March 17, 1-5pm & March 18, 8-11:30am. Room Kids 1 308; Speakers include: Soong-Chan Rah, Liz Rios, Lori Ruffin, Len Tang, Corey Lee, Mozart Dixon, Larry Acosta, Chris Brooks

Planting multiethnic churches isn’t a fad; it’s the future. It’s not simply the rapid shift in demographics, with no majority ethnicity in the U.S. by 2044. It’s that in order to demonstrate the gospel’s credibility to a culture increasingly torn apart by racial division, we need churches planted or co-planted by diverse leaders who are modeling genuine sharing of power, deep commitment to racial justice, and missional and evangelistic impact in their communities.

So we need to dramatically increase the number of church planters of color and to holistically support them, as well as train majority culture planters to become culturally competent and aware of their power. Towards that end, this pre-conference is led by church planting leaders of color.
During our time together, we’ll gather a community of practitioners who are able to:

• recognize the urgency to plant multiethnic churches
• form the inner life and missional competencies of multiethnic planters
• integrate justice and evangelism in multiethnic church plants
• build partnerships to provide funding and support in the journey

Multiethnic Church Planting Breakout Track - 4 sessions, all in Room Kids 1 308:

• Tuesday, March 18,  2:30pm - "History & Theology of Multiethnic Church Planting," Soong-Chan Rah
• Wed, March 19, 8:45am - "Courageous Conversations: Race, Power & Leadership in Multiethnic Churches", Liz Rios, Lori Ruffin, Chris Brooks
• Wed, March 19, 2:30pm - "Contextualized Training for Black, Asian, & Latino Planters", Len Tang, Corey Lee
• Thurs, March 20, 8:45am - "Collaborative Leadership Models in Multiethnic Churches," Liz Rios, Lori Ruffin

This gathering is specifically for church planting leaders of color, and you must RSVP here to ensure we have enough food for the March 18 Multiethnic Collaborative Dinner at Exponential Global in Orlando. We will have a time of prayer, connection, and discerning our next steps as a movement of multiethnic church planters and leaders.

Location: Room Kids 1 308

This panel discussion facilitated by Lori Ruffin will feature network leaders and how they are re-imagining their systems and processes to recruit, train, coach, and financially support multiethnic church planters. Panelists will include Dr. Liz Rios (Passion2Plant), Mozart Dixon (Stadia), Troy Evans (Nitrogen), Tim Sheridan (Resonate).