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2024 Preconference

October 3 | Chattanooga, TN

The 2024 CCEF Preconference is an opportunity to learn more from CCEF faculty and guest speakers. The preconference will be held in person on Thursday, October 3, from 9:00am to 5:00pm at the Chattanooga Convention Center. Full-day tickets (2 sessions + boxed lunch) and half-day tickets (1 session + boxed lunch) are available. We hope you'll join us!

This event is in person only and is separate from the national conference, so please register separately for the preconference.

schedule

  1. Bringing Scripture to Life (Aaron Sironi)
  2. Mobilizing Church-Based Counseling: Creating Sustainable Models of Care (Brad Hambrick)
  1. Navigating Time, Anxiety & the Goodness of Process (Kelly Kapic)
  2. How Jesus Closes the Discipleship Gaps in Your Church (Robert Cheong)

sessions & speakers

This extended session will discuss two main ideas, broken up with times for discussion and reflection. The first part will consider how we live in a “clock-driven” age that brings unexpected pressures and can increase anxieties and make it all the more difficult to be present with God and others. The second part will explore how comfortable God is with process, and that while we tend to think God only values finished products, if we are to counsel and love others well, we need to appreciate the goodness of process ourselves.

Do you desire more fruit from your ministry programs? Are your small groups struggling to bear one another’s burdens? Do you need more leaders who can meet the demands of ministry? Do you want to grow confident in addressing the personal and relational struggles you face in your church? Join us as we examine how the discipleship gaps in our lives lead to gaps in our ministry and how Jesus closes these gaps in powerful and reproducible ways. This pre-conference is for pastors and leaders who long for life-giving ministry centered around Jesus.