Just thought I’d post some thoughts about future seminars we’re thinking about hosting at Ebenezers–our coffeehouse on Capitol Hill. We don’t have them scheduled yet, but they are on the reticular activating system.

Church Planting Seminar

We may do it in partnership with some other church planting networks, but we want to host an event exclusively for church planters. Church planting is part of our DNA at NCC.

Small Groups Seminar

This seminar would be led by our Pastor of Discipleship, Heather Zempel. She is one of the most gifted leaders and communicators I know. I recently told our congregation that small groups are the most important thing we do at NCC. I believe that. We’d like to share our learnings about everything from internal marketing for groups to free market system to leadership training.

Multi-Site Seminar

So many churches came alongside us and helped us when we were launching our second location. This seminar is one way we’d like to give back. We’d share our multi-site model for better or for worse. This will be a tag-team event.

Lead Pastor Only Seminar

This would be a smaller gathering of Lead Pastors. I envision a no-holds-barred conversation about the issues facing Lead Pastors. I’m sure the issues would range from staff management to leadership principles to family to preaching strategy to time mangagement to spiritual disciplines to vision casting. I just think we need more healthy conversations about who we are and what we do. In case you haven’t noticed, pastoring can be lonely. So we’d get together, put our egos on the table, get past superficiliaties, and talk about the stresses and joys of being a Lead Pastor for a day.