise marginalize the voice and role of women in leadership in the church. How to recognize overt, and less obvious patterns, and offer some ideas for developing a plan to change it.

You can read more about the speakers at nes.edu/womenandmen

The Church’s engagement in the community should be a part of its missional value system. A church that’s present gives Christ-centered language to the community it’s called to serve and love. Melvin and Ashley will be discussing ways to engage the various spheres of society while providing resources and equipping the church to be Christ-centered solutionist.

You can read more about the speakers at nes.edu/resourcingworldproblems

This workshop provides an inside look on the power of both fiction and non-fiction to positively impact lives. Whether you feel called to write for the church or see yourself in genre-specific storytelling, you'll come away inspired to pursue your next project.

You can read more about the speakers at nes.edu/writing

This workshop provides an inside look on the power of both fiction and non-fiction to positively impact lives. Whether you feel called to write for the church or see yourself in genre-specific storytelling, you'll come away inspired to pursue your next project.

You can read more about the speakers at nes.edu/writing

At a time when the culture becomes less willing to associate with Christianity and simultaneously is increasingly less secular, the church needs to find a new way to communicate the truth it confesses. This workshop will aim to examine Jesus’s poetic language as a way to understand how parables, as poetic stories, can teach us how to present ideas in deep and meaningful ways.

You can read more about the speakers at nes.edu/poetry

The United States of America is deeply divided, and American churches are not exempt from this division. Christians are divided across churches and within churches. What can you do to attend to the souls of congregants in ways that support their relationships within and beyond the walls of their churches? Come and experience some proven strategies to open people to scriptural guidance and ways of interacting with each other that make authentic dialog possible – and growth in respect, connection, and faithful discernment more probable.

You can read more about the speakers at nes.edu/conflict

We've oversimplified digital ministry. When new innovations come to the church we've operated out of hesitancy and skepticism. What if there was a third way to consider pastoring in the 21st Century? What if we could see ourselves incarnationally available online and in-person? In this workshop, we'll decipher and discern the best way to pastor people and be available to people in need.

You can read more about the speaker at nes.edu/digitalspaces

This workshop will explore the idea that there is nothing inherently disabling about an individual that lives in the world today where bodily, psychological, intellectual, and sensory diversity represent creation. Instead, we will see a theology where the alternate giftedness of all is celebrated. The concept of healing will be addressed from the perspective that healing and flourishing is something that the community does together and not something that happens to the person who is disabled.

You can read more about the speakers at nes.edu/disability

We want the future of the church to look like the kingdom of heaven, but when we don't listen to the least of these we are not listening to Jesus. In this main stage session, a panel of experts hold a conversation on Gen Z & the church. 

For more information on the panelists go to nes.edu/genz