2013
Cultivate Conference
S-T-R-E-T-C-H
April 27, 2013
Hosted by - Freedom
Church
2061
Indianapolis Ave Lebanon, IN 46052
(765) 482-7220
Ministry friends!
Throughout the year we and our teams need inspiration as
well as tools to equip us to meet goals while serving in ministry but your
finances are overcommitted and so is your calendar.
WeGrowMinistries.com has put together, Cultivate, an answer
for your needs---so you won’t have to do all the work. We’ve found a great team of presenters who
will share informative resources AND help volunteers and leaders be able to
continually grow well after Cultivate is over!
Below we’ve provided presenter bios and workshop
descriptions to help you and your team plan their day.
NETWORKING you want, INSPIRATION you long for and EQUIPPING strategies
you need
Early Childhood Track // Jackie Reynolds
With 40 years of teaching in the early
childhood ministry, Jackie has so much to offer others who desire to impact
kids and families. When observing her kindergarten
class, she exemplifies creativity with storytelling as well as modeling a
loving connection with her class and families.
She has mastered the art of teaching and reaching kids!
Session 1:Let’s Be Ready To Use Our Gift of Teaching
Having a lesson is a great place to start but how do you make it come
alive!
In this session you will learn to
make preschool lesson plans work for you and your children as well as gain some
skills to organize everything you need.
Learn a strategy to daily prepare for your class time.
Session 2: Take Ourselves Up a Notch
Leaving a lasting legacy with kids and their parents goes beyond your
personal abilities.
Learn how to partner
with the Lord as you prepare yourself and learn what God desires to accomplish
through each child.
Session 3:
Stretch the Way We Present
Our Lesson and Make It Memorable
This session will be full of the best preschool techniques to engage children
and keep them moving in God’s direction.
You will walk away with fun, creative and easy to utilize ideas that
will make it easy for kids to remember what they’re learning.
Elementary Track // Rhonda Haslett
As
a friend to those who minister to teens and children, Rhonda Haslett is a veteran
who equips and empowers ministers through practical workshops, systematic
processing, hands-on experience. She is
the founder of a children’s ministry network resource,
WeGrowMinistries.com as well as "Pasta Roni & Friends,” an
evangelistic ministry to children and families.
She and her husband are currently youth pastors in Indianapolis where
they along with their 4 children reside.
Did we mention that she is designed to brainstorm! You will walk away with many ways to STRETCH
yourself for greater impact.
Session 1: Establishing a Strong Environment for SMALL GROUP Impact
Research
makes it clear; the generation of children in our ministries today is vastly
different than any other group of children the church has sought to reach. They engage and experiment with learning and
community in ways that mandate different methodologies. Discover the unique learning characteristics
of today's kid and learn to leverage those characteristics in your small group
ministry.
Session 2: Essential Elements for Experiential LARGE GROUP Impact
In this session we’ll
approach the best practices that will help you expand your abilities for high
influence toward life transformation. In
our discussion we’ll share about missions, kids in ministry and most importantly,
kids experiencing the presence of God.
Let’s make kids church sizzle!
Session 3:
Care for Yourself and
Your Team
Ministry has a way of
stretching us beyond what we thought we could ever imagine. Children’s
ministry leaders often feel pulled as they feel the internal and external
pressures of ministry expectations. This session will show you how to navigate
through the natural emotions of ministry in order to understand healthy
boundaries. Explore ways to create breaks in ministry when there seem to
be none on the horizon. Defeating burnout for your team members can
happen! Health for your team starts with health for yourself.
Youth Track // Rob Haslett
Combined with nearly 20 years of
ministry experience and longevity at his current location of ministry, Rob will
help you grow in areas you may have not considered necessary. He enjoys experiencing ministry in a team
setting and loves pouring into other ministers around the state through camps,
conferences, and organizing youth ministry gatherings. Being with students and walking alongside
other youth ministers in a relational setting is what fuels his ministry
initiatives. He received his B.S. in
youth ministry from North Central University.
Session 1:
Top Mistakes of Every
Youth Worker
From experience and observing others in ministry Rob will share ways to stretch
your mind to think past common mistakes in order to have a long and successful
ministry.
Session 2:
You've Got What It Takes
Eight things that you already have (but might not know it) that makes your
ministry impacting.
Regardless of your current ministry conditions, this session will help you feel
confident to fulfill your calling to teens.
Session 3: STRETCH, in Every Sense of the Word
Stretching is an important routine, and not just to physical activity. This
session will challenge you to stretch you in ALL areas of your life.
