Annual Conference

NAPCE 2005 Annual Conference
October 20-22, 2005
Kahler Grand Hotel
Rochester, Minnesota
Kevin Lawson- Conference VP

Conference Theme and Program Overview
Schedule
Accommodations

Conference Theme and Overview

At the Rochester conference we had an opportunity to focus on the leadership needs of the church and discuss how to prepare leaders who will be able to make disciples in and through churches.  This year’s theme was:  Educational Leadership for the 21st Century Church. Pastor Leith Anderson and Gary McIntosh assisted us in this process.

Leith Anderson, Senior Pastor of Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, Minnesota is author of A Church for the 21st Century, Dying for Change, Leadership that Works, Praying to the God you Can Trust, and Becoming Friends with God.  He has been Senior Pastor of Wooddale Church since 1977, giving leadership to a growing and changing ministry.  He has been an astute observer of church life and ministry, sharing his insights through his writings and training of others at his “laboratory church.”  Leith has been a friend of NAPCE for many years, speaking at the 1991 conference in Atlanta.  His ministry leadership experience, and insights into congregational life over the last three decades, equipped him well to lead us through sessions dealing with the development of leaders for the church and the challenge of leading in times of change and transition.

Dr. Gary McIntosh, Professor of Christian Ministry and Leadership, Talbot School of Theology is author of One Church, Four Generations; One Size Doesn’t Fit All, Staff Your Church for Growth, and Church that Works.  He has been studying the church for over twenty years.  His recent work and publications on the interaction of generations within the church, changing ministry models, and church leadership and staff issues, equips him to help us look at the educational leadership needs of the church in this new century.  Dr. McIntosh showed us where the church is growing and going, and the emerging ministry approaches impacting our efforts to equip leaders for the church.

Schedule

Thursday, October 20

2:00 - 5:45 p.m.       Registration
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.       Mayo Clinic Tour with Dr. Carl E. Lundstrom
5:00 - 5:45 p.m.       Opening Reception
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.       Dinner
7:00 - 8:45 p.m.       Worship and Welcome 
                                 Plenary 1: Leading Through Transitions (Leith Anderson)
                                 Discussion/Interaction
8:45 - 9:15 p.m.       Awards Presentations and Recognitions
9:15 p.m.                 First Time Attendee Reception

Friday, October 21

7:45 - 8:30 a.m.       Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.     Worship
                                Plenary 2: Where the Church is Growing and Going (Gary McIntosh)
                                Discussion/Interaction
10:00 - 10:30 a.m.   Break and Exhibits
10:30 - 11:20 a.m.   Seminars:  Theme, Ministry Models, Professional Development
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.   Networking Groups I
12:40 - 1:30 p.m.     Lunch
1:45 - 2:45 p.m.       Seminars:  Theme, Ministry Models, Professional Development, Research
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.       Plenary 3: Emerging Ministry Approaches (Gary McIntosh)
                                Discussion/Interaction
4:15 - 5:30 p.m.       Exhibits, Special Group Meetings
5:30 - until?             Dinner out, sightseeing, theater, etc.         

Saturday, October 22

7:45 - 8:30 a.m.        Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.        Seminars:  Theme, Ministry Models, Professional Development Research
9:45 - 10:45 a.m.      Networking Groups II
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.    Break and check-out from hotel
11:15 - 12:00 p.m.    Plenary 4: Leadership for the 21st Century (Leith Anderson)
12:00 - 12:45 p.m.    Panel and Closing Worship:  Anderson & McIntosh

Accommodations

Kahler Grand Hotel 20 SW 2nd Avenue Rochester, Minnesota 55902

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