breakouts

Preschool Ministry Strategy
Look behind the scenes and learn more about the logistics, curriculum, safety procedures, and highly engaged leaders who help us create an experience that preschoolers and their parents love.

Elementary School Ministry Strategy
Learn more about the impact of small groups and caring leaders, the power of teaching truth in a way that connects, and how we create an experience that is never boring for kids!

Reaching New Families in the Community
What are the best ways to connect with and serve unchurched families in our community? We’ve been trying out some new things to reach them—come hear the details so you can try them too.

Five Things That Make a Children’s Ministry Volunteer More Influential
Learn the five practices we teach children’s small group leaders and production volunteers to help them go from good to great.

The Five Student Ministry Leader Essentials
Every student’s journey at North Point is built on their connection to a small group. Discover the principles and practices we teach to every small group leader.

How We Grow and Measure Student Ministry
It’s important to know WHY your student ministry grows… or doesn’t. Come learn what we measure and how it impacts our strategy for reaching students.

Creating Great Student Ministry Events
It can be challenging to create camps and events that are catalysts for life change and growth while also safe, organized, and smoothly run. Here are the strategies that work for us.

The Student Ministry Teaching Funnel
Learn more about how we create an engaging and meaningful experience for students—from worship to hosting to messages. We’ll look behind the scenes at programming and how we choose and equip our communicators.

Tough Topic Gauntlet for Student Ministry
More than ever, students are asking challenging questions that deserve good, wise, theologically sound answers. Discover how we’re building a healthy approach to giving them the answers they need.

Partnering with Parents from Birth Through High School
To reach the next generation, you must reach their parents. Learn how we guide, support, equip, and cheer parents on through every season of parenting.

A Holistic Family Ministry Strategy from Birth to High School
Family ministry works best when the parts work together. Learn our win statements for every stage of life and how we make the critical handoffs from one age group to the next.

The Five Stages of a Person’s Faith Journey
People come into the church at different stages in their faith journey. Find out the five stages and what people in each stage need to move forward in their relationship with Jesus.

Starting Point: First Steps for Nonbelievers
The early steps to exploring faith are some of the most challenging. Discover how we utilize our Starting Point environment and curriculum to help adults discover a faith of their own.

Equipping Environments for Every Stage of Faith
Want to create equipping environments that make an impact? Come see four ways we equip our adult attendees biblically and theologically based on their stage of faith.

Navigating Common Community Group Tensions
Leaders of adult small groups often find themselves managing tensions. We’ll discuss a variety of common tensions and ways to handle them.

Recruiting and Developing Great Small Group Leaders
Great adult small groups don’t happen without leaders who are effectively trained and personally growing. Find out how we find, equip, and support our small group leaders.

Discipleship Through the Five Faith Catalysts
God seems to use five things to grow faith. Find out how we leverage them for the spiritual growth of our adult attendees.

The Worship Service Rules of Engagement
Each North Point adult worship service is built with a journey in mind for attendees. See how each piece fits together to create irresistible experiences.

Creating Irresistible Guest Services
The Sunday message happens way before the service even starts. Explore the strategies and practices that make Guest Services teams vital to each gathering.

Preaching to Change Lives
Discover the principles behind multigenerational teaching and the connections that are compelling and helpful to those who believe and those who don’t.

Empowering and Equipping Production Volunteers
A key to any irresistible worship service is a team of well-trained, mission-minded production volunteers. Come see how we train, equip, and inspire them.

Building Staff Culture Systems
Everyone wants a healthy staff culture. But not everyone has a plan to build one. Learn the systems we use to survey, onboard, equip, and train staff leaders.

Ideas to Keep Staff Inspired and Healthy
Keeping staff teams healthy is hard and is more important than ever. You need a plan. Join us to learn the ways we keep staff healthy, growing, and inspired.

Human Resources Principles and Practices
Here’s how we interview, hire, and support passionate and gifted staff, as well as the human resources, systems, and processes that support them.

Inspiring Generosity: Donor Development and Giving Strategies
Learn helpful, road-tested strategies for inviting people to partner financially with what God is doing in and through your church.

Executive Pastor Q&A
Gather with North Point administrators for an open conversation around systems, priorities, and strategies for a healthy church. Bring your questions!

Leveraging Analytics for Your Ministry
We track and count so we can see trends and discover ways to best lead people to Jesus. Uncover how analytics affects how we program and grow.

The North Point Model for Smaller Churches
“Yeah, but will it work for small churches?” See how smaller churches apply and contextualize the North Point ministry model to their communities.

Digital Communication and CRM Best Practices
If you’re in the weeds of your church CRM, website/app, and email communications, join us to learn our approach and tool kit for engaging an increasingly digital audience.

Marketing to the Skeptic
It’s easy to invite but just as easy to forget about the mindset of the invitee. Learn great tips for crafting and executing invitations that work.

Social Media and Digital Content Strategies
Today’s ministry is happening everywhere all week long. Come harness the best opportunities gained from digital connection and hear what we’ve learned.

The North Point Endear, Engage, and Equip Strategy
Through the years, our vision hasn’t changed, but the strategy sure has. Get an overview of our mission and strategies to inspire people to follow Jesus.

Engagement Events That Reach Your Community
Reaching your community means building events and brands that go to your community as much as welcoming them in. Hear our strategy for both.

Navigating Transition and Change
In times of change, great leaders know where their energy and focus are best directed. Join us to learn about the nine audiences of your church amid change.

Leading an Increasingly Divided Church
Today’s church leader often builds community while battling division in it. Learn how we lead toward an essential core theology amid the important periphery issues.

Lead Pastor Interview Forum (Q&A)
Toss your questions to a panel of North Point campus lead pastors for a frank conversation about what’s working, what we’re working on, and what we’re reworking.

How We're Growing Again By Setting Wildly Important Goals
In the last two years, we’ve experimented with goal-setting and tracking like never before. Come hear what we're doing, how it’s going, and the surprising lessons we’ve learned.

The North Point Care Network Core
Care Ministry is the backbone of effective churches, especially when life is tough. Discover all the ways our Care Ministry serves our church family.

Reaching the Next Generation: College and Young Adult Ministry
Studies show that post-college adults are disengaging from church more than ever. Check out what we’ve found that’s working to reach and keep them.

Multi-Site Strategy Forum
This Q&A is designed to provide conversation around the strategies, tensions, and lessons learned from being a church of multiple locations.

Endearing Your Church to the Community Through Serving
Effective churches partner with community organizations for the good of their cities. Discover how we Give Serve Love with the help of our Intersect ministry and Be Rich campaign.

All We've Learned About Missions
Hear all we’ve learned over the past 26 years of sending more than 21,000 participants on mission experiences and journeys to 26 countries.

Creating a Vibrant Volunteer-Led Church
Healthy churches run on great volunteers. We’ve been reengineering how we recruit, onboard, support, and inspire them. We’ll download it all to you.

Defying Gravity: Resisting the Pull to Become Insiders
All churches eventually feel the pull to turn inward and away from Jesus’s call to reach those seeking him. Discover these key areas to be the church God uses.