Maximize Your Ministry
Our iTell Seminars are designed to give you the opportunity to meet in a smaller group where you can get the most out of our expert teachers and allow you to choose multiple sessions pertaining to your evangelism and ministry needs.
Monday / MORNING / LUNCH / AFTERNOON
Tuesday / MORNING / LUNCH / AFTERNOON
Monday, March 3
10 a.m. Opening Session
MORNING SESSIONS
10:15-11:10 a.m. “iTell” Seminars
11:20 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Repeat “iTell” Seminars
LYNTYS: “Love Your Neighbor, Tell Your Story” / Troy Bush
LYNTYS is a life-changing approach to seeing your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers become followers of Jesus Christ. It will transform the way you think about evangelism and how you perceive your everyday contact with people. Churches from Moscow to California have used LYNTYS to help them disciple their people to engage their un-churched and un-Christian neighbors with the Gospel. SBC mega churches and churches with less than 100 people attending are using LYNTYS. Without memorized scripts and high pressure methods, LYNTYS disciples Christians to love their neighbors as Jesus would, and it equips them to speak of what God has done in their lives. It will simplify your life and your church calendar. It will result in ordinary believers leading their neighbors to become vibrant followers of Jesus Christ.
Making Disciples Who Make Disciples / Bill Carmichael
This session will help churches connect evangelism and spiritual growth. Churches must lead people to know Jesus, subsequently, they must lead people to follow Jesus and live like Jesus. These transformed believers reach out to the lost, minister to the hurting, and build The Kingdom. The seminar will focus on how-tos and provide resources.
Building Bridges to Your Community / Marc Johnston and David Garrett
Connecting with your community can be a difficult task. Ministry evangelism provides ways to build bridges from your Church to your community. We will explore ways that your Church can develop evangelistic ministries that:
- Focuses your Church externally
- Forms relationships within your community
- Raises ministry expectations for nominal Church members
- Involves every Church member in evangelism
Making VBS Evangelistic / Tina Kimbro
Evangelism is always an important part of VBS. Participants will learn how to reach children and families through Vacation Bible School by developing a comprehensive VBS evangelism strategy. Leaders will learn how to discover and enroll unreached people, use VBS witnessing tools during VBS week, and conduct outreach follow-up actions to continue the reaching process throughout the summer.
Talking Tools for Evangelism / Lynn Latham
Many people are not comfortable in approaching a stranger to start a conversation about Jesus. The ideas and items are simple gifts to give and start a conversation. Talking Tools can be small enough to put in your pocket or purse and cheap enough that anyone can buy a few. Some items are: band aids, life savers, light (flash, match, bulb, and candle), water etc. You will discover how easily a conversation can become evangelistic.
"Increasing the Odds: Raising the Evangelistic Receptivity
Level in Your Church" / Will McRaney and Tim Passmore
Even the best developed evangelism strategies are often silently rejected by a congregation. Often the strategy seems out of place because there is not a climate for evangelism. This session will explore ways to increase the value of evangelism prior to implementing a strategy and thereby improving receptivity.
Prayer in Motion / Rick Shepherd
Prayer in Motion is Prayer on Location. It is “praying onsite with insight” – seeing what you are praying for and seeing with God’s heart what He wants you to pray for. It provides opportunities to pray and share Christ as we walk and prepares the soil for future evangelism and ministry. The Prayer in Motion Seminar looks at examples of Prayer Walking in Scripture, the essentials for Prayer Walking God’s way, and equipping to do Prayer Walking wherever God sends us.
Results Based Conversations / Rick Wheeler
“Leading Your Church to have Greater Community Impact”
Conversations can change eternity. A healthy focused church creates a bigger evangelistic impact. Come and see how church leaders across Florida are leading their churches towards intentional evangelistic actions thorough building collaborative dialog among their church leaders.
Developing Warm Receptive Groups / Lewis Miller & David Moore
Warm Receptive Groups are people who extend themselves beyond their own comfort zone in an attempt to connect with guests. Many first-time guests will determine whether or not they will continue to attend or embrace Jesus Christ by how they are received in the group. This conference will assist Sunday School and Small Group leaders to guide their group to embrace guests in such a way that they will experience acceptance from those in the group and encourage a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
10:15 a.m.-1:10 p.m. “iTell” Seminars with lunch included
Reaching the Hip Hop Culture / Maxie Miller and Russell St. BernardPre-Registration Required - $7.00 per person
The Hip Hop culture is the most unchurched multi-ethnic people group in the country, born between 1965-1986. Hip Hop Squared are children of the hip-hoppers born from 1987-2007. This group is farther removed from the church than their parents. For the church to be true to the Great Commission we must “I-de-ate” – come up with new ideas to communicate the timeless eternal message of salvation and discipleship – and package it in a heart language of the Hip Hop culture. This session will address ways to convey Theology and Ecclesiology in a relevant context to this unchurched people group Evangelism & Church Planting. To register, contact the African-American Ministries Division at 800-226-8584, ext. 3033. Free lunch & book for first 50 registrants.
12:20-1:10 LUNCH OPTIONS - $7.00 per person
*E-Planner Luncheon / Thomas Hammond: NAMB, Personal Evangelism (Also, available on Tuesday) (Open seating; Pay at the door) The Evangelism Planner will help you design your plan to change your world. With access to dozens of proven and effective evangelistic activities, programs and events, this exciting resource will help you plan a comprehensive yearly evangelism strategy for your church or ministry.
*Becoming a Missional Church Luncheon / Ed Stetzer: LifeWay, Research(Open seating; Pay at the door)
Monday, March 3
1:30-2:45 p.m. SYNERGY GROUPS
A SYNERGY group is designed to pull together collective thinking using the background and experiences of different pastors and church groups. You will hear descriptive presentations and discussions on total church evangelism efforts that have been found successful and effective. You will have two excellent options for participation. Group I leaders will share wisdom they have learned by doing effective evangelism in small and medium size communities or church settings. Group II will share insights gathered by pastors who are in larger cities or churches that run 1000 or more. Participate with either group you desire. Both will provide helpful insights.
SYNERGY Group I
Rodney Baker / Hopeful Baptist Church, Senior Pastor
Shelly Chandler / First Baptist Church Bonifay, Senior Pastor
Erik Cummings / New Life Baptist Church, Senior Pastor
Travis Hudson / Hardeetown Baptist Church, Senior Pastor
SYNERGY Group II
Clayton Cloer / First Baptist Church Central Florida, Senior Pastor
Tim Passmore / Woodland Baptist Church, Senior Pastor
David Uth / First Baptist Church Orlando, Senior Pastor
3:00-4:15 p.m. FULL PANEL/ROUNDTABLE
(Led by all SYNERGY Group I & II leaders)
Tuesday, March 4
MORNING SESSIONS
9:30-10:30 a.m. “iTell” Seminars
10:45 a.m.-11:45 p.m. Repeat “iTell” Seminars
ComeBack Churches / Ed Stetzer
ComeBack Churches: An overview of a study of over 300 church that moved from stagnation to evangelistic effectiveness. Participants will receive practical training they can use to help their own church transition to health.
Addressing the Challenges of Reaching Young People for Christ / Will McRaney
Most churches are struggling to connect with young adults. The church often seems strange to young people and at times, young people seem strange to the church. The seminar will explore some of the unique challenges facing the church as it seeks to evangelize older youth and younger adults.
Visitor Friendly Church / Thomas Hammond
Most churches consider themselves to be friendly. The truth is most churches are friendly but with a little effort and planning they could be much friendlier. Every Sunday most churches are given the opportunity to impact the lives of their guests for eternity. The problem is we just are not ready for company. During this breakout session we will be discussing ways churches can ensure each guest is not treated like a visitor and will want to return next Sunday! We will cover such topics as "What to do the first ten minutes" "How to bring your guests back every time" "What are guests really looking for?" and much more. Listening guides and the PowerPoint given to each participant to take back to their church.
A Rural Church Baptizing 300 / Rodney Baker
Learn how to utilize the abilities and spiritual gifts of the people that God has placed in your fellowship. Study the process & Techniques of how to stay positive and upbeat with great vision for the rural church setting. Hopeful Baptist Church outside of Lake City, Florida has consistently baptized over 200 people for the past several years. Hear how Pastor Baker uses strong evangelistic preaching and multiple special evangelism events with the intentionality of sharing Christ, winning people to Jesus & seeing them baptized.Learn how to design strong creative outreach ministries utilizing everyday lifestyles.
Timeless Principles for Growing an Evangelistic Church / Jimmy Knott
Reaching people for Jesus Christ has little to do with the size of one's church. Evangelism has everything to do with understanding and applying biblical and timeless principles. These outreach principles are powerful when applied to any congregation regardless of location or size. Hear and discuss these powerful principles.
Effectiveness of Special Evangelistic Events / Team Impact
Come and learn principles of how to effectively do special evangelism events. This time will be spent looking at the how tos of reaching into your community with very unique and outside the box presentations ofthe Gospel. We will look at reaching specific lifestyle communities, school campuses, prisons, etc. with the good news of Christ.
Dialog with Junior Hill / Junior Hill
12:00- 1:10 p.m. LUNCH OPTIONS - $7.00 per person
*Lunch with Junior Hill (Pre-Registration Required. To register, please contact the Evangelism Division at 800-226-8584, ext. 3090 or by email at itell365@flbaptist.org.
*E-Planner Luncheon / Thomas Hammond: NAMB, Personal Evangelism (Open seating; $7.00 per person at the door)
(Repeat of Monday E-Planner Luncheon)
Tuesday, March 4
AFTERNOON "SPECIAL EVENT" SESSIONS
1:20-4:45 p.m. Parking Lot Locations
25-minute sessions with 5-minute transition time
(See Special Events Page)
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