JOIN OUR NATIONAL DISCIPLE MAKING FORUM NOVEMBER 2019

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Nashville, Tennessee, November 7-8

FEATURED SPEAKERS 2019

Learn from real practitioners—how to multiply disciples!

Shodankeh Johnson

Shodankeh Johnson is part of the Core Team of New Generations. He is responsible for the mobilization of intercessors across all regions and the training of Disciple Making Movement (DMM) leaders in the ‘pioneer places’ where the gospel has never been or has never flourished. In addition, Shodankeh provides DMM training for movement-minded ministries around the world.

Shodankeh is also the leader of New Harvest ministries in Sierra Leone, West Africa. New Harvest is an indigenous DMM organization that plants churches throughout the region and incorporates a wide spectrum of ministries such as compassion, business development, leadership development, skills training and advanced education.

Shodankeh Johnson

Dave Clayton

Dave Clayton is the founding pastor of Ethos Church, a young, urban church plant located in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee, and the founder and visionary of Onward, a global family of leaders committed to making disciples and planting churches. Dave is passionate about seeing a new generation of leaders join with Jesus in awakening a movement in North America and far beyond.

Dave Clayton

Brandon Bowers

Brandon Bowers is the founding and Lead Pastor of Awaken Church in Charleston, SC. Awaken was planted in 2013 and has grown into a multi-site church with 1,500+ in attendance, over 500 people baptized and 65% of adults connected into small groups meeting throughout the region for discipleship. Additionally, the church has partnered with 30+ non-profits for monthly Love My City mission initiatives and projects to multiply Kingdom impact in their city.

Brandon is passionate about seeing people far from God awakened to life in Christ and then joining in on the mission of following Jesus and making disciples. He serves as a Leadership Catalyst with the South Carolina Baptist Convention and also as a mentor coaching church within the Relational Discipleship Network. He has been married to his wife, Ashley for 16 years and they have two sons, Brailey (12) and Bryson (10), and two daughters, Brinkley (8) and Brooklyn (5).

Brandon Bowers

Ronnie Goines

Dr. Ronnie Goines is the Lead Pastor of Koinonia Christian Church, one of the fastest growing churches in Texas. He began his journey in Shreveport, Louisiana as a smart kid with a bad temper whose life was unknowingly re-purposed by his 5th-grade teacher. After hearing the words “You’re a leader” from his teacher, he set out on a path that would soon affect the lives of thousands of men. He later began to change his life after joining the military where he found what all men seem to have in common. Which was the fact that most men desired to become better; they just did not know how.

Ronnie Goines

Jim Putman

Jim is a 17-year ministry veteran, author, and national speaker. His passion is discipleship through small groups, and he co-founded the Relational Discipleship Network.

Jim Putman

Ben Sobels

Ben Sobels is Senior Pastor of Cypress Community Church in Salinas, CA. He graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary with a Master of Theology degree. Cypress is committed to being a discipleship community that worships Jesus, loves one another, and serves the world. With a passion for global missions, Ben disciples men at Cypress and also trains other pastors with The Bonhoeffer Project.

Ben is married to Joni and they have five children. For fun, Ben and Joni love hiking in the Toro hills together, driving north and south on Hwy 1, and eating Outback Steakhouse ribs on special occasions!

Ben Sobels

Brooke Hempell

Barna Group’s Senior Vice President of Research, Brooke Hempell, manages the firm’s research studies, from semi-annual polls that track the pulse of Americans’ beliefs and practices, to custom studies for para-church ministries, denominations, businesses and non-profit organizations. Through this work, Barna helps leaders gain insights into faith groups and the general population’s perspectives on faith and cultural issues.

Prior to joining Barna, Brooke led market research engagements for clients in the pharmaceutical, financial services and retail industries for more than 15 years. She earned her B.S. in Business and Marketing from Cornell University. Brooke is active in church planting and racial reconciliation ministries and lives in Atlanta, GA.

Brooke Hempell

Drew Hyun

Drew is a Church Planter and Pastor of Hope Church Midtown, as well as the Founding Pastor of Hope Church NYC, a family of diverse churches in NYC and the Co-Founder of the New City Network, a network of urban churches. He has spent the last 16 years living and pastoring in New York. He loves cities, ESPN, and naps, and finds it a restful Sabbath when all three come together. He resides in New York City with his lovely wife Christina and their two children, David and Avery. Drew is the author of no books.

Drew Hyun

Kandi Gallaty

Kandi Gallaty is a pastor’s wife, a mother of two precious boys, a speaker, and writer who is devoted to making disciples and cultivating a passion in women for God’s word. Along with her husband Robby, She is the co-author of Foundations and together they lead Replicate, a ministry that educates, equips, and empowers believers to make disciples who make disciples. Kandi and her family live outside of Nashville, Tennessee and serve at their wonderful church, Long Hollow Baptist Church.

Kandi Gallaty

Christy Spader

Christy serves as the Team Leader with Cru at Ohio University and 6 other campuses in SE Ohio. In this role, she gives direction to and co-leads a team of 20 staff and a movement of over 400 students. Christy received her BA from Moody Bible, her MA from Wheaton College and is currently pursuing an MDiv from Southern Seminary. Christy is passionate about seeing women empowered for ministry, and building movements of disciple-makers raised up and sent out to fulfill the Great Commission.

Christy Spader

2019 National Disciple Making Forum Schedule

Thursday, November 7, 2019

8:30am – Doors Open/Registration Begins
10:00am – 11:30 – Main Session/Forum #1
11:30am – 12:45pm – Lunch break
12:45pm – 1:45pm – Track Session #1
1:45pm – 2:00pm – Break
2:00pm – 3:00pm – Track Session #2
3:00pm – 3:15pm – Break
3:15pm – 4:15pm – Track Session #3
4:15pm – 4:30pm – Break
4:30pm – 6:00pm – Main Session/Forum #2

Friday, November 8, 2019
7:00am – Prayer meeting w/ Shodankeh Johnson
8:00am – Doors Open
9:00am – 10:00am – Track Session #4
10:00am – 10:15am – Break
10:15am – 11:15am – Track Session #5
11:15am – 12:30pm – Lunch break
12:30pm – 2:00pm – Main Session/Forum #3

“A great event for those who want to fulfill the Great Commission by making reproducing disciples.”

—ROBERT COLEMAN, Author of The Master Plan of Evangelism

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