Next Launch Conference

Before starting Revolution Church, I was DESPERATE for anyone who had planted a growing church to learn from. At that time, blogs were not the rage and finding out about churches that were starting churches to reach unchurched people was not that easy.  ANYTIME I would hear anything about a church that was new and doing cool things, I would instantly go to their webpage and devour anything I could trying to learn all I could from their success.

I would bookmark their church webpage in a folder called “Churches To Learn From” which I still have at the top of my internet browser.  It has about 150 churches in it now. One of the first churches I put in there was a church called The Church At The Springs led by Ron Sylvia. At that time, anytime Rick Warren talked about church planting he talked about Ron’s story. I bookmarked his page and they have been a regular church I have watched. When he started putting out CD’s sharing church planting insights, I started ordering them.  At that time, he was one of the few people I had heard about that had planted a church with basically nothing but a vision from God and that connected with me BIG TIME.

Fast Forward: Ron has now started an organization called NEXT that is focused in helping church planters launch churches and deal with the NEXT steps as they seek to impact their communities.  Again, I bookmarked their page a while ago and have followed from a distance.

Over the last month or so, I have become good friends with Hal Mayer who is involved with NEXT and somehow he has tricked Ron into allowing me to share the Revolution story at one of their upcoming Church Launch conferences. I am blown away and excited about the opportunity to share the story of what God is doing at Revolution with a room full of church planters.  I have yet to meet Ron so I don’t take lightly the trust he has put in me by allowing me to be on his stage.  He would probably never admit it but he has to be a little nervous.

I said ALL of that to say this: Their next church planting conference is September 16-17 here in Georgia!!!!  Harvest Church in Warner Robbins is hosting the conference and I am pretty freaking stoked about it.  Harvest is lead by Jim Cowart who was a co-coach in the first coaching network I ever got to be part of.  We still use ideas we learned from him. He was also one of only two churches I have ever visited that meet in a movie theater and we learned a TON from that visit.

If you are a church planter who has just started, a guy who is thinking of starting a church, wants to explore church planting, wants to relaunch your church or just wants to check out what church planting MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THIS CONFERENCE.

THE BEST PART OF THE CONFERENCE IS IT IS FREE!!!!!!!!!

I’m looking forward to finally meeting Ron, connecting with some church planters, sharing our story, and seeing some guys called to the extreme sport of ministry!

After I meet Ron, I am going to sweet talk him into coming to the real part of Georgia (the north part) and letting Revolution host one of his conferences.

You can register for the conference here.