Breakout schedule
Experiential Breakouts
Thursday Morning Bonus Breakouts: Worship & Production Conference Rehearsal
Thursday Morning Bonus Breakout, starting at 6AM
This breakout gives you the opportunity to be part of our rehearsal process for the morning session of Christ Fellowship Conference. We will serve coffee and a light breakfast, which will allow you to meet some great people and ask questions along the way.
Thursday Morning Bonus Breakouts: Conference Workout Group
Thursday Morning Bonus Breakout, from 6:30AM - 7:30AM
If you are looking for a good workout and a chance to meet some other active conference attendees, join us in the back parking lot for a special Conference Workout led by a local fitness instructor.
Thursday Morning Bonus Breakouts: Women in Leadership Breakfast
Thursday Morning Bonus Breakout, from 8:00AM - 9:15AM
If you are a girl and you are leading in some capacity at your church, you are invited to join our team for breakfast and a time of investment into your leadership.
Creative: CF Films Studio Tour at Trinity
Taking place during Breakout 6 - Thursday, 2:10PM - 3:10PM
This unique experience will allow you to tour our Films Studio and enjoy dedicated time to learn from one of our Films team members in a 2 to 3 person setting.
Note: This breakout is off-site and transportation will be provided by Molly's Trollys.
Featured Breakout: Help! My Team Is Imperfect and I'm Called to Lead Them!
Taking place during Breakout 6 - Thursday, 2:10PM - 3:10PM
In the church world today, one thing is certain: We all are imperfect people trying to serve with other imperfect people, perfectly! In this session, Pastor Matt Keller will break down how to Lead the "Imperfect" People on your team by Knowing them, Loving them, Challenging them & SO Much More!
Worship & Production: Online Broadcast Production | Video Suite Tour
Taking place during Breakout 6 - Thursday, 2:10PM - 3:10PM
An inside look into the strategy, systems, and processes we use to create and maintain online engagement.
Worship & Production: Songwriting Experience
Taking place during Breakout 6 - Thursday, 2:10PM - 3:10PM
This is a unique in-depth experience from concept to completion of a song. See how co-writing can enhance the creative process, how to work together to finish with unity and clarity, building to present the idea in a way that carries the heart of the writers through to the ears of those who experience it.
Breakout 1 • Wednesday, 11:05AM - 12:05PM
Featured Breakout: Get There First
In a world where young people are being robbed of their purpose and identity like never before, our church needs a new battle strategy. That’s why we have a vision to Get There First. Join us for this panel discussion, hosted by Pastors Todd & Julie, to hear what we are doing to win the heart of the next generation.
Connections & Volunteers: Equipping & Empowering Volunteers
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Ministry leaders are called to equip the saint for service. Join us to learn how to build strong, confident volunteer teams.
Creative: Creative Systems - Structuring for Sunday and Beyond
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Discover how to structure and streamline creative teams for maximum impact. This breakout will provide an inside look at how we organize our creative departments to produce seamless and powerful Sunday experiences, from brainstorming to execution.
Leadership Development: Building a Framework for Leadership Development
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Understand how to design a leadership development framework that integrates key competencies with intentional pathways for personal growth. Learn practical steps for cultivating effective, resilient leaders who can thrive in their roles.
Team Culture: Team Meetings That Matter
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Team meetings can sometimes be a lot of information without a whole lot of inspiration. But we have learned that team meetings are a great opportunity to build culture and create moments. Come learn some of the best practices that we have put into place to create team meetings that matter!
Breakout 2 • Wednesday, 12:50PM - 1:50PM
Connections & Volunteers: Engaging in Meaningful Ways
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Let's discuss how to build a personal connections strategy with processes and systems that prioritize relationships with your church family.
Discipleship (Groups / Classes / Freedom): Creating & Growing Biblical Community
Ideal for First Time Attendees
How to create, organize, and measure spiritual growth through community in Groups & Classes.
Kids Ministry: Kids University
New Breakout
How to design effective discipleship strategies for the revival generation.
Leadership Development: Onboarding and Team Culture
New Breakout
Develop effective strategies for onboarding new staff into the church's mission and culture. Attendees will gain practical tools for fostering alignment, building strong teams, and empowering new team members to live out the church's vision and purpose from day one.
Marketing & Communications: External Marketing
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Learn how to increase the number of new people visiting your church by effectively engaging new and existing audiences in your area.
Missions / Outreach: Developing a Missions & Outreach Strategy
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Learn how to establish a comprehensive local and global missions strategy while engaging every age group and skill level.
Student Ministry: Collaborative Student Ministry
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Creating a culture of volunteer engagement, student ownership, and shared leadership within your student ministry.
Team Culture: Executing Excellent Events
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Come learn how we work cross-functionally across departments to execute excellent events at a church-wide and campus level.
Worship & Production: Engaging Experiences - Achieving High Impact Production
Ideal for First Time Attendees
An inside look into the systems and processes we use to create and maintain engaging experiences across multiple locations.
Worship & Production: Resourcing your Worship Teams
New Breakout
See from start to finish how to create and distribute inspiring content for your teams to utilize as they prepare and present worship. Preview various methods, tips, and techniques for providing rehearsal materials, enhancement tracks that flow in live environments, and training content.
Breakout 3 • Wednesday, 2:10PM - 3:10PM
College & Young Adults: Reaching & Empowering Gen Z Right Where They Are
New Breakout
God is moving powerfully on college campuses all around the world. Let's discuss how our churches can be a part of this historic movement.
Connections & Volunteers: Layered Leadership
New Breakout
Care/Training & Equipping/Leading through layers.
Digital: Digital Ministry Strategy
New Breakout
In this breakout, we'll delve into the intricacies of digital ministry, centering on the heart of our mission: understanding and meeting the needs of our congregation. Together, we'll discover how aligning your church’s core strategy with your digital approach can create meaningful connections and foster a thriving online and in-person community.
Discipleship (Groups / Classes / Freedom): Becoming a Praying Church
New Breakout
When we pray, God moves! Learn how to create a culture of prayer in your church and develop strong and healthy prayer teams.
Family Ministry / Get There First: Are Your Kids Slipping Through the Cracks?
New Breakout
The gap between elementary and middle school and the gap between high school and college are the biggest chasms in the church. Let's discuss how our teams can work hard to bridge the gap between grades and ministries.
Kids Ministry: Welcoming Kids and Families Impacted by Special Needs
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Learn how our entire church rallies around making church accessible for all kids and students.
Leadership Development: Leading a Multigenerational Workforce
New Breakout
We will discuss strategies for bridging communication gaps, fostering collaboration, and leveraging diverse perspectives for stronger team dynamics. Attendees will leave with practical tools to create an inclusive, adaptable work environment that honors the strengths and experiences of each generation.
Marketing & Communications: Social Media
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Learn how social media can be the new front door to your church—and why it's not just a bulletin board but a way to measure engagement.
Sisterhood: Sisterhood Breakout
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Discover how a culture of Sisterhood can fuel the vision for your church, equip the next generation, and add value to every woman and girl.
Worship & Production: Pastoring Your Worship Teams
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Set aside this time to grow in caring for the teams that are carrying worship in services. With discussions in a panel format, you'll see the width of challenges and be inspired by stories of healing and restoration. Encouraging us all to minister to our worship community with care and compassion.
Breakout 4 • Thursday, 11:05AM - 12:05PM
Featured Breakout: Now for Then - A 21st Century Collaborative Missiology
Join Dr. Rob Hoskins for a crash course in mission architecture, exploring how your personal mission aligns with the global Church and the mission of God. Rob will share insights gleaned from decades of experience leading a global ministry in today’s rapidly changing world.
College & Young Adults: Young + Adulting
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Ages eighteen to twenty-nine have been labeled by some as the "black hole of church attendance," but we can flip that script. Come learn how we are connecting 20's and 30's to Christ and to the church.
Connections & Volunteers: Close the Back Door
New Breakout
Learn ideas about how to reconnect with people before they fully disengage.
Creative Services: Leading the Creative Process
New Breakout
Master the art of running impactful brainstorms, uncovering ministry client needs, and guiding your team to deliver projects that exceed expectations.
Discipleship (Groups / Classes / Freedom): Helping People Heal
Ideal for First Time Attendees
We all have hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Learn how to help people heal through freedom, recovery, and pastoral care ministries.
Family Ministry / Get There First: Everyone Can Do Something - Rallying Your Church to Care for the Most Vulnerable Kids in Your Communities
New Breakout
Your church has the ability to make a significant difference in the lives of the most vulnerable kids and families in your community. Come learn about how to rally your church to play its part in caring for the foster and adoptive kids and families in your church and community.
Leadership Development: Resolving Conflict with Staff & Volunteers
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Learn practical strategies for resolving conflicts while fostering a healthy, collaborative ministry environment. Participants will learn effective communication techniques, conflict resolution frameworks, and ways to build trust and unity within their teams.
Marketing & Communication: Campaign Planning
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Learn how intentional campaign strategy and compelling messaging inspires your congregation to take action—and why platform announcements aren't the only way to do it!
Marriage: Maintaining Marriage Momentum in Ministry
New Breakout
We will focus on 5 keys to Momentum in Marriage: Communication, Partnership, Purpose, Commitment and Growth... all within the context of ministry.
Multisite: Leading a Multi-Site Ministry
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Come learn how to implement multi-site ministry across 14 locations and navigate campus & central dynamics.
Student Ministry: Stop Talking About Gen Z
New Breakout
With Gen Alpha already comprising about 60% of your student ministry, it is time to understand who they are and how we can reach them.
Worship & Production: Resourcing your Worship Teams
New Breakout
See from start to finish how to create and distribute inspiring content for your teams to utilize as they prepare and present worship. Preview various methods, tips, and techniques for providing rehearsal materials, enhancement tracks that flow in live environments, and training content.
Breakout 5 • Thursday, 12:50PM - 1:50PM
Featured Breakout: EQUIP - 5 levels of leadership
This breakout will help equip leaders at any level to grow and become more effective, resulting in increased company revenue, employee effectiveness, and workplace harmony.
Creative Services: How We Manage Projects A to Z
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Learn how we use a request process and Asana to streamline projects, collaborate effectively, and get work done from start to finish.
Digital: Digital Tools to Empower Faith
New Breakout
Learn how we engage our online community in discipleship, as well as how we provide digital opportunities for physical attendees.
Digital: Not Your Average Church Management System
Ideal for First Time Attendees
Leveraging your church management system to help create actionable next steps for people.
Family Ministry / Get There First: Move Beyond the Party Planning
New Breakout
How to design camps and events that actually move your mission forward.
Family Ministry / Get There First: Helping Parents Win
New Breakout
What is it that parents want and need from the church? How can we help them win at what matters most? Let's discuss what is working right now.
Missions / Outreach: Delivering Hope to Your Community Through Partnerships
New Breakout
Learn how to maximize partnerships with local cities, first responders, schools and other non traditional partnerships. This breakout includes a tour of our Missions warehouse space. Note: This breakout is off-site and transportation will be provided by Molly's Trollys.
Student Ministry: Calling up the Called
New Breakout
How your church can help students discern and develop a call to vocational ministry.
Worship & Production: Ten Essential Skills of a Worship Leader
New Breakout
Discover the essential skills that help you lead with confidence, flexibility, and sensitivity to respond to the Lord in Worship! Whether you've been leading for decades, or just getting started, this will help give you repeatable language and identifiable areas to grow in as we strive to serve the Lord with our best.
Breakout 6 • Thursday, 2:10PM - 3:10PM
Featured Breakout: Help! My Team Is Imperfect and I'm Called to Lead Them!
Taking place during Breakout 6 - Thursday, 2:10PM - 3:10PM
In the church world today, one thing is certain: We all are imperfect people trying to serve with other imperfect people, perfectly! In this session, Pastor Matt Keller will break down how to Lead the "Imperfect" People on your team by Knowing them, Loving them, Challenging them & SO Much More!
Discipleship (Groups / Classes / Freedom): My God, My Money
New Breakout
The Bible says a lot about money and how we use it. Come learn about new classes & resources we have created to help our people steward their finances in a God-honoring way.
Connections & Volunteers: Dream Team Kickoff
Experiential Breakout
Join us for a preview of our Dream Team Kickoff Experience to see how we equip our Dream Team. In this session, we share how we equip our volunteers to live out our values and contribute to our “Welcome Home” environment.
Multisite: Campus Pastor Connect
Networking Breakout
Connect with some of our Campus Pastors to ask questions and discuss what we are learning together.
Creative: CF Films Studio Tour at Trinity
Experiential Breakout
This unique experience will allow you to tour our Films Studio and enjoy dedicated time to learn from one of our Films team members in a 2 to 3 person setting.
Note: This breakout is off-site and transportation will be provided by Molly's Trollys.
Worship & Production: Online Broadcast Production | Video Suite Tour
Experiential Breakout
An inside look into the strategy, systems, and processes we use to create and maintain online engagement.
Worship & Production: Songwriting Experience
Experiential Breakout
This is a unique in-depth experience from concept to completion of a song. See how co-writing can enhance the creative process, how to work together to finish with unity and clarity, building to present the idea in a way that carries the heart of the writers through to the ears of those who experience it.