District Assembly

April 24-25, 2025

2025 Assembly Workshops

Stuck to Stick: Women's Ministry

Ministry Track: Adult Ministries

Often times in ministry, we get "stuck" on the things that used to work well and resist opportunities that will "stick" in our current ministry enviroment.

Topics in this workshop will include:

-breaking free from the "too old" stigma
-embracing transformational change
-planning impactful events and discipleship opportunities without stretching ourselves too thin on a little to no budget
-fostering resilience and preventing burnout
-discipling through a growth mindset rather than a "fixed mentality"

Community Engagement Lab: Innovate, Equip, Launch

Ministry Track: Children's Ministries

Children’s Pastors, Directors, and volunteers — get ready to move into the neighborhood! In this collaborative workshop, you’ll explore how to identify real needs in your community and create new ministry opportunities. Through interactive case studies, practical tools, and collaborative brainstorming, you can create an action plan. There is also an opportunity to join a cohort for ongoing support as you bring your vision to life.

Nazarene Youth Conference 2026 - What you need to know

Ministry Track: NYI

Nazarene Youth Conference will be held in Salt Lake City in July of 2026. It's open to current 7th -11th graders. This seminar will talk you through everything you need to know about NYC 2026 as a leader, parent and student.

What am I missing?! Building Effective Ministry Teams

Ministry Track: Other

Perhaps your team is functioning perfectly, and everything feels like it's falling into place. Or maybe you or your team are feeling frustrated, underappreciated, burnt out, or unsure. We all strive to be part of meaningful, fulfilling, and joyful work or ministry. So, what’s the missing? This seminar uses the Working Genius model to help identify and articulate the successes and challenges you and your ministry team(s) may be facing.

Called to Multiply: The Heart and Strategy of Church Planting

Ministry Track: Church Planting

This workshop is for leaders who want to see the Kingdom expand through new churches. Church planting is not a solo effort-it thrives when pastors, churches, and mission zones work together to identify, equip, and send planters. This workshop will challenge and equip you to build collaborative networks, remove barriers, and create a culture of multiplication in your church and mission zone, and on our district. If you're ready to see churches planting churches and entire areas transformed, this is where it starts!

Avant-Garde Ministries

Ministry Track: Black Ministries

Our Wesleyan Nazarene ecclesiology is an inviting haven for everyone, especially those who've never felt at home in traditional settings. We must passionately create innovative ministries that resonate with diverse lives, breaking barriers with love, acceptance, and authenticity. Discover a your missional transformative community where every soul finds connection and purpose in Christ's boundless grace. As we unpack avant-garde ministries whose leaders and supporters are sitting in your pews.

Reaching and Teaching Hurting Students

Ministry Track: Children's Ministries

Childhood trauma - from tragic loss to divorcing parents - affects the brain in ways that can make it difficult for students to control their minds, bodies, and emotions. They tend to get in trouble and struggle in school, but it doesn’t have to be that way at church. In this workshop, we will learn how to recognize the impact of trauma in the learning environment, utilize teaching time as a unique opportunity for ministry, and integrate teaching strategies that reduce behavior problems, increase engagement, and give struggling kids and teens a chance to succeed.

Cultural Awareness - Noticing Differences

Ministry Track: Black Ministries

In a world we have tried not to see color and differences. Let’s discuss the possibility of recognizing and accepting cultural differences and seeing what God had to say about it.

1) An Overview of Disability Ministry

2) Adapted Discipleship Library Training

Ministry Track: District Church

1) In this workshop Rev. Ryan Nelson will provide an overview of the Church of the Nazarene's Disability Ministry Initiative. This session will include "why disability ministry matters", "how we equip the local church", "online small groups", and will introduce the Adapted Discipleship Library.

2) In this workshop Rev. Ryan Nelson will provide a hands on training of the Adapted Discipleship Library. Ryan will walk participants through each section of the library, how to use it, and how it impacts the local church.

Knowing God Well in Grief

Ministry Track: Other

Whether walking alongside a person through grief or making the journey ourselves, have we considered how grief may allow us to know God well? This session examines grief as 'theological method,' drawing from the witness of Martha and Mary in John 11.

Retirement Strategies and Planning. NOW!

Ministry Track: Adult Ministries

If you plan to live to see your 65th birthday, NOW is the time to strategize and plan for retirement. Because everyone's financial situation is unique, Randy will discuss multiple strategies for preparing and executing a comfortable retirement. Active attentiveness to your retirement preparation reaps tremendous rewards. This seminar is largely (but not exclusively) geared toward Pastors and church leaders who wish to help their Pastor prepare for retirement someday.

Behind the Mask: Addressing Faith and Mental Health

Cultivating faith, hope, and well-being within the church and community

What We Believe-Teaching Wesleyan-Holiness Theology

What we believe matters! The core message of our Wesleyan-Holiness Theology is literally what the world is dying to hear and we must be intentional about teaching it so our people can share it by living it. This workshop shares ways to teach what we believe in a variety of different settings using various approaches and styles of presentation.

Evaluación y Estructura de la Iglesia Local

Evaluation and Structure of the Local Church

Ministry Track: Hispanic Ministries

Hermanos los esperamos en nuestros talleres hispanos por la mañana y por la tarde. Entre todos y con la di- rección de los pastores Rudy Larios y William Castellanos y este servidor aprenderemos cómo posicionar su iglesia local para el crecimiento: cómo organizarla, cómo estructurarla y cómo evaluarla para prepararla para el crecimiento y desarrollo hacia una iglesia madura, creciente y productiva.

Brothers and sisters, we look forward to seeing you in our Hispanic workshops in the morning and afternoon. Together, and with the direction of Pastors Rudy Larios and William Castellanos, and myself, we will learn how to position your local church for growth: how to organize it, how to structure it, and how to evaluate it to prepare it for growth and development toward a mature, growing, and productive church.

Meet the Missionaries

Ministry Track: Missions

This workshop gives you an opportunity to dig deeper into the ministry of our assembly missionaries.

Jesus Film/Harvest Partners