A FREE Seminar for Ministry Leaders
Coming to Northern VA
Featuring experts in Leadership | Church Health & Growth | Architecture | Construction | Funding
What story does your building tell about the kind of church God has called you to be?
Your community is your mission field.
Does your building reflect a ministry outpost or a religious museum?
Let’s rethink the purpose of church facilities and explore how we can bring the church back to the center of the community through spaces that are more flexible, accessible, relevant and inclusive.
Discover how church buildings can be designed to be more effective ministry tools that meet the needs of the community 7 days a week.
Join us as we explore what it means to be an embedded church - a ministry that not only shifts from an internal to an external focus, but one that is physically and spiritually woven into the fabric of their community.
Thursday May 24, 2018
Patrick Henry College - Purcellville, VA
9:00am -12:30pm
Doors open and continental breakfast available at 8:30am.
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Patrick Henry College
Barbara Hodel Center / Templeton Board Room
10 Patrick Henry Cir
Purcellville, VA 20132
Barbara Hodel Student Life Center - A Building God's Way project
Hear from industry experts and experienced pastors who have pioneered the embedded church model. Learn how to establish a new culture and transform facilities that will allow you to engage with your community in new and exciting ways.
SPEAKERS
Matt Roberts
Senior Pastor of The Genesis Project - Ogden, UT
Matt is the Founder and Lead Pastor of The Genesis Project, a church based in Ogden, Utah that has grown to a multi-site movement in 6 communities across the nation reaching thousands every week. He is also the author of an upcoming book entitled "The God of New Beginnings: How the Power of Relationships Brings Hope and Redeems Lives". For 18 years Matt has served in various roles helping churches and denominations revitalize and reimagine their church planting strategies through an embedded, sustainable, community lens. Matt and his family moved to Utah in 2005 to pursue a lifelong dream of planting a “church for people who don’t do church.” That dream has materialized as The Genesis Project, a church moved to reach the darkest areas of the city with the hope of Jesus. The church operates a full-service event center, community coffee shop, multiple ministry and rehabilitation homes and non-profit community services.
Don Mahoney
Principal Architect, Building God's Way
Don has one of the most extensive backgrounds in church, school and performing arts architecture, designing prominent facilities all across the U.S. throughout his 35 year career. Don has become a leader in the field of faith-based architecture and has been recognized with a number of national design awards, including multiple WFX Solomon Awards for Best Church Architect, Best Church Design, Best Special Project and Best Digital Church. He is also a recipient of the LCEF Arts & Architecture Award for Best Liturgical Design and former President of the American Institute of Architects for the State of Utah. Don will share unique design strategies focused on creating spaces that are more flexible, relevant and inclusive, including mixed-use options that allow ministries to leverage their facilities seven days a week.
Greg Wigfield
Lead Pastor of Destiny Church in Leesburg, VA
In 1998, Greg Wigfield was running a successful insurance company and had gained recognition as an innovative leader. Yet he knew God had given him the business for the sole purpose of ministry. So he waited on God to reveal his plan. Shortly thereafter, Greg was given the book “The Purpose Driven Church” by Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren. Reading it, he realized that Pastor Rick was doing what he wanted to do—reaching unchurched people.
In 1999, Greg and his wife Pam, along with a dozen other people, planted Destiny Church. From the very beginning, Greg has had a vision of a community church that would reach people who had written off church, or people who knew very little about Jesus Christ and His church. However, during all his years of ministry, Greg has continued to operate the insurance company he started in 1984, allowing him to sustain his family and 30+ other employees without any cost to the church.
Greg’s ministry passion is to be able to help start new churches in order to reach more people for Jesus Christ. His father and grandfather gave over a century of ministry to starting churches and making disciples throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Greg continues to build on that legacy. He and Pam have been involved in planting four churches and Greg also served as Chaplain to the Washington Redskins from 1982 until 1988 under the leadership of Coach Joe Gibbs.
Mark Orphan
Planting & Coaching Director, The Genesis Project National Network
Mark Orphan has spent the last 28 years in ministry and leadership as a pastor and consultant. He has built, funded, and led coalition projects of as many as thirty faith and community-based organizations to collaborate regionally in California and Colorado serving at-risk or foster/adoptive families and youth. Mark leads a national church planting movement that targets communities afflicted by poverty and great need. He is certified by the Paterson Center as a LifePlan and StratOp facilitator providing coaching and strategic planning for leaders and organizations and is certified by Family Wellness Associates as an instructor serving at-risk families. Mark is also the founder of Finally Home Foundation and SERVE 6.8 and co-founder of Mika Community Development Corporation. He has an MA in Church Leadership from Vanguard University of Southern California and he and his wife, Kristin, have been part of three church-planting teams.
Let’s identify, define, and forge a sustainable path towards God’s dreams for your city!
Learn the keys to moving your ministry from the fringe of a community to an embedded identity, where you can truly impact the brokenness of people, their families, and the relational systems they are entangled in.
