Made for More Theme
Mobilizing God's People, God's Way
The theme focuses on how each of us are called for more in our lives, churches, and networks. We will walk through the 6 chapters of Ephesians during the main sessions.
Shift 1: From More Effort to More Jesus
Shift 2: From More Volunteers to More Masterpieces
Shift 3: From More Guilt to More Love
Shift 4: From More Hierarchy to More Missionaries
Shift 5: From More Programs to More Mission Fields
Shift 6: From More Strategy to More Surrender
Regional - Chicago 2019
Made for More
Join hundreds of leaders for inspiration, encouragement and equipping at Exponential’s Chicago Regional in Naperville, IL. Register early as space is limited at these smaller, more intimate gatherings.
Dates
November 5-6, 2019
SOLD OUT!
$179 individual
$649 for 5
$999 for 10
Location
Community Christian Church
1635 Emerson Ln
Naperville, IL 60540
EXPONENTIAL WORSHIP
WORSHIP IN ALL 5 MAIN SESSIONS
Church Multiplication Practitioners
Speakers
10+ national speakers in 5 main sessions!
Michael Carrion
Rev. Dr. Michael Carrion serves as the Senior Pastor and General Overseer of the Promised Land Covenant Churches located in the North and South Bronx. He serves as the founding Chairman and Superintendent of the Bronx Academy of Promise K-8 Charter School in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx; Dr. Carrion also serves as the Regional Coach for Church Planting and Development for the East Coast Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Francis Chan
Francis Chan is the best-selling author of Letters to the Church, Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and You and Me Forever. Currently, Francis is planting churches in the San Francisco area. Together, Francis and his wife Lisa raise their seven children in Northern California.
Dave Ferguson
Dave Ferguson is the lead pastor of Community Christian Church, an innovative multi-site missional community that is passionate about "helping people find their way back to God." Community has grown from a few college friends to thousands every weekend meeting at eleven locations in the Chicago area and has been recognized as one of America's most influential churches.
James Grogan
James is the Lead Pastor at EastLake Church Network, a growing network of churches founded in Chula Vista California, which includes several locations in Southern California, Salt Lake City, and Tijuana, Mexico. James is also a catalyst leader of the San Diego Church Plant Movement.
Alan Hirsch
Alan Hirsch is the founding director of 100 Movements, 5Q Collective, and Forge Mission Training Network. He has written numerous seminal books including The Forgotten Ways, The Permanent Revolution, and 5Q. Widely considered to be a thought leader in the global missional movement, Alan is known for his innovative approach to mission, church, and leadership.
Mark Jobe
Dr. Mark Jobe serves as president of Moody Bible Institute, a higher education and media ministry founded by evangelist D. L. Moody in 1886 that equips people with the truth of God's Word across the globe, cultures and generations. For more than 30 years, Dr. Jobe has served as the lead and founding pastor of New Life Community Church in Chicago. He and his wife, Dee, have seen the church grow from a handful of people to approximately 7,000 meeting at 27 locations throughout the Chicagoland area and in eight cities internationally.
Troy McMahon
Troy McMahon is the lead pastor of Restore Community Church, a reproducing multisite church in Kansas City, MO. Over the past eleven years Restore has launched additional locations and churches in Kansas City and helped launch 43 churches across the US and in Colombia, South America.
Jeanne Stevens
Jeanne Stevens is one of the lead pastors of Soul City Church in Chicago’s dynamic West Loop neighborhood, which she and her husband, Jarrett, started in 2010. Jeanne has had the opportunity to teach, pastor and speak in to the lives of thousands of people across the U.S. and around the world. Her passion to develop leaders, to encourage people to live from the fullest part of themselves and to live boldly give her a unique voice of hope and challenge.
Albert Tate
Albert Tate is the founding pastor of Fellowship Church—one of the fastest-growing multiethnic churches in the United States. In its short history, this gospel-centered, multiethnic, intergenerational church has already established a solid foothold in the region for life transformation to the glory and honor of Christ. As a dynamic communicator, Albert is passionate about sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ both to the local church and the global community.
David Washington
Pastor David A. Washington is the founder and Senior Pastor of Kingdom Covenant Church Chicago and the author of Kingdom Church: A People Committed to the King’s Agenda. Pastor Washington has spread hope through the gospel in inner cities and prisons throughout the nation and world since 1994. Church Planting training, Evangelism, Kingdom Theology, and Community Outreach are key highlights in Pastor Washington’s ministry. He has a heart for the lost and a passion for communicating the Word of God – understanding its power to deliver anyone.
Rob Wegner
Rob Wegner served as a teaching pastor at Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana, for 21 years, and four years at Westside Family Church in Kansas City. Currently he is planting the Kansas City Underground, a decentralized network of reproducing disciples, microchurches and collective congregations of those microchurches.
The Mission
Our Need for Reproducing Churches
“I love what Exponential is doing to focus on multiplication, specifically the mission to see the percentage of U.S. churches that ever reproduce increase to greater than 10%. That’s a mission worth giving our lives to.”
Ed Stetzer, Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton
Equipping Lab Options
FREE
You can register for one when you register for the conference.
Data, Analytics, and the Church hosted by Gloo
Multiplication hosted by Exponential
Start and Keep Planting More and Better Churches hosted by Stadia
Together: Pursuing the Great Collaboration hosted by Exponential
Made for More hosted by Disciples Made
Pre-Conference Equipping Labs are held on
Tuesday, November 5 (9:00 – 11:30 am)
before the main conference begins.
Logistics
SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, November 5th
9:00am Pre-Conference Equipping Labs
12:30pm Main Session 1
2:30pm Main Session 2
4:30pm Main Session 3
WEDNESDAY, November 6th
9:00am Main Session 4
11:00am Main Session 5
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