Workshops

On Thursday afternoon (14:30-16:00), ministry workshops will be held.

You will select one workshop upon arrival.

What is the difference in a Collaborative Gap Session and a workshop?

In a Collaborative Gap Session, your table team will be working through steps to move the church forward in the identified gap.

Workshop will be a more traditional format where key information or training will be offered to help you progress in your area of ministry.

  • Workshop 1: Annual Pastors Report / Help for Pastors
    Presenter: Heidi Bowes

    Workshop description: Support and training to understand, apply, and be able to answer all questions pertaining to the Annual Pastors Report.

  • Workshop 2: Nazarene Missions Teams, Projects, and Partnerships
    Presenters: Shahade Twal and Stephen Sickel

    Workshop description: This workshop will explore the current landscape of Nazarene Missions Teams, how to host or send a team. It will highlight impactful teams projects across the region, and talk about how to build effective partnerships between local churches, fields, and host sites.
  • Workshop 3: Envisioning Holistic Child Care: Answering the Silent Cry of Every Child’s Heart
    Presenter: Komal Waghmare

    Workshop description: Behind every smile, many children and youth carry silent struggles—peer influence, pressures to excel, cyberbullying, loneliness, grief, identity confusion, or the deep desire to belong. Too often, these cries go unheard and unrecognised. The local church is uniquely placed to be the avenue to respond to children and youth within and beyond its walls – giving space, offering hope and leading to wholeness. This workshop will explore how the local church can envision holistic child care—responding meaningfully with compassion and dignity, nurturing resilience, and walking alongside children in their journeys. We’ll learn how Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM) can equip local churches to support children in moving from brokenness to wholeness. Join us to be inspired and equipped to answer the silent cry of every child’s heart.

  • Workshop 4: Imagining A Movement of Planting Sustainable Nazarene Churches
    Presenter: Joshua Haun

    Workshop description: What does it look like to plant a sustainable, and reproducible, Nazarene church in Eurasia? During our time together we will talk about the mentality (theology/ministry philosophy) and some specific practices that are necessary to plant uniquely Nazarene churches rooted in a missional identity in such a way that they are both sustainable and reproducible.

  • Workshop 5: Building a New Generation of Missional Leaders
    Presenter: Trino Jara

    Workshop description: The workshop will be a time of sharing experiences about how to engage the church in ministering to children in a spiritual journey that end with them fully involved in the active life of the church.

  • Workshop 6: Understanding culture
    Presenter: Tanja Baum

    Workshop description: In most countries around the world, the population is becoming more and more multicultural. And we often find it difficult to understand how our fellow human beings with a different cultural background think and act. This experience is even more intense when you move to another country with a different culture to live in. In this seminar there will be a brief introduction to what culture is. Following this, a model will be presented that describes three types of culture. The model will help us to identify differences in the three types of culture and to understand how and why people from other cultures act. The model helps us to compare cultures with each other, to analyze and understand the actions of others in the context of their culture and to develop more understanding for other cultures.