Seminars

Agency: ABWE

Location: Sweeting 201

Description: An overview of ABWE’s Heart, Mind, and Soul seminar designed to equip the average person in the pew to build grace and truth relationships with the LGBTQ-identified person in their world.

Agency: Across Nations

Location: Sweeting 204

Description: As European explorers “discovered” the Americas, the first Americans were thrust into a plethora of challenges and radical changes, from forced relocation, wars, disease, and starvation to the breakdown of traditional, cultural, and social systems. This has made missions to Native Americans a challenge. This workshop will highlight some of the current issues facing Native Americans and explore the needs, success stories, and opportunities among highly marginalized people. Chuck and Cindy Harper will share some examples of how God is using the diaspora through creative opportunities in youth ministry, radio, and media and will encourage future innovative approaches to see a movement of gospel-advancing transformation among native people.

Agency: Africa Inland Mission

Location: Sweeting 205

Description: When we hear statistics in the thousands, millions, and even billions, we easily get disconnected from the reality that these numbers represent individuals with names, faces, and stories. They are people who have been made in God’s image. Come participate in an interactive activity to help bring home the statistics of the unreached and the work that remains to reach them.

Agency: Alliance for Transatlantic Theological Training

Location: Sweeting 209

Description: A post-Christian culture is one in which Christianity is no longer the dominant religion but has assumed values, culture, and worldviews that are not necessarily Christian. This seminar will help you build a framework for preaching highly contextualized, biblically faithful sermons to those who have left Christianity in the rear-view mirror.

Agency: Anglican Frontier Missions

Location: Sweeting 206

Description: The Global Anglican Church (called the Anglican Communion) is the third-largest ecclesial body in the world. This workshop will you understand what it is, where it is, how it operates, and how you can get missionally involved.

Agency: Apex Missions

Location: Sweeting 207

Description: The jump from here to where God is calling seems so far that standing still is better than taking the leap. Gospel influence is too important to remain frozen by all the options and uncertainties. What is my next step? How will I sift through all the possibilities and opinions? How can I be certain this is the right choice? In this workshop, the staff of Apex will unpack helpful tools and provide insight into taking next steps toward following God's call to be gospel influencers from here to everywhere.

Agency: Avant Ministries

Location: Sweeting 218

Description: How do you share the gospel message with post-modern European unbelievers who think they’ve already heard the gospel message...even when they haven’t?

Agency: Black Forest Academy

Location: Sweeting 219

Description: Calling all educators! International Christian education may be the next part of your life story. Teaching and serving overseas is a triple bonus: channeling Christ’s love through teaching, empowering missions globally, and training the next generation! International schools need educators, support staff, and administrators who are excited about their field and who consistently exemplify the love of Jesus. Many global missionary families partner with international Christian schools to disciple and educate their children, as a Christian education in English may not be available in their region of service. By serving at an international Christian school, you are aiding kingdom work across the world! Hear from a staff member at a school in the heart of Europe that empowers kingdom service in more than 50 countries and learn about opportunities across the globe to serve!

Agency: Cadence International

Location: Sweeting 222

Description: We’ve all heard about the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20), but have you ever heard about the Great Omission? It's the messy part of Matthew 28 (verses 16-18) that comes just before the Great Commission. It often gets overlooked because it’s difficult to admit the doubts that accompany sharing the gospel and our lives. Before “going into all the world”, it’s critical to face who you are worshiping and where your doubts still linger. Join Duncan and Angie Sprague if you’d like to see how meaningful faith can survive significant doubt.

Agency: Call of Hope

Location: Sweeting 223

Description: Stefano Fehr will recount the tremendous adversity endured by the Lebanese people in the last two years and describe how God is drawing people to Himself and touching the hearts of those seeking answers in the midst of great tragedy.

Agency: Child Evangelism Fellowship Chicago

Location: Sweeting 225

Description: Statistics say that up to 85 percent of Christians are saved as children. Look through Scripture at this unreached, often marginalized people group that God finds so delightful! Honest to a fault, tear-jerking, and guilelessly entertaining, our country's under-prioritized kids comprise over 60 percent of the US population.

Agency: Chosen People Ministries

Location: Sweeting 328

Description: Pew's Survey in 2020 indicates that younger Jewish people are decidedly less religious than their grandparents. How does this change outreach to Jewish people today?

Agency: Christar

Location: Sweeting 230

Description: We hear a lot about justice in our world today, but have we ever really stopped to think about what that term even means and how it applies to God’s mission? In this workshop, we explore the idea of biblical justice and how we should fight for it as we engage in God’s mission.

Agency: Cru

Location: Sweeting 233

Description: An exploration of the various roles you can take in someone else's life as they navigate their spiritual journey, focusing on walking alongside those who don't yet know Jesus. The four roles are explorer, guide, builder, and mentor (after someone accepts Christ as Savior). Learn more at https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/share-the-gospel/evangelism-principles/cojourners.html.

Agency: ELIC

Location: Sweeting 234

Description:

"Fundraising terrifies me!"
"I need to get a real job and make money."
"That's not my calling."
"My parents think I'm going to die!"
"What if I go and never get married?"

There's an endless pile of obstacles to missions work! In this workshop, we'll provide practical advice, real-life testimonies, relevant Scripture verses, and space for reflection. The mandate in the Bible to GO isn't really optional for Christ followers. Let's examine these common barriers together.

Agency: Entrust

Location: Sweeting 235

In this interactive workshop, we will examine several key passages in 2 Corinthians where Paul wrestles with his feelings of inadequacy in the face of opposition and a barrage of overwhelming challenges. We will split up into small groups to share personal applications from Paul’s transparency and discuss how God can work through us for His glory as we acknowledge our own weakness and put our trust in His awesome power.

Agency: Fellowship International Mission

Location: Sweeting 301

Description: How to see the world through missions-oriented windows.

Agency: Greater Europe Mission

Location: Sweeting 317

Description: As refugees continue to arrive and settle in Europe, how can we be the hands and feet of Jesus? What can we do to share God's love with the nations by meeting physical and spiritual needs? Even more so, how are they making disciples in camps, cities, and countries of a seemingly spiritually dead continent? Learn more about how Europe is changing and how more and more people are open to the hope of Jesus!

Agency: InterAct Ministries

Location: Sweeting 333

Description: I spent five years ministering among a First Nation community in western Canada who were forced by law to attend residential schools where they were raised by priests and nuns. Many of these children were abused in the name of Jesus. For generations, their family systems were attacked and devastated under the authority of the government and with the hand of the church. I would like to share about my journey of entering into that ministry and how it has changed me.

Agency: Josiah Venture

Location: Sweeting 211

Description: Let's talk about how personal growth and kingdom growth can be connected, how to influence others, and how to lead by example while following Christ. Spoiler: It's not about perfection and performing.

Agency: Life in Messiah International

Location: Sweeting 345

Description: Why Jewish evangelism should be prioritized.

Agency: NAIM: North America Indigenous Ministries

Location: Sweeting 347

Description: How my experience as a missionary kid showed me how a mission can be more like a family than an organization.

Agency: Navigators

Location: Sweeting 349

Description: Jesus commands all of us to make disciples in Matthew 28:19-20. What does that mean? How can you go about doing this in order to truly make a difference? How can you prepare now for a lifetime of impact for God's kingdom? This session will be led by Tom Young.

Agency: Northern Canada Evangelical Mission

Location: Sweeting 343

Description: Among Native Americans, there are a lot of "traditional religions" that promote evil spirits. How does a missionary deal with this and overcome the enemy? How do we start churches and promote the gospel in enemy territory?

Agency: OMF

Location: Sweeting 201

Description: Starting the conversation about going to dangerous places, how risk is different from suffering, and how we should think about uncertainty in mission.

Agency: Pioneer Bible Translators

Location: Sweeting 234

Description: Have you ever considered how your gifts and passions might be someone else's prayer request? In this session, I will share how it truly takes the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

Agency: Pioneers

Location: Sweeting 235

Description: Riots. Evacuations. Persecution. Accusations. Personal defeat. The cost of reaching the unreached is high. Over half of the workers who go give up. What will keep you on the field when everything seems against you, even when it feels as though the heavens are silent? Many of the unreached live in places where life gets tough and suspicions run high. Survival is not the goal; thriving is. Let’s learn together how to thrive in the face of adversity.

Agency: Present Age Ministries

Location: Sweeting 319

Description: Simulation of stories and choices that victims of human trafficking have to process in their harrowing world.

Agency: Prestige Learning Institute

Location: Sweeting 301

Description: A historical and global look at how the Christian response and missions strategies have taken shape due to the subjugation caused by Islamic practices while asking the question: How can we do better?

Agency: Send International

Location: Sweeting 317

Description: In many ways, our world is set up for extroverts. Ministry and missions seem to be geared more to extroverts. Learn how introverts can be used in ministry all over the world.

Agency: Serge

Location: Sweeting 209

Description: At Serge, one of our core values is ministering from weakness. How do we boldly proclaim the kingdom of God when we don’t feel fully equipped? Hear from a Serge missionary and recruiter, Ashley Hosan, as she shares stories from the field and life experiences about how we can rely on the power of the Holy Spirit despite our own weaknesses. For those who feel frayed and maybe even unraveling, yet still feel a call to take a step toward missions, this session is for you.

Agency: SIM

Location: Sweeting 211

Description: A seminar designed to challenge students to weigh the risks they should consider and the suffering they might face when serving the Lord overseas.

Agency: South Asian Friendship Center

Location: Sweeting 218

Description: This workshop will be focused on teaching students how to engage in evangelism with Muslims in their neighborhoods while at the same time participating in evangelism globally using new media.

Agency: Multicultural Teams: Are They Worth It?

Location: Sweeting 219

Description: Serving in a cross-cultural context isn't just about serving people from other cultures. It often means serving alongside a multicultural team. We strive to love one another and embrace diversity. So why is it often difficult to work in teams on the mission field? We need good tools for teamwork that give space for significant differences in communication, leadership, decision making, and conflict styles as we combine cultures for gospel work. David and Kathy with TEAM have specialized in developing multicultural teams in Asia and Europe while working in church planting and leader development.

Agency: Team Expansion

Location: Sweeting 328

Learn simple and reproducible tools that you can use to share your faith, make disciples, and teach others how to do the same. This is an interactive workshop. Come ready to engage and learn new tools for your "disciple-making tool belt!"

Agency: TMS Global

Location: Sweeting 345

No matter what your major is, you have a place in God’s mission in this world. Your story is uniquely yours, and God has gifted you for a purpose. How do you discern your place in this mission story? How do you plan, knowing that the road has twists and turns? In this session we will look at your story and how God will use it to change the world.

Agency: Village Missions

Location: Sweeting 347

Description: In this seminar we will discuss Nehemiah’s method of revitalization of the walls of Jerusalem as a backdrop. We will look at how to revitalize the marginalized people we are called to minister to by bringing them into a family-type partnership. We will examine how Nehemiah saw the need, sought God, and involved the people he was called to serve in order to achieve the goal of revitalization in the location the people lived in. These same principles work today in effective ministry.

Agency: WorldVenture

Location: Sweeting 349

Description: When Christians think of spiritual warfare, we think of the dramatic casting out of demons similar to Acts 16:18. We often miss the covert warfare, as mentioned in 2 Corinthians 10:4-6, 2 Thessalonians 5:6 and 1 John 5:4. We will look at some of the overt activity from our time in overseas villages and then briefly speak of the more covert warfare existing today.

Agency: Wycliffe Bible Translators

Location: Sweeting 226

Description: How does giving language communities access to the Word of God uphold their value and improve their lives? Come hear about multilingual education, literacy, and other ways that translation work is reaching the nations.

Agency: Youth Haven

Location: Sweeting 230

Description: Have you ever felt like your mission to serve the Lord is interrupted by unexpected change? How should you respond? What strategies can you use to stay true to the call on your life or ministry? Join Youth Haven President Lars Carlson as he shares how God has shown His faithfulness time and time again personally and in the ministry of Youth Haven and opened new opportunities for missions even in the midst of changing and challenging times.

Agency: ZEMA

Location: Sweeting 233

Description: Choices have consequences, and imperfect people with broken stories still bear God's image. In ministry, God calls us to share our journeys generously and openly with others. Do you dare? Hear a story of grace and healing while in ministry from a self-described anything-for-a-good-time Catholic boy and a fundamentally religious good girl.

Agency: Samaritan's Purse/Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Location: Sweeting 204

Description: This session will highlight the importance of the relationships built with local communities through the provision of physical and humanitarian aid in complex disaster situations and how that provides opportunities to share the gospel.

Agency: OMF

Location: Sweeting 201

Description: Romans 10:17 says, “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.” The gospel is essential. We also know that culture influences both how one speaks and how another hears. Based on 10 years of missions experience in rural Cambodia, this seminar will share stories of learning to listen to Cambodian culture and discovering how to plant the gospel in rural Cambodia.

Agency: Pioneer Bible Translators

Location: Sweeting 234

Description: More Bible translation is taking place in this century than all the other centuries combined. Together with our partners, we think we can see a day when EVERY single viable language will have enduring access to the Word of God in the language that people understand best—if this generation responds.

Agency: Pioneers

Location: Sweeting 235

Description: As Christians we tend to be very attuned to our spiritual and emotional health. We know our enneagram, ways to grow, and, at Moody, we dedicate years of our life to spiritual formation. But what about our physical body? How does our spiritual and emotional health manifest itself in the physical? How might we grow more spiritually and emotionally by attuning to our bodies? This workshop will examine how being in missions or ministry benefits from full awareness of your whole self so that you might glorify God with all your heart, mind, AND strength.

Agency: Present Age Ministries

Location: Sweeting 319

Description: Identification of what human trafficking is and what fuels trafficking in the United States. We'll address common vulnerabilities and what grooming looks like.

Agency: Prestige Learning Institute

Location: Sweeting 301

Description: Looking at one of God’s oldest tools in revealing Himself to a hurting world.

Agency: Serge

Location: Sweeting 209

Description: What does it look like to use art, education, or even math in missions? Come hear from Ashley Hosan, Serge recruiter and missionary, as she shares how your unique talents and skills can be used in missions. Come with your questions, curiosity, and hopes!

Agency: SIM

Location: Sweeting 211

Description: To teach effectively you need more than just knowledge. You need to know how to understand your students and how to best relate to them.

Agency: South Asian Friendship Center

Location: Sweeting 218

Description: In this workshop we will share about the importance of reaching refugees and immigrants by connecting with families.

Agency: TEAM

Location: Sweeting 219

Description: One of God’s first instructions to mankind in the Bible was to care for the earth. The environment is the tool God most often uses to provide for His people, and at TEAM we care about the environment because we care about people. While secular institutions focus on education and legislation, we know that caring for the environment requires a spiritual transformation.

Agency: Team Expansion

Location: Sweeting 328

Description: Learn simple and reproducible tools that you can use to share your faith, make disciples, and teach others how to do the same. This is an interactive workshop. Come ready to engage and learn new tools for your "disciple-making tool belt!"

Agency: TMS Global

Location: Sweeting 345

Description: In both urban and rural settings, our neighborhoods are more diverse. In today’s pluralistic society, have you wondered how to speak about Jesus with your neighbor? Today, more than ever before, people from around the globe are moving into our neighborhoods. How can we build bridges instead of unknowingly put up barriers? In this workshop we’ll share Scripture passages, stories, and tools about our attempts to love our neighbor as ourselves.

Agency: Village Missions

Location: Sweeting 347

Description: In this seminar we will discuss how to define rural. We will look at misconceptions and factual realities needed in order to accurately define rural. From our definition we will engage in how to best minister in a rural setting to revitalize this often overlooked and marginalized segment of the American population.

Agency: WorldVenture

Location: Sweeting 349

Description: We will look at some of the means of outreach that we employed and examine some of the struggles and victories in our ministry.

Agency: Wycliffe Bible Translators

Location: Sweeting 226

Description: Reaching displaced communities is becoming increasingly a key strategy for giving language groups the Word of God. From major cities to online communities, learn how God is reaching the nations in unique ways.

Agency: ZEMA

Location: Sweeting 233

Description: Ministry will challenge relationships in every arena! How can we evaluate which relationships to prioritize and when? Let’s interact about understanding and finding the grace to journey through life in our varied circles. What’s our Godly response when someone is going to be disappointed? What we know for sure is trust is the key.

Agency: ABWE

Location: Sweeting 201

Description: An overview of ABWE’s Heart, Mind, and Soul seminar designed to equip the average person in the pew to build grace and truth relationships with the LGBTQ-identified person in their world.

Agency: Across Missions

Location: Sweeting 204

Description: This session will introduce you to Native America, a third-world culture in the middle of the US, and how you can answer the call to help. Chuck and Cindy Harper will share current methodology, successful strategies in reaching native people, the faults of paternalistic evangelism, and the usefulness of culturally relevant traditions like storytelling. God can use the gifts He has given to you as coaches, doctors, social workers, teachers, media technicians and other vocations, to bring the incarnational love of Jesus to a marginalized people.

Agency: Africa Inland Mission

Location: Sweeting 205

Description: Hear from a Moody graduate who has been living and serving beyond the beaten track in South Sudan. Maybe you feel called to a hard place. Or maybe you think that mission is for someone better equipped and qualified to go than you. Be encouraged and challenged to go to the hard places even if it seems beyond you.

Agency: Alliance for Transatlantic Theological Training

Location: Sweeting 209

Description: A post-Christian culture is one in which Christianity is no longer the dominant religion but has assumed values, culture, and worldviews that are not necessarily Christian. This seminar will help you build a framework for how to plant highly contextualized, biblically faithful churches in post-Christian cities in Europe and the US.

Agency: Anglican Frontier Missions

Location: Sweeting 206

Description: Sacraments, liturgy, and the perennial tradition need not be foreign incursions of Western preference but contextualizable treasures of inestimable value in the spiritual formation of believers from Muslim, Hindu, tribal, and Buddhist backgrounds. Come learn more!

Agency: Apex Missions

Location: Sweeting 207

Description: Mexico City is a common extended stop for many migrants on their journey north to the US border. How should the Church in Mexico City respond? In this workshop, the ReachGlobal Mexico City team will share its experience and lessons learned as members have sought to care for this vulnerable group of people in their city. You will primarily hear from Betsy Alfaro Camarillo. Born and raised in Mexico City, Betsy has over 10 years of experience working with vulnerable people groups.

Agency: Avant Ministries

Location: Sweeting 218

Description: When we rely on our ministry job to provide us with wholeness or to maintain our intimacy with Christ during our daily work, we will slowly decline into mediocrity. How do you keep up with your spiritual needs and the demands of ministry all while balancing your ministry's budget?

Agency: Black Forest Academy

Location: Sweeting 219

Description: As of 2018, The Joshua Project statistics surmised that there were over 7,000 people groups considered unreached and without the resources to learn about Jesus. As global missionaries are sent to share Christ among these people, a parallel group of individuals are in need of the church’s support: third culture kids and missionary kids. These kids, whose needs are highly varied, can find themselves in want of companionship, discipleship, and educational opportunities otherwise not available in their countries or in their language. Black Forest Academy provides these missing links in an environment that circumspectly develops Christ-honoring leaders of the next generation. This development comes through a variety of professional positions that are held by kingdom workers. Come learn about some of the unique professional opportunities, blessings, and challenges of serving TCKs.

Agency: Cadence International

Location: Sweeting 222

Description: When traveling at the speed of life and ministry, there are always unexpected crossroads. At the crossroad of truth and love, collisions are inevitable and many relationships end up abandoned or in the ditch. Are you relationally prepared to move through the busy intersection of truth and love in ministry, marriage, and friendship? Join Duncan and Angie Sprague for this workshop if you want to identify some common conflicts and potholes every relationship must move through (never around) along the narrow road of life.

Agency: Call of Hope

Location: Sweeting 223

Description: Stefano Fehr will describe how God is transforming Sudan from the opressive rule of Dictator Omar al-Bashir into a nation with religious freedom and an openness to the gospel not seen in decades!

Agency: Child Evangelism Fellowship Chicago

Location: Sweeting 225

Description: Whether dealing with traumas, learning disabilities, or physical challenges, children need God's love tailored to reach them in ways they can understand and receive. Take a look at how to be a vessel of God's love to these often-stigmatized people who need Him so desperately.

Agency: Chosen People Ministries

Location: Sweeting 328

Description: We have the privilege to escort new believers closer to our Savior in discipleship. How is it different to disciple a new Jewish believer than other people? What does Jewish spiritual formation look like?

Agency: Christar

Location: Sweeting 230

Description: Women have always played a major role in missions. Come hear from Abbie Broeckelman about the women who have gone before us and faced the same obstacles women face today and be inspired by the important role women have played in missions throughout history.

Agency: ELIC

Location: Sweeting 234

Description: How many times have you shared the gospel with someone? If you're like most people, the idea of sharing your faith is terrifying, and because of that, few Christians make evangelism a normal part of their lives. In this workshop we want to help you unpack some simple steps to sharing your faith. They might not help take away all the fear, but they'll definitely give you a roadmap to follow. Our organization is passionate about training, equipping, and sending people into some of the world’s most inaccessible countries. We love what we do, and we'd love to equip you.

Agency: Entrust

Location: Sweeting 235

Description: In this interactive workshop, the leader will share several examples from his extensive personal experience training Christian leaders behind the “Iron Curtain” and his current ministry in a repressive region where many followers of Jesus experience persecution and imprisonment for their faith. The workshop leader will describe the “underground” Bible institute where he is involved in equipping young believers to serve as home church leaders in a country that is officially closed to the gospel. We will split up into small groups to discuss the challenges involved in ministering in “limited-access” areas and seek to develop creative strategies for training effective Christian leaders in the face of intense opposition.

Agency: Greater Europe Mission

Location: Sweeting 317

Description: There are so many opportunities and needs around the world! Sometimes it is paralyzing. How do you know where you are called and where to go from here? Come learn and share about how to take the next faithful step!

Agency: InterAct Ministries

Location: Sweeting 333

Description: There is a danger of needing “change” to fulfill mission strategies among the marginalized. This seminar will address these questions: Why is using people such a common practice in western Christian culture? What are some of the risks of entering into ministry among the marginalized and masses without identifying this cultural tendency? How can I tell if this tendency is in me, and what can I begin to do about it?

Agency: Josiah Venture

Location: Sweeting 211

Description: What does it really mean to "lose your life for Jesus" and then find it? Stories and discussion on the abundant life found in missionary sacrifice, full-time ministry, and following hard after Jesus.

Agency: Life in Messiah International

Location: Sweeting 345

Description: Is the church becoming ignorant or arrogant when it comes to Israel? Ignorance often accompanies arrogance. When we as believers in Jesus do not understand the Bible’s teaching about Israel, we fall prey to errant teachings about Israel and the Jewish people. The failure of churches and universities to teach a correct theology of Israel only leads to more ignorance, arrogance, and anti-­Semitism. As a result, the Jewish people are neglected in missions strategies by the majority of individuals and churches. This cycle, which is harmful to our testimony, must end.

Agency: NAIM: North America Indigenous Ministries

Location: Sweeting 347

Description: How does a Christian decide what is right and wrong when it comes to the normal activities of life in his hometown among his or her friends? And how does a Christian relate to the culture and practices of another people? This is particularly crucial if this person is a missionary.

Agency: Navigators

Location: Sweeting 349

Description: Many men struggle with maintaining a pure life before God. Does that describe you? Let's talk about how we can experience victory in this area of our lives through Jesus Christ.

Agency: Northern Canada Evangelical Mission

Location: Sweeting 343

Description: If radio, television, and the internet are around the world, then why do we need to have missionaries living in these areas? What is the effect of a missionary's life and habits on the people they live with? What kind of influence do they carry as they go about their daily lives?