8:30 Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:30 Main Session I
10:50 Breakout Session I
11:55 Main Session II
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Worship
2:00 Breakout Session II
3:00 Main Session III
4:00 Close
Thabiti Anyabwile is one of the pastors for Anacostia River Church (ARC) in Washington, DC. He has served as an elder and pastor in churches in NC, DC and the Cayman Islands. After a few years as a practicing Muslim, Thabiti was converted under the preaching of the gospel in the Washington DC area. He and his wife, Kristie, have three children. Thabiti is the author of several books, including The Life of God in the Soul of the Church; The Gospel for Muslims; What Is a Healthy Church Member?; The Decline of African-American Theology; The Faithful Preacher; and Exalting Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.
Sean and his wife, Billie, started Grace Church in 2005 with a couple of their spiritually disconnected neighbors and 3 college students. It took four years to reach 100 people, but then they began to grow rapidly. Grace is now in four locations, has sent out 9 church plants since 2009, and baptized more than 1,300 people in the Boston metro area. They just sent out their last planting resident and are now interviewing for their next one.
Dr. Daniel Hyun was raised in the greater Philadelphia area and is passionate for God’s work in the city having served with urban churches in Philadelphia and Baltimore. In 2008, he was privileged to lead a team to start The Village Church in Baltimore, MD with dreams of making God famous through justice, mission, and reconciliation. Dan is honored to serve with the Church Partnership team of the BCM/D.
The Bible is replete on warnings against sexual immorality and instructions for Christ followers to be Holy as God is Holy. This session is designed to help both single and married men to remain pure and holy in their sexuality.
Mental and Emotional challenges were not foreign to people in the Bible. Men like David and Paul demonstrated mental and emotional anguish over their respective situations. This session will help men to develop and awareness of their mental and emotional state, while provide practical wisdom for moving towards health.
The Apostle Paul instructed men to love their wives and raise their children in the admonition and instruction of the Lord. This session will provide practical steps for maintaining a healthy marriage as well as a nourishing relationship with their children.
The Apostle Paul reminded the Corinthian church that our bodies are the temple of God. This has implications on how men are to steward their bodies for the glory of God and for their own good. This session will help to encourage men to prioritize their own physical health while providing practical steps for growing in this area.
This breakout session is designed to help men protect their families from the threat of sexual exploitation.
Jesus modeled rhythms such as prayer, solitude and rest for his disciples. Our spiritual health is able to thrive when we follow Jesus’s model of such rhythms. This session will help men to identify and implement healthy rhythms into their life in order to grow their spiritual health.
Jesus desires his disciples to be good stewards of their possessions. This session will help men to better steward their money by covering financial topics from developing a budget to preparing for the future.
The Bible places much of the leadership responsibility onto men, particularly when it comes to our family and our church. However, many men will lead outside of these two institutions as well. This session will encourage those men who desire to become better leaders by providing practical steps and wisdom for leadership.
The Apostle Paul mentored Timothy and instructed him to mentor other men who would in turn mentor others also. This session will help men to understand the importance of mentoring younger men and provide practical steps for developing and maintaining mentoring relationships.