Why Attend the Sonlife Disciple-Making Conference

Sonlife Team Members
  • Make new friends and/or catch up with old friends who share your vision for Jesus-centered disciple making.
  • Attend that training seminar you were unable to attend last time (choose from one of 4 training tracks, pre-conference or during the conference).
  • Become a certified trainer in one of those training tracks so that you can help multiply the Jesus centered disciple making movement.
  • Meet and hear from our excellent partners. There’ll be booths, as well as breakout seminars and training tracks led by some of these partners.
  • Florida. In February… nuff said!
  • Been there, done that? Well, prove it by bringing someone else along in whom you are investing as a disciple maker.
  • Our keynote, Dave, can’t hold back his deep, abiding, and intimate love for Jesus. You’ll find yourself drawn to our King in a new way.
  • Worship in general sessions alongside your peers.
  • Bring your entire staff… our focus is on those who lead disciple making ministries with young people, but there’s plenty for everyone.
  • Go home with a plan. This year we’re writing into our schedule some concentrated coaching time to help you discern how you and your ministry will implement what you’re learning.

I’ve been attending the Sonlife Disciple-Making Conference since 2002. At first, I went simply to keep learning—to grow in my understanding of the Son’s life and develop a stronger disciple-making ministry. I loved the trainings, often taking the same ones more than once just to deepen my grasp of how Jesus built His ministry. But over time, my reason for attending began to shift. I started going because of the people—those walking the same disciple-making journey I was on. These were leaders who loved Jesus and shared a passion to make disciples who make disciples. I found myself learning just as much from them as from the formal sessions. We were wrestling with the same challenges, celebrating the same victories, and carrying similar heartaches. I realized I wasn’t alone. I had found my tribe—a family I could lean on and grow with.
Eventually, I began using the conference as a place to invest in my own leadership team. Each year I’d bring my disciples and leaders, watching them grow as they leaned into Jesus and His ministry strategy. It was exciting to see them return home and begin applying what they’d learned—multiplying ministry and life transformation in themselves and those they were investing in.
Making disciples who make disciples is both a command and a privilege—a life-changing opportunity to let Jesus grow us and work through us. The Disciple-Making Conference continues to be a place where I sharpen my own skills and invest in those God has entrusted to me.
Don’t miss out on what God might want to sharpen in you. It’s easy to think, “I’ve already done that training,” but the truth is, we never really arrive, do we?

Tom Maxwell

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Dr. Dave Rahn,  this year’s keynote, will be speaking at each general session throughout the conference. Dave began his career in youth ministry in 1972 with Youth for Christ, where he served as a Campus Life Director. In 1985 be began teaching at Huntington University in Huntington, IN, where he served for over 30 years. Dave’s degrees are from Huntington University, Wheaton College (M.A.), and Purdue University (Ph.D.). He retired as special advisor to the President of Youth for Christ USA in 2020, but he continues to advise, research, lead, write, and speak as much as he can.

Throughout his life in ministry, research, and education, Dave has consistently valued and promoted evangelism and youth ministry.