Holistic Stewardship: Reinvigorating your Church’s Efforts to Serve

Location: Garner UMC, 201 Methodist Drive
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 10am-2pm
Cost: $25, including lunch

Speaker: Mike Slaughter, lead pastor of Ginghamsburg UMC, Ohio

This event is a partnership between the Conference’s Stewardship Committee and the Academy for Leadership Excellence.

Make a paradigm shift to view stewardship as a means to celebrate God and find servants (volunteers) in your church. Join transformational leader Mike Slaughter as he speaks about ways to encourage your congregation’s efforts. Slaughter’s inspirational sessions will feature:

Change the World – Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus

True church growth is not about how many people are attending. The true greatness of any local church is measured by how many people are serving the marginalized. Jesus only had a church with 120 members when he left planet earth. By most Church growth standards this would seem like failure. But Jesus had 120 disciples who understood the call of our Master to live more simply and sacrificially so that other people can live. The business of the church is to engage and empower disciples of Jesus in meeting the needs and closing the gaps of disparities for the least of these. The world will see the relevancy of the Gospel when the people of Jesus truly live the biblical mandate of social holiness. They will believe because of the sacrificial demonstration of Christ’s love. Let’s quit worrying about numbers in the pews and begin to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our homes, communities and to the utter most places in the world!

Money Matters for all God’s Children

Pastors and church leaders don’t go into ministry to fundraise, yet all effective ministry requires money. MONEY MATTERS for all God’s children, with Dr. Michael Slaughter, equips you to:

• Counter to common “money myths” that people don’t want to talk about money and people don’t want to give
• Grow your worship attendance by talking about money
• Implement a comprehensive 12-month stewardship program that connects people to the felt need and the mission, rather than the church budget
• Help liberate your attendees from the bondage of debt while simultaneously multiplying the mission

Biography

Mike Slaughter
Chief Dreamer, Ginghamsburg Church

Mike Slaughter, lead pastor at Ginghamsburg Church, is the three-decade dreamer of Ginghamsburg Church and spiritual entrepreneur of ministry marketplace innovations.  His life-long passion to reach the lost and set the oppressed free has now made him a tireless and leading advocate for the displaced children, women and men of Darfur, Sudan, named by the U.N. as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today.  Under Mike’s leadership, Ginghamsburg Church has become known as an early innovator of small group ministry, the Church “media reformation” and cyberministry, with the Ginghamsburg website averaging 50,000 visits monthly from around the world.  Since initiating The Sudan Project in January 2005, Ginghamsburg has invested over $4.4 million into humanitarian relief in Darfur.  The resultant agricultural project, child development program and safe water initiative are expanding to reach a quarter of a million Sudanese refugees and villagers.  As a mentor, Mike travels globally to speak and use his “gift of irritation” to equip ministry leaders to minimize brick and maximize mission so that they may fully deploy the mission of Jesus into the world.  Mike is also the author of multiple books for church leaders.  For more information about Mike, visit www.mikeslaughter.com