{"id":47342,"date":"2024-01-26T10:48:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/?p=47342"},"modified":"2024-01-26T10:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T16:52:43","slug":"midwest-leadership-summit-offers-12000-hours-of-training-for-church-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2024\/01\/26\/midwest-leadership-summit-offers-12000-hours-of-training-for-church-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Leadership Summit offers 12,000 hours of training for church leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Eric Reed &amp; Lisa Misner\/<a href=\"https:\/\/illinoisbaptist.org\/summit-offer-12000-hours-of-training-for-church-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Illinois Baptist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (BP) \u2013<\/strong> Church leaders from the central states engaged 12,000 hours of training, teaching and worship at the three-day Midwest Leadership Summit meeting in Springfield, Ill., Jan. 23-25. In multiple plenary sessions led by national SBC speakers and church-planting practitioners, and in 80 breakout sessions, almost 1,000 leaders shared and received equipping for ministry in their unique Midwest settings.<\/p>\n<p>The biennial event brings together nine Baptist conventions covering 12 states. It is sponsored by Lifeway Christian Resources, GuideStone Financial Resources, the North American Mission Board and Woman\u2019s Missionary Union.<\/p>\n<p>On the agenda for this year\u2019s conference were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lifeway Christian Resources President\u00a0Ben Mandrell<\/li>\n<li>Guidestone Financial Resources President Hance Dilbeck<\/li>\n<li>Guidestone Director of Pastoral Wellness Mark Dance<\/li>\n<li>North American Mission Board Vice President\u00a0Trevin Wax<\/li>\n<li>NAMB Send Network President Vance Pitman<\/li>\n<li>Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Assistant Professor Jared Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Woman\u2019s Missionary Union Executive Director Sandy Wisdom-Martin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mandrell opened the activities on Tuesday, Jan. 23, with an early bird session on \u201cthe short bench,\u201d the difficulty faced by many churches in finding and developing leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiplication is one of the most intimidating things in ministry,\u201d Mandrell said of raising up leaders. He cited statistics showing that in some states, as many as 27 percent of churches are searching for pastors \u2013 a process that is harder and takes longer than in times past. \u201cWho is the next generation, and how will we find them?\u201d Mandrell asked.<\/p>\n<p>Using Robert Coleman\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Master Plan for Evangelism<\/em>\u00a0as a guide, Mandrell offered eight steps for a mentoring process that draws young people into ministry in the same way Coleman advocated sharing the Gospel in his classic work. \u201cYou can\u2019t mentor in a microwave,\u201d the Tampico, Ill., native and Colorado church planter said. Mentoring takes time. Mandrell illustrated from the pastor who mentored him early in his ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesus was always building His ministry for the time He was gone,\u201d Mandrell told the packed room. \u201cHow would your agenda shift if God said, \u2018You\u2019re going to be out of there in three years\u2019? Jesus was always working himself out of his job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the opening plenary session, church planter\u00a0Stephen Love\u00a0of Redemption City Church in South Bend, Ind., pointed out that people are drawn to a vision that is bigger than themselves, as he told the story of his church planting. The Chicago native said, \u201cOur goal is never to fill the seats, but to fulfill the Great Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NAMB\u2019s Trevin Wax set the stage for the event with a clear depiction of the mission field, especially outside the buckle of the Bible Belt. He addressed the explosion of pseudo-religions in the age of the \u201cbe true to yourself\u201d mindset. \u201cWe have to stop thinking about other religions or non-religions. \u2026 We have to answer \u2018Why Christianity?\u2019, but also why not all those other quasi, pseudo religions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The core tenet of the era is \u201cexpressive individualism,\u201d Wax said, which finds its definition and meaning within the person, rather than from an outside source, such as the Gospel. This worldview creates so many versions of reality that it results in isolation and loneliness. \u201cThe beauty of the Gospel is that it does not isolate us,\u201d Wax said.<\/p>\n<p>Worship is being led by David Higgs, Associate Pastor of Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Ill., and a team of seven from Illinois churches.<\/p>\n<p>The Wednesday schedule includes five breakout slots, a luncheon hosted by GuideStone Financial Resources and an evening plenary session. The Summit concludes on Thursday after one more breakout slot and a final plenary session.<\/p>\n<p>The Midwest Leadership Summit started as the North Central States Rally in the mid-1950s to encourage Baptists in a largely unreached area outside the SBC stronghold. The rally was staged between two SBC annual meetings in Chicago in 1950 and 1957. It was part of a move to create new local associations and plant churches in midwestern cities. The event met every three years, then switched to every two years in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In the Midwest today, self-identified evangelicals range from 18.7 percent in Wisconsin to 32.7 percent in Missouri. Illinois claims 23.7 percent evangelical believers.<\/p>\n<p>In day two of the gathering,\u00a0Vance Pitman, president of NAMB\u2019s Send Network, encouraged pastors, \u201cThe size of the church does not determine the significance of the church. The size of the mission determines the significance of the church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting it might be controversial, Pitman said, \u201cChurch planting is not the goal. The church that you are planting one day is going to die. All the churches that were planted in the New Testament are all dead and gone. \u2026 But the kingdom of God is alive and well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then where does the local church fit in? To introduce people to Jesus, disciple them, and launch them into serving Him. \u201cWe\u2019ve made the local church the goal,\u201d said Pitman. \u201cWe\u2019re doing it wrong. The church is a tool for establishing the kingdom of Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pitman said, \u201cThe church being born isn\u2019t the finish line of God\u2019s activity. It\u2019s the starting line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Church planter\u00a0Aaron Taylor\u00a0from Columbus, Ohio, said his congregation, Living Hope Baptist Church, runs 120 on a \u201cbanner day,\u201d but is impacting its city in a big way. The church started a free furniture store, Finding Hope Center, three years ago with virtually no inventory or funds, only God\u2019s calling.<\/p>\n<p>When space across from the church opened up, Taylor asked the landlord to give the church 30 days. \u201cIt was going to cost $25,000 to pay rent for a whole year,\u201d he said. \u201cWe did not raise $25,000. God did it in 22 days, and we raised $31,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A year later Taylor received a call about connecting with a friend who had a storage unit with some furniture he wanted to give away. \u201cWe pulled up and it was the Midwest Distribution center for La-Z-Boy Furniture, and we found out the director of that facility loved Jesus a whole lot,\u201d Taylor said. They were given permission take as much scratch and dent furniture as they wanted. Over the course of the last few years, the church has given away more than $700,000 in furniture and shared the Gospel with 350 families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re living in the middle of a miracle,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Healthy pastors<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>GuideStone leaders addressed pastoral health in a luncheon the financial institution sponsored. President\u00a0Hance Dilbeck\u00a0picked up a theme he introduced at the Illinois Baptist State Association Annual Meeting in November \u2013 pastoral self-care. \u201cIf God is calling you to oversee the flock, you\u2019ve got to oversee yourself,\u201d he said, citing 1 Timothy 4:16.<\/p>\n<p>Paul tells Timothy to guard the self and the doctrine. More pastors fail at the issue of the self than the doctrine, Dilbeck said. \u201cIf we mess up in these two areas, it\u2019s all going down the tubes \u2013 if we get the doctrine wrong, or we don\u2019t pay attention to ourselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church leaders from the central states engaged 12,000 hours of training, teaching and worship at the three-day Midwest Leadership Summit meeting in Springfield, Ill., Jan. 23-25. 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