BREAKOUTS
THE BREAKOUTS
2027
DAY 1
Connections & Volunteers
Connections & Engagement: From First Visit to Fully Connected
Creating intentional pathways for connection and engagement.
DAY 1
Marketing & Communications
Crafting Compelling Campaigns
Learn practical tips for crafting intentional campaign strategy and compelling messaging that inspires your congregation to take action.
DAY 1
Creative
Creative Project Management 101
Your creative team’s best friend? A project management strategy. Getting a plan into place for your project or initiative is critical to its success. This breakout is for creative teams looking to start a project-management system, or wanting to sharpen up an already existing pipeline.
DAY 1
Team Culture
Culture of Collaboration
Working cross-functionally and collaborting across teams and departments is vital to our ministry success. Come learn how we have created a culture of collaboration and adopted a new mindsets that helps us work together as one team.
DAY 1
Missions / Outreach
Developing a Missions & Outreach Strategy
Learn how to establish a comprehensive local and global missions strategy while engaging every age group and skill level.
DAY 1
Worship & Production
Engaging Experiences: Achieving High Impact Production
An inside look into the systems and processes we use to create and maintain engaging experiences across multiple locations.
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Creative
Finding Your Creative Pace
While there are many people out there that give practical tips on time blocking, there’s nothing that quite nails what you’re feeling as a creative. In this breakout, we’ll walk through how to best manage your pace in your context, win with your workload, and find healthy rhythms while maintaining team health.
DAY 1
Discipleship
From Groups to Growth
Discover how to cultivate a thriving groups and discipleship culture in your church. We'll talk through our process for recruiting, training and resourcing group leaders. You'll also get an inside look at our church-wide "Don't Let Doubt Take You Out" campaign.
DAY 1
Get a Life: Thriving in Life and in Ministry
Ministry is a marathon, not a sprint. A rich life outside of ministry is a key to longevity in ministry. Come discover one of the keys to thriving in life and minisitry, not just for days, but for decades.
DAY 1
Connections & Volunteers
Leading Teams that SERVE: Creating a Healthy Volunteer Culture
Learn how Christ Fellowship's SERVE Model creates a healthy volunteer culture. We will discuss new processes and systems we've implemented to help us better lead, care for, and equip our Dream Team
DAY 1
Bonus Breakouts
Off-Site: Films & Design Studio Tour
Join our Films and Design Teams for a networking tour of our Films & Design Studio at our Trinity location.
DAY 1
Worship & Production
Plan to Last: Healthy Rhythms for Sustainable Worship Ministry
When worship ministry lacks healthy rhythms, burnout often begins with the calendar. This session invites you to rethink how you schedule and serve. You’ll learn how to build intentional weekly, monthly, and annual rhythms that create margin, restore joy, strengthen culture, and help leaders and teams remain faithful in every season of ministry.
DAY 1
Marketing & Communications
Social Media & Digital Marketing for Church Growth
Learn practical tips, key things to avoid, and trusted tools to strengthen your church’s social media presence while discovering how to use those platforms strategically to reach new people in your community. This breakout will equip you to steward your platforms well, run effective social media ads, and guide people toward meaningful next steps with clarity and purpose.
DAY 1
Leadership Development
The Leadership Pipeline
In this breakout we will outline our leadership development pathway from apprentice and college intern to our highest levels of leadership. Learn how we define each step in the pipeline and learn practical ways we are developing leaders at every level of the organization.
DAY 1
Team Culture
Welcome Home: Be Observant. Care Deeply. Act Boldly.
Welcome Home is a phrase we here a lot... but how do we create a Welcome Home experience? Come learn about how we are equipping our team to display unreasonable hospitality by being observant, caring deeply, and acting boldly.
DAY 2
Bonus Breakouts
Broadcast Production Tour
An inside look into the strategy, systems, and processes we use to create and maintain online engagement.
DAY 2
Creative
Crafting Stories That Move the Dial
Powerful stories are happening in your church every week—they just need the right eyes, questions, and edits to bring them to life. This breakout is for church video teams who want to capture authentic stories that move people. You’ll learn how to find meaningful stories, create interviews that draw out real emotion, and edit for connection and engagement.
DAY 2
Stewardship & Generosity
Creating a Culture of Stewardship & Generosity
Join our Stewardship Team for a conversation about what we are doing to build a culture of generosity. We will share about our Impact Offering campaign, giving strategies, offering setups, caring for giving leaders, and more.
DAY 2
Missions / Outreach
Delivering Hope to Your Community Through Partnerships
Learn how to maximize partnership with local cities, first responders, schools, and other non traditional partnerships. This breakout includes a tour of our Missions warehouse space.
DAY 2
Sponsor Breakouts
EQUIP: Jesus the High Road Leader
In a culture full of compromise, the Church needs leaders who choose the high road. Leaders whose influence flows from integrity, not ego. This breakout session is rooted in Jesus the High Road Leader, a transformational resource designed to equip pastors, staff, and ministry teams to lead the way Jesus did, with courage, clarity, and character.
DAY 2
Sponsor Breakouts
Finding Your Church’s Role in the Good Samaritan Story
Rescue and healing isn’t just a nice idea—it’s a Kingdom mandate calling your church to live fully in grace, purpose, and action. This session will equip pastors to help their congregations discover their place in the story of the Good Samaritan and inspire them to “go and do likewise” with bold, life-changing impact.
DAY 2
Worship & Production
Grow Your Worship Team: Creating Clear Pathways from Interest to Involvement
Growing a worship team requires more than recruitment, it requires clarity. This session equips you with practical tools for teams of any size, helping you build healthy, scalable pathways that move people from interest to involvement through thoughtful auditions, effective training, and intentional development so people can serve with confidence, purpose, and joy.
DAY 2
Multi-Site
Leading a Multi-Site Ministry
Join our multi-site team for an open conversation around campus expansion, heat maps, and multi-site strategy. This will be a great place to ask questions and meet other leaders navigating the multi-site world of ministry.
DAY 2
Marriage
Maintaining Marriage Momentum in Ministry
A practical, hope-filled teaching on how to help your marriage stay strong in the middle of real-life pressure and busy seasons. You’ll walk away with simple, repeatable habits, and “tools for your tool belt” that you can start using immediately.
DAY 2
Digital & Church Online
Not Your Average Church Management System
Your church management system should do more than just manage information; it should help care for people. Discover how your systems can support meaningful engagement, intentional communication, and clear next steps for spiritual growth. You’ll see how data, communication tools, and learning pathways can work together to help people feel known, empowered, and guided forward in their faith journey.
DAY 2
Bonus Breakouts
Off-Site: Missions Warehouse Tour
Connect with our CFMissions Team and get a tour of our Missions Warehouse. Learn how we utilize this space to resource community outreaches, disaster response, and more.
DAY 2
Leadership Development
Onboarding & Team Culture
You’ll learn how culture is formed not in one moment, but through who you hire, how you onboard, and what you consistently reinforce. Whether you’re a small church building systems for the first time or a growing church seeking to strengthen alignment across teams, this breakout will equip you to move from assuming great culture will just happen to designing it with clarity, consistency, and intentionality.
DAY 2
Team Culture
On the Road To... A Strategy for Preparing Your Teams for Conferences & Events
We all love the moment of a well executed event or ministry outreach. But how do we prepare and create the moment before the moment? Join us as we share how we have built an "On the Road To..." team and talk about how we prepare our staff and volunteers for conferences, events, and ministry outreaches.
DAY 2
Discipleship
Set Free: Helping People Find Freedom & Deliverance
Explore Christ Fellowship's newly updated Freedom Class and Freedom Encounter strategy. Learn how we have equipped our staff and volunteers to minister effectively in the areas of spiritual warfare and deliverance using practical tools to help people find freedom in Christ.
DAY 2
Sisterhood
Sisterhood Breakout
Discover how a culture of Sisterhood can fuel the vision for your church, equip the next generation, and add value to every woman and girl.
DAY 2
Digital & Church Online
Who’s on the Other Side of the Screen? Using Data to Rethink Digital Ministry
For many people, online church is the first step before attending in person. In this breakout, you’ll learn how data-informed decisions can sharpen your digital discipleship strategy and help you create online experiences that move people from passive viewing to meaningful connection and real-world engagement.
DAY 2
Bonus Breakouts
Women in Leadership Network Gathering
If you are a women and you are leading in some capacity at your church, you are invited to join our team for breakfast and a time of investment into your leadership.
DAY 2
Worship & Production
Worship & Production Rehearsal
This breakout gives you the opportunity to be part of our rehearsal process for the morning session of Christ Fellowship Conference. We will serve coffee and a light breakfast, which will allow you to meet some great people and ask questions along the way.
DAY 2
Bonus Breakouts
Worship Song Writing Session
This is a unique in-depth experience from concept to completion of a song. See how co-writing can enhance the creative process, how to work together to finish with unity and clarity, building to present the idea in a way that carries the heart of the writers through to the ears of those who experience it.
