Breakout Sessions & Workshops help you discover & develop skills and next steps in your walk with Jesus.
Andrew Boone | New Covenant Bible Church
Confession is often misunderstood, reduced to admitting failure or listing sins we already feel bad about. But in Scripture, confession is something deeper and far more hopeful. Confession is about telling the truth: telling the truth about God, about ourselves, and about where our lives are out of alignment with Him.
Andrew Boone is the Discipleship Pastor at New Covenant Bible Church.
Max Venturo | Maranatha Bible Church
Learn to recognize and respond to God's voice in everyday life through the Kairos Circle, a practical discipleship tool that helps us see ordinary moments as opportunities for spiritual growth. This interactive session will equip you to discern what Jesus is saying and how to respond in obedience.
Max is a follower of Jesus, husband, father, Navy veteran who is dedicated to equipping the Body of Christ to be everyday missional disciples of Jesus.
Danny Schaefer | e3 Partners
No one wants to hear a canned approach to the Gospel. People want to encounter God’s love through us. Through the Holy Spirit we can hear from the Lord and then speak life and identity into the lives of lost people that we encounter in our lives.
Danny loves the space where inner spiritual formation fuels outward mission. Danny and his wife Nel spent 9 years leading disciple making movements among Muslims. They now live in Iowa City with their three daughters.
Cindy Howard | Spiritual Director & Coach
Prayer can be boring if I’m doing all the talking. Conversation is only fun if there are two people engaged in the conversation. We will learn (and do) two simple methods of conversation using prompts that lead to open ended conversations with Jesus.
Cindy Howard is a passionate lover of Jesus. She was a missionary in Czech Republic and Russia for many years. Currently she is a Spiritual Director, Enneagram Coach, and loves to have coffee with friends.
Rebecca LeVake | Made To Move
In a world where food is fast, convenient, and provides instant feel-good gratification, we face daily temptations to turn to food for comfort, hoping that it will satisfy not just our stomachs, but our hearts as well. We will consider the ways God uses food throughout the Bible to test, train, and teach His people.
Rebecca LeVake is a Jesus-following, wonder-seeking, mother of five who loves to explore nature, cook nutritious food, and get up and move.
AbideCR Team
This one-hour video presentation guides you through a series of prayers that will help you deepen your experience with God.
For many people, praying for an entire hour is a new experience, but past participants say "this hour flew by, this was a deeply felt encounter with God."
Visual Artist: Nicole Wildeboer
Musical Artist: Ryan Clair
This set-aside space for journaling, prayer, reflection, quiet worship, is a low-lighting, comfortable place to process whatever God is doing in your life.
Often, rather than more input, what we need instead is time to unpack, reflect, and process with Holy Spirit. Feel free to use the breakout time for space to unpack in the Abide Room.
The Abide Room is open throughout the entire conference.
Max Venturo | Maranatha Bible Church
Learn to recognize and respond to God's voice in everyday life through the Kairos Circle, a practical discipleship tool that helps us see ordinary moments as opportunities for spiritual growth. This interactive session will equip you to discern what Jesus is saying and how to respond in obedience.
Max is a follower of Jesus, husband, father, Navy veteran who is dedicated to equipping the Body of Christ to be everyday missional disciples of Jesus.
Eric Bents | The Storehouse Movement
Jesus’ commandment to love each other even as He has loved us directly calls for deep, sustained community focused on mutual growth in identity, wholeness and life mission accomplishment. Few truly experience this on an ongoing basis - learn how to shift your life toward true relational abundance.
Col. Eric Bents (USAF, ret.) is a people developer and strategy coach dedicated to helping individuals and organizations overcome their biggest problems.
Chase & Emily Moser | House of Hope
We cannot live the life God intended while clinging to identities He never gave us. We often live under the weight of accumulated lies that keep us from fully experiencing the identity God bestowed upon us.
Chase and Emily love Jesus and have done their best to follow His lead in their ten years of marriage. They share a growing passion for helping others discover their true identities in Christ and becoming all that He meant for us to be.
Scott Berry & Jim Gregory | New Covenant Bible Church
A quiet time can be simple, a set-aside time of decompression in a world that constantly offers dopamines and presents demands. But it can be more - and we can get the most out of it if we learn how to consistently encounter God during this time.
This workshop is designed to help you develop - or enhance - your daily quiet time with God.
Cindy Howard | Spiritual Director & Coach
We will learn (and do) two simple methods of conversation using prompts that lead to open ended conversations with God.
1. Read a short scripture passage and drop yourself into the story as one of the characters.
2. Write down yesterday’s activities, acts, thoughts, feelings. Then converse with Jesus. What might He be telling you about each?
Cindy Howard is a passionate lover of Jesus. She was a missionary in Czech Republic and Russia for many years.
John Jannenga | New Wells, HeART Studio
Combining the spiritual exchange with God, our own mind, emotions, and feelings - and our creative artistic expression - this session lets you develop a way to encounter God - the Creator.
No need to be an artist - you'll be using crayons - to work through an interactive, Spirit-led creative prayer experience.
John is a leader at New Wells, ALPHA, and CEO of HeART Studios, a non-profit ministry that creates a space for people to encounter God through art.
Rebecca LeVake | Made To Move
By God’s good design, good things happen when we move. During this session, we will bring our whole selves – body and soul – into the worship experience as we work our way through a gentle flexibility and mobility workout. (No sweating because no one wants to return to the main session all sweaty!)
Rebecca LeVake is a Jesus-following, wonder-seeking, mother of five who loves to explore nature, cook nutritious food, and get up and move.
AbideCR Team
This one-hour video presentation guides you through a series of prayers that will help you deepen your experience with God.
For many people, praying for an entire hour is a new experience, but past participants say "this hour flew by, this was a deeply felt encounter with God."
Visual Artist: Renee Kim
Musical Artist: Rick Gallo
This set-aside space for journaling, prayer, reflection, quiet worship, is a low-lighting, comfortable place to process whatever God is doing in your life.
Often, rather than more input, what we need instead is time to unpack, reflect, and process with Holy Spirit. Feel free to use the breakout time for space to unpack in the Abide Room.
The Abide Room is open throughout the entire conference.