Leadership Tune-Up 2024

September 30 - October 2, 2024

Ross Point Camp, Post Falls, ID

Mission Northwest leaders gather annually at the Leadership Tune-Up for training, connection and worship. This year's Leadership Tune-Up theme is “Witness + Formation”. The plenary sessions will focus on helping congregations embrace evangelism and discipleship as twin pre-eminent priorities. Too often churches approach these primary aspects of mission as if they were at opposite ends on a teeter-totter.  One church emphasizes evangelism to the detriment of discipleship, while another emphasizes "going deep" while giving short shrift to evangelism.

Healthy churches give witness and disciple Christ-followers in tandem as they follow Jesus’ marching orders in Matt 28:19-20 ("in your going make disciples") and Acts 1:8 ("and you shall be my witnesses”). Evangelism and discipleship should never be pitted against each as if they are in competition. 

J.R. Woodward writes: “In my experience, [Gary Comer] is right on with his statements ‘You have to go to grow’ and ‘If we do not have mission, we do not get Christlike people.’ For when we walk with people and immerse ourselves in mission together, in this place of liminality, people are drawn to spiritual practices as a way to sustain themselves on mission and to live out a risk-taking kind of faith.”  (from the preface to ReMission)

Dr. Gary Comer and Dr. Matt Lake will be our plenary session speakers. Gary is the founder of Soul Whisperer Ministries (www.soulwhispererministry.com). The former evangelism pastor at Sandals Church in SoCal, and an author of two excellent books on relational evangelism in today's world. Gary lives out what he writes about. Pastor Matt Lake is the Lead Pastor of First Church of Williamsport, Pa and is a key leader with the Ascent Movement. His church majors on reaching new believers, then walking alongside them, helping them become mature disciples. Matt's congregation also engages in numerous Fresh Expressions of church in their inner city location reaching people who are strangers to the inherited church.

Ross Point Camp will be our host location. For more information about the camp see their website:  www.rosspoint.org.

601 S. Ross Point Rd, Post Falls, ID 83854 

208.777.2733 office@missionnw.org

LEADERSHIP TUNE-UP 2024 SCHEDULE

Monday, September 30

10:00—1:00 pm                Registration

12:00 noon                         Lunch

1:00 pm                               First Plenary Session

2:30 pm                               Break

2:45 pm                               Workshops: Round One*

4:00 pm                               Free Time

6:00 pm                               Dinner

7:00 pm                               Second Plenary Session

                                                Communion  

Tuesday, October 1

8:00 am                               Breakfast

8:45 am                               Third Plenary Session

10:30 am                              Refreshment Break

10:45 am                              Workshops: Round Two*

12:00 pm                              Lunch

1:00 pm                                Fourth Plenary Session

2:15 pm                 Free Time &

                                                Round Table Groups

6:00 pm                               Dinner

7:00pm                                Fifth Plenary Session

Wednesday, October 2

8:00 am                               Breakfast

9:00 am                               Plenary Session

*Workshop details will be provided during August, 2024

Recordings from Previous Leadership Tune-Up Sessions

Leadership Tune-Up Pictures