Pre-Event: Creating a Church Culture of Lifelong Faith

Learn how to create a church culture that nurtures a vibrant and vital faith in all ages and generations – for a lifetime. The workshop presents the vision, practices, and tools leaders can use to create initiatives that build a culture of lifelong learning and...

AE Online: Live in Studio

Welcome, Making the Most of Your Annual Event Online Experience, and Guest Mark Yacconelli

Family Worship: A Recipe for Sunday Morning

Is your Sunday School hour for children and families thriving or dying? How involved and enthusiastic are your children and families about your regular worship services? During COVID, we took the opportunity for change to begin a new program that would reach more...

What’s Stirring in the Soul of APCE?

Interact with members of APCE’s Strategic Planning Task Force and Implementation Team who have created new strategies and a new structure with the goal of ensuring that APCE remains vibrant, relevant and useful into the future. Discover how this new plan will...

A.I, Faith, & You: Understanding and Using A.I. as a Tool in Ministry

This workshop is designed to explore this and other important questions by demystifying A.I., exploring both its practical uses and the ethical considerations it brings to our faith communities. You’ll learn about generative A.I. programs like ChatGPT, understand...

All Are Beloved, All Belong: Creating LGBTQIA+ Affirming Ministries

Working and living in Beloved community requires engaging theological discussion, creativity, collaboration, and vulnerability. Church workers are often asked to lead ministries which deftly navigate the intersections of culture, politics, and faith formation. Dr....