Growth Summit Schedule
Practical lectures and workshops to help your congregation experience growth, through strategies that feel authentic to mainline churches.
Monday, April 13
8:30 AM Registration begins
9:10 AM Opening Welcome – Andrew McDonald, host pastor and moderator of The Growth Project.
Morning Lecture Series:
12: 15 PM Lunch on Campus (included in your registration fee)
Afternoon Lecture Series:
5 - 6:45 PM Dinner on Campus (included in your registration fee)
6:45 - 9 PM New Ways of Defining Worship
Tuesday April 14
8:30 AM Registration Opens
9 A.M. Welcome
9:15 - 11:45 AM Seminar with Dr. Bill Tenny-Brittian
Noon - 12:45 Lunch on Campus (Included in your registration fee)
12:45 - 4 PM Seminar with Dr. Bill Tenny-Brittian
Overnight Stay in Lincoln?
Here are some suggestions:
Comfort Suites East (block reserved)
331 N Cotner - Lincoln (within walking distance of Gateway Mall) Call: 402.325.8800 to Reserve Reference Church Growth Summit for Discounts Double Queen Rate $105 King Suite Rate $95 Discount honored through April 15 - guaranteed room availablitly until March 15, 2015
Staybridge Inn & Suites Northeast (block reserved)
1501 N 86th Street Lincoln 68505 Hotel registration online (Double Queen Suite with sofa sleeper and full kitchen) $119.00 per night
The above includes free breakfast, free Wi-Fi, and shuttle service (7AM - 7PM)
If you prefer Downtown Lincoln:
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Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Associate Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and holds degrees from Yale College and Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div. and Ph.D.). Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1998, Anna served as an associate pastor for youth and young adults at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis Florence is interested in historical, theological, aesthetic, and performative dimensions of preaching and the ways preaching engages other fields and different traditions. Her research focuses on testimony, feminist theology, the role of experience in preaching, and the history of preaching women.
Bill Tenny-Brittian is the Managing Partner for 21st Century Strategies. The pastor of churches from coast to coast, he's led and helped hundreds of churches and thousands of leaders through the growing pains of growth. He's Editor in Chief of Net Results Magazine and the author of several books Bill's Blog
William H Willimon An elder in the United Methodist Church, Professor Willimon served as the dean of Duke Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University for 20 years. He returned to Duke after serving as the UMC Bishop of the North Alabama Conference from 2004 to 2012. Willimon is the author of 60 books. His Worship as Pastoral Care was selected as one of the 10 most useful books for pastors in 1979 by thee Academy of Parish Clergy. More than a million copies of his books have been sold. 
His articles have appeared in many publications including Theology Today, Interpretation, Liturgy, Worship, and Christianity Today. He is editor-at-large for The Christian Century. His book Pastor: the Theology and Practice of Ordained Leadership is used in dozens of seminaries in the United States and Asia. He has taught in Germany and Asia in various seminaries. He also serves as pastor at Duke Memorial UMC in Durham, NC Will's Blog
Creative Worship Leaders: Darkwood Brew ; Hebrews 2:11 and Urban Abbey
Bonus: Soul Desires BookstoreColor 4 The Journey from Kansas City - creative paraments.
Registation through April 13 is $95
Discounts for Seminary Students & CRE's in training
Contacts
Kris Peterson - krisp@homesteadpres.org Kati Salmons -katisalmons@gmail.com
Growth Project of the Quad Presbyteries of
Central Nebraska, Homestead, Missouri River Valley & Prospect Hill