Tomorrow’s Leaders in Your Church Today (Nicole Shirk & Elliott Simko)
Tomorrow’s Leaders in Your Church Today: How to reach and form college students as leaders for the Church…Local, national, and global leaders for tomorrow are students on college campuses today. 53% of these students report feeling hopeless. Only 4% of this generation of students has a Biblical worldview. Regardless of the size and style of your church, there are important ways you can help to bring the hope of Jesus Christ to campus and disciple next generation leaders for ministry in the Church and the world. Join in an interactive session to discuss best practices in reaching college students with the Gospel and integrating them into the life of your parish.
Nicole Shirk serves as the Executive Vice President for Campus Ministry of the Coalition for Christian Outreach (CCO), providing leadership to all facets of Campus Ministry, Recruiting, Fellowship Program, and Support Raising Ministries. She attended Wake Forest University in North Carolina and had plans as a student to serve the Lord through economic development in West Africa. The Lord had other plans. Now in her 17th year of ministry with the CCO, Nicole delights in God disrupting her life with better plans than she could imagine. Nicole’s work with the CCO has included ministry to Carnegie Mellon University students, regional leadership, and executive roles overseeing the CCO’s ministry to students in partnership with local churches.
Elliott Simko has served with the Coalition for Christian Outreach in the Metro Philadelphia region since graduating from college in 2008. During that time, he served as CCO campus staff in partnership with Manoa Community Church, reaching students at Haverford College and Eastern University. Elliott then worked as a Partnership Coordinator for the Metro Philadelphia region, and he recently took on a new role as Director of Campus Ministry, through which he provides leadership to the CCO’s regional leaders and helps develop CCO church partnerships nationwide.
How to Multiply Our Ministries Through Church Planting
EQUIP! 2018: The theme this year is how to multiply our ministries through church planting. Our speaker is the Rev. Dr. Winfield Bevins, an Anglican church planter and director of the Church Planting Institute at Asbury Seminary, as well as the author of numerous articles (“Reclaiming the Missional Heart of Anglicanism”) and books (Church Planting Revolution). Dr. Bevins will be giving us lots to think about in his talks, “North America: The New Mission Field,” “Church Planting in the 21st Century: Fresh Expressions and other New Models of Church,” and “How Might an Anglican Church Planting Movement Look: Hallmarks of the Wesleyan Revival.” The focus of his talks will be to help us to understand the changing mission field in which we find ourselves today and how we can more effectively reach those in our communities through innovative approaches that will grow and multiply our ministries.
