Outreach & Discipleship

The rise in unbelief among the younger generation is staggering! Is it possible to engage this unbelief in a loving, yet effective way? We will examine various ways in which we can engage the skeptical mind by utilizing conversation and questions. This session will help equip you to confidently engage with unbelievers.

In 2024, First Baptist Church began implementing a new strategy to help us fulfill our local church’s outreach responsibility. Discover the inspiration behind this fresh approach, learn how we’ve put it into action, and hear compelling stories of both our challenges and victories. Whether you're looking to get more involved or simply curious about our journey, this workshop will offer valuable insights and inspiration

There is a wide open door into the college campuses of America. If you have a local campus, your church can have an active outreach to students. This session will explore various ways to reach the campus and equip you with the "nuts and bolts" of establishing a ministry on your local campus.

Healthy, short-term mission trips can produce long-term impact on the field and transform participants. This session will address the many ways church members can gain a global perspective from a short-term mission trip. Additionally, we will discuss some of the pitfalls of short-term work and how to protect our teams from doing more harm than good. Join us as we discuss how a trip of culturally-prepared and spiritually-prepared participants can ignite a mission passion among your church members, rally future missionaries, and launch long-term ministries around the globe.

There is a way to make this summer's VBS absolutely amazing, community-impacting, and fruit-bearing. It doesn't matter the curriculum you use or the format of the program. In this session you will learn how to manage your VBS for long-term fruit. You can run a perfect VBS program this summer!

Every Christian knows that we have been commissioned to share the Gospel with the world. But what does that look like when the world no longer understands the most basic truths about God and His Word? We can no longer assume the person we are witnessing to knows anything about God or the truths from the Word of God. This session will detail how biblical evangelism has three phases in which every Christian should be actively involved. In simple terms, we must learn to reach people where they are and not where they used to be. The world has changed, but the Great Commission has not. Join us as we cover the three phases of how to reach a world that has moved away from the knowledge of God.

This session will explore the possibilities of reaching your community by offering English classes to non-English speakers. We will explain the methods and procedures that we have used to launch our own TESOL program in our church. We will discuss how to break down the classes, the content to focus on, possible curriculums to use, and how to incorporate the gospel into every class period. We will discuss the challenges of working with multiple cultures at the same time. This session will have a question and answer time for very practical take-aways.