This is not just another preacher's conference!

CCN invites you and your entire leadership team to have your faith stretched your thinking expanded, and your strategies challenged at Faith Forward!

Featuring extraordinary speakers, teachers and worship leaders, Faith Forward is an intergnenerational ministry event coming to your church via satellite from the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

On Wednesday, January 24, CCN will broadcast highlights from the first two days of the conference, as well as live segments from the final day.

Among the leaders will be Pastor Ed Young, Jr., Pastor Brian Houston, Bishop Eddie Long, Bishop Kenneth Ulmer, Dr. Eddie Gibbs, Dr. Bob Roberts, Jr., Paul Martin, Chris Seay, Bobby Schuller, Dr. Robert A. Schuller and many more.

The purpose - according to the Robert H. Schuller Forum for Possibility Thinking Leadership - is to connect three generations of ministry leaders in an exciting theological, spiritual and practical dialogue that spans both generations and traditions.

Says Schuller, "What an amazing collection of minds you will hear at this Faith Forward Forum! The broadest group of thinkers ever brought together – Pentecostals to Calvinists and everything in between... You will be inspired to think, think, yes, THINK! – theologically, like you never have before!"

 

Be a part of a movement to solidify and strengthen the thinking and the impact of today's Christian leaders.

Learn how you can:

• Pour your hearts and lives into equipping the younger church.
• Identify and grapple with the relevant issues facing The Church today.

Start the New Year off right for yourself and your teams: hearts filled with new inspiration and minds brimming with new ideas!

Dr. Robert A. Schuller is Senior Pastor of the Crystal Cathedral Ministries and its internationally televised "Hour of Power" program. Dr. Schuller is the author of over 30 books, six of which have found a place on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly best-seller lists.

Dr. Bob Roberts, Jr. is involved in the planting of 100 congregations in the U.S. and abroad, Bob also generates creative community development programs.

Ryan Bolger, Ph.D. serves as Assistant Professor of Emerging Churches and Mission in Western Culture at Fuller Seminary.

Dr. Eddie Gibbs is Fuller Seminary's Emerging Church Professor and the Donald A. McGavran Professor of Church Growth in the School of Intercultural Studies.

Ed Young, Jr. is the founding and Senior Pastor of Fellowship Church. The church has its main campus just north of the DFW Airport and operates three satellite campuses in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area and one in Miami, Florida. Ed uniquely connects God's unchanging truth with a diverse culture through compelling teaching methods and multiple media. Ed Young Ministries airs a weekly television program throughout the U.S. and Europe, including USA, TBN, Daystar and CNBC Europe. Ed's newest book is Outrageous, Contagious Joy.

Chris Seay - is a church planter, pastor, president of Ecclesia Bible Society, and internationally acclaimed speaker. His six previoius books include The Gospel Reloaded co-authored with Greg Garrett, The Gospel According to Tony Soprano and Faith of My Fathers. Chris is a leader in the emerging church discussion, founding one of the earliest examples of generational church planning.

Brian Houston is Hillsong Church in in Sydney, Australia, an Assemblies of God church with a current congregation of over 19,000 people, it is considered to be Australia's largest church, and has growing congregations in London, Kiev and Paris. Houston is the author of many books, including For This Cause, Get A Life, You Can Change the Future,You Need More Money, How to Build Great Relationships, How to Live a Blessed Life, How to Make Wise Choices, How to Flourish in Your Life and How to Live in Health & Wholeness. The Hillsong Television program is broadcast in 180 nations of the world, featuring Hillsong Music and teaching by Brian Houston.

Bishop Eddie Long is the visionary and leader for New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, GA. Bishop Eddie L. Long first served as pastor in 1987 for a congregation consisting of just more than 300 members. Since his installation, New Birth’s membership has quickly multiplied to well over 25,000. In 2006, Bishop Long was honored by the King family to officiate the homegoing ceremonies for Mrs. Coretta Scoot King, wife of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. A noted author, Bishop Long’s books include: The Spirit of Negativity and Familiarity, Kingdom Relationships, and his most recent book It’s Your Time: Reclaim Your Territory for the Kingdom.

Bishop Kenneth Ulmer pastors the 12,000 member Faithful Central Missionary Baptist Church in Inglewood, CA. Dr. Ulmer and the Faithful Central Bible Church are the new owners of the Great Western Forum, where they now hold their Sunday morning worship services. Dr. Ulmer has served as an instructor for schools such as Grace Theological Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, Biola, Pepperdine University, United Theological Seminary and The Kings College and Seminary.He is the author of three books: A New Thing, Spiritually Fit to Run the Race, and The Anatomy of God.

...and more!