CONFERENCE HOSTS
The National Outreach Convention (NOC) is one of the top conference experiences for Christian leaders in the United States. With a singular focus on Outreach and Evangelism, the NOC is known as the gathering place for leaders looking for practical, inspirational, and challenging ideas to take their outreach efforts to new levels. A large exhibit hall, multiple breakout sessions, powerful speakers, discussion groups, book signings and a free evening entertainment are all part of the experience. If you haven't yet come, make 2010 the year you do and bring your entire team with you!
Outreach, Inc., which publishes Outreach Magazine, is the proven leader for outreach training, tools and resources. Thousands of America's most outreach-focused churches have partnered with us to invite over 100 million households to church.
Mosaix is a relational network of local church pastors and planters, researchers, educators and ministry leaders alike that exists to catalyze the growing movement toward multi-ethnic/economically diverse churches throughout North America and beyond by casting vision, connecting individuals of like-mind, conferencing and coaching. Believing that healthy multi-ethnic churches must be established on sound theology, for the sake of the gospel, Mosaix promotes a vision of 20% diversity in 20% of churches throughout the United States by the year 2020. With this in mind, Mosaix promotes understanding and application of seven core commitments as fundamental to building a healthy multi-ethnic church: Embrace Dependence, Take Intentional Steps, Empower Diverse leaders, Develop Cross-cultural Relationships, Pursue Cross-cultural Competence, Promote a Spirit of Inclusion, Mobilize for Impact. Founded in 2004 by Mark DeYmaz and George Yancey, the network is being re-launched this year at Exponential in cooperation with Erwin McManus and Mosaic Alliance.
GOLD LEVEL SPONSORS
Zondervan is an international, Christian communications company with a heart for helping people find and follow Jesus Christ by inspiring them with relevant biblical and spiritual resources. This is done through their bestselling, award-winning, and life-changing products. Zondervan leads the way in Bible and book publishing, and they continue to expand their resource offering. With 75 years of service, they are proud of the impact these resources have on the lives of people.
BLN has offers churches, businesses and corporations solutions to the problems of racial difference and offers proactive strategies to help them live the values of reconciliation and effective multiculturalism while making a profit. Today, BLN has on-going relationships with Fortune 500 companies, accredited universities, and other companies that desire to have a thriving and diverse workplace. BLN also has a publishing partnership with InterVarsity Press called BridgeLeader Books. This line of books is dedicated to encouraging the values of racial reconciliation, multicultural ministry and diversity of all kinds.
American Church Lists, a division of Infogroup, has the freshest, most accurate sales leads and mailing lists available for churches and religious organizations. We’ll work with you to understand your needs, and help you develop the right marketing mix to reach new homeowners, new movers and people in your area or throughout the U.S. and Canada. You can also search from more than 380,000 U.S. and Canadian churches, 15,000 Christian & private schools, 17,000 growing churches and more. If you would like more information on our wide range of marketing services available, please email Kelly.Brazda@infogroup.com or check out our website at www.americanchurchlists.com.
GOLD LEVEL / EDUCATIONAL SPONSORS
Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University provides a revolutionary way to train for effective ministry. By offering a 75-hour Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and a 36-hour Master of Arts in Ministry (with concentrations in Ministerial Leadership or Youth Ministry) in primarily online formats, our students are equipped while serving in their unique ministry contexts – from all across the country and around the world. This connection between the classroom and local church ministry creates a learning environment in which students immediately apply lessons to actual ministry situations. For more information about the practical, accessible and affordable degree programs at Wesley Seminary, please visit: wesley.indwes.edu or call 1-877-673-0009.
Fuller Theological Seminary is one of the largest seminaries in the world - almost 5,000 students attend annually, from 70 countries and more than 100 denominations. Fuller provides graduate-level education in theology, psychology, and intercultural studies. Fuller is evangelical in commitment, rigorous in scholarship, diverse in community, and intensive in training and research. Fuller has multiple campuses with its main campus in Pasadena, California.
GOLD LEVEL / DENOMINATIONAL SPONSORS
The following denominations are not only conferences sponsors; more importantly, they are passionately promoting and intentionally pursuing the vision of multi-ethnic local churches within their sphere of influence.
United by a mutual commitment to serve our Lord Jesus Christ with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and obedience to the Word of God, the Evangelical Free Church of America is an association of nearly 1,500 churches and church plants in a growing ministry that currently extends to some 75 countries of the world. Our mission statement, we exist to glorify God by multiplying healthy churches among all people, drives our vision for the future of the EFCA. We envision accelerated growth in the number of Christ’s disciples and churches and the percentage of ethnic groups represented in the EFCA. We are committed to an EFCA that mirrors the demographics of the U.S., and reflects the "all people" God is redeeming.
The ECC is a holy covenant of churches empowered by the Holy Spirit to obey the Great Commandments and the Great Commission by seeking to love God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind, to love our neighbor as ourselves, and to go into all the world and make disciples. We are committed to reaching the unchurched (particularly the emerging generation), pressing forward in ethnic ministry and diversity, extending greater measures of compassion and justice to the poor and desperate, attending to the health of existing congregations, forming spiritually mature disciples who live out obedience to Christ in the world, calling forth and equipping women and men for all levels of church leadership and pursuing expanded strategic global opportunities/partnerships.
Reformed Church in America congregations welcome others into a community of people who worship Christ, grow in faith, and serve their neighbors. This welcoming spirit is also at the heart of Our Call, the RCA’s ten-year goal to revitalize existing congregations and start new congregations. According to our Statement of Mission and Vision, "The vision [for ministry] will be lived out by all the people of the RCA, a network of relationships, a fellowship that celebrates its gifts and confesses its failures, and where the ministries of all are valued and cherished." The RCA's racial/ethnic councils help the denomination face and address issues related to race and ethnicity. Each council networks with groups inside and outside the RCA to promote understanding and fellowship, to share gifts and perspectives, and to work toward greater unity and equality in the church. The racial/ethnic councils help ensure that all the people of the RCA are represented by and participate fully in the commissions, boards, and policy-making bodies of the denomination.
The Wesleyan Church exists to be a Missional Multiplication Movement reaching out to all people with the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ. It is our commitment to fulfill the Great Commission in the spirit of the Great Commandment to every ethnicity and culture throughout North America and beyond. Our dream and diligent purpose is that each of our existing and newly planted churches will reflect the unique cultural diversity found in the community surrounding them.
The Free Methodist Church was birthed in the holiness tradition, has been committed to reaching the whole society and all cultures for Christ. It has been focused on holistic ministry in more than 80 countries around the world. Though its theological identity is clear, global connection is strong, partnerships are growing and commitments are unwavering; the permission and strategy to employ workable expressions of church are many. Emergent, traditional, house, cell-based, multi-ethnic, underground, multi-cultural, multi-lingual, underground and innovative churches of every methodological stripe comprise the ministries at home and abroad. The Free Methodist Church strives for cultural relevance, commitment to truth and transformational impact. Its vision is to be- "Healthy, biblical communities of holy people multiplying disciples, leaders, groups and churches."
NETWORK SPONSORS
The Exponential Network serves existing collaborative networks and churches, organizations, and church planters seeking to get involved in collaborative networks. It is an alliance of like-minded organizations committed to starting new churches through collaborative networks. The Exponential Network is the synergy created by its alliance members.
Since 1984, Leadership Network has fostered church innovation and growth through strategies, programs, tools and resources that are consistent with our far-reaching mission: to identify, connect and help high-capacity Christian leaders multiply their impact. Of the estimated 350,000 churches in North America, only a relatively small number play a significant role in introducing innovations to the Church at large. Leadership Network's "DNA" is to work directly with those few pioneers who are testing and implementing the new ideas that will drive the Church in the future.
The Mosaic Alliance is a global network committed to create the future by unleashing a culture of entrepreneurship, activism, innovation, authenticity, and creativity within the local church. We seek to empower and equip churches and leaders to maximize the creative potential in the communities in which they serve. We partner with leaders from around the globe in effort to catalyze the movement of Jesus Christ. The Mosaic Alliance provides resources, training, and ongoing dialogue in effort to serve leaders and churches worldwide. One of our focus areas involves serving church planters, but the Mosaic Alliance is not limited to church planters. Join us in creating the future together!
North Coast Training Network is a ministry of North Coast Church that provides pastors and church leaders with training and exposure to ministry best practices through conferences, customized workshops, and consulting. For more information, contact Training Network Director Chris Mavity at Chris@NorthCoastChurch.com.
The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins, directed by Dr. Paul Louis Metzger, is an official program of Multnomah Biblical Seminary and is dedicated to bearing witness to Christ in contemporary culture.
NEW WINE MAKES KNOWN. We seek to heighten the awareness of students and the communities they serve to the pressing concerns facing post-modern society. NEW WINE MOTIVATES. We invite people to respond, inspire them to sense the need, and take ownership in meeting the need. NEW WINE MOBILIZES. We offer suggestions for resolving problems and engaging issues.
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