A great cultural shift seems to be happening to Protestant congregational life and pastoral identity. But recognizing what is actually changing can be difficult to name, and misdiagnosing the challenges we face can happen easily. On September 23 and 24, we invite you to join us in a unique conversation between internationally-recognized practical and constructive theologians, and renowned sociologist Hartmut Rosa.

ReVITALize is a conference for ministry leaders and lay people to get together, refresh, learn some new things, be supported, build community, and get inspired. Speakers talk about what is revitalizing them now, and time is given for people to gather with friends and colleagues and meet new folks. People from all denominations and traditions are welcome to attend.

Strengthen your leadership by attending a premier conference experience with world-class leaders streamed LIVE to a local venue near you or from the comfort of your own home!

A creative conference for curious preachers.

We believe in the transformative power of play, which is why we designed our annual gathering to be focused around fun and reinvigoration. In our three-day gathering you can expect everything from improv games to puppet work to reflective time and space to listen inward-everything you need to reignite your imagination and bring a sense of playfulness and imagination back into your preaching. This gathering is open to the public.

Be inspired by Martha Tatarnic, music graduate, author, and Anglican priest, as she urges us to see these fraught times as an opportunity to examine what we do and why, with real cause for hope. Interact with our top faculty as we continue SICM's unique 50+ year tradition of offering skills development, ministry resources, and spiritual nurture, now in a new, more compact and inexpensive format. Renew and build personal connections with church musicians from across Canada.

A conference focused on your encouragement and renewal. Through scriptural teaching, vibrant worship, reflection in the arts, be encouraged and renewed for ministry

Join us for the 2024 Children’s Spirituality Summit where we will dive deep and explore what a child’s way of being with God means. Inspired by Rebecca Nye's definition of children's spirituality as "God's way of being with children, and children's way of being with God," we will delve into:

A Child’s Way of Worshipping God·

A Child’s Way in a Diverse World·

A Child’s Way of Playing with God·

A Child’s Way in Family

The Festival of Homiletics is like summer camp for preachers

During the Festival, you’ll hear from outstanding preachers from diverse backgrounds, traditions, and ministry settings. You’ll participate in passionate worship, dive deep with preaching master classes, and fellowship with preaching colleagues from around the world.

This year, in-person attendance is capped at 1,200 to maintain rigorous safety protocols—but even if you can’t join us in person, you can still participate!

Choose from a free or premium version of the online Festival—or better yet, come to Minneapolis for a celebration of preaching you won’t forget.

Non-denominational Christian Children's Ministry Conference is for Children's pastors, Sunday School teachers and Kidsmin volunteers.

As Western culture grows more secular and Christianity finds itself toward the edges of culture, Canadian church plants are witnessing to God’s love in the world in new ways. This conference will explore how the rhythms and rituals for leadership, worship gatherings, and discipleship formation are being adapted in different contexts. Grounded in missional theology, this conference will highlight how God’s Spirit continues to guide the church through this time of transition.

What is the future of youth ministry?

The 2024 Forum on Youth Ministry invites you to join us for 3.5 days of worship, workshops, small groups on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary, as we host productive conversations that give voice to our collectives hopes, dreams, and ideas for the future of youth ministry.

Whether you’re paid or volunteering, staffing a community of faith or un-churched organization, focused on children & family ministry or serving older generations, this conference centers anti-racism principles and actions in your leadership

Fifth International, Interdisciplinary Conference co-organized by the World Christianity and History of Religions Program (Dept. of History and Ecumenics), Overseas Ministries Study Center, Princeton Theological Seminary; and the Department for the Study of Religions, School of Arts, College of Humanities, University of Ghana

Through this conference we will see that there are new and innovative ways to be the church as we come TOGETHER to resource, support and learn from one another. We have the chance and responsibility invest into students, to share the message of Jesus, to be a listening ear, to love faithfully, to seek justice, to live out the word of God.

We have 40+ practical workshops, Keynote Speakers (Ebonie Davis, Ho-Ming Tsui, Jason Persuad & Panel of innovative student leaders, special guest appearances including OJ the DJ, award winning worship band (Sanctus Church Worship) with time set apart to respond to the Holy Spirit, to network with others ministry leaders and get access the latest resources for ministry.

You can attend the Annual Event in person in St. Louis or in a hybrid format via AE Online. You can also attend in person for one, two, or three days.

About APCE
APCE is an association made up of those who are serving or have served in educational ministries, as ministers, professional or volunteer educators, or students, in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Reformed Church in America, The Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Moravian Church in America, and the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

The third edition of the Global Forum against Racism and Discrimination – Race to the top: putting racial equity and justice at the forefront of development agendas – will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, from 29 November to 1 December 2023.

This edition will focus on the importance of placing race at the center of developing and implementing strategies for socioeconomic development. Government officials, including ministers, policymakers, practitioners, academics and members of civil society and artistic communities, will be invited to discuss effective strategies to address systemic racism.

Four days of conversations with the Convergence Digital Ministry Senior Fellows and leaders from across the country about the current state and future of digital ministry in the church.

A continuing education event for clergy. The Lester Randall Preaching Fellowship consists of a mix of workshops, lectures, private and public preaching events, networking and fellowship, led by keynote speakers and other well-known clergy and professors of preaching from across North America.

We’re gathering both online and in person this year!

Alongside the digital conference experience, you’re invited to join us in-person at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The digital conference space will remain as the home base for us, but we’ve heard loud and clear that there’s something electric about attending in-person next to other wanderers. Whether you’ll be with us in Minneapolis or online, you’ll have access to view conference recordings until January 1, 2024.

As we emerge from our homes and return to our places of worship, we’ve discovered a world that has fundamentally shifted. While some transitioned from the pew to the couch to engage and nurture their spiritual lives, others disappeared altogether. Longstanding trends of declining church membership accelerated during the pandemic and have found exhausted church staff working harder than ever to connect with their congregations. Habits changed, theology was challenged, and connections were severed, pointing to an unavoidable truth: The church we know is at a critical crossroads.

Is the faith community adequately prepared to support each other during these difficult times? Do churches and faith leaders have a plan to help those on the brink of suicide?

This conference will:

-share stories of hope and recovery

-give authentic answers of why people die of suicide

-educate you on the signs

-give insight on how to help those considering taking their own lives

Come join us at our International event at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in our first-ever conference on how to end poverty.

Humans have a spiritual side however, many institutions

frequently deny this side of them. We shall tackle humanity

holistically at this conference by acknowledging the existence

and the significance of spirituality in reversing poverty in people's

lives.

The Climate Crisis & Empowering Hope: 2023 Hybrid Conference

September 20-23, 2023