NEXT CHURCH ELDER SYMPOSIUM: CHARLOTTE

January 26, 2019
Covenant Presbyterian Church

A morning of equipping and connecting elders for a vibrant leadership. Come alone, come with a fellow elder, or come with your entire session!

SCHEDULE

9:00am – Opening
9:10am – Keynote by Becca Messman
9:45am – Guided table discussions about keynote
10:15am – Tracks
11:30am – Closing worship with communion
12:00pm – Go in peace
Participants are encouraged to gather at a nearby restaurant for lunch together to continue the conversation with their home church session or with fellow elders.

TRACKS

Mission and Evangelism || Faith in the Public Square || Conflict and Leadership || Strategic Planning || Welcoming Ministries || Communications and Technology || Christian Education and Formation || Stewardship and Finance || Youth Ministry || Reformed Theology || Polity in Practice || Worship and Music Leadership || Personnel and Property || Clerk of Session || Church Transformation || Clergy Leadership Development

TICKETS

$15
Scholarships are also available. We don’t want the cost to prevent anyone from attending!

NEXT Church invites every ruling elder from across the Charlotte Presbytery to an engaging forum designed to equip and connect elders for leadership in the Church.

Elders will choose a specialized track of ministry in which they hope to gain wisdom, share ideas, and discover solutions while connecting with leaders from other churches who have been called in similar capacities. This is a collaborative and hopeful space created for elders who share a passion for leading the church.

Each track will be facilitated by one ruling elder and one teaching elder. Participants are asked to bring their own questions, concerns, and experiences with them to the event. Tracks will consist of table discussions, not presentations!

Keynote Presenter

Becca Gillespie Messman is co-pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Herndon, VA where she has served for 12 years. There, she was part of the team that planted a congregation of recent immigrants and day laborers called “Lunch for the Soul.” She is Co-Chair of VOICE (Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement), a multi-faith organization in Northern Virginia. She is a frequent presenter, workshop leader, and writer around the denomination and community. She was glad to be part of the writing team that created Cultivated Ministry.

Becca loves distance running, singing, laughing, and talking about the spiritual tool called the Enneagram. She loves movies but has fallen asleep in most movies released after the year 2010. That is mostly because she is mom to Grace, age 8, and Davis, age 6. She is married to Dave, a lifelong Presbyterian and grandson (and great-grandson) of a Presbyterian minister. They now live in Arlington, VA. Before the ministry, Becca was born in Charlotte, NC, grew up in Danville, VA, attended UVa for undergrad, worked in strategic business development and process improvement at the Home Depot HQ in Atlanta (where much of this metrics/accountability conversation began for her), and served as a Presbyterian Young Adult Volunteer in Guatemala, where her life changed dramatically and led toward this wild and wondrous calling.

Questions? Please email Suzanne Davis.