NC Baptists

Mission and camp settings are expected to be safe environments for our children, but they can be a place of vulnerability if safety precautions are not in place. This episode will share more about how you can be proactive in protecting your church’s most valuable asset — your children. Speakers: Tom Beam, Dollie Noa

Hear stories of where God is working and know the best practices for making disciples in and around the Greater Charlotte area. Speaker: Caleb Sprinkle 

Do families in your congregation see their homes or neighborhoods as a mission field? Are parents equipped to engage their homes and communities with the gospel? In this podcast, hear about how the N.C. Baptist Faith at Home Ministry has developed a new resource called “Acts 2:39 Missional Families,” a seven-week small group study written intentionally for parents. Speakers: Eric Simmons, Jamie Burkett and Mark Smith

Hear stories of where God is at work and learn best strategies for making disciples in and around Boone. Speaker: Seth Norris

Hear stories of where God is at work and learn the best practices for making disciples in and around this the Triangle area. Speaker: Josh Reed

Using James 4 as the biblical backdrop, this session will explore the key roles that revival and spiritual awakening play in making disciples who make disciples. Speaker: Chris Schofield 

What if you could successfully equip and empower everyone in your ministry for a lifestyle of disciple-making? What if everyone embraced disciple-making as a way of life instead of a program of the church? D-Life is a simple, biblical, missional and reproducible process for equipping every believer for a lifestyle of disciple-making. With the Bible as your only textbook, it is a process that will work in any size congregation. Speaker: Barry Owen

Want your church to have a greater kingdom impact? Have you been given eyes to see the unreached? Can any size church become a sending church? Come discover five steps to reach the unreached through new initiatives. All participants will receive a free resource. Speakers: Mark Gray and Corey Alley

The local church is charged to make disciples — women and men who say “yes” to the gospel, grow in the gospel, and go with the gospel. However, if the gospel is the greatest message ever known, why does the church often operate as if it's just another scrolling message on a Twitter feed? From environments and systems to sending out the church, details matter for the sake of gospel and the effectiveness of “God’s Plan A,” the local church. Speaker: Josh Hill

En esta sesión vamos a examinar las concentraciones de personas viviendo en los “Hoyos de Perdición” (pockets of lostness) en Carolina del Norte. Al entender la demografía buscaremos puntos de contacto para iglesias hispanas. Veremos cómo está obrando nuestro Señor, y las oportunidades que tenemos como iglesias si estamos dispuestos a llevar el evangelio adónde Él nos manda. Con ese desafío, queremos preguntarnos qué pasos podemos tomar para impactar esa perdición con la estrategia de hacer discípulos. Oradores: John Davenport and Amaury Santos

In this session, you will hear how modern technologies such as podcasts and YouTube can be used to multiply efforts to make disciples of all nations. Speakers: Sammy Joo and Simom Touprong

In this episode, we invite you to learn what the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina is doing on the immigration front to assist churches in loving their neighbors in different cultural contexts. Speakers: John Faison, Larry Phillips, Amaury Santos

Understanding one’s neighborhood allows us to proclaim the gospel in contextualized and relevant ways. This episode shares how you can join “God’s Great Work” in your community. Speakers: Chuck Campbell, Mike Boarts

This episode will equip you to begin the conversation about church revitalization. This process will focus on discovering whether your church is in a state of incline, recline or decline and what steps are most immediate for your congregation moving forward. Speaker: Sandy Marks

This panel discussion featuring several leaders from across North Carolina will demonstrate how some churches have integrated college ministries throughout their churches so that they are more effectively joining “God’s Great Work.” Speakers: Darrick Smith, Chase Jenkins, Danella Kish, Mark Navey, Savannah Wood

What does organic disciple-making look like within a group? This episode focuses on how to love people where they are in life. Speaker: Andy Hughes

How could we leverage short-term missions to partner well with our missionaries overseas, while at the same time discipling our members to live their lives for God’s global mission here? This episode examines how your church can make the most of mission trips. Speaker: Matt Willis

Have you ever wanted to know the Lord and hear His voice? This episode will provide tools to use in the inductive study of Scripture so you will be able to study the Bible. Speaker: Ashley Allen

This episode discusses the importance of recapturing biblical accountability and its necessity in growing a culture of discipleship, as well as look at practical ways of implementing accountability. Speaker: Tony Blanchard

Most church members struggle with how to articulate God’s unique calling for them and how to plan their everyday lives around that calling. This episode aims to equip you with a basic tool kit for life design. Speaker: Brian Upshaw

This episode will cover the basics of how Generation Z differs from millennials and help your church be prepared to engage them with the gospel. Speaker: Tom Knight

This episode is designed to help listeners understand how to seek the will of the Lord, why obedience is important, how to obey the Lord and why this provides greater satisfaction than doing our own thing. Speaker: Missie Branch

This episode aims to equip ministry leaders to be more effective in connecting and collaborating with people of diverse cultures in their efforts to evangelize and make disciples who will multiply. Speaker: Ken Tan

This episode will teach how to not only reach single adults of all ages and backgrounds but also get them involved in the overall growth of your church. You too can reach every “single” person for Christ. Speaker: Kris Swiatocho

This episode features a report on what God is doing through N.C. Baptist churches that are impacting lostness and how your church can do the same. Speaker: Cris Alley

Do families in your congregation see their homes or neighborhoods as a mission field? Are parents in your church equipped to engage their homes and communities with the gospel? This episode will focus on learning more about how equipping your parents can lead to revitalization in your church. Speakers: Mark Smith, Jamie Burkett, Stephanie Jackson, Eric Simmons

Who will take the gospel to our leaders on the frontlines? It takes a man or woman of courage to step into the mindset of America’s fighting forces to urge them to seek inner peace through Christ. Speaker: Thomas Watson

This episode focuses on the importance of assimilation to connect people to where real church happens. Speaker: James Zik

This episode is designed to help churches that are seeking to preserve their histories in written and digital formats. Speaker: Nathan Saunders

This episodes discusses ways our churches can provide a safe place for teenagers to grow as followers of Jesus Christ, addressing facility safety, recruiting volunteers, incident reporting, who should serve as chaperones and more. Speaker: Merrie Johnson