The Nova Experience 2008


SOUL	COMPASS	TOOL	TEAM	EXCHANGE

Offered by some of today’s best thinkers, the sixteen COMPASS Sessions (eight sessions repeated) envision your entire team through innovative examples of holistic church direction. Sessions may hold brand new concepts for your church team, or may be an extension or refinement of an existing one. Together you will explore opportunities to cohesively align your team to a common mission.

Attend the COMPASS Session that speaks best to your church’s vision and purpose. Then select TOOL Sessions that complement or target specific ministry needs.

S1 & S47 - Organic Community

S24 & S70 - Recalibrating the Church for Missional Impact

Joseph Myers
Entrepreneur, speaker and author of The Search to Belong and Organic Community

In the right context, people can build relationships in an organic way, naturally connecting into community. Increasingly, we find that community can’t be forced, controlled, or easily created. How can churches develop environments where community will spontaneously emerge?

Alan Hirsch
Missional leader, educator, strategist and author of The Shaping of Things to Come and The Forgotten Ways.

This session will focus on identifying the key issues that the Canadian church must deal with in order to become a genuinely missional movement in the 21st century. It touches on issues of spirituality, theology, organization, and missiology, but in a way that is accessible and engaging.

S2 & S48 - Faith at Home

S25 & S71 - Exploring New & Evolving Forms of Church in Canada

Dave Teixiera
Children, Youth & Family Pastor of Ventura Missionary Church in Ventura, California and co-author of Take it Home.

Churches consistently build top-notch weekly gatherings for children and students but often miss the opportunity to equip parents to influence their children outside the church environment. Among churched families, only one in four experience prayer, family devotions, or family service projects outside the church. How do we extend the spiritual impact of the church into our homes where children spend most of their time?

Joe Manafo
Lead Team, The Story, Sarnia, ON

Joe Manafo will share his experiences and learning’s from his church planting film project, One Size Fits All?. The project has given him a national perspective on what’s happening on the fringes of church life in Canada. Joe will share stories of life change and insights into what the project is revealing about these curious expressions of church.

S3 & S49 - Brokenness - Jesus Loves Porn Stars as much as He Loves Pastors

S26 & S72 - Relational Evangelism

Craig Gross
Pastor and founder of Fireproof Ministries and XXXChurch.com and author of many books, most recently, Starving Jesus.

Craig will talk about his unconventional ministry and how it has led him to the darkest places, but given him opportunity to shine a light in those dark places. He is convinced that the message of Jesus is good news and should be available to all.

Dan Cochrane
Senior Pastor, CrossRoads Church,
Red Deer, AB

Dan will share his experience in leading ministries whose focus is a relationship with Christ rather than program driven. Genuine relationships will reach beyond the church into communities locally and globally.

S4 & S50 - A Call to Seek Justice

S27 & S73 - Volunteerism - Life At Its Best

Jamie McIntosh
Executive Director and Founder of International Justice Mission Canada

Around the world injustice abounds. But when it comes to pursuing justice on behalf of those who are oppressed and abused, we’re at a loss to know how to get involved. In this session you will develop a heart for justice in your church that helps touch and transform your local community and the world beyond.

Wayne Alguire
Senior Pastor, Trinity Baptist Church,
Kelowna, BC

Imagine a church being led and supported by a community of individuals fully engaged in their area of passion and giftedness. That is precisely what God intended; His people, living life to the max, using their gifts to impact the world for Him.