If you believe God has a purpose for your church in your community…
If you value both tradition and innovation…
If you hope to engage a new generation of leaders…
If you desire to see ministry bubble up from among your people…
If you want to live a better story…
…Then make plans now for Hopeful Imagination that offers another perspective on doing church.

Hopeful Imagination is for ordinary leaders who trust in an extraordinary God
…who seek a divinely guided church to transform leaders, cities, families

The steady, the faithful, the hopeful who keep their eyes and hearts open…
…for God to break in to our everyday places,
…to make a way for God’s plans,
…to declare the impossible possible.

To allow God’s Story to unfold uniquely through them.

Hopeful Imagination is for ordinary leaders who expect to be changed and deeply desire to be used by God to change their world.

Schedule:
 

Begins 10/22 at 10:30am – 10/23 at 3:30pm (10/24 Worship with FBCW & Dialogue is Optional)
More details coming soon

Benefits of Participating:

• Discover and network with church leaders who value their past and traditions while also creating structures and leaders that move the church into tomorrow
• Dialogue with pastors, staff and lay leadership of First Baptist Church Wilmington, NC; (& other churches) …. about their journey of reaching people under 40 while keeping people over 60.
• Discover how building trusting relationships is foundational for moving from maintenance to mission in your church
• Experience multi-generational contemporary worship in a 140 year old sanctuary
• Observe a ministry design built on “how we can…” instead of “why we can’t”
• Take home 52 catalytic stories to inspire the imagination of your congregation
• Engage the possibilities of building missional partnerships with your city, other congregations and non-profit organizations in your community
• Establish a plan for next steps and opportunity of continuing communication with conference leadership through teleclasses and webinars
• Opportunities to explore how God is birthing your future