D-Conference

January 14th - 16th, 2025

Join other committed disciple-makers from around the country to get refreshed and connected

Good News Church, 1357 Wildwood Dr., St. Augustine, FL

Early Registration:
June 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024

Registration:
Sept. 1, 2024 - Dec. 15, 2024

About the event

Inspiring general sessions
Practical breakouts
Relational investment
Deeper training
BUILDING a movement TOGETHER

Schedule

Conference Sessions

Breakout Sessions

Speakers

Check out the great line up we have for this event.

Doug Holliday

Doug Holliday is passionate about engaging students in an encounter with the living Christ and equipping leaders with disciple-making priorities and practices, speaking at conferences, camps and churches across the US and around the globe.

Greg Stier

Is an evangelist, author and prophetic voice to the church. He’s the Founder of Dare 2 Share - a ministry that has mobilized millions to boldly share the gospel. A dynamic speaker, Greg has appeared on Focus on the Family, CNN and Fox News. He’s authored twenty plus books, including his memoir, Unlikely Fighter, and his most recent challenge to the church, Radical Like Jesus. Greg and Dare 2 Share have been strategic partners of Sonlife’s since 2013, working together to fuel disciple-making movements among the next generation. Greg lives in Denver with Debbie, his wife of 34 years, and has two grown children.

Dean Plumlee

Dean and Amy are actively Making Disciples & Training Disciple Makers as they Abide, Obey and Engage in the mission of Jesus.

Dean is a Strategic Ministry Catalyst for Northeast Florida for Sonlife ministries. In 1995 as a Student Ministry Intern in his home church in Hedgesville, WV he attended Sonlife training. Over the years he and Amy would attend further training, receive coaching and be mentored by the Sonlife team. After years of being a part of the Sonlife "family" they joined the Sonlife "team" and in 2016 came on staff.

Polen Band

Developed out of an excitement to see God glorified, Polen Band travels from their home state of Ohio to conferences, coffee shops, churches, and community events all over the country, leading people in passionate and sincere worship through contemporary christian music.

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Conference Sessions

Pre-Conference: 4 Chair Discipling Workshop

BE A Disciple-Maker...learn about making and multiplying disciples from the model of Jesus (Trainer certification available as a Breakout Elective)

Pre-Conference: Foundations Workshop

BUILD A Disciple-Making Ministry...learn six foundational priorities Jesus established in building His disciple-making ministry (Trainer certification available as Breakout Elective)

D-Conference Strategy Training

BUILD A Disciple-Making Ministry...learn the five phases of the strategy Jesus devised for building a ministry that makes and multiplies disciple-makers.

D-Conference Leadership Multiplication Seminar

BEGIN A Disciple-Making Movement...learn the intentionality of Jesus' leadership development process for making and multiplying disciple-making movement leaders. (Pre-requisite: Strategy Seminar)

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Break Out Sessions

Joel Zaborowski

President, Ancient Path Disciple-Making

The Pathway from Believer to Worker.

This breakout will examine eight specific and sequential things that Jesus did in the first 18 months of His ministry to develop His new believing followers into workers in the Father's harvest field. This breakout will help you develop a clear, Jesus-centric pathway in your ministry to equip people for ministry.

Nathan Glover

Director of the Urban Impact Training Center in Pittsburgh

Tested Methods for Creative Outreach

This breakout is the product of 30 years of outreach into the inner city of Pittsburgh by Urban Impact Foundation. UIF currently has over 60 outreach programs infiltrating Pittsburgh's schools, community centers and sports teams. All of these are designed to win people to Christ and build bridges to the local church. Urban Impact currently implements 60 programs but has attempted 100's more. Come and see what Urban Impact has done right and done wrong these past 30 years and let the creative juices flow for ideas you might bring back to your community.

Shawn Ammons

Adventure Disciple-Making

Have you ever reflected on the environments Jesus made disciples in and how those environments could have contributed to the transformation we see in the lives of His disciples? Jesus took his disciples on hikes, up mountains, through the wilderness, and across stormy seas. Adventure Disciplemaking intentionally creates environments conducive for life transformation. Discover strategies and tools for using Adventure as a catalyst for making disciples.

Greg Stier - Dare 2 Share

Mobilizing for effective evangelism.
Equipping your church or youth group to effectively evangelize can transform your ministry in a powerful way. This session will give you both the principles and practical tools to get your ministry on mission to mobilize every person in your ministry to be a Gospel Advancing, disciple-multiplying missionary in their own sphere of influence.