11 Reasons to Arrive Early at the Mission Leaders Conference
The Mission Leaders Conference isn’t just about the mainstage – it starts early with high-impact pre-conference sessions designed to equip, challenge, and energize your ministry.
These 11 sessions are your chance to dive deep, interact with experts, and walk away with actionable strategies. Whether you’re pioneering a new initiative or looking to sharpen your organization’s existing practices, there’s a reason for you to be there early.
- Gain practical skills from top leaders in missions and ministry
- Tackle real challenges facing your organization today
- Participate in hands-on workshops before the crowd arrives
- Build momentum for the rest of the conference
👉 Register early to secure your spot at a pre-conference session*
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* If you’ve already registered, just click the ‘Already registered?’ link in the event website navigation menu, log in, and choose ‘Modify registration’.
↓ To view more details about each session below, click the link and then click the title of the pre-conference card on the agenda list.
1. Launch Your Own Podcast
How to Create a Podcast From Scratch
Turn your message into a movement. Learn the full process – from recording to promotion – to launch a compelling podcast for your ministry.
Attend “How to Create a Podcast From Scratch”
2. Prepare for Crisis with Confidence
Tabletop Exercise: Responding to a Complaint
Practice your response to organizational conflict in a guided exercise that will sharpen your team’s ethics, trust, and response systems.
Join the “Tabletop Exercise” session
3. Reach the Next Generation Effectively
Mobilizing Gen Z: Listening, Leading, and Mentoring
Understand the mindset and calling of Gen Z to mobilize them effectively in missions. Explore methods of listening, leading, and empowering.
Reserve your spot for “Mobilizing Gen Z”
4. Establish Holistic Care Systems
Building Systems of Care: Sharing Experiences and Tools
Create sustainable care strategies for your staff and missionaries using proven tools and real-world case studies.
Be part of “Building Systems of Care”
5. Raise the Bar on Short-Term Missions
Short-Term Missions: 7 Standards of Excellence
Recalibrate your short-term trips for greater impact. Learn from the STM standards and how to embed excellence into your processes.
Register for “7 Standards of Excellence”
6. Cultivate Increased Effectiveness
Catalyzing Peer Groups to Maximize Your Ministry
Join a dynamic environment to problem solve, innovate, and engage in meaningful dialogue around real-time issues.
Don’t miss “Maximize Your Ministry Leadership”
7. Strengthen Leaders with New Frameworks
Raise the Bar for Healthy Leadership Standards
Senior leaders and board members can thrive in faith and service with the newest care standards, frameworks, and resources.
Sign up for “Leader Care Gathering”
8. Lead Your Team into Financial Growth
Interactive Forum: For CFOs and Financial Leaders
Dialog with peers to discover answers to the most complicated mission-critical issues and overcome your next challenge.
9. Manage New and Current Technologies
Address Strategic IT Challenges in Our Global World
Network, discuss, and find solutions from other technology leaders and gain strategic insight on the opportunities ahead.
10. Frame Fundraising as Ministry
Key Considerations for Financial Policies and Accounting
Join this discussion of key considerations for deputized fundraising, foreign entities, seconded workers, missionary benefits, and more.
Secure your seat in “Financial Bootcamp”
11. Master Longevity for Workers
Build Endurance for Retention among Global Workers
Discover a framework for sending and receiving new workers overseas that results in higher retention and endurance.
Join “Increasing Retention and Endurance”
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