We just completed a blessed conference for the reformation of church and home. Over 600 descended on Wake Forest, including church leadership teams wanting to transition their churches, church planting teams from around the country as well as individuals desiring a better understanding of biblical home and church life.

Diverse group

In the past, most of our conferees were interested in church planting and reforming their own household practices, but this time there seemed to be a larger number of pastors interested in transitioning their traditional churches to age integrated discipleship formats. There were approximately 70 pastors in attendance. 49% of the people were in traditional churches but had convictions for family integrated discipleship; 58% believed that churches should turn to age integrated discipleship; 50% were currently attending family integrated churches; 85% have been attending a FIC for five or fewer years.

The Extreme Group

The Extreme Group http://www.theextremegroup.com/ was with us with their real time polling technology which gave us some interesting information to chew on. John Collins, President and CEO of The Extreme Group brought his entire family. They were a tremendous encouragement to everyone as their whole family worked in concert to execute the audience polling. 

The families working together

The families at Hope Baptist provided the logistics, food service, audio recording, registration and whatever else was needed, while other local churches contributed financially to the effort. The hospitality of Pastor Enoch Holloway and many members of Friendship Chapel was evident as they labored to make us feel at home in their beautiful church facility – of which we invaded almost every square inch. When they offered their facility, we had no idea we would fill every seat and need all of their facility capacity.

The Speakers

The speakers presented nineteen messages with simultaneous breakout sessions running between the keynotes throughout the two day conference. Speakers included Scott Brown, Voddie Baucham, Andy Davis, Paul Renfro, Jason Dohm, Dan Horn, Steve Breagy, Eddie Burroughs, Mark Fox, Ken Auer, Boyd Dellinger, Marc Jantomaso and Geoff Bright.