Evangelical Friends Church - Eastern Region

What happens if God answers your prayers for revival? This workshop equips churches to steward momentum well by understanding when guests are most likely to come, what they need when they arrive, and how to help them move from first-time visitors to connected members of the church family. Learn practical systems, cultural shifts, and pastoral strategies that prepare your church not just to attract people—but to shepherd them well.

A call beyond complacency and apathy is on the Church. How can we lead our people to hunger for a move of God? What does it look like to guide our churches through prayer and fasting? As God moves across our nation, this session will challenge and equip you to lead with passion and intention—creating space for Him to work in ways that bring transformation both deep and wide.

Our world knows isolation as normal post-pandemic and information as endless post-AI. This gives our local churches an unprecedented opportunity to give every person something that the world’s ever-increasing individualism and bots just cannot give; the experience of being called, trained, and sent by Jesus in real community! Join us as we think again about joining Jesus in the organic mobilizing of ordinary people for life- changing, extraordinary purpose in the world.

Paul’s vision of a “fully proclaimed” gospel in Romans 15 weaves together word, deed, and power. Yet these three expressions often create tension — and sometimes outright friction — within faith communities. What can we learn from revivals that matured by holding all three together? This workshop offers frameworks for discernment and practical paths toward a more integrated community witness.

Immigration is a controversial subject in the U.S. and the American church. Since the nation’s founding, immigration has been a consistent catalyst for church growth and vitality. We will explore the dynamics of the relationship between immigration and the church and how immigration policy affects people of Christian faith who come to the U.S. and become members of our faith communities.

As many of our churches desire to reach the next generation, one question we are constantly asking is, “How?” This workshop doesn’t provide “3 easy steps to guarantee young people,” but it does look at the trends and desires of Gen Z and beyond as we attempt to minister to them within our churches.

From its inception, the Friends movement held that women are called to positions of ministry leadership. This workshop provides an overview of the theological grounding for women in ministry leadership and a snapshot of the great contribution of female leaders in the Eastern Region’s history.

This interactive session will explore the experiences of women in ministry through reflection, storytelling, and discussion. In an effort to analyze and authenticate the roles, responsibilities, and realities that surround this all-important work in the life of the church, participants will hear from panelists and also have the opportunity to use their voices. We will consider the potential, power, and ordained position of everyone who chooses to become a leader in the work of ministry in God’s kingdom.