Our conference workshops are designed to provide specialized areas of concentration so you can select the workshops that best suit your needs and field of ministry.

Click here for a detailed grid of the workshop schedule (PDF format). 

WORKSHOP CATEGORIES

PEACEMAKING TEAMS

What is a Peacemaking Team, you might ask? A Peacemaking Team is group of mature Christians who will help embed peacemaking principles to bring a permanent peacemaking ministry to your church. Why is this important? Not only is peacemaking--the ministry of reconciliation--at the heart of the gospel, but people LEAK!  Research suggests that people forget 87% of what they are taught within 30 days. Without a Peacemaking Team to encourage and re-teach, it simply won't stick.

To help reach this need within the church, the 2007 Peacemaker Conference is introducing workshops that will help you in establishing a Peacemaking Team in your church. While all the conference workshops will equip and assist Christians and ministry leaders, these particular workshops will focus on expanding and embedding peacemaking into the very fabric of your church culture!

Workshops offered in this category will include the following:

• Getting Started: Introduction to the Peacemaking Team
• Getting Started: The First 100 Days
• Doing Peacemaking: How to Promote and Teach Peacemaking Within
  Your Church
• Doing Peacemaking: What Kind of Conflicts Will You See and How To
  Know When You're Over your Head
• Running Your Ministry: How Peacemaker Ministries Will Support
  Your Team
• Running Your Ministry: Common Mistakes Peacemaking Ministries
  Make
• A Real Peacemaking Ministry: One Church's Story

PEACEMAKING CHURCH 

Relationships in our churches are often complex and conflicted. If you are a pastor, church leader, or layperson with a calling to develop a Culture of Peace within your church, this set of workshops will help you wisely approach the common issues of conflict your church faces today.

Workshop Offerings in this category will include the following:

• Introducing Change and Resolving Differences Without Splitting your Church
• God's Search and Rescue Plan: Mutual Accountability
• Worship Wars
• Rebuilding Marriage After Adultery, How the Church Can Help
• The Heart of the Pastor's Wife
• Help, I'm Married to a Pastor
• Peacemaking in the Southern Baptist Church
• Peacemaking in the Christian Missionary and Alliance
• Wounded in the Church
• Conflict on Your Board
• For Pastors Only with Ken Sande

PERSONAL PEACEMAKING

We all benefit from reminders on how to lay hold of and apply the gospel of peace in our lives. If you are relatively new to biblical peacemaking, or if one of your goals at the Peacemaker Conference is to help others learn and apply the foundational principles, please join us in these workshops.

Workshops offered in this category will include the following:

• Personal Peacemaking: Laying the Foundation
• Building Family Unity through Confession and Forgiveness
• Uprooting Anger
• Idols of the Heart
• Peacemaking Lessons from the Princess Bride
• Peacemaking in the Story of Scripture
• Women with Powerful Personalities
• The Cross and Criticism
• Reconciling With Those in Authority Over You
• Using the Gospel to Battle Bitterness
• Witnessing through Reconciliation
• Internet Addictions: Idolatry for a High Tech Society
• Cyber-Sex: Gospel Hope for an Epidemic Threat by Ed Keinath and Ted Kober
• Internet Gambling: Gospel Hope in the Midst of Despair

Workshops offered for Family and Marriage in this category will include the following:

• The Young Peacemaker
• Peacemaking for Preschoolers
• Peacemaking for Teenagers
• Peacemaking For Families
• War or Peace - Lessons for Peacemaking in Marriage
• Peacemaking for Adult Children with Families
• How Can I Submit When I Think He's Wrong?
• Sturdy Truths for Single Parents

CROSS-CULTURAL PEACEMAKING

How can cross-cultural workers respond to conflict in a biblically faithful manner?  Join us in these workshops to discuss these and other important issues with peacemakers who have served around the world.

Workshops offered in this category will include the following:

• Pictures of the Church as Peace-builder When a Nation is in Collapse
• Christians and Muslims, Interacting About God and Jesus in a Respectful Way
• Understanding Post-Modern Teammates
• Responding to Intergenerational Conflict in the Asian American Family
• Responding to Intergenerational Conflict in the Asian American Church

ADVANCED TRAINING IN PEACEMAKING

If you are an experienced Certified Christian Conciliator, a candidate pursuing certification, or a peacemaker in your church's reconciliation ministry, these advanced training workshops are for you. Join us as we consider complex cases and practical tools for promoting peace and unity.

• Serving People in Marital Conflict: An Overview of Reconciling Marital Conflict
• Challenges in Mediating with a Non-Believer
• Certified Christian Conciliators and the Peacemaking Church Teams
• Difficult Situations in Mediation
• Mediating Where There are Claims of Spiritual Abuse
• Coaching Reluctant Parties to Participate in The Conciliation Process
• Working with Pastors, Spiritual Advisors, and Attorneys for the Party in a Mediation
• The Mediator's Role, Post Mediation

Special Conference Features

PEACEMAKING FOCUS SESSIONS

Saturday afternoon we will offer extended workshops on the following topics where conflicts abound. These sessions will cover a large amount of material taught by our most experienced teachers and conciliators, helping you delve deeper into applying the gospel in these situations.

• Short-term Mission Teams: Challenges to Grow
• War or Peace - Lessons for Peacemaking in Marriage
• Conflict Coaching and Mediation in the Church Crisis
• Blended Churches and Peacemaking
• Guiding the Church in Crisis