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Workshops for Engage Regional Conference

First Session (Wednesday, 1:45-3:00pm)

1A. Maximizing Your Time

Do you feel like you have too much to do and not enough time to do it all? Do you sometimes wonder if you are making the most of the little bit of time you do have? In this workshop we will go over practical and proven time management skills so that we can be the best stewards of the time that is given to us. Whether you're a pastor wondering where to start on Monday morning, or a church leader who is balancing job, family and ministry, this workshop will equip you with tools to help you get it all done.

Phil Chorlian, Sr. pastor NJ

1B. Healthy Communication, Healthy Relationships

Healthy communities are filled with people who foster healthy communication. Their skills in interaction create emotional safety, relational security and an environment where vision and challenge are welcomed. This workshop will focus on identifying, understanding, and getting hold of some essential interaction skills - for your church, your workplace, and your marriage.

Don Andreson, Sr. pastor, MA

1C. Eastern Region Worshippers

This workshop is for anyone active in worship including those involved in children's worship, teen worship, small group worship and weekend service worship. It will be a great place to connect up with people that are part of our Eastern Region worship community. Most of the Regional Worship Team will be present

Over the past several years we have been building a worship community through the web site (www.vineyardeastworship.com), and have scheduled events in the different areas of our region. This workshop will focus on building a worship community in the Eastern Region. Let's pool our ideas and resources to better equip worship leaders, increase worship participation in our churches and discuss how to create multi-ethnic worship experiences.

Randy Larson, Worship Overseer

1D. Justice, Mercy and the Church

In this workshop, we’ll help you develop a strategy for using the strengths of your church to address the practical and felt needs in your community. This workshop will be highly interactive & lots of fun!

Becca & Brad Zinn, Sr. Pastors, PA

Danny Tao

1E. Financial Check Up: protecting your church

Is your Church protected from a Financial mess? Do you have the proper financial controls in your church over both cash receipts and disbursements?

Have you created a relevant, working budget and do you follow it? Does it reflect proper expense allocations? This budgeting and accounting workshop will cover the answer to these questions as well as other issues regarding IDS and state reporting requirements. Pastors, Elders, Trustees, Ministry leaders, bookkeepers and those having any involvement in handling money would benefit from attending this session.

Dick Ryerson & CPA Jim Fassulo

1F. Youth and Missions: What are we doing as a region? revealing the new plan!

Over the last few years a great dissatisfaction has been brewing within the youth leaders of our region regarding the lack of viable options to take their youth on a "Vineyard" mission trip. We have a sincere desire to work within the partnership models of Vineyard Missions, we want to engage with our world in a practical, relevant way...what's a youth leader to do? Come hear some exciting developments in our region regarding missions and youth. It matters, we want it, we believe God wants it! Learn how you and your church can participate!

Chris Schlotterbeck, regional youth overseer and Jenna Stepp

1G. Debunking the Church Planting Myth

In this seminar we will look at the process of preparing to plant a church. Issues from discerning calling, developing a vision, building a team, and developing the skills to lead a church plant will be address with lots of time for Q&A. this workshop will be very helpful to anyone considering church planting or if you are part of a church planting team.

Jerry Shannon, Church Planting Guru (note: this is a change in speaker)

1H. Following Jesus in an urban, secular world

An ever-growing network of churches within the Vineyard are looking to us on the East Coast for wisdom about how to relevantly engage an urban, secular culture. Charles and Dave have planted churches in Manhattan and Boston, cities where faith in Jesus is regarded as alien and sometimes threatening. Join them to hear some fresh thoughts, learn about some key resources, and connect with other folks like yourself who are building churches in a sometimes hostile landscape

Dave Schmelzer & Charles Park, Sr. Pastors MA

1I. The Heart of the Art

Throughout Church History, the opinions of man and his interpretations of the Kingdom have colored the view of the presence of the arts in the Church. This Biblically based workshop, will take a brief look at where we as a Church have been, and where we, led by the great Creator, seem to be going. In a hands-on approach, topics will be discussed such as: “Where DO the Arts Actually Fit In My Church?”, “Help! I’m an Artist in My Church, Where DO I Fit In?”; “Help! I’m Mentoring an Artist in My Church, Where DO They Fit In?”; “Nurturing Servants, Not Divas”, “Developing Healthy Artistic Freedom in Your Church”, and more. If time allows, some fun, interactive theatre games will also be played.

Robbi Starnegg, King’s Bridge Theatre, Lewiston, ME

Second Session (Wednesday, 3:45-5:00pm)

2A. Overcoming Soul Fatigue

Anybody tired? Not the kind of “tired” that can be made up with a good night's sleep… but a weariness of body, soul, and spirit? If so, then you're probably experiencing Soul Fatigue. We live in a world where the pace of life, challenges of ministry, and the inflated sense of expectations can seem beyond our limitations. In our workshop, “Overcoming Soul Fatigue,” we're going to take an honest and practical look at how we can more fully experience the Father's promise to “restore our soul." Let’s look at how we, as leaders, can live out healthier lives while engaged in ministry.

Craig Simonian, Sr. Pastor, NJ

2B. “Come Holy Spirit”…3 powerful words

This workshop will be helpful for anybody who wants to learn to pray for others ‘Jesus-style’, especially ministry and small group leaders. This workshop will not be your typical classroom experience. It will be an interactive Vineyard show and tell learning lab covering basic “midwifing skills” such as the Vineyard prayer model, “seeing” the Spirit, “blessing” what the Father is doing while modeling the Vineyard’s “naturally supernatural” approach.

Mike Turrigiano, Vineyard Legend (the Forest Gump of the Vineyard)

2C. The Power of Everyone…get & keep volunteers

To accomplish all that God is calling you to it is critical that you build a team. This workshop will take a practical look at how to recruit people to help you develop the ministry God has called you to. We will look at target selection, Recruitment, Care for volunteers and building a sense of team.

Church Planting

John Elmer, Team Building Guru

2D. Unpacking the Bible, Help for Preachers and Teachers.

Every week, the page is blank again. And every week worshippers, seekers and skeptics gather to be taught. What will you say? How will you say it? Will you you get it right? Will lives change? Will God be honored? Will anything you say matter?

The news is still good, but preaching and teaching in our media-saturated world requires thought, prayer, work, creativity and tools. This workshop won’t do your thinking, praying, working or creativity for you, but after a jammed packed hour and a quarter you’ll have several tools to take home with you, along with a few the lessons learned by a guy who’s been preaching for 23 years.

Mark Tindall, Sr. Pastor, PA

2E. Effective Children’s Ministry

Lets face it - it's an intrical part of all our churches. But how are we doing - have we become a ministry dominated by 'to-do' lists and 'programs'. In the middle of a period of perservering or just lost sight of the goal? Join us and be encouraged as we take an indepth look at the many pieces that can bring an 'existing' ministry into an 'effective' ministry.

Cheryl Cecchini, Regional Children’s Ministry Overseer and Children's ministry legend :) !

2F. A Journey to the Secret Place

All of us want to have a vital prayer life. This workshop identifies key obstacles to prayer, suggests biblical ways to develop a passionate prayer life, and trains us in how to engage in authoritative Kingdom praying. It also defines initial practical steps needed to start making our churches into vibrant "houses of prayer."

Bruce Latshaw

2G. Building Multi-Ethnic Churches

There's greater and greater interest within the Vineyard about becoming as multi-ethnic as possible. Church leaders both want to reach all people in their city as effectively as they can, and many leaders are also noticing that the largest churches in the Vineyard are also increasingly the most multi-ethnic. Is there a connection? Join key leaders from our national Ethnic Diversity Task Force to dive more deeply into this cutting-edge and provocative topic.

Dave Schmelzer, Catherine Parham, Danny Tao

2H. Joining the Father in Combating Human Trafficking

Life is the gift of our Creator...and it should never be for sale. There is a wickedness afoot in the world...and it has taken root in our own backyard. That wickedness is modern-day slavery...also known as human trafficking. John Odean and Steven Hamilton of the Central Maryland Vineyard have spent the past two years passing legislation, serving on the Maryland State Task Force against Human Trafficking, filming a documentary on Human Trafficking and speaking globally about this atrocity. What is Human Trafficking and Sex Trafficking? What’s the difference? Who are the victims? Who are the traffickers? Where is it happening? How can the Church help? How can our local church join the fight? In this workshop Johno and Steven will help participants wrestle with these questions and explore what the Father is doing to fight human trafficking and how He is calling His people to join in!

John Odean, Sr. Pastor, MD

2I. Developing Strong Leaders

Jeff Augustine, VLI General Manager, OH

Workshop locations:

Victorian B

A Frame

Conference Room 2A

Conference Room 1

Conference Room 2B

Delaware

Biltmore

Victorian A

Board Room C