This is the picture that I will long remember from Exponential 09. This was the first of more than 500 leaders who came forward to make a commitment to plant a new church. I was standing in the wings stage left while Francis Chan finished up his challenging closing message. He had just begun to explain that people could come forward to receive prayer for the new church you will start or just started and I saw this young man come down the aisle and collapse in prayer. It was representative of the moment and what God did through Exponential 09.
For the last few years I have served as the volunteer President of Exponential. It is our prayer that God will use it to catalyze a movement of reproducing churches. Every year God continues to send us more and more church leaders who are passionate about making that dream come true. Three years ago we had 900 leaders attend; two years ago 1800; last year we had 2700 and this year more than 3000!
This years theme was "The Art of Movements" and we told stories of church planting movements in the East in hopes that we could learn and see it happen here in the West. One of the church planting movements in India had rallied 100,000 Christ Followers to pray for Exponential 09. No wonder we saw such amazing things happen!
I can't wait for Exponential 10!
Dave,
Thanks for this conference. It was life-changing for our team.
peace,
jeremy
Posted by: Jeremy | April 27, 2009 at 08:45 AM
It was such a blessing to attend this conference. Main takeaway for me is this challenge to be bold in the Spirit that lives w/in me, thank you Francis Chan.
Nice flow to the conference, too many ideas to post even 1/2 of them! Found some new fav speakers. :) Big thank you to you and your team.
Posted by: Mary Beth | April 27, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Exponential was a divine appointment for me and my wife. We got to go because we won free registration [http://www.lightshinesthru.com], and left praying about planting a church with the Stadia Network and KSP.
Live in the Kingdom and keep up the good work.
Can I still get the $99 rate for Exponential 2010? I want to bring my team.
Grace and peace.
Posted by: Kevin Rush | April 27, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Great Stuff DF!
Posted by: Bill Donahue | April 27, 2009 at 01:44 PM
Kevin, at this date we have no plans to raise the cost...register now for Exponential 2010.
Posted by: Dave Ferguson | April 27, 2009 at 08:40 PM
Could you get Francis Chan or someone to help you do a simultaneous Exponential West? It is tough for the West Coast to be there. Link them by simulcast or something like that - main venue the same - breakouts custom. I plan on bringing my D.Min cohort to the next one.
Posted by: Dan Morgan | April 28, 2009 at 03:30 AM
Hmmm...Exponential West! Now THAT'S intriguing! How do we west coasters help make that happen?
I'm in!
Posted by: Daniel Serdahl | April 28, 2009 at 02:05 PM
What a pic! Beautiful, broken, available, humble, yielded. Tremendous!
Posted by: Steve Kiefer | May 08, 2009 at 06:25 PM