Multi-Site CONFERENCE

For all of my friends and pastors who are interested in what it means to launch a multi-site church, I'm sure you won't want to miss this!

Website: http://urbana.thevineyardchurch.us/extend/

The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois is proud to be hosting Extend, a conference for multi-site churches.

At Extend, attendees will:

• learn successful strategies from church multi-site leaders
• equip your church's future and current campus pastors and staff with ideas that will help you reach a greater part of your community 
• and multiply your church's impact in your community and see how multi-site ministry can extend your Kingdom influence.

This conference is for senior pastors, current and future campus pastors and other key ministry team leaders.

Featured Speaker - Geoff Surratt

In addition to being the Managing Director of Exponential (www.exponential.org) Geoff Surratt also helps churches across the country in strategic planning, teaching and staff development. Geoff previously led the church planting and multisite ministry of Saddleback Church and served Seacoast Church overseeing their 13 campuses. He has almost 30 years of ministry experience in a variety of roles in local churches, and is the author of several books including The Multisite Church Revolution, The Multisite Church Roadtrip and 10 Stupid Things that Keep Churches from Growing. Geoff lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Sherry. They have two children and one granddaughter.

Date: March 15-16, 2013

Location: This conference will begin in Sullivan, IL (one of our multi-site campuses) and later travel to Urbana, IL. See maps below.

Registration: Registration is $79 per person; early bird registration (before February 20) is $59. Click the button below to sign up!

 

ScheduleFriday, March 15
6pm Registration
7pm Session 1 - Geoff Surratt - Measuring the Orchard (church growth cycles)
7:45pm Break
8pm Session 2- Geoff Surratt - Four essential questions for any church considering multi-site
8:45pm Worship & Ministry
9:30pm Close

Saturday, March 16
8am Continental Breakfast
8:45am Session 3 - Geoff Surratt - Five key ingredients of a successful multi-site church
9:45am Break
10:15am Session 4- Geoff Surratt - Nuts and bolts of multi-site (finances, structure, DNA, etc.)
11:30am Lunch (provided)
12:45pm Sullivan Building Tour

1:15pm Workshops (select one from workshops section below)

2:45pm Break/Travel to Urbana Campus
4:30pm Dinner at Urbana Campus (provided) with special interest table discussions (select one)

• Senior Pastors
• Campus Pastors
• Children's Ministry
• Student Ministry
• Small Group Ministry/Leadership Development

6pm Urbana Evening Service

7:30pm Optional Building Tour 

Sunday, March 17
Optional We invite you to attend morning services at any of our five campus locations.

Workshopsled by The Vineyard Church of Central Illinois Pastors

How to Be a Great Campus Pastor -Jim Plank, All Campus Executive Pastor/Sullivan Campus Pastor, with Jay Sorrell, Danville Campus Pastor

How to Launch a Multi-Site Campus - Jim Egli, Leadership and Missions Pastor, with Tim Wheeler, Charleston Campus Pastor

Multi-Site 2.0 - Shaping a Central Support Team -Dennis Starkey, Retiring Executive Pastor, with Laura Bice, Communication Pastor

Lodging

We encourage conference attendees to stay in one of the following hotels on Friday night. Mattoon is a 20 minute drive and Arcola is 30 minutes away.

Holiday Inn Express and Suites, Mattoon217.235.2060
Room rates: $91.20 for king, $87.20 for two queens

Hampton Inn, Mattoon217.234.4267
$109 for two queens

Comfort Suites, Mattoon217.235.6745
$99.99 for king, $105 for double

Best Western Plus, Arcola217.268.5000
$89.99 for king, $98.99 for double

We encourage those who are staying for Saturday night to stay in Champaign-Urbana. 

Todd White is coming back to Urbana!

Hey friends,

As many of you know, we experienced a pretty life-changing, course-redirecting conference last year when Todd came to visit the Vineyard Church. We have had several other very powerful events in the past year, but none that made the impact that this one did. This is what I posted on the internet last year after his first night here with the leaders:

January 2012:
Good evening friends and family,

I need you to take seriously what you are about to read. It's hard to know how to ask this, so I will do it as plainly as I know how. Please, drop everything you are doing tomorrow and come to Champaign, IL (we start at 6:30pm central time). Sounds crazy right... it is. You've probably got work or family stuff or church things to do. And those are good things, but seriously drop them and come to Champaign tomorrow. Why?

I believe with everything that I have within me that this weekend is going to begin something the likes of which comes around only maybe only once a generation. Maybe the Lord has already been stirring new things in you over the past months or year. Maybe you've been reading about the Lord's movement in other places and you're wondering: why not here? why not me? why not my church? I believe this weekend holds the key to that.

Before today, I was just really excited about this thing our church was doing, but after tonight I'm so convinced that this weekend is something Jesus is doing and not us. If you trust me, even just a little bit, then you desperately need to be here. Take vacation. Pack your family in the car if you live far from Champaign, whatever. This weekend is going to be important and I love you all very much and I DON'T WANT YOU TO MISS OUT.


NEEDLESS TO SAY, but I was pretty excited about it... and I was right. The week TW was here was probably the most important week of my life since the time I first gave my life to Jesus. So, clear your February calendars people and meet us here in ChamBana for an amazing time!

http://urbana.thevineyardchurch.us/powerandidentity/

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