The Horizons Conference

Schedule

Sat Oct 30 2021 at 10:00 am to 03:00 pm

Location

Glendale Presbyterian Church | Glendale, CA

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Reimagining Congregational & Missional Formation
About this Event

After a lively conference focusing on Jesus in the middle of the pandemic, we are pleased to create another thoughtful day for our leaders to reengage with one another around the topics of our congregations and our missional formation. The pandemic left us all in awe of God‘s activity and what could be adapted in the midst of a global crisis. The narratives of hope, lament, joy, and innovation were unprecedented in our Presbytery.

We now look to draw on those learnings as we faithfully innovate our way through the end of this pandemic. As we lean into what is emerging, we hope for not just a new normal, but a better normal, for our churches and the neighborhoods in which they participate.

In the end, we believe that this work should never be done alone. The relationships that are already present in our Presbytery are innumerable. The Horizons Conference is an invitation to gather together to nurture those relationships and to collectively discern new ways of reimagining our formation. During this special time we will not only reconnect, but also deepen our relationships as we seek to discern and enact the Holy Spirit with one another.


Speakers & Facilitators
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Len Tiso is an executive coach who is passionate about helping people and organizations to flourish and who works with leaders and teams within churches, nonprofit organizations, start-ups, and corporations. He is also a frequent guest preacher among churches within the Presbytery of San Fernando and others parts of Los Angeles.

Len sits on the Board of Cyclical Inc, a nonprofit which helps start new churches across North America and Europe. He holds an M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

Len and his wife Bobbi were part of the leadership team that launched a church plant in Downtown Los Angeles and now reside in Valencia, CA along with their son Vincent.


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Betsy McClellan Hall, co-author of bestseller How to Crush it in Business Without Crushing Your Spirit, How Entrepreneurs can Overcome Depression and Find Success, is currently writing Impossible Division, Answers from Heaven, a journal inspired by leaders' wives during cultural polarity. We'll discuss how Mmes. Abe Lincoln, John Calvin and Martin Luther relate to us on Reformation Weekend 2021. She coaches business and ministry multiplication privately and for Bridges.


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Al Han is the pastor and church planter of Perch.Church in Glendale, CA. Perch’s mission is to be “a hospitable community for spiritual wanderers.” He, his wife, and ten others started Perch.Church as a house church in November 2018. He also serves as a chaplain at Adventist Health hospital in Glendale. His wife Becky is a gifted graphic designer and creative director. Their daughter Emily is in 5th grade and loves to sing and dance. Their son Drew is in Kindergarten and loves to play with his Transformers.


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Rev'd. Dr. Eric Sarwar (Ph.D. Fuller Theological Seminary) is a musician, minister, and misiologist from the Presbyterian Church of Pakistan. Currently planting an Indo-Pak church in southern California and serving as a catalyst for worship music and mission-related ministries worldwide. For the past twenty years, he has served as an on-the-ground practitioner, pastor, and a musical peacemaker in this missional movement in an Islamic context. As the arena of music in the mission is shifting and stretching, Dr. Eric is the visionary voice participating and adding his stanza in the ongoing melody of missio Dei.


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Tamisha A. Tyler, MDiv, is a Los Angeles-based speaker and facilitator who hosts workshops and discussions around religion/spirituality, culture, community, and art. She is Executive Director of Art, Religion, and Culture (ARC), an educator, artist, and a PhD candidate currently writing a dissertation on the religious themes in the work of literary genius Octavia Butler. When not working, Tamisha enjoys good food, good friends, and good karaoke


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The son of Presbyterian clergy parents, Randy Working earned a B.A. in Art (Whitworth University), an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing (University of Washington), and an M.Div., D.Min., and Ph.D. (Theology and Culture, Fuller Theological Seminary). Randy has served at Bellevue Presbyterian Church in Bellevue, Washington as well as churches in Ohio and in the Santa Barbara and Sacramento Presbyteries. He has taught for Trinity Lutheran College, Seattle Pacific University, Ashland Theological Seminary, and Fuller Seminary, and has designed and taught study tours in France, Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, and Israel. He has shown his paintings in California, Washington, and Switzerland, and was visiting artist at Westmont College.



About BP10

As a Horizons conference registrant, you are invited to take Gallup’s BP10 (Builder Profile 10) leadership assessment and to bring your personalized BP10 report with you to the conference.

The BP10 assessment helps you to discover your unique builder talent profile and what kind of builder you are.

Whether you are launching a new church, developing a new or existing ministry, or starting a new business, understanding how you are wired will influence not only what you build, but also how you build it and who you might collaborate with as partners or team members.

The assessment takes about 30 minutes to complete online. You will receive an email directly from Gallup with instructions about how to take the assessment and to access your results. If you do not receive this email, please contact Len Tiso at [email protected].


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Conference Hosts

The Presbytery of San Fernando

The Presbytery of San Fernando is dedicated to empowering its congregations to develop missional leadership, create sustainability, and promote Christ-centered diversity in our Presbytery, community, and around the world.

Cyclical LA

Cyclical LA is a ministry of the San Fernando Presbytery. Our team identifies and supports discerning church starters, church starters and existing churches as they join the mission of God through the natural and historical lifecycle of starting new churches. This growing collective of leaders is an ecumenical community of innovators that share a common culture and set of practices created to thoughtfully start new churches across Los Angeles.

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Where is it happening?

Glendale Presbyterian Church, 125 South Louise Street, Glendale, United States

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Tickets

USD 20.00 to USD 50.00

The Presbytery of San Fernando

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