Eboni Brickhouse:  Better Together - Churches are major providers of this country’s child care and early childhood education.  How can the church work collaboratively with governmental agencies, volunteers, and other community resources to provide quality care and education for young children?

Pat Clement:  Youth and their Vivid Imaginations:  Fertile Ground for Contemplative Prayer and Guided Meditations! - If your youth daydream during Sunday School, don’t fight it… recognize it as “gift” and use it!  For the past 30 years, Pat Clement has been introducing kids, ages 5 to 55, to the joys of meditation and contemplative prayer.  Enjoy a “hands-on” experience of a powerful, gospel-centered, prayer tool that is suitable for anyone with a lively imagination.

Barbara Crump:  Nurturing Children - Whether you are a Sunday School teacher, volunteer, leader or parent, you and your church play a vital role in nurturing children's faith. In this session we will examine several principles for fostering a child-friendly community—a place where children develop faith that affects every aspect of their lives.

Leila Denton:  Children in Mission - We can help children discover their gifts for service and mission early in their lives.  This workshop will touch on why we need to do mission with children, how we get started and how we continue to nurture them by defining and redefining mission.

Gloria Flowers:  Creative Teaching - Participants will discuss research and information regarding the strategic goals, technical approaches, and intended outcomes of providing purposeful Christian education to diverse and interfaith populations. Participants will also learn how to effectively plan Christian education activities as well as the learn how to evaluate the impact of Christian education programs and services.

Israel Galindo: Planning & Organizing for Christian Education Formation: - Provides a model for churches to use in organizing a Christian education leadership committee or team, demonstrates how to use the church year as a framework for planning a Christian education ministry, and gives guidance for assessing the effectiveness of a church’s educational ministry.  It also provides a process to help congregations move toward the Christian Education Formation approach.

Tom Graves: Studying the Bible with Adults - Guidelines for effective Bible study grounded in spiritual experience and focused on practical application in everyday life.

Dan Koger: Encountering Scripture as Doorways and Windows: Heart, Mind, and Soul in Adult Bible Study - The writer of Hebrews describes the Word of God as "living and active."  What can we do to create an environment for adult Bible study which reflects the this understanding of Scripture?  This workshop will blend a teacher's personal understanding of scripture with ways to bring the text to life in group study.

Geraldine Berry Johnson: Including All God's Children - Are our programs and classrooms inclusive of all God's children?  How do we practice hospitality by welcoming children with learning, emotional, and physical challenges?  What can they teach "normal" children, and how can normal children be models for them?  What happens whey they learn and play together? 

Barbara Massey: The Way of the Child, Helping Children Experience God - A 39-week program to use with elementary-aged children throughout the year.  It is designed to use with small groups of children in various church settings and helps children develop an intimate, personal relationship with God, providing an opportunity for them to experience and practice spiritual disciplines that will nurture that relationship for a lifetime.

Tyrone Nelson: Empowering Youth Workers for Success - Today's youth are faced with enormous life challenges, and they require a lot from those who work with them.  If churches are to gain their trust and guide them wisely, they will need a youth ministry led by those who are engaged and competent, and who come to their work with team spirit.  This workshop will examine principles for empowering youth workers to succeed.

Waltena D. Pride: What's So Special? - Many of our youth and adults in our communities and churches have Special Needs.  Some of those needs are visible and some are invisible.  In this session we will examine a variety of Special Needs and share strategies to make our church schools and activities more inclusive.

Tammy L. Rice: Young Children and Worship - This workshop will introduce a way for children to experience God while learning about God.  It involves helping children worship in a special place apart from the worshiping congregation to enable them to worship meaningfully with the congregation.  It uses a sensorimotor style of storytelling as a primary means for encountering God, so that God is experienced, and not just learned about.

Lucinda Stevens and Birdie Lighthiser: Our Last Best Hope: Forming Tween Community - Churches often lament the shortage of teens and young adults among their ranks.  Could it be that we've not invited them in soon enough?  This workshop will explore the needs and interests of young people between 9 and 13, and how one church has formed community and ignited enthusiasm among their "tweens". 

Lisa Sykes: Sacred Spark: Autism, Children and the Church - What does the church need to know about autism?  How does it affect children and their families?  How can the church extend hospitality to both child and family, providing spiritual nurture for the child and support for families?