The challenges of cross-cultural communication are ever-present in missions today. How do we avoid the pitfalls of wrong communication, improper communication, or missing each other completely? In this session, we look at five aspects of communication as well as essential character qualities that God has given us in Scripture that will help us in the art of proper cross-cultural communication.

Fear or love? That does not sound like a difficult decision. Why do we complicate it? Fear drives so much human behavior. How can we choose love and the blessings that go with it? God has the answers.

Is cross bearing and self-denial still integral to the Gospel message? How is Jesus’ victory on the cross made available to His followers? How should we present the terms of discipleship to the current generation?

How we treat the poor is how we treat Jesus. No one can do everything to help them, but we can all do something. In this session, Paul Yoder discusses practical ways that individuals and churches can reach the poor. How should we respond to requests for basic needs? How can we help people move from a life of poverty to a life of stability and sufficiency?

From Abraham to Jesus to you, God is in the business of sending people to a complete a mission. How do you prepare for the part He wants you to play? What will you need to sacrifice to complete the mission? How can you be on mission now? In this session, Patrick Heatwole explores how to live a life that counts, understanding and participating in God’s strategic mission.

Saying “yes” to God changes people. Encounter the stories of two women who said yes to God’s call to serve people who society rejected or ignored. Their “yes” changed their own lives and the lives of thousands around them.

What is my life purpose? Am I worth anything to people and to God? Life is a gift and we have this momentous privilege to use our gifts on planet earth to prepare for a heavenly forever. This session explores the truth about what our dear heavenly Father’s intentions are for His children.

Stephen Russell looks at the record found in the New Testament, various early church writers, and even in pagan writers to discover the ways the church evangelized during the first three centuries. He also discusses how these insights might be useful for us today.

There are over 65 million refugees in the world today, displaced by unstablegovernments, war, and terrorism. How should Anabaptists respond? What can wedo to be the hands and feet of Jesus? This panel discussion features representatives from different Anabaptist organizations working with refugees across the globe. The panel welcomes questions about the refugee crisis.

Mission programs begin by responding to a real need. Staff, structure, and funding develop around this need, and gain a momentum of their own. This session asks the hard questions that help your mission analyze the effectiveness of your work, evaluate its long-term outcome, and end programs that have accomplished their purpose or outlived their usefulness. An effective internal program audit can help you know how and when to redirect resources to where they are most needed.

Elisha’s success as a servant of God was founded on his previous ability as a follower. Men and women of lasting impact were those who knew how to follow before they were in places of leadership.

Each of us as women brings our unique blend of gifts/passion to a team. Sometimes those differences grate instead of nurture and bless. In this talk, Barb Coblentz gives ways of embracing this diversity rather than allowing it to divide and irritate.

Someone has said, “Ministry is not primarily something we do for God but what God is doing in and through us.” Growing our faith is one of those things God does in us. How does He do that? In this talk, Carolyn Roth looks at examples of God’s faithfulness and shows that He can minister through us in our homes, community, church or cross culturally.

This workshop discusses what missiologists have called the Three Waves of Missions since the Reformation. By looking at the past 200 years, we gain direction and vision for the Wave of Missions that God is calling this generation to undertake.

We women have many competing demands for our time and emotional energy. Relationships are important to us. Family, church, ministry, and community responsibilities stretch us thin. How do we enjoy our pie, one slice at a time?

The Master Planner lovingly labored over writing a recipe for each of our lives. In this session, we explore how God can take all the events of our lives and as we stretch our hand toward Him to seek Him, He redeems and transforms them. We sift through the pain and the pleasure of our own life story to recognize how God longs to bring us to a place of joy and freedom through acceptance of His trustworthy plan.

God intends diversity to have a useful role in the building of His Kingdom. Whenever God designs something, He does it to build. The enemy tries to twist what is good in an effort to destroy. It is imperative that we learn to tell the difference. In this session, we explore the sources of diversity, its purpose, and ways to turn it from a potential blight to a blessing.

This session is a call to young people and all Christians to go to battle for Christ’s cause. He calls us to give our lives and resources completely for those for whom He died. This is also a testimony to God’s provisions, grace, and joy when we do the above.

As followers of Jesus, how involved in business should we be? Is it possible God has more in mind than just providing income for our families? What if God has a deeper purpose for our businesses than we have realized? In this session, we explore business as a platform for reaching out to others in our local communities, in foreign countries, and in restricted settings normally closed to foreign missionaries.

This workshop looks at fundamental causes of poverty. It demonstrates how the formation of community is the best way to alleviate poverty.