New Wine Leadership Conference

New Wine Leadership Conference 2012: Reactivating the missional church

28-30 May 2012
Harrogate International Centre

For anyone involved in leadership in their local church.

If you want to travel fast; travel alone – but if you want to go a long way; travel together.

Bishop Jackson Ole Sapit (Kericho Diocese, Kenya)

We're inviting you to come and talk, dream, pray and plan together, so that we can effectively become local churches changing nations!

There has been increasing emphasis on growing healthy churches, whatever their size, where a church's health is measured by the quality of discipleship rather than its Sunday attendance. The mobilisation of every believer to be a faith-sharing disciple of Jesus wherever they live and work has created a momentum for new missional communities, fresh expressions of church, and church planting all around the country.

Who's the conference for?

Church leaders, key church staff members, small group leaders, elders, emerging leaders, ministry team leaders – anyone involved in leadership in their local church.

Programme

The conference starts at 14.00 on 28 May and finishes at 16.00 on 30 May.

We will start each day with worship and Bible teaching to refresh our minds, hearts and spirits. There will be a selection of seminars on the essential ‘how-tos’ of leading churches through change, starting new initiatives, and reaching our communities with the gospel. Plus we’ll have plenty of opportunities for prayer for empowering, equipping, healing and refreshing in the Spirit, and for networking with other church leaders.

Prices (online booking)

Early bird bookings before 28th February 2012: £45 for under 30s; £80 for over 30s 

Bookings received after 28th February 2012: £50 for under 30s; £85 for over 30s

Reserve your place today for £20 per person.

Location

Harrogate International Centre (HIC) is centrally located within the cosmopolitan North Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate. Travelling to Harrogate is easy, as it is well connected by road and has frequent rail services from Leeds and York.

There are many hotels and guesthouses in Harrogate town centre, within walking distance of HIC, along with great restaurants, cafés, interesting shops and beautiful parks and gardens.

Accommodation

This is not included in the cost. Book accommodation.

Guest speakers

Alan Hirsch is Founding Director of Forge Mission Training Network; Co-founder of shapevine.com; and Leader of Future Travelers, a learning program that helps churches become missional movements. He had led a local church movement among the marginalised, and heads up the mission and revitalisation work of his denomination. He is the series editor for the Baker-Shapevine books and an associate editor of Leadership Journal. Alan is also an adjunct professor at Fuller Seminary, George Fox Seminary and Wheaton, and lectures frequently throughout Australia, Europe and the US.

Deb Hirsch is a church leader and writer. While co-leading a church in Melbourne, Australia, she also pioneered a ministry to the GLBTQ community. She is author (with Alan) of Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship, and currently serves as a minister of Tribe of LA, a group of missional artists and vagabonds. She is also on the leadership team of Christian Associates, a church-planting movement in Europe, North and South America.

Anne Maclaurin is Vicar of St Barnabas Church in Cambridge. She was formerly Mission Priest - Executive Leader and Senior Anglican at St Thomas' Philadelphia in Sheffield. Before training for ordination at Ridley Hall, she had a 13-year career in retail management for Marks and Spencer.