Redeemer Network Conference

A Church That Makes Room: Practicing Gospel Hospitality Together Church planting requires more than good services–it requires people willing to open their lives. This session explores how ordinary members can help create a culture of hospitality through shared meals, intentional relationships, generosity, and presence. We’ll discuss practical ways to practice hospitality in busy seasons, how hospitality supports discipleship and mission, and why welcoming people into our lives is essential to building a healthy church community.

Your First Ministry: Parenting Through the Joy and Sorrow of Discipleship Before we disciple a church, we are called to disciple the people in our own home. In this breakout, we’ll explore parenting not as behavior management or formula-following, but as a long journey of discipleship marked by both deep joy and deep dependence on God. Drawing from decades of parenting through different seasons of life and ministry, this session will encourage parents to see each child as uniquely created by God and to approach parenting with wisdom, humility, flexibility, and grace.

Everyday Shepherding: Caring for People With Wisdom, Presence, and Practicality Pastoral care is not reserved for pastors alone–it’s part of the calling of every disciple-maker. In this breakout, we’ll explore how leaders and church members can respond to real-life needs in gospel-centered, practical, and relational ways. Whether someone is walking through grief, crisis, conflict, suffering, or spiritual struggle, this session will help participants think intentionally about how to move toward people with care, discernment, and practical next steps.

Cultural Apologetics with Your Post-Christian Neighbors In every time and place, there are contemporary cultural issues that the church will meet when living out her mission. As we love and serve our communities in Jesus’ name and are used by him to seek and to save the lost, we will encounter various people and their questions. We should engage these with kindness, clarity, gentleness, and respect. This breakout will introduce you to the theological discipline and practice of apologetics while locating it in its proper context of the mission of God and the local church. We will build a basic framework for engaging with our friends and some contemporary issues confronting the church.

Systems That Serve the Mission: Using Technology to Support Discipleship and Growth Church management tools can either become administrative burdens or powerful tools for discipleship and care. This session helps leaders think strategically about how systems and technology can support real pastoral ministry, helping churches follow up intentionally, develop leaders, mobilize volunteers, track engagement, and create healthier ministry rhythms. Ideal for pastors, operations leaders, ministry directors, and church planters building sustainable ministry infrastructure.

Sermon Lab: Practical Tools for Developing Young Preachers Many churches want to develop preachers but don’t know how to move beyond occasional opportunities to preach. This breakout explores how sermon labs and intentional coaching environments can help younger communicators grow through preparation, feedback, repetition, and collaborative learning. Topics include structuring sermon labs, giving helpful feedback, evaluating growth, balancing encouragement and critique, and creating a healthy developmental culture around preaching.

More Than Small Groups: Designing Formation Pathways That Actually Make Disciples Small groups matter, but discipleship formation can’t rest on one ministry alone. This session helps church leaders think holistically about how all the spaces in a church contribute to spiritual formation, from corporate worship and community groups to serving, mission, classes, and leadership development. Learn how to create clear and connected discipleship pathways that move people from attendance to maturity to multiplication.

A Church on Its Knees: Why Prayer Matters for Mission and Multiplication Healthy churches and lasting mission are ultimately sustained by the power of God, not merely human effort. This breakout explores the connection between prayer, spiritual vitality, and gospel movement. We’ll discuss how churches can move beyond perfunctory prayer practices and cultivate genuine dependence on God that shapes leadership, discipleship, evangelism, and church multiplication.

Global Mission, Local Streets: Everyday Faithfulness Among the Nations God’s heart for the nations isn’t just a call for missionaries–it’s an invitation for the whole church. In this breakout, we’ll explore practical ways church members can participate in God’s mission locally by engaging international communities, neighbors, and people from different cultures already present in their city. This session will offer encouragement, practical ideas, and simple pathways for churches seeking to cultivate a culture of local global mission.

When Ministry Hurts: Processing Pain Without Losing Your Calling Every pastor and ministry leader will eventually face disappointment, conflict, criticism, and heartbreak. The question is not whether suffering will come, but how we respond when it does. In this breakout, we’ll discuss the emotional and spiritual realities of ministry hurt and how leaders can process pain faithfully instead of becoming hardened, defensive, or discouraged. This session is for anyone who wants to stay soft-hearted, spiritually alive, and deeply rooted in Christ through the challenges of ministry life.

Mission Matters for Women Too: Developing and Empowering Women in the Local Church Healthy churches don’t just create space for women–they intentionally disciple, develop, and equip them for meaningful ministry and mission. This breakout explores practical ways churches can help women grow as disciplers, leaders, mentors, and servants within the life of the church. We’ll discuss how to cultivate environments where women are known, cared for, challenged, and mobilized to use their gifts for the good of the church and the advance of the gospel.

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