IMPACT 2008 :: Small Church Leadership Conference
Aug 15th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: ChurchI have to give a shout out to Les Puryear who is doing something huge in our Convention. Les has long had a burden for the small church. He has rightly pointed out that we are a Convention made up of small churches, but so often, the viewpoint for doing church, missions/evangelism and even time management is from the mega church perspective.
I am going to speculate that the reason the mega church model is so well loved is that most pastors desire to be mega church pastors – taking the world’s definition of success, that bigger is better, and applying it to their “careers” in ministry. Les has argued against that philosophy and has now promoted Impact 2008 with the theme “Small Church::Big Impact.”
In the line up to speak are Frank Page, Jerry Rankin, Brad Waggoner, Kevin Bussey, Micah Fries, Tony Kummer, Greg Lawson and David McEachern. I believe more are being added as this event continues to shape up.
The Conference is being held in the church Les pastors, Lewisville Baptist Church, Lewisville, NC. This is truly evidence that the internet has done its part in creating a flat world. Your ideas, if worthwhile, are noticed and much can be done.
Let me encourage you to sign up soon, if you have a mind to pastor a church that is not a mega church, but has a great impact on the world. Because this is being hosted in a small church, the participation is limited to the first 300 people who are able to sign up. Get all the details by clicking on this link:
IMPACT 2008 :: Small Church Leadership Conference
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Art,
Thanks for your support. I hope to see you in March, 2008.
Les
As a pastor of a small rural church I am often discouraged by most conferences I attend. Goals are sky high, up-to-date technology is deemed a necessity, budgets concerns are trivial…if you have to ask, you can’t afford it…why are you here?
Last year I was able to attend a two day conference aimed specifically at small church pastors. It was held at Beason Divinty School in Samford University (Alabama). It was wonderful and VERY encouraging to spend two days with numerous pastors in the same (small) boat.
I’m not sure I can attend this conference but I would like to thank Les for his attention to those of us faithfully tending to our flocks…under a 100 though they may be.
I am glad Brother Les is doing this. In the past, I would leave a conference all pumped up about what I could do then halfway home, I would realize the conference advice was geared to large to mega church pastors.