Cultivate Conference
Inner West Christians learning to teach adults, youth and kids the bible
18-20 January 2024
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Inner West Christians learning to teach adults, youth and kids the bible
18-20 January 2024
Over three days you will grow as a follower of Jesus yourself and learn to teach the bible to others. We believe being trained, equipped and discipled in a three day conference is the best way to prepare for a year of local ministry.
You'll learn and practice a teaching tool that can be applied to any passage in scripture, be encouraged and fed by keynote talks, and have your own faith invested in through seminars on leading a holy life.
All of this is done with peers who encourage and spur one another on throughout the week, from your church and other local churches as we're brought together by Jesus Christ.
Cultivate runs 3 strand groups for leaders at varying levels of leadership experience and confidence. Which means whether you're a brand new leader or you've been leading for years we have a strand that will give more tools for your ministry toolbox.
Strand 1 is the place to start, we focus on some principles of leading teaching moments, how to understand the Bible with the intent to teach, and how to faithfully apply a passage for today's context. We do this by working through a passage of the New Testament across the 4 days.
Strand 2 builds on Strand 1, we introduce Biblical Theology and focus on Kingdom and Promise as the we understand how the Old Testament is understood in the context of Christ. By looking at a passage in the Old Testament throughout the week you'll understand how salvation history is an important part for faithfully teaching the Old Testament.
Strand 3 is when you will learn how to teach specific topics and themes of scripture by using systematic theology. You'll learn and practice how to think theologically about various topics that may come up as you serve in ministry.
By the end of the conference, every delegate will have an opportunity to write a Bible Study or Talk with the support and feedback from their strand leaders.
Across the Cultivate conference there will be three interactive seminars taking a closer look at ministry skills, doctrine and personal holiness of a leader.
In the first seminar we will be thinking about the 'So what?' of Christian theology and seeing how the claims of the bible give us a deeper understanding of the world we live in. We will gain a deeper appreciation of Christian theology and the way it helps us understand our culture and practically equips us for our daily lives.
In the second seminar we will be equipped to personally reach our friends and family with the good news of Jesus. We will be trained to read the bible one-to-one with a friend using the uncover John resource. Uncover John will be a significant feature of the national mission campaign "Meet Jesus" being run by the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical students.
In the third seminar we will be pushed to think deeply about the implications of Jesus teaching and how it applies to the questions of now while also being equipped to explain it to others.
Get in touch with our conference planning team, by emailing alex@villagechurch.sydney