Originally from Texas, Laura Hairston and her family moved to New York City’s Upper East Side in early 2018. She serves as a local pastor and network leader in NYC.

With a degree in Communications and Business, she has served in nonprofit executive leadership for over 10 years and will graduate with her Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in the Fall of 2021 from Johnson University. She comes alongside apostolic leaders to build systems and teams to see the vision become a reality. Laura is passionate about advancing the leadership and business efforts of women to thrive in organizations and society.

SESSIONS

PRE-CONFERENCE: 5Q Leadership Revolution: Using APEST to Create Movemental Culture – Hosted by 5Q
Many churches and church leaders have accepted the idea of the APEST model in principle for their local expression, denomination, or agency. But it’s time to push past principle and paradigm, and dive headlong into practice and process. If we will do that, we will help build a leadership revolution that can finally lead us to the frontlines of church-as-movement. We believe that APEST is one of the keys to unlocking and unleashing the potential held in the Body of Christ as a whole, as well as a main tool to mobilizing and maturing disciples. In this Pre-Conference, we will do a very brief overview of APEST, and then shift to the discussion around Fivefold Intelligence (5Q) and the Activation, Implementation, Equipping Growth, Marks of health and Stewardship of this leadership in your culture. Full list of speakers for this pre-con here.
Day / Time: Monday 1:00pm — 5:00pm and Tuesday 8:00am — 11:30am
Location: Faith Hall - Room 301C

Workshop Session 3: Maturity: Building the House & Equipping the Body for Fullness - Ephesians 4:13-16
Understanding APEST and its’ place within the Body of Christ isn’t enough. It needs to work its’ way into how we build leadership pipelines, resource, and develop leaders for movemental leadership. We will look at the design process for leadership development that is informed by APEST and focused on training and equipping leaders who can lead multi-generational and faceted growth. In this workshop, we’ll unpack what these APEST-oriented pipelines can look like, how to build them, and how to point them towards movement. We will discuss and explore how APEST-orientation can help to make us more strategic and fruitful in ‘who & what’ we resource and celebrate, re-calibrating around the different activities and aspects of our community and scaffolding the Body towards maturity.
Time: Wednesday, 2:30pm — 3:30pm
Location: Faith Hall - Room 301C
Speakers: Brian Sims, Laura Hairston, Joshua Johnson, Lindsey Harwood, Kimberly Culbertson

Workshop Session 4: Equipping: Using APEST in Mobilizing and Equipping Leaders for Missional Impact and “Church as Movement” Dynamics
While each individual disciple is formed and matured in all five elements of the 5-Fold gifts (in the way of Jesus), we must learn to equip each individual in their primary and secondary calling and function to release the priesthood of all believers if we want to see movemental capacity unleashed. In this workshop we’ll explore the ways to make, train and mobilize individuals to be released to operate in a church-as-movement ethos, and to see missional impact. We will explore how to create environments and processes where there is input, coaching, peer-learning and community activity that produces mature and rounded missional and multiplying leaders.
Time: Thursday, 8:45am — 9:45am
Location: Faith Hall - Room 301C
Speakers: Rich Robinson, Joshua Johnson, Kimberly Culbertson, Brian Sims, Lindsey Harwood, Laura Hairston

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