MinistryLift Workshops
Recent Workshops
The Servant Leadership Series is a collection of seven interactive workshops that will help you grow in your capacity to serve and resource others. The workshops draw upon biblical foundations, current theory, case studies, and personal assessments to strengthen your development as a leader.
Nearly 100 people gathered together to soak in 8 workshops over two days. Descriptions of each workshop can be viewed here.
Ten churches participated in a day of small group ministry training where MinistryLift delivered five customized workshops. Descriptions of each workshop can be viewed here.
In this workshop, we will look at ways that your church can design discipleship pathways that will help people take next steps in their spiritual journey. We will look at a number of models and discuss ways that your church can strengthen its disciple-making approach.
The Hemorrhaging Faith study looked at why Canadian young adults who grew up in the church either stayed or left the church. The results of the study paint a picture of what families and churches need to do (and not do) as they seek to disciple children and youth.
In this workshop, you will learn how to use the Leader Breakthru COACH Model to turn any conversation into a disciple-making opportunity. We will also look at ways to make mentoring/coaching a key discipleship pathway in your church. Please note: the Leader Breakthru COACH Model is based on Keith Webb’s book, The COACH Model for Christian Leaders.
Healthy small groups are an excellent place for making disciples. But how can church leaders foster a church culture that supports a dynamic and growing small group ministry? What are strategies that small group leaders can use to grow their small groups? What are some of the skills - like asking excellent questions and maximizing differences of opinion - that small group leaders need to help people in their groups take next steps? In this workshop, we will seek to answer these questions as a way of helping churches and small group leaders take their small group ministry to the next level.
Breakthrough "Nurturing the New Generation of Chinese Youth" Series
Richmond, BC - Oct 10 & 12, 2015
The Breakthrough organization from Hong Kong offered two training courses to help youth parents and youth workers to nurture the new generation of Chinese youth. Both courses took place on Trinity Western University's Richmond Campus. The format was four 75-minute sessions that featured 45 mintues of instruction and 30 minutes of group discussion.
Communicating God's Word
Calgary, AB - May 23-24, 2014 | Surrey, BC - June 12-13, 2015
Communicating God's Word is an introduction to hermeneutics (interpreting Scripture), homiletics (preaching), and teaching adults that features multiple plenary sessions as well as focused workshop options for participants to choose from.
Deeper Worship Seminar with Musician and Writer, Carolyn Arends, and ACTS Professor, Dr. Daryl Busby
Background photo by Linda Hamm
Join Carolyn Arends and Daryl Busby for a MinistryLift Deeper Worship Seminar (March 13-14 and April 24-25, 2015) that begins with the biblical foundation of true corporate worship. After a discerning review of our theology of worship, this seminar then leads the participants on a journey through historical traditions and practices, culminating in an assessment of contemporary corporate worship in the evangelical church.
Disciplemaking - Engaging in Life-changing Evangelism and Discipleship with James Penner
(Friday and Saturday, February 27-28, 2015)
James Penner, one of the authors of Hemorrhaging Faith, did workshops on the results of the Hemorrhaging Faith study and Working with Millennials and Post-Millennials.
Vision to Reality: Discerning Vision and Developing a Strategic Plan for Your Ministry (Friday, January 23, 2015)
The Vision to Reality Seminar featured four 75-minute workshops that outlined a process for helping people discern God’s vision for their ministry and to identify steps that will help them realize that vision. The day started out with a look at what the Bible says about vision discernment and strategic planning. For the remainder of the day, we explored in a very practical, hands-on kind of way a vision discernment and strategic planning approach that any group can use to clarify their direction.
Equipping Conference - October 24-25, 2014
To date, this was our largest MinistryLift event with 13 equipping tracks and 52 workshop options offered. Here are the tracks for the two days:
Friday Tracks - Christianity and Culture, ChurchWorks Church Administration, Healing Discipleship, Leadership Essentials 1, Prayer, Rural Ministry, and Worship Ministry
Saturday Tracks - Authentic Leadership, Children's Ministry, Coaching/Mentoring, Leadership Essentials 2, Marriage and Family, Personal Health
MinistryLift Small Group Ministry Training in Alberta
Edmonton (October 4-5, 2014)
Calgary (October 18-19, 2014)
At the request of the Jesus Rock of Ages Churches in Alberta and Saskatchewan, MinistryLift provided two weekend training sessions on the Essential Skills for Leading Small Groups.
MinistryLift 2014 Leadership Conference (May 31, 2014)
MinistryLift's first leadership conference ended up featuring four equipping tracks: Leadership Coaching, Engaging Conflict for Good, Building Healthy Ministry Teams and Missional Governance: Strategic Leadership in the Local Church. Click here to check out a detailed description of the conference sessions and presenters. You can also access all of the conference PowerPoints/Prezis, handouts and teaching videos on our Resources page (accessing the videos requires a MinistryLift membership).
Small Group Ministry 2014 (February 28 - March 1, 2014)
The overall theme for the conference was taking your small group ministry to the next level. The first day, Friday, focused on biblical community and approaches to small group ministry (geared for those who oversee small group ministries). The sessions on day two, Saturday, helped participants sharpen their skills for leading effective small groups (designed for current and prospective small group leaders). Dr. Dan Nicholson and Phil Wager were the plenary speakers. Participants could participate in 18 different breakout sessions throughout the conference. You can check out the conference schedule on the conference page or view/listen to recordings of all the sessions (along with PowerPoints and other handouts) in the Resources section of the website (watching the videos requires a MinistryLift membership).
Equipping 2013 (October 4, 2013)
This conference featured 28 workshops in 7 tracks (apologetics/evangelism, adult ministry, Bible/theology, children's ministry, leadership, marriage and family/helping skills, and multicultural ministry. Click here to check out a detailed description of the conference sessions and presenters. You can also access all of the conference PowerPoints/Prezis, handouts and teaching videos on our Resources page (accessing the videos requires a MinistryLift membership).