Spirit-Empowered, Multi-Ethnic, Planting
A Video from the 2018 BCSPasCon
Jarvis Williams has served as an Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary since 2013. He speaks in this video about the importance of spirit-empowered multi-ethnic church planting. Williams’s research focuses on soteriology (broadly defined) in Second Temple Judaism and the intersection of soteriology and race.
Speaker: Jarvis Williams
Spirit-Empowered Gospel Community
A Video from the 2018 BCSPasCon
Jonathan Parnell is the lead pastor of Cities Church in Minneapolis–St. Paul, where he lives with his wife, Melissa, and their seven children. He is the author of Never Settle for Normal: The Proven Path to Significance and Happiness. In this video he discusses spirit-empowered Gospel community.
Speaker: Jonathan Parnell
Spirit-Empowered Perseverance
A Video from the 2018 BCSPasCon
Sean Cordell is the executive director of TCTN and a pastor at Treasuring Christ Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. In this video he discusses spirit-empowered perseverance.
Speaker: Sean Cordell
Spirit-Empowered Change
A Video from the 2018 BCSPasCon
Weyland Leach serves as the pastor of The Heights Church in St. Paul, MN. He holds an MDiv from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and is also a graduate of The Bethlehem Institute. In this video he discusses spirit-empowered change.
Speaker: Weyland Leach
Ministry Challenges
A Video from the 2017 BCSPasCon
Jordan Thomas (M.Div. Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Memphis, TN) is one of the pastors of Grace Church, Memphis, which he helped plant in 2006. Grace Church is part of the Treasuring Christ Together Church Planting Network, as well as the Southern Baptist Convention. Jordan and his wife, Tracy, have been married for 17 years and have six children; four daughters and two sons.
Speaker: Jordan Thomas
Ministry Opportunities
A video from the 2018 BCSPasCon
Gregg is the Lead Pastor of Celebration Community Church of Celebration, Florida. Previously, he had planted Faith Community Church of Hudson, Wisconsin and served as its pastor for 21 years. He and his wife, Heidi, grew up in Faribault, Minnesota and have been married 35 years. They have three children and three grandchildren. Gregg has a BA in business and theology (Bethel College, 1981) and a MDiv (Bethel Theological Seminary, 1985). He has served as youth pastor, adjunct preaching professor, church planting coach, and Chief Learning Officer.
Speaker: Greg Heinsch
Team Leadership and Church Planting
A Video from the 2017 BCS PasCon
Joe Rigney serves as Assistant Professor of Theology and Christian Worldview at Bethlehem College & Seminary, where he teaches Bible, theology, history, philosophy, history, and Jonathan Edwards. When he’s not teaching college and seminary students, he spends time enjoying his lovely wife, laughing with his two sons, reading medieval theology, playing flag football, and eating fish tacos. He is the author of Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis’s Chronicles and The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts.
Speaker: Joe Rigney
Grace in the Trenches of Church Planting | Tim Cain
A Video from the 2017 BCS PasCon
Tim Cain is the pastor of Kaleo Church which he planted in El Cajon, California, in 2009 after completing a one year church planting residency at Bethlehem Baptist Church. Kaleo is part of both the TCT and the Acts 29 church planting networks. Tim and his wife, Abbey, have three wonderful adopted children. Tim has a passion for preaching the Gospel, church planting, adoption, and feasting with the poor. His first book, The God of Great Reversals: Finding the Gospel in the Book of Esther, was released in 2016.
Speaker: Tim Cain
Defining Success in Your Ministry: What Is the Good Life?
A video from the 2016 BCS PasCon
Speaker: Tim Cain
Lighting a Candle Not Cursing the Darkness
A Video from the 2016 BCSPasCon
Speaker: Steve Timmis