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The workshop leaders are a stunning collection of executives who speak from their areas of expertise. They talk to you as "one skilled leader to another."
This is your opportunity to discuss vital areas of ministry with seasoned leaders. The workshop leaders are both practical and skilled—they are "in the trenches" doing ministry.
Dave Arnold—The PEACE Connector: Expanding Your Missions Reach Without Expanding Your Budget
Dave Arnold is the former XP of Saddleback Church and now is a Pastor at Saddleback Church and Director of Strategic Relationships for the PEACE Plan.
This workshop will explore the vision of PEACE and open the possibilities to mobilize your members to missions without expanding your missions budget. It is not your seating capacity but your sending capacity that determines the reach of your church. Ordinary people inspired by God’s love doing extraordinary things wherever they are. As your members are exposed to missions opportunities, they will undoubtedly want to get connected and learn more about how they can serve. As they are engaged and equipped, their commitment to missions and the church will deepen. Your missions-minded people are your most dedicated members as they see the church for what it is in the world … the Bride of Christ.
Dr. Nathan Baxter—Mentoring 101
Nathan, XP of Liberty Church of Tulsa, Oklahoma, will help you as an XP learn the fundamentals of mentoring. In just one hour, you will receive a year’s worth of work. Nathan will help you identify your “big assignments” for developing yourself as a mentor. He will help you formulate a path of personal study and growth by identifying the major areas XPs must refine. He will also be giving a tour of the latest and best mentoring resources available. Read Nathan's bio. Read the 2005 case study on Liberty Church.
Dr. Nathan Baxter—Using the Birkman® Tool to Grow Staff
Nathan will discuss how the Birkman Indicator® Tool has helped him grow his staff. He has taken hundreds through the Birkman and will share his thoughts at a breakout lunch on Thursday. You will be able to see sample reports from the powerful Birkman Indicator® Tool and hear examples of how XPs have used it to revolutionize the leadership culture of their church. Read Nathan's bio. Read the 2005 case study on Liberty Church.
"My conversations with Nathan Baxter were great!"
David Bixby—Thriving and surviving Facilities transitions in an uncertain economy
David is the XP of Austin Ridge Bible Church of Austin, Texas. Austin Ridge Bible Church opened three new buildings in April of 2009. David will facilitate a discussion on the stages and phases of transition from a single building campus to a multi-building campus. Pinching pennies in an uncertain economy may seem prudent in the moment, but a long-term perspective could prove more economically sensible in the long run.
Walk through some of the lessons learned with Austin Ridge as they completed and moved into a new office facility and two new youth buildings. If you are contemplating a project, or in the midst of construction, bring your strategies and challenges to the table.
Dr. Warren Bird—Healthy Churches that Spend only 30% of Budget on Staffing
Warren is the Director of Research and Intellectual Capital at Leadership Network, author and former pastor.
The average church spends about 50% of its budget on staff costs. What if you could do the same quality and level of ministry but only spend 30% of your budget on staff for salary and benefits?
Warren has interviewed a number of churches that report a "lean staffing" approach to ministry, and will pass along what they've learned. Warren conducted a survey last year of executive pastors, co-sponsored with XPastor.org, and he also oversees the large-church salary survey project for Leadership Network—all available as free downloads. He has co-authored 21 ministry books, the most recent being Multi-Site Church Roadtrip (a companion volume to the 2006 Multi-Site Church Revolution) and Unleashing the Word (on reading Scripture aloud in church).
Stacey is the XP of Christ Community Church of Greeley, Colorado. Catalysts dare to take chances and think differently. "No" is never an answer to a question, only "what if …" Catalysts tend to look at the horizon and plan for the future. They dream of how people and systems and culture can be improved, streamlined and re-imagined.
Everyone is a catalyst to some degree, in some area of their life or ministry! So how do you leverage what you have and grow those areas so you can maximize your influence with leaders, ministries, and your overall church culture? In other words, how do you become a stronger catalyst that enables creativity, innovation, and freedom to occur around you? This workshop will give you the tools to more effectively be the catalyst God designed you to be! Read Stacey's bio and the 2006 case study on Christ Community Church.
Read Stacey's articles on the Catalyst: When a Catalyst is Not a Catalyst, XP’s and Catalytic Converters, 'Disneyesque' Books on Creativity, Get_a_Life and Throw Me a Lifeline!
Rick Clapp—Trying to Stay Together: Leading Your Staff and Church During Hard Times
Rick is the XP of Vanguard Church of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Vanguard’s heartbeat is to plant or help plant 5,000 churches over its existence, and Rick oversees all of Vanguard’s church planting initiatives.
Hard times are inevitable and are going to affect every church in America. Ecclesiastes 7:14 tells us, “Enjoy prosperity while you can, but when hard times strike, realize that both come from God. Remember that nothing is certain in this life.”
Vanguard Church is attempting to journey through tough times together. How has your church and leadership responded to the hard times of this past year’s economy? When funds are low and stress loads are high, what is your church leadership’s “mode of operation?” Has your church leadership adopted a plan to follow when hard times come? How do you lead your staff through the reality of financial change? Rick will share how Vanguard is leading its staff and church through hard times. He will show the 7 step process Vanguard follows in order to make up budgetary shortcomes, changes made in communication to the entire church body, and how Vanguard has adjusted in an attempt not to lay off staff and stay together.
Roger Dermody & Glenn Reph—Big Vision & Big Hurdles: The Challenge of Leading with Prudent Faith
Roger is the XP of Bel Air Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, California.
We are in the midst of a global economic crisis, a national denominational crisis and on-going very real congregational needs. How do we as leaders of Bel Air thread the needle of faithfully following our sense of God’s call to bold new ventures?
We are launching three new satellite campuses. Yet, at the same time, we need to make sure we don’t fly the proverbial "plane into the side of the nearest mountain?"
This interactive seminar will discuss the hits and misses experienced by Bel Air Presbyterian Church this past year, and learn from the shared stories and examples of other group participants.
Read Dr. Fletcher's case study on Bel Air, Sabbatical: Study, Siesta or Sayonara? and the synopsis of the case, Sabbatical: Mark Brewer Leaves for Six Months, as published in Church Executive magazine.
Bob Feitl—Understanding the Roles of Overseer and Administrator
Bob, XP of Richland Bible Church of Richland, Michigan, asks, "So, you are new to the role, it’s not quite what you expected and you’re trying to figure out how to make sense of it." You need to balance leadership with managing, administration with pastoring, your Senior Pastor’s expectations with yours and everyone else’s … and have a job description that reflects that well. Facilitated by an XP with 20 years experience in three churches of 1,500 to 4,500; together we will hammer out ways to bring clarity and understanding to this job that often requires more finesse and balance than any other on the team.
David, Founder & Host of XPastor, and XP of The Chapel of Akron, Ohio.
He will present a Keynote on "Harvard Business School's 'Question Zero' & the American Church Disfunction." He will also present a case study on "Expansion that Required Debt: Did the Board Bite in a Recession?" and several "mini-cases on penetrating and pertinent issues."
Brian Horn—Without an XP but Doing the Work
Brian is the Associate Pastor of Adult Ministries, First Christian Church, Santa Maria, California. Even though some tasks may not be in your job description, sometimes you’ve just got to roll up your sleeves and get to work! In a church that doesn’t have an XP, the Senior Pastor may need help and not even know it. He may be leading in areas where his giftedness and time is limited.
How can the Associate Pastor effectively transition into the Executive Pastor role? This interactive workshop will examine steps that can help establish trust with the Senior Pastor and establish a healthy ministry partnership. Brian Horn, this workshop’s leader, is currently building this culture in his church in California, helping his Senior Pastor become comfortable enough to hand over the reins of leadership.
Brad Leeper—Resourcing Ministry in the Midst of a Recession
Brad is a Senior Strategist of Generis Partners. Based on experience and affinity, Brad is drawn to innovative, growing churches and the challenges of helping them expand practically and spiritually. As a Generis Senior Strategist, he is well served by his experience as a consultant to churches across the nation, a staff leader in resource development for local ministries, a Campus Director for Campus Crusade for Christ, and his role as church elder in his own 4,000-member home church, Perimeter Church in Atlanta.
Brad's workshops have received high marks in previous XP-Seminars. If you are going to be resourcing your ministry soon, then you will need to know how to raise funds for the construction! "Brad Leeper's Fundraising Workshop was so helpful!"
Donna Lively—Mitigating Cost: Wellness, Waistlines, and the Right Plan
Donna is the Director of Insurance Solutions and Services for GuideStone Financial Resources.
Learn why the combination of employee benefit wellness initiatives, focus on employee health responsibility and the correct plan selection are important to the financial and physical health of your organization and discover strategies to successfully implement these programs. Learn why the simplest programs are often the most effective and the key components that every program must include.
David Lyons—Hiring: What is Fit and Gifting?
David is the Founder and President of MinisterSearch. While placing hundreds of people into ministry positions, David has seen the centrality of fit and gifting. Is one more important than the other? Can we compromise because "we know that person," or "he or she is an insider" or "their gifts are just so strong that we … ?"
If you are going to hire staff in the next 12 months, then this workshop with David will help you. He has led workshops at each of the previous XP-Seminars, to rave reviews. Bring your questions for the discussion portion of the workshop as well.
"The breakout session with David Lyons on Staffing was tremendous"
David Middlebrook—Your Bylaws Need to Change as Your Church Grows
David is a nationally noted attorney and author, licensed to practice law in Texas, Colorado and the District of Columbia. His practice emphasis is focused on religious nonprofit organizations, with clients including all types of charitable, religious and educational organizations. David also is a registered Congressional lobbyist where he works on behalf of religious nonprofit organizations for the protection of religious liberties.
Jeff Pelletier—The Role of Technology in a ‘Do More With Less’ Environment
Jeff is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Fellowship Technologies, a provider of 100% web-based Church Management Software.
During turbulent and uncertain economic times, more people turn to the local church as a source of comfort and confidence. Attendance begins to rise, but unfortunately, giving may remain flat or even decline. The end result is the church is asked to do much more with far fewer resources. This workshop will highlight the role technology can play in helping to offset the resource imbalance created in a 'Do More With Less' environment.
Erich Roehl—The Budget Process: Having the Right People Determine the Right Investments in Ministry
Erich is the XP of Neighborhood Church of Redding, California.
This workshop will address what we learned in establishing a budget process (and there are many things!). We found what works for us (and continues to evolve). This will include an introduction to the Carver Policy governance, the role of staff and the role of board. Issues to consider are who should make the budget decisions and why, what about conflict of interest, how to streamline the expense approval process, how to get equal buy-in and accountability in financial decisions and how to maintain flexibility for unexpected expenses.
Eric Rojas—The 8 C's to a Healthy Staff in a Recession
Eric is the XP of Christ Community Church of St. Charles, DeKalb & Blackberry Creek, Illinois.
In this session, we will look at how to build and maintain a healthy staff year after year. In a time like this we can’t give the financial support and advancement that we would like. Keeping your staff (of any size) healthy, happy and called is essential. Included in this session will be a look at the spiritual development of the staff, the hiring process in a recession, staff evaluation, staff recognition, goals, firing and lay-offs, morale boosters and busters and many more keys to a healthy staff.
Nicholas Smith—The 5 Functions of the XP
Nicholas, the XP of Bethany Baptist Church of Lindenwold, New Jersey, will share the biblical basis of the XP as revealed through the Scriptures. Though young, Nicholas is a strong XP in a church of 18,000 members. Read the 2006 case study on Bethany Baptist.
This session will introduce the foundational characteristics of an Executive Pastor: Administrator, Catalyst, Mentor, Minister, and Overseer. During the hour, we we assist XP's in finding which functions they are strongest in and how best to operate in them. For any Senior Pastors attending the session, we will help them discover what to look for in an XP.
Phillip Turner & Nicholas Smith—Thriving in the African-American Church
Reverend Phillip Turner serves as the Church Administrator of Bethany Baptist Church of Lindenwold, New Jersey. He partners with Bishop David G. Evans and assists in implementing the vision of the church, while also ensuring excellence in the operations of Bethany Baptist Church and Abundant Harvest Plaza.
This session will discuss the challenges in the African-American churches in the present recession. We will present proven solutions that will overcome the challenges of the environment. Tips will include meeting the spiritual and natural needs of the community. We will also discuss effective giving strategies during the recession.
Frank Sommerville—Legal Issues in the Church
Frank is a nationally noted attorney, author and a CPA. This is a roundtable discussion on the current and pressing legal issues in your church. Bring your questions and issues!
Frank led a legal roundtable at the 2007 & 2008 XP-Seminar and received high marks from the participants. This is a prime opportunity to discuss your issues with a nationally noted attorney. "Frank Sommerville always does a great job—the legal issues small group was very good". "Frank started by asking us what we wanted to discuss so that he met our needs. Caused me to rethink many areas."
Curtis Songer—How is New Community Church Surviving & Thriving?
Curtis is the XP of New Community Church of of Wexford, Pennsylvania.
Learn how a church moved from Surviving to Thriving in 4 short months. At New Community Church giving increased 15% during the last 4 months of 2009. What was even more shocking was that this increase in giving occurred on a significantly lower base of givers - attendance declined 11% during the same period. What happened? Were these shifts healthy? Can the attendance trend be turned around? And is the increase in giving sustainable? The answers lie in the fact that the traditional approach to surviving in a down-turned economy (a.k.a. cost reduction) is not enough to thrive.
Jim Tomberlin and Jim Kuykendall—
Four Common Mistakes of Multi-Site Churches
The multi-site movement is transforming the church landscape across the nation. It is no longer a trend but has become the "new normal" for healthy growing churches of all sizes. Currently over 2,000 churches across America have multiple venues or campuses. Is it right for your church? If so, what are the common mistakes to avoid in going multi-site?
Learn from multi-site practitioner pioneer Jim Tomberlin and Jim Kuykendall. Jim Tomberlin implemented multi-site at Willow Creek and now runs Third Quarter Consulting. Jim Kuykendall is the XP of Cross Timbers Church in Argyle, Texas. Read the case study about Cross Timbers.
Paul Utnage—Working with Strong Personalities at the Top
Paul is the XP of Montgomery Community Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Executive Pastors often relate to prominent pastoral leaders whose personalities are so dominating that they create “cultural tsunamis” of their own. Let’s face it, some people just have a strong personality—intense, yet perhaps even strong-headed, strong-willed, and strong-armed. Often they aren’t aware of the waves they create as they swim through the normal wake of the church’s ministry. If not confronted and loved by a healthy coworker—i.e. you, the XP—they may create dysfunctions, either sighed or shouted, that disrupt or hamper the church’s vision.
This workshop focuses upon principles of healthy relationships with strong personalities, especially with Senior Pastors and key associates. We’ll build some general principles that help us relate to these whirlwind leaders, and then focus upon a repertoire of principles for dealing with four specific strong personalities—the narcissistic pastor, the obsessive-compulsive pastor, the passive-aggressive pastor, and the shame-based pastor.
Steve Watkins—Risk Taking & Decision Making in a Tough Economy
Steve is the XP of Southern Hills Baptist Church, a pace-setting, growing church in the heart of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
None of us are immune to this economy, but how are we faring on our missional journey? Are we staying true to our mission as a church? Are we still taking ministry “risks?” Are ministry “decisions” being weighed on how much it will cost, rather than the impact it can make short-term or long-term?
In this workshop, we will explore and share opportunities and vehicles to internally take steps to be great stewards with what God has blessed us with. We will also share ideas to release our ministries by not holding onto our resources so tightly that our church and community notices we are in a recession. It's a time of faith; are we listening to God? If so, He will provide.
