How to Build a Missional Corps?
How can you transform an inwardly focused corps into a mission minded church? How do you help missional corps not to burn out? A practical, interactive seminar packed full of ideas, inspiration, and advice for churches of all sizes and situations.

Route 66 How the Whole Bible Equips the Whole Church for the
Whole of God’s Mission
How can we teach the Bible so that we release the whole church into mission? How can we release the power of the whole scriptures and apply it to the whole of life? How can we allow the prophetic wisdom literature and the apocalyptic passages to inspire hope, faith, and love in the church?

I.  Mashing Up Philanthropy
With 1-in-4 Americans under the age of 18, youth is our country’s largest population group. Though kids of all ages want to help others, most aren’t given the opportunity to tackle world challenges. Youthologist Lee Fox will share examples of how non-profits can
empower youth.

II.  Changing The World Through Environmental Stewardship
Sustainability has crept up America’s cause-agenda, now higher than ever before. According to a recent CONE study, 70% of Americans pay attention to what companies are doing with regards to the environment. "Green" has likewise become the new face of youth activism.  Learn what inspired tween siblings to start their own non-profit.

III.  Changing The World Through Passionate Leadership &
Responsible Social Media
At their finger-tips, youth activists have the same tools as adults to "activate" themselves as agents of change. However, the risk of putting personal information "online" is formidable, and young agents of change need to understand how to protect themselves in an ever-evolving digital world.

I.  Promise
The Salvation Army has been on the cutting edge of the fight against human trafficking. So much of what we read is simply about raising awareness. What does it look like if we go one step further? The Salvation Army PROMISE program opened a residential home for women and girls who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation/sex trafficking outside of
Chicago, Illinois

II.  Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
In 2006, The Salvation Army received a grant from the Department of Justice to develop a comprehensive curriculum on the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). The curriculum was developed under the leadership of The Salvation Army and five partner organizations across the country. Learn more about how you can make a difference and stop what is happening to our children.

I.  The Cultural Earthquake
In recent years our culture has been shaken to its very core.  How is God calling us to respond in the midst of a cultural earthquake? Will we be victims – or will we be
the rescue team?

II.  Building a Discipleship Culture
When Jesus gathered a group of people and discipled them, they became a group of passionate missionaries who changed the world. Yet His example often looks very different from our experience of discipleship.

III.  Missional Communities: Fad, Fiction or Fact?
As church decline accelerates across every generation in the US, missional communities have become a popular phrase in many Christian circles. But are they simply the latest fad or is there something to discover?

I.  An Inconvenient Discipleship
Learn about mission among the Urban Poor in North America. The impact of intentional and unintentional community, a theology of mission, and failures and lessons learned along
the way.

II.  Food and Salvation
How do mission, justice, and food connect with one another? Learn about gardening and feasting our way into the Kingdom.

I.  Good Idea. Now What? You have a good idea? Want to approach something in a new way? How can we take our ideas and implement them effectively?

II.Co/laboration  It takes a lot of intentional effort to collaborate well: it is called co-"labor". What you can do better when working with networks, organizations, and business’ in order to have great take aways and do something together. 

III.Social Media & Networks Twitter? Facebook? Blogs? Where social media is at and how can we use it to connect with our community.

I.  Contemplative Activism
Activists often see contemplation as a luxury, Contemplatives sometimes find themselves , preferring to pray rather than roll their sleeves up and get their hands dirty. The dichotomizing of contemplation and activism only perpetuates the misunderstanding that one is actually possible without the other.

II.  Bearing Witness to Hope
How can we bear witness to the hope that God is actually good? Lament, confession, and cultivating a spirituality of brokenness creates the credibility and authenticity needed to nurture a new kind of witness.

III.  Community and Transitions
Why is it that Christian communities have such difficulties with transitions? Sometimes people need to move on. How can we celebrate their transitions and strengthen the existing community to create spaces where people can be welcomed and released? How can we learn to support our community during our own time of transition?