UPPER MISSISSIPPI
VALLEY NETWORK
Alliance of Reformed Churches
UMV 2024:
The River of the Kingdom!
Online registration is now closed. Please register upon arrival Saturday morning, starting at 8am.
June 15, 2024 Schedule
8:00am
Continental Breakfast and Fellowship
Registration Open
9:00am
Welcome and Worship
9:45am-10:35am
BREAKOUT Session #1
- Hiring the Right Pastor: Discover resources to seek the next Pastor for your congregation. (Ron Fischer)
- Alliance Vision: How the Alliance of Reformed Church works and why it matters. (Tim Vink)
- Church Vitality: Three Essentials for Healthy Growing Churches. (Ben Ingebretson)
10:45am-11:35am
BREAKOUT Session #2
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Leadership Development: How To Expand Your Leadership Bench. (Ben Ingebretson)
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Pathways to Ordination: Discover the Alliance pathway to ordination. (Thomas Cellilli)
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Ministry in a Hostile World: How we offer Jesus in a polarized, angry world. (Kent Landhuis)
11:45am
Business Meeting
12:15pm
Lunch (no cost)
1:15pm
Keynote Speaker – Colin Thornley
2:15pm
Closing Thoughts and Prayer
PRESENTERS
Colin Thornley served in ministry with Grace Community Church for over 25 years as in various roles such as: Youth Pastor, College Pastor and Pastor of Discipleship & Equipping. While serving at Grace, he continued to pursue training and ministry opportunities with Serge as a mentor and eventually a Sonship Coach. He was first introduced to Sonship and Serge mission’s organization in the fall 1993 when he experienced a ‘gosplosion’ as he listened to Jack Miller lecture and Drew Angus pressing the good news into the deepest parts of his heart. The gospel-centric paradigm shift that began there increasingly impacted his life and dependence on Jesus and His finished work. Colin’s passion for mentoring and equipping people who want to mentor others led him to begin assisting Serge in a minimally part-time capacity and finally to join the Serge Renewal Mentoring Team in January of 2020.
Ben Ingebretson is a leadership vitality/church planting consultant and has led widely with organizations, churches and denominations including the United Methodist Church, and the Reformed Church in America.
Tim Vink is the Director of Spiritual Leadership and Outreach in the Alliance of Reformed Churches. Through 35 years of evangelism, disciple-making, and helping diverse churches plant more reproducing churches, Tim has experienced the power of making Jesus our model for ministry today. Working with a multiplication mindset, embracing the fullness of the gospel of Jesus and New Testament patterns of Kingdom growth, and receiving all the help offered by the same Holy Spirit—the dynamic results have been life-giving for hundreds of new churches and tens of thousands of people.
Ron Fischer is the Network Leader & President, Board of Directors of the Upper Mississippi Valley Network. Ron serves the Alliance part-time as the Executive Assistant to the Board and as Pastor of Operations at Christ’s Family Church in Davenport, IA. He has served in churches for the last 20+ years in South Carolina, Florida and now Iowa.
