Event
Breakout Resources
Superintendent Introductions
Get to know the new Superintendent Team.
Ordination Service
Consecration of the leadership of the Free Methodist Church in Southern California at Annual Conference 2018.
How to Multiply Your Church
Join Pastor Larry Walkemeyer as he shares some of the exciting resources available through our partnership with Exponential and the current “Hero Makers” movement. Catch a vision for engaging in multiplying ministries and church planting with the Free Methodist Church.
A Growing Ministry: Engaging Momentum at Every Stage
Everything that grows experiences distinct stages of development. This is true for the church as well. Pastor John Hansen of Centerpoint Church addresses how to capture the momentum of each stage of ministry to help launch you into healthy growth.
Creating A Culture of Shalom
Nina Lau Branson & Kristy Hinds
Churches, Cultures and Leadership - Mark Lau Branson and Juan Martinez
The multicultural team of Juan Martinez and Mark Branson has written this book to equip such leaders to create environments that make God’s reconciling initiatives apparent in church life and in our missional engagement with neighborhoods and cities.
Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church - Soong-Chan Rah
From discussions about cultural and racial histories, to reviews of case-study churches and Christian groups that are succeeding in bridging ethnic divides, Rah provides a practical and hopeful guidebook for Christians wanting to minister more effectively in diverse settings.
Practicing the Sacred Art of Listening - Kay Lindahl
It happens at work and at home, with strangers and close friends, in heated debates and in quiet conversations―you hear someone speaking, but often you don’t truly listen. Kay Lindahl offers practical, easy-to-follow advice and exercises to enhance your capacity to listen in a spirit-filled way. Using examples from her own life and her work as a teacher of the sacred art of listening, Lindahl explores the nature and use of silence, reflection and divine presence as foundational qualities of listening and shows you how you can apply these in your everyday life.
Prophetic Lament: A Call For Justice in Troubled TImes - Soong-Chan Rah
Soong-Chan Rah’s prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church’s relationship with a suffering world. It critiques our success-centered triumphalism and calls us to repent of our hubris. And it opens up new ways to encounter the other.
Redeemed: Power of A Single Story - Kristy Hinds
God can use our pain to transform us and the people around us. We all have personal stories about overcoming our circumstances. Yet, we often hide our past, eager to forget our old hurts. But our stories are often the very resource God intends to unleash to heal the world.
Roadmap to Reconciliation: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice - Brenda Salter McNeil
We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up. But how, exactly, do we do this? How does one reconcile? What we need is a clear sense of direction. Based on her extensive consulting experience with churches, colleges and organizations, Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil has created a roadmap to show us the way.
“On Social Justice: Reflection on God’s Love for the Poor & Marginalized” - Miriam Youssef
Orthodox Christians are called to act in love towards those scarred by the world’s injustice. This monthly podcast explores biblical and patristic writings dealing with social justice and applies them to current situations around the world.
A Growing Ministry: Engaging Momentum at Every Stage
John Hansen
Brian Jones
Challenging people to think different, be courageous, and follow Jesus.
Carey Nieuwhof
Proven strategies for ministry leaders.
Church Fuel
Practical resources, coaching, and training to move your church forward.
Senior Pastor Central
Helping Senior Pastors find the confidence to grow their churches without sacrificing emotional health or theological integrity.
Canoeing the Mountains
Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and consultant, Tod Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory. He offers a combination of illuminating insights and practical tools to help you reimagine what effective leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world.
Pull: Making Your Church Magnetic
Bob Franquiz, the pastor of one of the fastest growing churches in Florida helps readers understand how unchurched people think and offers a proven method for attracting them to Christ.
Change Your Church for Good
Every week, more and more people walk away from the church—not because they don’t believe but because church has become irrelevant to their lives. Not God but church. Pastor Brad Powell provides essential tools to shake up a stagnant body of believers and infuse it with love, outreach, cultural relevance, and a renewed relationship with God.
The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church
In all his writings, Allen’s overriding concern was to show that missionary method, far from being a secondary or indifferent matter, is a matter of supreme importance.
How to Mutltiply Your Church
Larry Walkemeyer
Led - Going With the Spirit
Every disciple and church can exponentially increase their impact when they understand and prioritize “Spirit-led” ministry.
Flow - Unleashing a River of Multiplication in Your Church, City and World
In this FREE eBook, church-planting leader, pastor and author Larry Walkemeyer shares the amazing and transforming story of how their urban church that still only has 39 parking spaces has become a multiplication center touching thousands.
Play Thuno - The World-Changing Multiplication Game
What if every church took seriously the biblical call to multiply? How would that change our churches, communities, cities and world? In this new resource, church planting leader Larry Walkemeyer asks these questions and delivers inspiring stories as well as practical insight to give us tangible expressions of churches, including his own, that have purposed to multiply.
Beyond 4 - Leading Your Church Toward Level 5 Multiplication
This new book includes a wealth of insight for what it takes to travel the 4 to 4+ multiplication pathway. Tim and Larry vividly share their stories of climbing beyond the basecamp of Level 4 toward the summit of Level 5 multiplication. In addition to their inspiring experiences, they bring us the practical lessons they’ve learned along the way.
Make Safety Matter
Donna Marshall
Make Safety Matter - Safe Guard the Temples
Employ, Encourage, and Educate individuals and organizations on the necessity for safety trainings (Temple SAFETY Training) in their program.
La Seguridad Es Importante Para Nuestros Templos
Les enseñamos a las personas y a las organizaciones sobre la necesidad de la seguridad de todos en el Templos
The Benefits of Getting the Meaning Right
Dr. Robert Marshall
Reading the Bible and Getting the Meaning Right
Exposition of the Bible is more of an attitude than a method or style. Do you subject the Scripture to your thoughts or your thoughts to the Scripture?
Mentoring Millenials
Kelly Soifer
Mentoring in the 21st Century
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. – Steven Spielberg”
Reigniting a Prayer Culture
Charles Latchison
Prayer Assessment
This Survey is to assess and significantly strengthen the prayer culture of your ministry.
Women in Ministry
Denny Wayman / Colleen Hurley-Bates
Lived Experience of Female Pastors
The Study Commission on Doctrine commissioned the creation of this film in order to allow all of us to experience the struggles of female pastors. We present this cinematic experience so that, in some small way, we might all experience what they have lived and in so doing pray and work for the flourishing of these called and committed leaders.