2025 District Leadership Conference
BUILDING A DISCIPLEMAKING CULTURE
February 21-22, 2025 | Fellowship Bible Church | Waco, TX
The Annual District Leadership Conference is a strategic opportunity for EFCA Texas-Oklahoma District churches to connect with one another and unite around our mission. Our goal is to come alongside church leaders by providing worship, speakers, and breakout sessions that will inspire, equip, and encourage all who attend.
Need to Know Info
Dates & Location
When: Friday, February 21, 2025 – Saturday, February 22, 2025
Where: Fellowship Bible Church, 5200 Speegleville Road, McGregor, TX 76657 | Click HERE for directions
Hotel Block
Springhill Suites by Marriott Waco/Woodway
200 Colonnade Parkway
Woodway, TX 76712
Click HERE to book your discounted room
Booking deadline: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Schedule
Friday, February 21, 2025
| 10:00am | Doors Open |
| 11:30am | Affinity Groups Luncheon |
| 01:45pm | District Vision Session – Dr. Brent Burckart |
| 02:45pm | Snack & Chat |
| 03:15pm | Main Session I – Shane Stacey |
| 04:15pm | Snack & Chat |
| 04:45pm | District Business Meeting |
| 06:00pm | Banquet Dinner |
| 07:00pm | Main Session II – Shane Stacey |
| 8:15pm | Day Concludes |
Saturday, February 22, 2025
| 7:30am | Doors Open |
| 08:30pm | Breakout Sessions |
| 09:45am | Continental Breakfast |
| 10:15am | Breakout Sessions |
| 11:30am | Closing Session |
| 12:30pm | Conference Concludes |
Affinity Groups Luncheon
Friday, February 21, 2025 | 11:30am
| Children’s Ministry | Room TBD |
| Elders | Room TBD |
| Executive & Associate Pastors/Leaders | Room TBD |
| Hospitality & Care Ministry | Room TBD |
| Lead Pastors | Room TBD |
| Lead Pastors Wives | Room TBD |
| Ministerios Hispanos | Room TBD |
| Ministry Leaders Wives | Room TBD |
| Student Ministry | Room TBD |
| Women’s Ministry |
Room TBD |
| Worship & Media Ministry |
Room TBD |
District Business Meeting
Friday, February 22, 2025 | 4:45pm
Delegate Information: Click HERE to determine whether you are considered a 2025 District Conference Delegate.
District Business Meeting Materials: More info coming soon!
Main Sessions
Keynote Speaker
Shane Stacey, Co-Founder of Clarity House
Shane is the Co-Founder of Clarity House, a training and consulting organization that equips church teams across the country to lead with a shared vision fueled by disciplemaking clarity. For the past 28 years, Shane has served in and alongside local churches as a pastor, coach, and consultant.
Learn More about Shane Stacey
Before launching Clarity House, Shane served as the Executive Director of Denominee, where he helped over 40 denominational and network teams lead with greater synergy, bringing increased value to the churches they serve. He also spent a decade with the Evangelical Free Church’s national team, helping local and regional leaders build disciplemaking cultures rooted in a way of life in Christ.
Shane is currently a non-vocational leader at River City Church in Minneapolis, MN, where he lives with his wife, Heather. Together, they have three young adult children: Isaac, Gavin, and Ruth.
Main Session Topic
Building a Disciplemaking Culture
The more we listen to the voices and needs of ministry leaders, the more we hear a resounding desire to grow in the area of making disciples in today’s culture. With that in mind, we will pull a few pages from Jesus’ disciplemaking playbook to address two critical questions: What is our current disciplemaking strategy? And, is it effective? Let’s take a day to step back and focus ourselves on the ultimate mission that Jesus gave the church.
Main Session I: Moving Beyond the Functional Great Commission
Many of us have embraced a disciplemaking framework that calls people to attend, connect, and serve. While this framework isn’t inaccurate, it has become increasingly inadequate for making and multiplying disciples of Jesus in a post-Christian context. To address this challenge, we’ll turn to a page from Jesus’ disciplemaking playbook. When faced with internal and external pressures that threatened to detour His ministry, Jesus made a critical shift to ensure its future. This is the same shift many church teams find themselves needing to make today.
Main Session II: A Call to the Other Side
Building a disciplemaking culture requires making some necessary shifts. However, these shifts often do not start in the congregation—they begin in the heart and practices of leaders. By turning to a second page from Jesus’ disciplemaking playbook, we discover that embracing His disciple-multiplying vision requires a willingness to “go to the other side.” As you consider your own “other side,” Jesus challenges you with three key questions: What will you forsake? What will you take? What impact will you make?
Breakout Sessions
More info coming soon!
Conference Exhibitors
Questions?
Email us. We’re happy to answer your questions!
Biblical. Balanced.
Better Together.
Email:
multiply@efcatxok.org
Mailing Address:
EFCA TX-OK District
17424 W Grand Pkwy S #228
Sugar Land, TX 77479