Tracks & Workshops (2025)

Speakers, titles, and descriptions TBD. Each track will have 4 workshops...

  • Wednesday (morning & afternoon)
  • Thursday (morning & afternoon)

Track 1 • THEOLOGICAL INSIGHTS
Explore the biblical mandate of the multiethnic church and learn how to articulate it succinctly for others.
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Track 2 • SOCIOLOGICAL INSIGHTS
Consider the latest research, demographic shifts, and coming trends to more effectively engage an increasingly diverse and cynical society. Speakers & Topics TBA

Track 3 • CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE (CQ®)
Explore the why and what of cultural intelligence as a necessary skill for relating effectively with people from different backgrounds and learn how to build CQ® capacity in your church or organization.
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Track 4 • TEAM DEVELOPMENT
Discuss the why, how, and what of taking intentional steps to build or become part of a healthy multiethnic staff team.
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Track 5 • MULTIETHNIC PLANTING
Discover promising practices to help you launch, develop, and sustain a healthy multiethnic church.
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Track 6 • HOMOGENEOUS TRANSITION
Discover promising practices to help you lead an historically homogeneous congregation in becoming a healthy multiethnic church.
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Track 7 • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Consider unique challenges and how to overcome the obstacles in order to create a multiethnic and economically diverse, socially just, and financially sustainable church in the urban context.
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Track 8 • CHURCH ECONOMICS
Learn the why, how, and what of getting beyond tithes & offerings to create multiple streams of revenue by leveraging church assets, blessing the community, and generating sustainable income.
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Track 9 • JESUS & JUSTICE
Explore practical ways to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God and others in the city, understanding that justice is not peripheral but intrinsic to the Gospel.
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Track 10 • IMMIGRANT IMPACT
Given that 95% of net population growth in the US will be from immigrants and their families, consider how and what your church can do to recognize, affirm, learn from, and engage the multiethnic immigrant community already in or soon coming to your community.
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Track 11 • TRADING SPACES
Meet and learn from leaders of color in senior positions of local church or organizational leadership who are today navigating in traditionally white-led spaces.
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Track 12 • CONTENTIOUS ISSUES
Consider how best to navigate nuance and the complexities of divisive topics that are negatively impacting Christian witness today, and the added challenges of doing so in a multiethnic environment.
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Track 13 • FUTURE FORWARD
Sit-in on panel discussions featuring recognized pioneers and practitioners shaping thought and practice today with future outcomes in mind.
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Track 14 • ENTREPRENURAL ADVANCE
Meet disruptive innovators effecting systemic change today and discover promising practices to expand influence and impact in your own ministry context.
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Track 15 • WE GOT NEXT
Meet and learn from leaders under 40 years of age who are engaged in advancing unity, diversity, and justice in the local church, broader Christian community, and the communities they serve as ambassadors of Christ.
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Track 16 • LEADING WORSHIP
Consider the why and what of creating a dynamic worship experience in a multiethnic environment and how to unite diverse others as one before the Lord in passion, spirit, and voice.
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