SESSIONS

PRE-CONFERENCE: Phygital: Re-Thinking Physical & Digital Church for Greatest Impact — Hosted by Stadia
Sessions include: Phygital for Church Planters; Let's Get Phygital; Digital Engagement Pathway; Role of Content & The Large Gathering; Future Church, Today — Watch Parties, Microlocations, Social Media Churches, Multimodal Churches, Church as Platform; and Digital-Only Planting. More details for this pre-con here.
Day / Time: Monday 1:00pm — 5:00pm and Tuesday 8:00am — 11:30am
Location: Faith Hall - Room 301D

Workshop Session 1: Future Church in the METAVERSE - Today
The future is here! Churches are thriving in the METAVERSE. Come join Jeff Reed and learn about what Metaverse Churches look like in Virtual Reality and Video Games. Wait, Churches in Video Games? That can’t be real, right? It is real, and it’s working. See future of church already running, and how the Holy Spirit is already moving among them…
Time: Tuesday, 2:30pm — 3:30pm
Location: Faith Hall - Room 301D
Speakers: Jeff Reed

Workshop Session 2: Virtual Reality Multisite Campus? Why Not?
So, what you’re telling me is a small church of less than 250 people, in less than a years time, launched a Virtual Reality Campus that is effectively reaching a completely different person than the physical building is reaching? Come learn from Jason Poling, Lead Pastor of Cornerstone Yuba City and ask him what it was like to launch a Virtual Reality Campus when he had little to no experience or understanding of the METAVERSE.
Time: Wednesday, 8:45am — 9:45am
Location: Faith Hall - Room 301D
Speakers: Jeff Reed, Jason Poling

Networking Lunch: Experience the Church in Virtual Reality — Hosted by Leadership Network
We talk a lot about the METAVERSE, but you’re not going to truly understand it until you can experience it. Come experience the Multiverse. We’ll have some headsets for you to experience the community, and we’ll have METAVERSE Church/Missionaries and Digital-Friendly people available to answer your questions about what role the METAVERSE should have at your church? Grab your lunch and join us for a fun, interactive conversation about the METAVERSE. Featuring Jeff Reed, Jate Earhart, Jason Poling, and Mark Lutz.
Day/Time: Wednesday, March 9 / 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location: Faith Hall - Room 301D

Workshop Session 3: Twitch, Gaming, Streamers, and a Different Way to Reach & Disciple the Next Generation
Ready to think outside the box? Jate connects with hundreds of millennial and gen-zers weekly utilizing free platforms like Twitch and Discord. As a digital missionary in a digital community Discipling people digitally, Jate is connecting with the . Come learn an innovative, cheap way to connect with students that the building aren’t reaching.
Time: Wednesday, 2:30pm — 3:30pm
Location: Faith Hall - Room 301D
Speakers: Jeff Reed, Jate Earhart

Workshop Session 4: Reach, Engage and Disciple: Utilizing Digital to Build Multiplying Microlocations
Is your church struggling digitally? No idea who these people are who are watching your Church Online in isolation? And not sure what to do with them? Both Mark Lutz and Tyler Sansom are leading their respective churches to develop a discipleship process where Digital Church grows Physical ... working through how to activate consumers, getting them on mission. Learn how your church can have purpose, digitally and physically.
Time: Thursday, 8:45am — 9:45am
Location: Faith Hall - Room 301D
Speakers: Jeff Reed, Mark Lutz, Tyler Sansom

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