2025 Minister's Training Intensive

Name: 2025 Minister's Training Intensive
Start: 2025-09-25T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-27T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Camp Hickory Hills

Schedule

Thu, 25 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Sat, 27 Sep, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Camp Hickory Hills | Dickson, TN

Every Tennessee pastor is encouraged to attend this intensive, but the event is also open to all minister’s and laity who are interested in church revitalization, church planting, and/or improving leadership abilities.
Registration Includes
• Class instruction and materials
• Opportunities to connect with pastors, ministers, and emerging leaders from across Tennessee
• Lodging, if needed, at Camp Hickory Hills
• Meals: Snacks throughout the event; Friday - breakfast, lunch, and supper; Saturday – breakfast and lunch
The event will start on Thursday, January 9th at 6:00pm CST and end on Saturday, January 11th at 3:30pm. Two classes will be offered – “Church Planting Essentials,” and “Healthy Church Dynamics.”
Class Information - Healthy Church Dynamics
For churches looking to improve systems, get healthy, and prepare to multiply
Our bodies have different systems: cardiovascular, nervous, respiratory and etc. They are independent, but if any one of them fails, the whole body fails. It is the same in the body of Christ. Eight systems in the body of Christ have been studied. We share what to do to develop the systems required to have a healthy body at any age and stage of life.
This training equips you to...
• Implement strategic systems for healthy church development.
• Deal with discouragement, difficult people and time demands.
• Evaluate your church regularly to assess the why and how of effective ministry
• Prepare to reproduce.
• Use different ministry skills for 6 key phases of church growth
• Recognize how the size of a church impacts ministry
Certified Instructors
Robert George
Rick Lyles
Paul Holt
Class Information - Church Planting Essentials
Using the pattern of a baby being formed in 9 months of pregnancy, students learn how to start churches from conception to birth and beyond. They plan culturally relevant outreach, develop a Process of Discipleship and learn about how to avoid difficulties in planting.
This training equips you to...
• Organize, refine and pinpoint your vision, purpose, strategies and timeline early, so that you have a clear plan for the future.
• Use the 12 Biblical principles for church planting in everything you do.
• Recognize and avoid land mines such as launching too soon, choosing the wrong facility, or exhausting your launch team.
Certified Instructors
Anthony Cain
Michael Harris
Jeff Jones
Certificates of completion will be awarded.