Schedule
Overview
Pre-Conference | Tuesday, February 28th
VERGE : For the City | Urban Mission Labs | Location: For The City Center | 9am – 6pm
Main Sessions | Wednesday, February 29th & Thursday, March 1st
Post-Conference | Friday, March 2nd
Pre-Conferences | February 28
VERGE: Missional Community Labs
Location: St. David’s – Downtown Austin
Feb. 28 | 9am – 5pm
Cost: $59
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Vision: To encourage, inform, and equip Missional Community leaders, pastors, and church planters to engage in the mission of God with the gospel by making disciple-making disciples who multiply movements of missional communities.
VERGE: For The City | Urban Mission Labs
Location: For The City Center
Feb. 28 | 9am – 6pm
Cost: $59
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Vision: To encourage, inform, and equip urban ministry leaders, pastors and everyday people to engage their cities holistically with the gospel.
How it will be accomplished: Through large and small breakout sessions, focused on biblical foundations of urban ministry as well as practical training.
Who will be there (more speakers will be added):
Dr. John Perkins, Dave Gibbons, Matt Carter, Darrin Patrick, Bob Lupton, Rudy Carrasco, John Sowers, Josh Wilson, Justin Lopez, Dr. Joseph Parker, Al Lopez
Topics: Christian Community Development, Mentoring, Reconciliation, Relocation, Affordable Housing, Being a Church For The City, Mobilizing Volunteers, and much, much, more.
Main Sessions | February 29 & March 1
Location: Austin Music Hall
VERGE: Main Sessions | Wednesday, Feb. 29
8:00am – Registration opens
9am – 11:30 – Main Session 1: For The City
11:30 – 1:30 – Lunch Break & Networking
1:30 – 3:45 – Main Session 2: Incarnational Mission
3:45 – 7 – UnConference, Networking, Gatherings & Dinner Break
7:00 – 9 – Main Session 3: For The Gospel
VERGE: Main Sessions | Thursday, Mar. 1
9am – 11:30 – Main Session 4: Incarnational Leadership
11:30 – 1:30 – Lunch Break, Networking, & UnConference
1:30 – 3:45 – Main Session 5: Disciple-making
3:45 – 7 – UnConference, Networking, Gatherings & Dinner Break
7 – 9pm – Main Session 6: For The Nations
Post-Conference | March 2
VERGE: For The Nations | Global Mission Labs
Location: For The City Center
March 2 | 9am – 5pm
Cost: $59
Vision: To encourage, inform, and equip pastors and missional leaders to engage unreached peoples with the mission of Jesus.
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How it will be accomplished: Through large and small breakout sessions, focused on biblical foundations as well as practical training.
Who will be there (more speakers will be added, tentative subjects):
David Platt: Our biblical foundation, clarifying: Unevangelized, Unreached, & Unengaged
Rodrick Gilbert: How to make disciples for movements among the unreached
Ying Kai: Reproducing Leaders/Mobilizers among the unreached
Chan Kei Thong: Leader Development and Business among the unreached
George Patterson: Simple Movement Principles
Jeff Lewis: Mobilizing people in all domains of society to impact his kingdom among the unreached
Steve Hawthorne: Relationship of Unreached Peoples and Global Cities
Casey Morgan: Mobilizing other cultures to the unreached
Matt Ellison: How to move your church/ministry toward reaching unreached peoples
Vicky Porterfield: Building prayer movements for the unreached
Jeremy Story: Building prayer movements for the unreached