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The Celebrate Recovery Summit has happened at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA for the last 14 years. This year we are doing it again! Since we have sold out for the last few years we decided to have a second Summit on the EAST COAST, July 10-12, 2013.
West Coast Summit Information East Coast Summit Information …
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The NEXT Church Planting Network is hosting a conference late this summer that every church planter needs to attend. This no-holds-barred, church planting conference in Ocala, Florida will take place August 27-28, 2013. Nuts & Bolts is how-to training designed to provide you the tools needed to successfully launch and lead a healthy …
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Plans Announced for Three-Day Exponential West 2013 Conference Oct. 7-10 at Saddleback Church in Southern California
Rick Warren and Choco de Jesus Already Confirmed as Speakers
On the heels of Exponential ’13 in Orlando selling out and drawing 5,300 leaders on site and 40,000 to the live Exponential ’13 Webcast, …
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Earlier this week a godly Christian friend of mine remarked, “Is it just me or is the world starting to spin out of control? It seems like all we’re doing is going from one major crisis to the next to the next. How are we supposed to catch our breath anymore?”
How should we respond in the midst of crises? The short answer, no …
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If you can't make it to the upcoming Exponential 2013 church planting conference April 22-25, or if you're coming but leaving team or family members at home, the folks at Exponential have made the conference available to basically anyone in the world who has Internet access via a high-quality webcast--FREE to anyone who …
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The annual STORY Conference in downtown Chicago has announced a new festival format for its next event held on September 18-20, 2013.
In the spirit of great festival experiences such as SXSW and the Sundance Film Festival, STORY is doing away with just one venue and moving to host sessions in five locations in the River North district. …
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History of Oak Ridge Baptist Church from Oak Ridge on Vimeo.
Oak Ridge Baptist Church (ORBC) began as a community outreach on South Division Street in 1962. The church experienced some initial success but lost its way. After 25 years of plateau and decline, the church went through a near-death experience in 1998. In late 1999 the …
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So pastors aren’t perfect, it seems. We do make mistakes. Lots of them, actually. So what could possibly be ranked as the #1 mistake Pastors make? Through churchplanters.com, I’ve had the opportunity to connect with thousands of pastors around our nation and world, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the most common mistake …
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There seems to be a conference every week and many of them seem to be very similar. At most you might be able to attend one or two conferences a year, so why should you consider attending Exponential? Let me give you my top three reasons:
1. Exponential is actually multiple conferences
Exponential is a collection of conferences. (Ed …
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Another Global Leadership Summit has come and gone. My head is full and my heart is moved. I’ve got some processing to do to figure out what specific action steps I’m going to take as a result. In the mean time, here are 30 memorable quotes from this year’s Summit. The name of the speaker beside each quote links to the notes …
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