Cost Cutting Conferences:
Teaching churches Host Training Weekends

Current economics can make attending training events and leadership conferences a budget breaker. But the new Accelerate Conferences have announced registration fees of only $29 per person.

These events have been specifically provided for new church pastors and launch teams. But any pastor or leadership team from the Church of the Nazarene is welcomed to register for the event. Smaller churches and turnaround situations would also find these weekends very helpful.

Three leading Nazarene churches across the USA will be hosting a practical weekend of ministry training this coming fall. These teaching church experiences have been designed for sharing practical helps for creating and missional ministries, with an opportunity to learn from other leaders in evangelism and discipleship.

During each Accelerate Conferences, the host pastor and staff will lead the practical workshops and general sessions. During the weekend experience, registrants will attend the weekend services of the host churches, and observe their staff in action.

These three host churches have distinguished themselves as effective missional ministries, and are regularly listed among the Top 50 Churches in the USA and Canada for the Church of the Nazarene. These three weekends will be packed with practical resources and training from their experiences in starting and growing missional congregations.

The reasonable registration cost of $29 per person is designed to cover the three meals during the Accelerate schedule. Travel costs, lodging and breakfast meals will be covered by each registrant to the event. Some housing by member families of the host church may be available on a first request basis. Specific weekend schedules, hotel options and registration forms are available online at www.NazareneNewChurches.org.

The first Accelerate Conference will be held on August 14 to 16 at the Goldcreek Community Church of the Nazarene in Bothell, Washington. The second Accelerate Conference will be held at the Thorncreek Church of the Nazarene in Denver, Colorado on October 23-25. The third and final event for 2009 is be planned at the Salem Fields Church of the Nazarene in Fredericksburg, Virginia on November 6-8.

These three Accelerates have been planned to accommodate various regions of the country, and minimize travel costs. If calendar conflicts exist for the Accelerate Conference closest to you geographically, the other events are open to any Nazarene pastor or church desiring to attend one of the other conferences.

After a decade of starting new churches across the USA and Canada, the New Church Evangelism strategy has assisted hundreds of sponsoring and new church pastors in launching healthy new churches. With over 2,000 new churches being started since 1994, this new series of Teaching Church Conferences enable new networking opportunities for new church pastors and their leadership launch teams.

These weekend events are designed to assist new church pastors in the process of designing their own specific ministry action plan, as well as provide insights into some of the best practices from other effective new churches. Regional New Church Leadership will also lead workshops for launching new churches across district ministries.

For further details on the upcoming New Church Teaching Conferences and the Accelerate schedules, please call the toll free number at 1-800-306-8294.