Unlock AI’s potential in children’s ministry with practical tips for crafting better prompts. Learn how to create engaging Bible storytelling, visuals, animation, video, and music to bring the Gospel to life. This hands-on session will equip you with tools and techniques to enhance your weekly ministry with creativity and impact.

It’s easy to get caught in the whirlwind of ministry—planning the next event, filling the roster, solving the latest problem. But leaders of leaders are called to something greater: to lift their eyes and build ministry that lasts.
This session is a call to rise above the day-to-day and take hold of the big picture. In this session, we’ll explore how to shift from reactive to visionary leadership. Whether you’re in a church, school, or community setting, this session will help you move from short-term survival to long-term vision.
Because God didn’t just call you to run programs. He called you to shape a generation.

Generous and sensitive sharing of God’s invitation, facilitating authentic and honest response. Empowering authentic responses to God and tools for exploring decisions. Want to open the Bible and share the Gospel with children.. and invite genuine responses? Terrific, What is your approach? How do you make space for their genuine questions, doubts and declarations? Explore choice-filled interactions. This session looks at two different rhythms of response (and introduces SU’s Starting Out resource). One is the regular opening of the bible and responding to the invitations in the story (this is discipleship, and the Consequence of the 5 Cs). The other are the broader life moments of a decision or interest in following Jesus. How can we foster a culture of authentic, open response – giving many choices and wide paths? If a child has asked you, or is ready to consider what it means to follow Jesus, what will you talk to them about, and what will you give them?

So you find yourself with a young but passionate bunch volunteers. How do you develop them into more competent and more capable leaders that will support and then out-lead you? How do you make them into a team that is humming along and kicking goals? In this session we’ll discover some way to intentionally develop your team in a Christ-like way.

GodSpace Green invites children to Explore what life with God is all about. GodSpace is a curriculum for 4-12 year olds designed for SRE/RI and beyond. This elective will introduce the theme, lessons and resources for GodSpace Green and provide tips to encourage children in your context to discover what a life of faith might look like for them today.

When it comes to spiritual conversations, Jesus was a true master. In this session, we will explore 7 tools that Jesus used to amazing effect in his conversations and apply them to the issues and concerns facing today’s young people.

Sometimes families struggle with anxiety, fear, and uncertainty. Drawing on her experience of working with families, and principles from her books Comfort in the Darkness and the upcoming book Comfort in Times of Uncertainty, Rachel will discuss some key principles in empowering parents and carers to coach their children spiritually through the common difficulties families face.

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Anne Marie will help you to understand, use and enjoy teaching from the ‘Beginning With God’ curriculum from CEP

This exciting session will help you think through how you can ask questions in a way that encourages students to think more deeply about what they are learning, and give more reflective answers as they engage with God’s word.

This elective explores two vital areas for personal growth: the Relational Law of Responsibility and Emotional Maturity. When disagreements or problems arise, people tend to blame others or external systems. However, many underestimate the significant impact these 2 growth areas have on their relationships within their family, marriage, work, and ministry. God calls each of us to mature in all aspects of our lives, and this journey begins with you.

The success of any ministry relies heavily on the health of the leadership team. There are many challenges to maintaining a healthy team. Everything from taking the right steps to form a team through to keeping a team focused, motivated and passionate over the long run. This elective will give you practical insight and tips into starting a team well and maintaining the health of a team over many years so that your ministry will last and have true kingdom impact.

This elective offers a crash course in approaches to preaching and teaching in intergenerational contexts. Based on research into best practices, Dave Csinos will model different ways to preach the gospel with young and old and everyone in between. Special attention will be paid to how congregations can gradually adapt their preaching practices to accommodate different ages, abilities, interests, and ways of learning.

Looking at the impacts of Covid from recent research and my experience and considering ways to address some of these challenges for children and young people.

Exploring how we define our own cultural identity in light of our place in community, as well as reflecting on God’s heart as an expression of our shared spiritual heritage in His big story.

An exploration of some of the important keys that will help you to match your expectations of what children can understand and do with the diverse and creative range of learning experiences available. Unlocking this process by using these keys will empower your communication and build deeper connections.

A real sense of belonging requires more than one generation. It requires time, being other-centered, and creative variety and interactivity. This belonging requires safe places for all voices and gifts to be explored and valued. In a world where so many people feel disconnected, should it not be the church who creates a space where people can truly feel like they belong?

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the ‘why’ we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Helping young people discover their identity in Christ is a key goal of youth ministry. However, while we might know a lot about what it means to be ‘in Christ’ we often know very little about identity.
What is identity?
How does identity form?
How does our personal identity relate to our spiritual identity?
This workshop will help you to understand the science of identity development and how a youth ministry can help young people thrive as human beings as well as members of God’s family.

These 3 sessions will give insight into the value of their role as a leader with children and youth as well as practical strategies to use immediately! • How children and young people learn: Switching young people on to learning using Jesus’ simple methods. • Teachable Moments: Together we will identify and learn how to use those precious times when young people are open, willing, and ready to discover: matching teachable moments with our understanding of the Bible and our journey as a disciple. • Learning through games: Fun ways to raise curiosity and awareness, a practical session of game and debrief design!

Whether a Professional muso or someone who can’t hold a tune, using and teaching memory verses and music are 2 of the most effective ways of teaching kids God’s truth. How do you do it well?
This is relevant for any children’s ministry, including Religious Instruction in schools, Kids Church, Kids Clubs, Church services, etc…

The world is changing at an exponential pace. Technology is not going away. Denial is not a strategy that is going to work! While the challenge seems huge, come and explore some basic principles that undergird any strategy to help young people and parents to navigate through a digital world in a healthy way. Being informed is the start of the journey.

How can you hold an audience without a rope? Come and discover the key elements in the art of storytelling that will help to connect with your audience, maintain their attention and create a special space for God to touch people’s hearts and minds. Such is the power of story and it is as easy as A, B, C & D.

A real sense of belonging requires more than one generation. It requires time, being other-centered, and creative variety and interactivity. This belonging requires safe places for all voices and gifts to be explored and valued. In a world where so many people feel disconnected, should it not be the church who creates a space where people can truly feel like they belong?

When it comes to spiritual conversations, Jesus was a true master. In this session, we will explore 7 tools that Jesus used to amazing effect in his conversations and apply them to the issues and concerns facing today’s young people.

Sometimes families struggle with anxiety, fear, and uncertainty. Drawing on her experience of working with families, and principles from her books Comfort in the Darkness and the upcoming book Comfort in Times of Uncertainty, Rachel will discuss some key principles in empowering parents and carers to coach their children spiritually through the common difficulties families face.

Children’s literature is full of messages that speak to all ages and are relevant to our faith. This elective will explore what we can learn about faith from children’s literature and how we can use children’s literature in ministry. This includes ministry with children, youth and all ages. This will be a practical, interactive session. Bring a favourite children’s picture book to use in the session.

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the ‘why’ we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Unlock AI’s potential in children’s ministry with practical tips for crafting better prompts. Learn how to create engaging Bible storytelling, visuals, animation, video, and music to bring the Gospel to life. This hands-on session will equip you with tools and techniques to enhance your weekly ministry with creativity and impact.

It’s easy to get caught in the whirlwind of ministry—planning the next event, filling the roster, solving the latest problem. But leaders of leaders are called to something greater: to lift their eyes and build ministry that lasts.
This session is a call to rise above the day-to-day and take hold of the big picture. In this session, we’ll explore how to shift from reactive to visionary leadership. Whether you’re in a church, school, or community setting, this session will help you move from short-term survival to long-term vision.
Because God didn’t just call you to run programs. He called you to shape a generation.

So you find yourself with a young but passionate bunch volunteers. How do you develop them into more competent and more capable leaders that will support and then out-lead you? How do you make them into a team that is humming along and kicking goals? In this session we’ll discover some way to intentionally develop your team in a Christ-like way.

GodSpace Green invites children to Explore what life with God is all about. GodSpace is a curriculum for 4-12 year olds designed for SRE/RI and beyond. This elective will introduce the theme, lessons and resources for GodSpace Green and provide tips to encourage children in your context to discover what a life of faith might look like for them today.

Sometimes families struggle with anxiety, fear, and uncertainty. Drawing on her experience of working with families, and principles from her books Comfort in the Darkness and the upcoming book Comfort in Times of Uncertainty, Rachel will discuss some key principles in empowering parents and carers to coach their children spiritually through the common difficulties families face.

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Helping young people discover their identity in Christ is a key goal of youth ministry. However, while we might know a lot about what it means to be ‘in Christ’ we often know very little about identity.
What is identity?
How does identity form?
How does our personal identity relate to our spiritual identity?
This workshop will help you to understand the science of identity development and how a youth ministry can help young people thrive as human beings as well as members of God’s family.

This elective offers a crash course in approaches to preaching and teaching in intergenerational contexts. Based on research into best practices, Dave Csinos will model different ways to preach the gospel with young and old and everyone in between. Special attention will be paid to how congregations can gradually adapt their preaching practices to accommodate different ages, abilities, interests, and ways of learning.

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the ‘why’ we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

The Bible is God’s Big Story! A story of love, failure, rescue, redemption, grace and promise. It’s a story that goes before us, includes and invite us, and a story that goes beyond us. In the Bible we see lives transformed through encountering God and following Jesus. However, the world of our kids can be so different to the places, the experiences and the contexts of the stories we share. How do we engage our 21st century kids with the Bible in real, relevant and life-changing ways?

With so many young people losing their faith and leaving the church a crucial leadership skill is helping young people when they have doubts and questions concerning their faith. Too often we are quick to talk and slow to listen. This workshop will unpack a really helpful framework to help you to feel confident working with young people as they navigate the hard times in their faith.

Unlock AI’s potential in children’s ministry with practical tips for crafting better prompts. Learn how to create engaging Bible storytelling, visuals, animation, video, and music to bring the Gospel to life. This hands-on session will equip you with tools and techniques to enhance your weekly ministry with creativity and impact.

Generous and sensitive sharing of God’s invitation, facilitating authentic and honest response. Empowering authentic responses to God and tools for exploring decisions. Want to open the Bible and share the Gospel with children.. and invite genuine responses? Terrific, What is your approach? How do you make space for their genuine questions, doubts and declarations? Explore choice-filled interactions. This session looks at two different rhythms of response (and introduces SU’s Starting Out resource). One is the regular opening of the bible and responding to the invitations in the story (this is discipleship, and the Consequence of the 5 Cs). The other are the broader life moments of a decision or interest in following Jesus. How can we foster a culture of authentic, open response – giving many choices and wide paths? If a child has asked you, or is ready to consider what it means to follow Jesus, what will you talk to them about, and what will you give them?

Sometimes families struggle with anxiety, fear, and uncertainty. Drawing on her experience of working with families, and principles from her books Comfort in the Darkness and the upcoming book Comfort in Times of Uncertainty, Rachel will discuss some key principles in empowering parents and carers to coach their children spiritually through the common difficulties families face.

Helping young people discover their identity in Christ is a key goal of youth ministry. However, while we might know a lot about what it means to be ‘in Christ’ we often know very little about identity.
What is identity?
How does identity form?
How does our personal identity relate to our spiritual identity?
This workshop will help you to understand the science of identity development and how a youth ministry can help young people thrive as human beings as well as members of God’s family.

Exploring how we define our own cultural identity in light of our place in community, as well as reflecting on God’s heart as an expression of our shared spiritual heritage in His big story.

A real sense of belonging requires more than one generation. It requires time, being other-centered, and creative variety and interactivity. This belonging requires safe places for all voices and gifts to be explored and valued. In a world where so many people feel disconnected, should it not be the church who creates a space where people can truly feel like they belong?

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the ‘why’ we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Unlock AI’s potential in children’s ministry with practical tips for crafting better prompts. Learn how to create engaging Bible storytelling, visuals, animation, video, and music to bring the Gospel to life. This hands-on session will equip you with tools and techniques to enhance your weekly ministry with creativity and impact.

Generous and sensitive sharing of God’s invitation, facilitating authentic and honest response. Empowering authentic responses to God and tools for exploring decisions. Want to open the Bible and share the Gospel with children.. and invite genuine responses? Terrific, What is your approach? How do you make space for their genuine questions, doubts and declarations? Explore choice-filled interactions. This session looks at two different rhythms of response (and introduces SU’s Starting Out resource). One is the regular opening of the bible and responding to the invitations in the story (this is discipleship, and the Consequence of the 5 Cs). The other are the broader life moments of a decision or interest in following Jesus. How can we foster a culture of authentic, open response – giving many choices and wide paths? If a child has asked you, or is ready to consider what it means to follow Jesus, what will you talk to them about, and what will you give them?

Sometimes families struggle with anxiety, fear, and uncertainty. Drawing on her experience of working with families, and principles from her books Comfort in the Darkness and the upcoming book Comfort in Times of Uncertainty, Rachel will discuss some key principles in empowering parents and carers to coach their children spiritually through the common difficulties families face.

Helping young people discover their identity in Christ is a key goal of youth ministry. However, while we might know a lot about what it means to be ‘in Christ’ we often know very little about identity.
What is identity?
How does identity form?
How does our personal identity relate to our spiritual identity?
This workshop will help you to understand the science of identity development and how a youth ministry can help young people thrive as human beings as well as members of God’s family.

Sermons – exegetical and practical application monologues are a recent addiction of the modern church. For many seasons of christian history, the nourishment of souls was not met by the individualist, verbal, rhetorical art of preaching. ‘Preaching’ in the New Testament is not simply a verbal practice but a whole of life witness of the gospel. For many congregations that seek intergenerational community, many parts of gathered worship are easily adaptable to inclusive practices – music, prayers, responses and offerings – but the sermon lacks accessible engagement. This workshop explores several practical intergenerational ways that engaging with scripture can be deeper, richer, more nourishing and more challenging than a 30 minute exegetical sermon. The resistance to intergenerational gatherings has often relied on the claim that ‘we need to keep feeding mature christians’ or ‘we don’t want to dumb down the teaching’. However, there is good evidence for accessible biblical exegetical material that will stretch everyone fits in intergenerational faith community wonderfully. Concrete examples, principles and methodologies.

Exploring how we define our own cultural identity in light of our place in community, as well as reflecting on God’s heart as an expression of our shared spiritual heritage in His big story.

A real sense of belonging requires more than one generation. It requires time, being other-centered, and creative variety and interactivity. This belonging requires safe places for all voices and gifts to be explored and valued. In a world where so many people feel disconnected, should it not be the church who creates a space where people can truly feel like they belong?

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the ‘why’ we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.

Humanity has been grappling with an invasion of mind. Fear and anxiety have moved in and whilst it is understandable when the world does not feel stable, we know we are made for greater things. This session aims firstly to help understand what is happening in anxious moments for individuals and its effect on relationships. We were designed and created for relationship and anxiety can often dent and damage the ways we connect with others and with God. The pandemic and other world issues have generally intensified feelings of anxiety, confusion and uncertainty. With that in mind, we will also explore lifestyle strategies to inspire thinking around positive connections for improved mental health and support for ourselves and our families as we continue to turn away from fear, uncertainty and constant change and turn towards the Father for His guidance in all circumstances, even when the world continues to show instability.

Helping young people discover their identity in Christ is a key goal of youth ministry. However, while we might know a lot about what it means to be ‘in Christ’ we often know very little about identity.
What is identity?
How does identity form?
How does our personal identity relate to our spiritual identity?
This workshop will help you to understand the science of identity development and how a youth ministry can help young people thrive as human beings as well as members of God’s family.

Grow Disciples is a resource developed by Grow Ministries designed to help cultivate lifelong faith. While it has been specifically created for teaching young people, it can be used in a variety of settings, including adult discipleship. Come and learn how to help your congregation implement a ministry that understands the importance of developing lifelong, intergenerational relationships between young people and adults that build a sense of belonging to your faith community. These resources also encourage the development of home and congregation partnership.

The world is changing at an exponential pace. Technology is not going away. Denial is not a strategy that is going to work! While the challenge seems huge, come and explore some basic principles that undergird any strategy to help young people and parents to navigate through a digital world in a healthy way. Being informed is the start of the journey.

Often ministry practitioners who are enthusiastic about intergenerational faith formation become discouraged by the sense that an older traditional congregation will not embrace intergenerational practices. “That would never work in my older congregation…” is a common cry. This workshop explores some of the cultural and spiritual dynamics that block or welcome intergenerational faith. It addresses what is needed in leadership, in resourcing, in healing the past and in developing the theological vision of the community. The presentation with use Australian case studies; research; practical resource samples and key discussion questions to help participants consider the dynamics at work in their own context and find some steps forwards – walking the intergenerational path in peace and joy. Especially suitable for Ministers and Pastors, worship leaders and intergenerational advocates.

A real sense of belonging requires more than one generation. It requires time, being other-centered, and creative variety and interactivity. This belonging requires safe places for all voices and gifts to be explored and valued. In a world where so many people feel disconnected, should it not be the church who creates a space where people can truly feel like they belong?

Helping young people discover their identity in Christ is a key goal of youth ministry. However, while we might know a lot about what it means to be ‘in Christ’ we often know very little about identity.
What is identity?
How does identity form?
How does our personal identity relate to our spiritual identity?
This workshop will help you to understand the science of identity development and how a youth ministry can help young people thrive as human beings as well as members of God’s family.

Exploring how we define our own cultural identity in light of our place in community, as well as reflecting on God’s heart as an expression of our shared spiritual heritage in His big story.

A real sense of belonging requires more than one generation. It requires time, being other-centered, and creative variety and interactivity. This belonging requires safe places for all voices and gifts to be explored and valued. In a world where so many people feel disconnected, should it not be the church who creates a space where people can truly feel like they belong?

Arguably, your early years ministry is the most foundational and critical ministry in the life of your church. Join us as we unpack the ‘why’ we provide a ministry space for young children and explore how to create an engaging and exciting space/program that will see preschoolers’ hearts set on fire for Jesus.