PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Murdock Trust Board Leadership Cohort
Vancouver, WA (2016)
Privileged to experience a year-long cohort training for non-profit boards and directors from one of the premiere non-profit funding organizations in the Pacific Northwest.

Prepare-Enrich Update Training Seminar
Life Center Church, Spokane, WA (December 9, 2015)
Refresher and updated training on Prepare-Enrich premarital counseling and marriage enrichment tools. Original training received April 2008.

Murdock Trust Christian Leadership Advance Conference
Understanding the New Millennium: Reexamining the Cultural Narratives
Vancouver, WA (December 2015)

Wesleyan Theological Society Meeting/Wesley Center Conference
Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID (March 6-8, 2014)
49th Annual Meetings of the Wesleyan Theological Society – Theme: Atonement

Wesleyan Theological Society Meeting
Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA (March 21-23, 2013)
48th Annual Meetings of the Wesleyan Theological Society – Theme: Holiness

Q Conference
Portland, OR (April 27-29, 2011)
Q was a Christian conference “…about helping the average disciple see themselves as sent into the city and to help them imagine they can shape the place God has sent them for a kingdom good.” Quote from Rick McKinley

Intuitive Leadership Conference
Jacobs Well Church, Kansas City, MO (April 23-25, 2008)
Conference theme the book: Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos, by Tim Keel

Prepare/Enrich Initial Training One-Day Seminar
Olathe College Church of the Nazarene, Olathe, KS (April 19, 2008)
Training for administering and understanding the Prepare/Enrich premarital and marriage enrichment inventories

“Walking the Way Together” Spiritual Formation Conference
Church of the Resurrection United Methodist Church
Leawood, KS (January 6-7, 2006)
Theme: The Promise and Power of Small Group Discipleship
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Dallas Willard author of The Divine Conspiracy

COR Leadership Institute 2005
Church of the Resurrection United Methodist Church
Leawood, KS (October 2005)
Conference Theme: Selling Swimsuits in the Arctic, Rev. Adam Hamilton addressed the basic principles of attracting the unchurched to the Christian message.

Purpose Driven Small Groups Workshop
Shawnee, KS (Spring 2004)
Conference Theme: Hut 2 Hut – A Small Groups Survival Guide

National Youth Workers Conference – Youth Specialties
St. Louis, MO (Fall 2003)
Conference theme: Renovatus

Renovare Regional Conference on Spiritual Renewal
Church of the Resurrection United Methodist Church
Leawood, KS (April 27-28, 2001)

National Resource for Youth Workers
Youth Specialties Seminar
Seattle, WA (1998)

Theological Leadership Conference
Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, IL (September 5-7, 2019)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. N.T. Wright

Nazarene Youth Conference (NYC)
Phoenix, NV (July 10-14,2019)

M19 – Mid-Quadrennial Mission & Evangelism Conference
USA/Canada Church of the Nazarene – Theme: The Gospel Unleashed
Bartle Hall, Kansas City, MO (February 2019)

Wesley Center Conference (Conference Title – Preaching: New & Now)
Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID (February 1-2, 2018)
Conference theme: How to proclaim the great news of the gospel in fresh, new ways

Church of the Nazarene General Assembly
Indianapolis, IN (June 22–28, 2017)

Wesley Center Conference (Conference title: Leadership in the Reign of God’s Love)
Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID (February 7-8, 2013)
The conference title, “Leadership in God’s Reign of Love,” describes the event’s goal to consider what leadership might best look like in the ongoing establishment of God’s kingdom.

Wesley Center Conference (Conference title: A Cup of Cold Water)
Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID (February 9-10, 2012)
Conference theme “Christians in Compassionate Service.”

Wesley Center Conference (Conference title: The Bible Tells Me So)
Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID (February 10-12, 2011)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Randy Maddox

PALCON 2010 (Pastors and Leaders Conference)
Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID (July 27-29, 2010)
Conference theme “Rooted in Missional Passion”. Participated in workshops aiming to prepare clergy for ministry for the second decade of the 21st century, and address ways to reach our postmodern culture.

Wesley Center Conference (Conference title: 99 Parts Perspiration)
Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID (February 4-6, 2010)
Keynote speaker Philip Yancey. Conference theme: God and the Creative Process. Exploring what it means to write, preach, lead, perform and create while keeping in step with the Spirit of God.

Church of the Nazarene General Assembly
Orlando, FL (June 29 – July 3, 2009)
Quadrennial gathering of the International Church of the Nazarene. Participated in workshops and listened to speakers focusing on leadership and missional identity.

Postmodern Youth Ministry Conference
Mid-America Nazarene University/Olathe College Church
Olathe, KS (Sept 2007)

M7 – Mid-Quadrennial Mission & Evangelism Conference
USA/Canada Church of the Nazarene
Workshop Co-Presenter
Bartle Hall, Kansas City, MO (Feb 2007)

Christian Storytelling Continuing Education Seminar – Making Stories Unforgettable
Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri (April 18, 2006)
Speaker: Master Storyteller John Walsh

PALCON 2004 (Pastors and Leaders Conference)
Mid-America Nazarene University/Olathe College Church
Olathe, KS (Summer 2004)

Marva Dawn Symposium
Mid-America Nazarene University
Olathe, KS (Winter 2003)

Nazarene Youth Conference (NYC)
Houston, TX (July 22-27, 2003)

M3 – Mid-Quadrennial Mission & Evangelism Conference
USA/Canada Church of the Nazarene
Opryland Hotel, Nashville, TN (Feb 2003)

St. John’s Abbey, NTS Student Learning Retreat
Collegeville, MN (Fall 2000)
Extended weekend retreat with fellow seminary students and Professor Don Whitlock to visit monasteries of Benedictine Roman Catholic men and women