D-Conference
January 14th - 16th, 2025
About the event
- Inspiring general sessions
- Practical breakouts
- Relational investment
- Deeper training
- BUILDING a movement TOGETHER
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.
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)
Break Out Sessions
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.
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.
Dann Spader
Like Jesus
Jonathan (JP) Pitts
How To Train
Peggy Allan
Student Link - Practical Disciple-Making
This breakout will look at two disciple-making models that are being used today to make disciples that make disciples.
The schedule
Tentitive schedule at this time:
Tuesday
- 9am Pre-conference check-in
- 10am-4pm Pre-Conference Workshops
- 4pm DCON Breakout Electives - Day 1
- 5:30pm DCON Check-in
- 7pm DCON General Session
Wednesday
- 9am General Session
- 10:45am DCON Training Tracks
- 4pm DCON Breakout Electives - Day 2
- 5pm Day complete
Thursday
- 9am Training Tracks continue
- 3:45pm DCON General Session
- 5pm DCON Concludes