Since the New Year is an opportunity to refresh perspectives and ideas…why not join us on January 30 for a Day of Learning with this very goal? We’ll spend this time dreaming, unearthing creative concepts, and working through innovation exercises to get you thinking about the fresh ideas that might be a part of your congregation in 2024.
Eight More Days for the Team Discount! We’re all better with a team. Dream with your colleagues, your pastor, or your laity and lay the groundwork for future ministry collaboration. Register 3 or more from your church by January 10 and receive a 20% discount on your total registration!
The Good News of Shipwreck:
What Does Church Look Like Now?
Presented by the Center for Leadership Excellence
with Kenda Creasy Dean
Tuesday, January 30, 2024, 9:30am – 3pm ET
Hayes Barton UMC (2209 Fairview Road, Raleigh)
$40 includes lunch
About Kenda Creasy Dean:
Kenda Creasy Dean is an ordained United Methodist pastor and the Mary D. Synnott Professor of Youth, Church, and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she
works closely with the Institute for Youth Ministry and the Farminary. In 2013 she and Mark DeVries co-founded Ministry Incubators.
She is the author of numerous books on youth and the church, including Innovating for Love: Joining God’s Expedition through Christian Social Innovation, Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church, and The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul-Tending in Youth Ministry, co-authored with Ron Foster, which just came out in its 25th anniversary edition, rewritten with (millennial) Megan DeWald.
A graduate of Miami University (Ohio), Wesley Theological Seminary (Washington, DC), and Princeton Theological Seminary (New Jersey), Kenda has served churches in Arlington, VA, College Park, MD, and Kingston, NJ. She and her husband, Kevin, love digging their toes in the sand on the Jersey shore and hanging out with their hilarious grown kids.