Featuring presenters:

*Dr. Larry Osborne

Breaking Through Ceilings of Competency & Complexity  

Sooner or later, every leader and every organization hits a ceiling of competency and complexity. Those who break through move on to new heights – those who don’t flounder and die.

STICKY TEAMS: Building A Healthy Leadership Team

From The Ground Up Healthy and unified leadership teams don’t just happen. They have to be created AND maintained.

THE BARNABAS FACTOR: Finding & Developing Leaders

Ultimately, the success of any ministry depends on our ability to find, develop, and multiply leaders.

Dr. Larry Osborne meets with Student Ministry Pastors - Larry can cover whatever he wants to in this workshop with our Student Ministry Pastors

*Dr. Bill Hamel, EFCA President

            An Interview with EFCA President Dr. Bill Hamel

*Chris Holck, EFCA Encore Director

1.    "Intergenerational Health: Removing Silos in the Church"

There is a difference between a multi-generational church where there is four or five generations under the same church roof and an inter-generational church where those generations actually know each other and build into each other’s lives. Practical ideas will be shared.

2.    "Helping Boomers (and Builders) to Finish Well"

All Christians are interested to know their spiritual birthright but Boomers are particularly restless to know what unique contribution God has for them. This workshop will offer practical tools.

*Dante Upshaw, EFCA African-American Director

*Dave Rofkahr, Reach Global Director of Recruiting

1.     “The Color World of Modern Missions – a denominational perspective on becoming missional”

The challenge of moving from the black and white to the color world; from institutional to missional.

2.    “Our Iceberg is Melting – Inspiring the Next Generation to Global Missions”

If it’s true that only 3 of 10 twenty-somethings attend church in a typical week, What will it take to motivate the next generation to Pray, Give, Go, Welcome, Mobilize?

*Philip Abode, Samaritan Way team member

“Help That Goes the Distance”

Based on the books, "When Helping Hurts" by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert and Tim Keller's "Generous Justice", Samaritan Way offers a practical workshop on how to help humbly and effectively so that your justice and compassion work will go the full distance.

*Sean Matthew O’Brien on the use of social media and the local church

“YouTwitFace – Appropriately combining YouTube, Twitter and Facebook to spark social media driven growth for your church.”

This workshop will help church leaders recognize how they can maximize free social media networks to tell the story of their church to the world.  The workshop will be 40% presentation, 33% lab (both visual and interactive) and 27% Q&A.

*Steve Johnson, Christian Investors Financial Vice President

1.    Financial Options for Your Ministry Expansion - Covering what you should be aware of with respect to real estate loans, capital campaigns, investments (CIF specific), consulting services available.

2.    Developing & Nurturing a Culture of Generosity - Explores the Biblical foundation of generosity and looks at current tips and best practices of ministries that are experiencing a culture of generosity.

Friday, February 24th

12:00 pm:  Registration

1:00  pm:  Worship and greeting

1:30 pm: District Spotlight:  Philip Abode

                      - An Interview with EFCA President Bill Hamel

                      - District Spotlight:  West Brazelton

2:30 pm:  BREAK   

3:00 pm:  General Meeting

                        - District Spotlight:  Guillermo Cardona

4:00 pm:  BREAK

4:30 pm:  Dr. Larry Osborne

                       Topic:  Breaking Through Ceilings of Competency & Complexity

5:30 pm:  Banquet

7:00-8:30 pm:  An Evening with Dr. Larry Osborne

                        Topic:  Sticky Teams

 Saturday, February 25th

8:00-8:25 am:  Continental Breakfast  

8:30-10:00 am:  Workshops

                          BREAK

10:30 am-12:00 pm:  Workshops

12:00 pm:  Lunch and any unfinished business

Conference Residency Accommodations:

Holiday Inn Express Austin – Sunset Valley

http://www.hiexpress.com/hotels/us/en/sunset-valley/aussv/hoteldetail

4892 US highway 290 WEST, SUNSET VALLEY, TEXAS  78735  

Hotel Front Desk: 1-512-891-9500    Hotel Fax: 1-512-8919570

Holiday Inn: 1-888-465-4329

Guest can either call the local number, 1-800 number or make their reservations online

 The Group Code is: EF2  You will need this code in order to receive the discount.

 This is a non-smoking facility and pets are not allowed

Reserved under EFCA Tx-Ok Conference for Thurs-Sat, February 23-25, 2012

Conference cost schedule:

Early Bird Registration (by Jan. 15):  $69.00 per person or $99.00 per married couple

Regular Registration (Jan. 16 - Feb. 15):  $89.00 per person or $119.00 per married couple

Late Registration (Feb. 16 or after):  $109.00 per person or $139.00 per married couple

Saturday only Registration (by Feb. 15):  $29.00 per person or $39.00 per married couple.       (Feb. 16 or after):  $59.00 per person or $69.00 per married couple.

Friday Banquet only: $15.00 per person by Feb. 15

(You do not need a PayPal account to register, however, If you're using a credit card that is not associated with your PayPal acount you must use the 'credit card only' option on the PayPal payment page.)