Church Innovations' 2008 Spring Conference
Missional Church: Emerging Networks, Practical Resources

Keynote Speakers

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Each keynote address will be followed by a period of participant interaction and breakout sessions focused on developing practical resources and tools.

Speaker  
Presentation
  Background Information  
           
 

"Missional Transfor-
mation in the Local Congregation"

Thursday, April 17
(afternoon)

 

Patrick Keifert, PhD
One of the world’s foremost authorities on missional church, Keifert is president and director of research at Church Innovations, professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary, and an author and frequent presenter on the topic of Missional Church.

 

 

"The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier"

Friday, April 18
(morning)

 

Tony Jones
Jones is the national coordinator of Emergent Village, a network of innovative, missional Christians. He’s also a doctoral fellow and senior research fellow in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has written several books and is a sought-after speaker on theology and the emerging church.

 

 

"Strategies for Knowing Home: Tools for Mission Area Analysis"

Friday, April 18
(afternoon)

 

Mike Regele
With nearly 20 years of experience in geo-demographic analysis, Regele is founder and CEO of MissionInsite. The MissionInsite System™ helps leaders identify information they need to make data-driven decisions about their congregations, communities and judicatories. Regele is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA.

MissionInsite was co-founded by Mike Regele, Chuck Salter and Peter Wernett. Together, they bring over 75 years of experience in the fields of church development, strategic planning and mission context analysis. With a shared passion for the church and its faithful missional engagement of North American culture, Regele, Salter and Wernett are very excited to offer the next generation of mission context analysis tools for the church.

 

 

"The Global View of the Missional Church"

Saturday, April 19
(morning)

 

Nelus Niemandt, PhD
A professor of Missiology at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Pretoria, Niemandt is an active leader in the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa and was previously a pastor of the Weltevreden congregation, which participates in the South African Partnership for Missional Churches. He is the author of a book on the emerging missional church and coauthor of Die Perfekte Storm (The Perfect Storm).