NewThing is once again offering The Exponential Church Practicum on March 5 – March 6, 2012 in Chicago and beginning today through Feb 6, 2011 we offering an early bird rate of $199 per person.  Take advantage of this great offer and register soon!

Learn How to Be a Reproducing Church! 

If you would like to see your church experience exponential growth, this is for you! The Exponential Church Practicum will help you and your team develop a step-by-step strategic plan for how to make it a reality! This intensive workshop is designed to provide direction for you and your entire leadership team.

Who Should Attend?

The Practicum is designed to help your staff formulate goals and action items to begin the reproducing church process. To get the most out of your experience, we recommend attending with your key staff leadership team including the Senior Pastor.

"If we want to solve Jesus' mission problem of going to 'Jerusalem...Judea...Samaria...to the ends of the earth,'  we are going to have to find a new kind of math and a new way to count that results in rapid reproduction.  That new math is exponential.  The new way to count is counting on you and your friends to start a missional church movement." 

Dave Ferguson, Exponential - how you and your friends can start a missional church movement

Below is the event schedule, but if you'd like to register for the event simply click HERE.

Event Schedule

Monday, March 5

12:30 PM Registration/Check-in

1:00 PM   Welcome / Eric Metcalf

1:30 PM Session 1: Movements Start with One / Dave and Jon Ferguson

3:00 PM Team Time / Brian Zehr

4:15 PM Session 2: Reproducing Tribes / Eric Metcalf & Carter Moss

5:15 PM Team Time / Brian Zehr

Tuesday, March 6

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM Session 3: Heart of a Reproducing Leader / Brian Zehr

10:30 AM 7 Moves / Jon Ferguson and Brad Prunty

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM Specific breakouts for churches in different stages of multi-site:
Breakout #1 - Church Planting / Eric Metcalf
Breakout #2 - Going Multi-Site / Jon Ferguson
Breakout #3 - Already Multi-Site / Brian Zehr

12:00 PM Team Time / Working Lunch

1:15 PM Coaching Huddle

2:00 PM Session 4: Reproducing Movements / Dave Ferguson

December 5, 2011 at Community Christian Church in Naperville, IL

Built on Hebrews 12:1-3, The Exponential One Days highlights the vital importance of the spiritual, physical and emotional health of church leaders and their spouses.  The sessions are designed to engage attendees in conversation rather than "drinking from a fire hydrant of material." These events are NOT about methodology and training. They are about encouragement in running the race marked out for you. Spouses are STRONGLY encouraged to attend and their admission is free. Where many conferences and resources focus on the "doing" of models, approaches and innovations, the Exponential One Days focus will be on the being and health of church leaders.

There will also be time to interact with Dave Ferguson, Bob Bouwer, Jon Ferguson, Eric Metcalf, Brian Zehr and others from NewThing to learn about what it means to have a reproducing church culture. This is a great opportunity to be built into, talk with other church leaders in the area, and be encouraged.

Just last week we got to experience a lot fun, vision and inspiration from a some key leaders in the Kingdom.  Brandon Hatmaker, author of Barefoot Church, Lead Pastor of Austin New Church in Austin TX, spoke to us on the topic of "Severing the Least in a Consumer Culuture" hitting it out the park as he told his story as to why he started his new church - fantastic stuff!

Dave Ferguson, NewThing Lead Visionary & Movement Leader, spoke to us on "The Beginnings of a Movement" helping us see that NewThing is building steam and we might actually see start to see a movement take place in our lifetime.  Dave celebrated the many churches we've started in 2011, and specifically celebrate the 4 new churches we've started in the past couple weeks to reach over 1600 people.  Not only that, Dave gave us this TEDS video to illustrate the idea of movement:

Jon Ferguson, NewThing Architet & Movement Leader, brought on the topic of "Making Movements Move" drawing on our commitment to: reproducing, relationships, residents and resources.  He challenged us to stay true to those values as we grow.  Jon also illustrated how as the movement grows we will need and/or continue to experience: diversity, simple systems, shrinking egos and rapid reproduction.

Brian Zehr, NewThing Director of Coaching & Training | Director of Intentional Impact, talked to us about "Heart of a Reproducing Leader".  He pushed us to think about the values or principles that allow us to be a reproducing church or create reproducing church cultures.  Talking through humility, collaboration, Kingdom mindset, and fun.

Dave wrapped up the Gathering by reminding us we need to keep a few things in front us as we focus building this movement dedicated to helping people find their way back to God...friendship, competition, trust, etc.  To illustrate, check out all the fun we had!

On October 6-8, we'll be gathering our church planters from all over the world: Boston, New York, Detroit, L.A., San Francisco, France, Brazil, the Philippines (and much more) for our semi-annual NewThing Gathering.  In fact if you are already in NewThing, you can register for the event by clicking HERE.  

It's happening in one of the greatest cities on the planet - Chicago - at Community Christian Church where the NewThing vision took some of its first steps.

Interested in being part of it?  We'd love that!  Simply complete a free ELI Assessment (choosing NewThing as your organization) so we can get to know you more and we'll be in contact with you about next steps from there.  

You are also invited to attend our partnered event, The Jesus Mission Conference, on Saturday, October 8, to learn more about what inspires us.  Hear from Reverend and Senator James Meeks, National Director of Forge, Kim Hammond and Lead Pastor of Community Christian Church, Dave Ferguson on reaching people far from God, restoring God's dream for the world and reproducing this mission in others.  After the conference, your pre-paid ticket will get you a free lunch at NewThing's Networking Lunch where you will learn more about NewThing and rub shoulders with some of our church planters. We look forward to getting to know you and hope you will be able to join us for one of these events.  

I can already feel the synergy of us coming together again to celebrate what God is doing in and through this growing movement of Leadership Residents, Church Planters, Network Leaders, and Movement Leaders.  It is going to be A LOT of fun!