F1 – A Fresh Look at Sunday Morning: A Gospel Witness from Start to Finish 

This seminar will encourage you to consider how can we utilize every inch, atom, and minute of what God has given us to help us communicate the greatest news in the universe. Our hope is that this time will urge you to think afresh about the many ways we tell that story. 

Ben Moore has a deep heart and passion for the local church and has spent the last 20 years serving churches coast to coast in a wide variety of settings through speaking, preaching, training, and leading worship. Ben has spent nearly the last decade of that stretch in the Bay Area where he lives with his wife and kids. 

F2 – Daring To Be Brave — Are you courageous enough to take an honest look at how your church is doing?  Jesus said, “Then you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” (John 8:32) Notice that the promise is of freedom not of fear.  Come learn helpful discussion questions for taking an honest look at the effectiveness of your church, as well as sample the church health survey developed for the Covenant.  

Mary Hendrickson serves as the Director of Missional Vitality for the Covenant. She works with established churches to help them become healthy, to weather transitions, to reach out to their communities, and to become the church that God created them to be. Dr. Hendrickson lives in Gresham, OR, and is enjoying being on the west coast with her sons and especially her grandsons. She received her post-graduate degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary and is an ordained pastor in the Covenant. 

F3 – Loss, Grief, and Betrayal Trauma: How to Stay Healthy Through Ministry Pain 

Pastoring a church means experiencing loss. In any given year, chances are you will have people who move away, pass away, lose their faith, or leave your church for the church down the street. These losses accumulate over time, and if we don't learn to deal with them in healthy ways, they wear down our souls, bodies, and shorten our ministry lifespans. Come learn how to practice spiritual disciplines aimed at helping us grieve our losses, savor our graces, and minister with joy even when ministry hurts. 

Tim Morey (DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary) is the founding and lead pastor of Life Covenant Church in Torrance, California, an affiliate professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, and serves the conference as the PSWC Team Lead for Pastoral Health. His most recent book is Planting a Church Without Losing Your Soul: Nine Questions For the Spiritually Formed Pastor. 

F4 – Supply Lines: Five Key Relationships Every Pastor Needs 

Pastors do so much to help others connect. Unfortunately, pastors often neglect their own connections. The deficit of support leaves pastors empty, lonely, and burned out. Based on biblical principles and research from the United States and Canada, Supply Lines identifies five types of relational support that pastors and planters need: spiritual, inspirational, motivational, interpersonal, and practical. The seminar addresses the misunderstandings that hold church leaders back from relational support and explores each Supply Line in detail.  We will explore how to set up and strengthen a support plan to enable bigger dreams, wiser decisions, and heathier results. 

 Scott Nelson is the Associate Superintendent (church planting and leadership development) for the Northwest Conference. He and his wife Hannah have five amazing kids who always make life interesting. Scott received his doctorate from Fuller and loves time in nature, great movies, and a good meal with friends. 

FRIDAY – 2:15 PM and 4 PM

SATURDAY – 8:30 AM