How to Be AI Forward in the Church without Losing Your Soul
Most church conversations about AI pick a lane: breathless adoption or anxious avoidance. This seminar refuses that choice. We’ll look honestly at both the promise and the peril, then work through a simple framework for staying faithful while actually using these tools well. You’ll leave with guardrails that keep AI subordinate to the Gospel, a […]
For Youth Leaders, by Youth Leaders: A Practical Conversation about Discipling Students with Disabilities
For Youth Leaders, By Youth Leaders: A Practical Conversation About Discipling Students with Disabilities is a practical and encouraging seminar designed to help youth leaders create ministries where every student is known, loved, discipled, and empowered to serve. Through personal stories, biblical teaching, and real-world ministry experience, Jay and Amy Higham explore how churches can […]
From Overwhelmed to Engaged: Understanding Sensory Needs in the Church
Have you ever wondered why someone covers their ears during worship, avoids crowded fellowship spaces, becomes overwhelmed during transitions, struggles to remain seated, or unexpectedly withdraws? These responses are often not about willingness or behavior alone—they may be connected to how a person experiences and processes sensory information. In this practical breakout session, participants will […]
A Referral Compass: Navigating Complex Mental Health and Spiritual Needs in Ministry
Ministry leaders often face complex emotional and behavioral crises, making it difficult to know when to refer individuals to a Biblical counselor versus a licensed mental health professional. This session provides a practical framework to understand the distinct roles of each, with a specific focus on how mental health concerns impact that crucial referral process. […]
Tech-wise Principles for the Age of AI
A decade ago, Andy Crouch gave parents and churches a gift in The Tech-Wise Family: not a rulebook, but a way of putting technology in its proper place so it forms the people we actually want our kids to become. AI raises the stakes on every one of his commitments. This seminar takes Crouch’s framework, […]
Made for This: Sustaining Your Soul in the Work of Inclusion
Leading and advocating in the disability community often comes with immense emotional pressure, making it incredibly easy for passionate leaders to slip into burnout or destructive defaults. Based on Erwin McManus’s Uprising, this workshop introduces “The Character Matrix”—a practical, spiritual framework designed to help leaders pivot from exhaustion to resilience, integrity, and sustainable creativity. Attendees […]
Understanding Trauma from a Faith-Based Lens (and what to do about it!)
Do you have children or youth in your school, church, or ministry who come from hard places and struggle in ways that are difficult to understand? Today’s children are facing unprecedented levels of stress, anxiety, and trauma, and the effects are showing up in our classrooms, churches, and relationships every day. Childhood trauma and Adverse […]
No Barriers to Grace: The Gospel and Disability in the Church
This breakout session is designed for pastors, ministry leaders, disability ministry teams, and church leadership seeking practical and biblical guidance for creating a more welcoming and inclusive church culture. Attendees will explore how the Gospel compels the church to intentionally include people and families living with disability through discipleship, accessibility, meaningful belonging, and opportunities for […]
Building Bridges: Connecting Churches with Mental Health and Disability Services
Churches are increasingly encountering individuals and families affected by mental health concerns, disabilities, and complex life challenges, yet many pastors and ministry leaders feel uncertain about when and how to partner with community professionals. This workshop will provide practical guidance for building effective relationships between churches, mental health providers, disability service organizations, and counseling clinics, […]
Welcoming and Discipling the “Anxious Generation” at Church
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health conditions, affecting one in nine children, one in six teens and nearly one in five adults and represent the most common disability in North America adversely impacting church attendance. In this breakout, participants will recognize common challenges to church participation for families in which one or more […]