2024 Northern CA WMU Regional Missions Discipleship Training Event

Join us for an exciting 1-day multicultural missions discipleship leadership training event! Breakout sessions with training and resources to lead preschoolers, children, students and adults designed to engage all ages in developing a missions lifestyle. Breakouts led by experienced practitioners providing relevant sessions to the multi-cultural nature of California churches.

Speakers include CA WMU President, Sandra Hughes (Lake Isabella)- CA WMU Executive Director, Eva de La Rosa (Oxnard) -CA WMU Korean Consultant, Fanny Kim (Eastvale) - CA WMU Hispanic Consultant, Magda Soto(Hawthorne), Chinese WMU Children's Leader, Irene Lee(San Jose) and Pastor Gil De La Rosa, Literacy Consultant (Oxnard) many other leaders & missionaries from across California and beyond.

Breakout sessions will provide resources and training in a wide range of topics. You will be encouraged and challenged through our times of worship! The fellowship with like-minded brothers and sisters will bless you.

Plan to arrive early to check-in: receive your name tag and folder, enjoy some coffee, tea or water, along with a light continental breakfast. Doors open at 8am, worship will begin at 9:00 in the Crosspoint SV Worship Center. All of the event will be at the Crosspint SV location.

Compassion Ministries/ English as a Second Language - Many people from other countries live, work, and study in the United States. Often, they need to learn to speak English well to: get or keep a job., obtain medical care, communicate with their children’s teachers and to hear the Gospel. Learn how an English as a Second Language Basic workshop equips local church volunteers to intentionally share the Gospel with new English speakers. and how to begin a ministry to help internationals learn English in your community.

Compassion Ministries/ Project Help Mental Health: The Church’s Response - WMU provides multiple avenues for churches to raise awareness of mental health as a critical issue in all our lives and equip members in awareness and championing mental health initiatives both the church and the local community.

The Basics: What is WMU? - WMU’s unwavering focus is making disciples of Jesus who live on mission. Missions is for everyone! Discover how we carry out this mission by providing missions discipleship resources for churches and individuals, offering opportunities to engage with compassion ministries, and equipping people through leadership development experiences.

Preschool Missions: Mission Friends - Mission Friends, provides preschoolers with the building blocks of faith and teach to develop a missions heart growing toward God as they become aware that God loves all people.

Missions Journey: Kids - 2024-2025 "Theme: Loved So Much!" Children love to share God’s love, And children learn by doing. Through Missions Journey: Kids, children learn to share His love in multiple ways. Learn about missions discipleship resources for boys & girls grades 1st-6th grade designed to help them: learn about missions, pray for missions, support missions and do missions and tell others about Jesus!

Missions Journey: Students - teens are living through a unique and formative time of Life, MJS provides an opportunity for teens (7th-12th grades) to develop a strong biblical framework, awakening a passion for the gospel of Jesus and provides an opportunity for students to live out their faith in a tangible way through avenues of service.

Women on Mission - Women on Mission is a missions discipleship group designed to equip adult women to live out missions through mission projects, ministries, prayer, Bible study, giving and do missions by sharing the gospel of Jesus with others around them.

Adults on Mission & Familes on Mission - Missions discipleship is for everyone! Come and learn about how to engage all adults in missions discipleship and missions opportunities to share the gospel through your church in your community and beyond. Fall is a great time to launch opportunities, so come and learn about free resources to help your families to learn and pray for missionaries and how your family can share Christ’s love to those around you.

Misiones para la vida - El discipulada misionera es para toda la familia. Ven y aprende como involucrar a todo los adultos y familias en oportunidaded de discipulado y misiones para compartir el evangelio en su comunidad y mas alla. Conozca rexcursos para ayudara sus families aorar por los misioneros y compartir el evangelio.

Sisters Who Care -Modeled after the national WMU Sisters Who Care, SWC is an African American expression of Women on Mission as a resource for African American congregations that affirms the kingdom work already taking place and which ignites passion and engages women in culturally relevant missions work locally and globally to inspire and equip women to influence the world for Christ.

Korean WMU Leadership Skills: 5 Essential Leadership Skills for Women - This breakout will be taught in Korean. This is an overview of the online course (soon to be available through WMU’s Christian Women’s Leadership Center) for Christian women who desire personal and profession development in five essential areas of leadership: communication skills, relationship skills, time management skills, group=building skills, and conflict management skills.

WMU in the Korean Church: Session #1 Ready, Set, Go! Part #1 Interactive Missions Education - WMU’s focus is making disciples of Jesus who live on mission. Let’s get ready so that we can fully be equipped to go and make disciples of Jesus who live on mission.

WMU in the Korean Church: Session #2 Ready, Set, Go! - Part #2 Story of WMU - WMU has a great story to tell! Come and hear all the remarkable courage and dedication of WMU leaders and we invite you to continue the story of WMU.

WMU and missions discipleship in the Chinese Church - This breakout will be taught in Mandarin. (description coming soon)

Mission-foused Prayer Strategies - A multitude from every nation, tribe, people and language, knowing and worshiping our Lord, Jesus Christ (Rev. 7:9-10). How do we pray for the multitudes

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