The potter has a useable end-product as his guide as he starts working the clay until he has the final product glazed and fired. This session investigates the spiritual significance of each step in the process of creating clay vessels and seeks to glean lessons for our daily lives.

Every person is a leader to someone. This session gives you a fresh glimpse into Jesus� leadership and provide practical ways for you to serve those who look to you as a leader.

When Jesus died, the church became His light on the earth.  It's members go into places of spiritual darkness and illuminate them. They do this by surrendering, seeking, and sending.

Why wasn't Paul ashamed of the Gospel? Ken Miller shows how the Gospel was foretold and fulfilled and shares stories of the power the Gospel has.

Do you truly want to be God's servant? What are you doing for the Kingdom of Heaven? Using the parable of the talents, Johnny Miller calls us to use what God has given us to work in God's kingdom and tells stories from his life spent serving God.

In Matthew 9, what did Jesus see, say, and do? If we want to bring a plentiful harvest into God's kingdom, we must look, pray, prepare, and finally go. Allen Roth calls us to both pray for more workers in God's harvest and to be one of the workers.

Is there an answer for the ache in the heart? Can wholeness encompass physical, mental, and emotional pain? How does one find purpose and fulfillment in the context of mysteries and missing pieces?

How can we maintain the compassion of Jesus when exposed to the endless needs? Mission opportunities abound and we can easily travel to see the needs first hand. But how can we know the needs are legitimate and how can we be sure our way of helping is the best way or the way that God wants us to help? How can we avoid becoming callused to seeing needs again and again?

The challenges of cross-cultural communication are ever-present in missions today. How do we avoid the pitfalls of wrong communication, improper communication, or missing each other completely? In this session, we look at five aspects of communication as well as essential character qualities that God has given us in Scripture that will help us in the art of proper cross-cultural communication.

Fear or love? That does not sound like a difficult decision. Why do we complicate it? Fear drives so much human behavior. How can we choose love and the blessings that go with it? God has the answers.

Is cross bearing and self-denial still integral to the Gospel message? How is Jesus� victory on the cross made available to His followers? How should we present the terms of discipleship to the current generation?

How we treat the poor is how we treat Jesus. No one can do everything to help them, but we can all do something. In this session, Paul Yoder discusses practical ways that individuals and churches can reach the poor. How should we respond to requests for basic needs? How can we help people move from a life of poverty to a life of stability and sufficiency?

From Abraham to Jesus to you, God is in the business of sending people to a complete a mission. How do you prepare for the part He wants you to play? What will you need to sacrifice to complete the mission? How can you be on mission now? In this session, Patrick Heatwole explores how to live a life that counts, understanding and participating in God’s strategic mission.

Saying �yes� to God changes people. Encounter the stories of two women who said yes to God�s call to serve people who society rejected or ignored. Their �yes� changed their own lives and the lives of thousands around them.

What is my life purpose? Am I worth anything to people and to God? Life is a gift and we have this momentous privilege to use our gifts on planet earth to prepare for a heavenly forever. This session explores the truth about what our dear heavenly Father’s intentions are for His children.

Stephen Russell looks at the record found in the New Testament, various early church writers, and even in pagan writers to discover the ways the church evangelized during the first three centuries. He also discusses how these insights might be useful for us today.

There are over 65 million refugees in the world today, displaced by unstablegovernments, war, and terrorism. How should Anabaptists respond? What can wedo to be the hands and feet of Jesus? This panel discussion features representatives from different Anabaptist organizations working with refugees across the globe. The panel welcomes questions about the refugee crisis.

Mission programs begin by responding to a real need. Staff, structure, and funding develop around this need, and gain a momentum of their own. This session asks the hard questions that help your mission analyze the effectiveness of your work, evaluate its long-term outcome, and end programs that have accomplished their purpose or outlived their usefulness. An effective internal program audit can help you know how and when to redirect resources to where they are most needed.

Elisha’s success as a servant of God was founded on his previous ability as a follower. Men and women of lasting impact were those who knew how to follow before they were in places of leadership.

Each of us as women brings our unique blend of gifts/passion to a team. Sometimes those differences grate instead of nurture and bless. In this talk, Barb Coblentz gives ways of embracing this diversity rather than allowing it to divide and irritate.