Workshops

Hear from mission experts & ministry leaders on how you can Mobilize, Move, & Multiply.

Becoming a Sending Church

This workshop will help churches understand how to identify, prepare, support, and send short-term ministry teams in a healthy and effective way.

Sending teams gives church members first-hand exposure to God’s work around the world while strengthening their commitment to missions at home. Barna research found that 75% of people who participated in a short-term mission or service trip said the experience changed their life in some way, including greater compassion, deeper faith, broader spiritual understanding, and increased generosity.

Instructors: Dan Slagle and Shannon Jackson

Raising Kids Who Really Love The World

From carpool line to dinner time, an entire generation waits to hear about God’s heart for the world. Author and former missionary, Sarah Nunnally, is passionate about equipping churches and leaders with practical tools and strategies to include the youngest generation in the Great Commission. Her experience raising kids abroad and at home, has allowed her to see this: There is no age requirement for missions. From everyday moments to extraordinary impact, it’s never too early to learn that God’s heart is for all people and places.

Instructor: Sarah Nunnally

Mobilizing Near-Culture Multipliers for the UPG Harvest.

While many UPGs remain hard to reach, God is raising up near-culture workers from within West Africa to join the Church's Global efforts. This workshop presents the WAMM model for Mobilizing and Multiplying indigenous movements moving the African church from vision to action among its least-reached neighbors.

Instructor: Dr. Augustin Longa - Director of the West Africa Missionary Movements for One Mission Society

Discovering God’s Will For Your Life - Do you have a missional call from God?

How can we know God’s will for our lives when the path ahead seems unclear? How do we distinguish God’s leading from our own desires, fears, or assumptions?

Discerning God’s Will for Our Lives is a practical, Bible-centered seminar designed to help participants develop a clearer and more confident approach to seeking God’s direction. Through eight biblical and practical steps, we will explore how Scripture, prayer, wisdom, circumstances, spiritual discernment, and faithful obedience can help us recognize and follow God’s plan.

Instructor: David Schnake, Director of the OMS Student Center at Asbury University and Asbury Theological Seminary

Seeing Like Jesus: Mission That Begins with Attention

Before He healed, called, restored, or sent, Jesus saw people first. Not their need. Not their label. Them. "Seeing Like Jesus" recovers that kind of holy attention as the actual starting point of mission. We'll walk through the moments Scripture shows us Jesus seeing what everyone else missed, name the habits that get in our own way, and leave with a simple framework for practicing it this week. It's a shift that reaches everything from how your church does compassion ministry to how it engages global partners. Sawubona: I see you. Come find out what changes when your church learns to say it and mean it.

Instructor: Rev. Dr. Ashley Goad

Building a Movemental Culture

Examines the distinctive values and practices of disciple- and church-multiplication movements and how to position your local church or ministry to participate in a move of God’s Spirit.

Instructor: Steve Cordle

Multiplication by Design: What We Learned on the Journey to 1,000 Churches

The Samburu County Nkalup Vision (SCNV) brought together more than 20 denominations around a bold vision: grow from 158 churches and 6,000 believers to 1,000 locally led, self-sustaining churches reaching more than 60,000 people. This session explores what made that multiplication work—including indigenous leadership, a clear shared strategy, radical collaboration, holistic ministry, and strong governance—along with lessons learned from both successes and failures. Participants will consider how these practical principles from Samburu can help accelerate sustainable church multiplication in other challenging regions of the world.

Instructor: Bishop Simon Mwaura

Living Sent: A Wesleyan Mission Certificate

This workshop introduces an affordable & accessible training program designed to equip local church mission leaders of Wesleyan churches. The aim of the 8-module asynchronous course is to prepare local leaders to accelerate the advancement of God’s Kingdom near and far through intentional biblical, theological, and practical mission engagement.

Instructors: Brad Hopper & Will Faircloth

Becoming A Matthew 28:19 (Multi-ethnic/ Multi-cultural) Church: Cross-Cultural Evangelism and Discipleship

Our communities are becoming increasingly diverse, and every local church has an opportunity to reach people across cultural and ethnic differences. This biblical, Spirit-led, and practical workshop will equip pastors and lay leaders to communicate across cultures, build authentic relationships and trust, navigate cultural differences, and move from simply welcoming people to creating genuine belonging. Participants will explore practical ways to understand their changing communities, reach people they may not currently be reaching, and develop a church culture where people from different backgrounds can worship, serve, lead, and grow together in Christ.

Instructor: Jonathan Lee & Rev. Dr. Arun Paul

The World Is Your Parish: Getting Your Whole Church in on the Great Commission

Workshop Description: Most churches care about missions, but only a handful of members ever get involved. What if every person in your congregation had a clear next step? In this hands-on workshop, you'll leave with a toolkit of free, ready-to-use resources that help your church pray for, give to, welcome, go to, and send others to the least reached peoples of the world. This isn't a lecture. We'll brainstorm together, swap what's working in other churches, and help you build a simple plan to move your people from spectators to Global Christians.

Instructor: Grant Haynes

Planting without Pews: An Intro to the Wesleyan Class Meeting

Wesley gathered a dozen people and posed one honest question. Learn how our church launched with a Bible and a living room and yours can too.

Instructor: Robert Haynes

Faith & Fire: Methodism as a Move of God

Methodists need fire, not ashes. Methodism is on the cusp of an exciting new era. The movement launched in eighteenth-century England by John and Charles Wesley - and which defined the early American religious landscape - has in many ways waxed and waned over the subsequent centuries. It is now at the threshold of a powerful new future. Come and learn how to retrieve the best of the Methodist tradition for the sake of the work of the Lord in our day in order to fan the embers of Methodism into fresh fire.

Instructor: Dr. Kevin Watson

Mayberry Is Dead: The Mission Field of Rural America

More than 66 million people live in rural America, a mission field that is vast and diverse. Many rural communities are historically Christian, yet decades of church decline and closure have reshaped the landscape. The need for evangelistic disciplemaking is urgent, but many remaining congregations are overlooked and underequipped to transform their communities.

Reaching rural America requires seeing these communities through a missionary lens. This workshop will examine the gospel need, explore the cultural dynamics shaping rural and small-town America, and consider the opportunity to develop, network, and multiply vibrant congregations of everyday missionary disciple-makers. These disciples make disciples, apprentice spiritual leaders, and launch new faith communities that reproduce throughout rural America.

Instructor: Rev. Zach Kingery, Dirt Roads Network

Facilitating Church Multiplication Cross-Culturally

Jesus commanded his followers to make disciples of all nations. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, Christians across the globe are applying biblical principles and practical strategies that lead to the multiplication of disciples, leaders, and churches. Join us to explore the unique role of Church Multiplication Facilitators and discover how you and leaders from your church can join the movement.

Instructor: Dr Dean Davis - Global Ministries Senior Strategist - One Mission Society

IGNITING THIS GENERATION

Come and look at the past in order to reach the present. Hear the story of the greatest mobilization movement and learn from it how to ignite this generation.

Instructor: Todd Ahrend

Dignity Revolution: Building Bridges to the Gospel

How do we reach back into culture to influence a generation and become part of a movement that brings lasting change? Dignity Revolution uses the biblical foundation of human dignity, humility, and unity to build relationships, break down barriers, and create opportunities for pre-evangelism, evangelism, and discipleship. Discover how leading with dignity can open doors to share the love and truth of Jesus, reach the next generation, and multiply Gospel impact. This will hit home on a personal level as well as for community outreach.

Instructor: Bob Lenz

Measuring the movement in spiritual formation

Most churches send people on short-term trips ‘hoping' something happens in them. Up until now, they've had no way to know. The session is about illustrating The Mirror. A tool that measures the movement in someone’s spiritual formation as a result of a short-term mission trip. Basically, I’d help them understand the importance of defining their desired outcomes for their people, how to leverage story to determine a baseline of where people are before they go, and then again after they return. I’ll share the output from the analysis and how The Mirror helps them and their leadership determine the effectiveness of their ministry. I'd show the tool doing the work rather than describing it. The session is most useful to churches.

Instructor: Kurt Kandler

EVERY DAY. EVERYWHERE.

A framework for building faith-sharing movements anywhere you are.

Instructors: Paulo Lopes, Executive Director of World Methodist Evangelism; Luiz Cardoso, Director of Ministries of World Methodist Evangelism

From Intimacyto Intercession

MOBILIZING PRAYER FOR THE GREAT COMMISSION

Teachings from Favor International's founder on how a secret place of intimacy with God intercepts the enemy's plans.

Intimacy - Seek His face before His hands. Secret prayer produces open reward.
Desperation - Passion is a feeling; desperation is a force God answers.
Building Altars - Anywhere you bow your knee to the living God, you build an altar.
The Holy Spirit - He draws the lost, gives gifts, and grows fruit. Character keeps you where your gifts can only take you.
Love That Casts Out Fear - Fear is faith in the negative. Ask for more love for Him, and boldness will overflow.

Instructor: Carole Ward, founder of Favor International

Activating a Culture of Generosity and Multiplication

What does it take to become a church that moves beyond addition to multiplication? It begins with a biblical understanding of generosity—a willingness to freely give away what God has entrusted to us for the sake of His Kingdom. In this practical and inspiring breakout, Bishop Keith Cowart, Dr. Larry Walkemeyer, and Dr. Ed Love will explore how churches can cultivate a culture of generosity that fuels the multiplication of disciples, leaders, and churches. Participants will discover biblical principles, practical strategies, and actionable next steps for developing a multiplication mindset, raising up new leaders, and extending the reach of the Gospel beyond the walls of their churches.

Instructors: Bishop Keith Cowart, Larry Walkemeyer, and Dr. Ed Love

IGNITE GOSPEL MOVEMENT

Missional engagement isn't just a program—it’s the heartbeat of a healthy church.

Get acquainted with Engage & The Acts 1:8 Mission Health Check: GMC Step-by-Step Resources to Equip Your Church to Advance the Gospel at Home and Abroad.

Instructor: Sherri Tabaka-Morrissey

Building a Culture of Everyday Disciple-Makers: How Your People Are More Ready to Make Disciples Than They Think

The greatest untapped resource for fulfilling the Great Commission may already be sitting in your church every Sunday. Yet too many Christians have disqualified themselves from making disciples because of how they see themselves and what they believe it takes.

What if you could change that? Discover how to shift mindsets, equip everyday believers with practical disciple-making tools, and build a church culture where disciples don't just get made...they make more disciples.

Instructors: Jeremy Smith & Robert McCormick

Who Is My Neighbor? — Loving Our Neighbors Well in a Multicultural World

In our culturally diverse and multi-faith world, many followers of Jesus long to love their neighbors well but feel uncertain how to engage across differences. In this neighboring workshop you will experience a short version of Who Is My Neighbor? This small-group Bible study equips participants to take simple, faithful steps—building friendships, practicing everyday hospitality, and engaging in meaningful conversations that point to Jesus. You’ll leave introduced to a tool to help your congregation love their neighbors well.

Instructor: Steve Wilson, TMS Global

The Story Gap — How Your Community Becomes Your Congregation

Your church has a story about your neighborhood. Your neighborhood has a story about your church. Most congregations can only tell you the first one, and that gap is why missions so often defaults to what is easiest to schedule instead of what the neighborhood needs. This mission strategy workshop for congregations starts with listening, not planning. You will leave with a listening guide, the words to start a conversation with a neighbor you have never met, and one real conversation to have in the next 30 days.

Instructors: Leslie James, Director of The Immerse Project at TMS Global