Email
cdoll@kyumc.org
Contact
Celeste Doll
November 7-9, 2016
B Resort & Spa
Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida
Brighten your Future.
Gain information and inspiration.
Put yourself at the top of your list!
Plan to attend revitup!...For a Lifetime of Ministry!
- Strengthen personal, financial and leadership skills that can improve your life and sustain your ministry
- Network with other young clergy from across the denomination
- Participate in one-on-one consultations with class instructors/field experts (benefits consultants, pastoral counselors, financial planners, tax consultants, wills and estate planning experts, and more!)
- Go home with new ideas, resources and knowledge
- And…Earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Scholarships Available
The KY Conference Board of Pensions and Health Benefits is offering scholarships for any full-time, young clergy (ages 25-39) to attend.
Cost
Here’s how it works – Clergyperson or local church pays $300. The Conference BOP pays all the rest!*
* This includes early registration fee, air travel, hotel room (3 nights) and meal per diem. The conference will make all flight arrangements.
Event and Registration Information
Early-Bird Registration Fee: $119.00 ($229.00 with spouse)
(Register early—by Friday, October 7)
Registration Fee: $149.00 ($259.00 with spouse)
(After Friday, October 7)
The registration fee includes:
- Breakfast and lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday
- Refreshment breaks
- Event materials
revitup! begins on Monday, November 7 at 1:00 p.m. with inspiring worship and an opening plenary session.
revitup! concludes on Wednesday, November 9 at 2:30 p.m. after two action-packed days of learning, networking and fellowship.
This event features five core classes that everyone attends, and ten classes from which you will choose four to attend. From United Methodist benefits to how to go about finding money for ministry initiatives—you will go home with new insight, direction and lots of information to help balance life and ministry.
Opening Worship with Rev. Dr. Cynthia Weems
Join us for an energizing opening worship from Rev. Dr. Cynthia Weems.
Rev. Dr. Cynthia Weems is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Millsaps College where she majored in Religion and minored in History. She received a Masters of Divinity Degree from Yale Divinity School where she was a Yale Fellow and Student Body President. Later she graduated with honors from Saint Paul School of Theology with a Doctor of Ministry degree. Cynthia has served congregations in Connecticut, Kansas and Florida as well as spending two years as a volunteer missionary in Cochabamba, Bolivia. She is passionate about living the Christian faith through mission and service and is a colorful storyteller and dynamic preacher.
Inspiring Music
Enjoy musical direction from Chuck Bell.
An avid musician since the age of five when he began studying piano, Chuck holds a degree in Commercial Music from Webster University (St. Louis, Missouri) and has played hundreds of events throughout his 35-year career. While working summer stock, he came to realize how important music is when transitioning from one scene to the next. Knowledge he put to work with The United Methodist Church in 1996, planning and producing traditional and contemporary corporate worship experiences. After serving 18 years with the Church, Chuck is now a full-time worship consultant assisting churches with their Music and Arts Ministry as well as visioning for all worship styles.
Hotel and Travel Information
Wespath Benefits and Investments (Wespath) has negotiated a special room rate of $115.00 plus tax per night at the host hotel:
B Resort & Spa
1905 Hotel Plaza Blvd.
Lake Buena Vista, Florida 32830
Phone: 1-407-828-2828
Note: Attendees are responsible for making and paying for their hotel accommodations. Be sure to mention revitup! to obtain the $115 room rate. (Special room rate will be offered until Friday, October 21 based on availability.)
Day Care Information
Wespath will provide a 50% discount on an additional hotel room for a child care provider (grandparent, friend, nanny, etc.). Call Anne Green, Meeting and Event Planner, at 1-800-269-2244, ext. 4560 for more details.
Class Descriptions
revitup! classes were created based on input from focus groups with your young clergy peers.
Core Classes
For these sessions, you will be assigned to a track so you will attend each core class:
- You’ve Got Benefits!
- A Survival Guide to Clergy Taxes
- When There’s a Will, There’s a Way
- Living Your Financial Life Like It's Golden
- Rediscovering Your Call and Discovering Theirs
Choice (Elective) Classes
Then, choose four classes from the following:
- Direct Donor Dollars—“The Big Ask”
- Conflict Transformation: A Skill and an Art
- Strengths-Based Leadership for Pastors
- Pastor as Change Agent
- Dissolve That Debt
- Investment Funds at Work: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing
- Flipping Church: How Successful Church Planters are Turning Conventional Wisdom Upside-Down
- Budget All You Can: Finances and the Church
- Two Part Invention: A Model for Successful Ministry as an Associate Pastor
- Chill and Refill: Creating Life Balance and Avoiding Compassion Fatigue
Special Opportunities
Participate in one-on-one sessions:
Non-stop Networking
- Meet attendees at Monday night’s opening reception
- Join new and old friends for dinner on Tuesday evening—complimentary shuttle to area restaurants
- Hang out in “The Bowl”—revitup!’s rec room—open throughout the event
Courses
Read biographies for the course instructors.
You've Got Benefits!
As a clergy person in The United Methodist Church, you’ve got benefits! Pension, death, disability, and a wonderful savings and investment plan. This class will touch on the benefits available if and when you need them the most. As you work toward fulfilling the mission of our church, you can work hard with fewer worries knowing you are cared for while you serve.
Instructor: Peter Hang, Benefits Educator, Wespath Benefits and Investments
Survival Guide to Clergy Taxes
The complexity of the Internal Revenue Code is a well-known fact. While large businesses have a staff of accountants and lawyers to help them with complex tax issues—you do not, even though the taxes imposed on clergy can be nearly as complex. Many clergy just aren't prepared for tax filing and the payment season, and feel just how cruel April can be. We begin to clarify some of the confusion you may be experiencing and answer questions like "Who's my employer?" "Do I really have to pay taxes on my parsonage?" "Why isn't my church withholding enough Federal Income tax?" and "What in the devil is the Self-Employment Tax and why is it costing me so much money?" We’ll also go over Clergy Housing Allowance rules. You’ll learn some things that may help prevent an audit and some things that may allow you to save money that the IRS would otherwise get. You will definitely learn enough to talk to a tax professional, and begin preparing yourself and your family for the filing of your tax returns and the payment of the taxes you will owe.
Instructor: The Reverend Nate Berneking, Director of Finance & Administrative Ministry for the Missouri Annual Conference
When There’s a Will, There’s a Way
Life throws us many curves—some expected and some unexpected. What can you expect if something happens? Do you have a durable power of attorney or an advanced directive? Do you know where your important documents are located? Have you considered estate planning and your long-term financial legacy? Are you familiar with trusts and estate tax laws? This class is essential as you consider ways to care and provide for your family’s future.
Instructor: The Reverend David Bell, President and Executive Director, United Methodist Foundation of Michigan and a Senior Design Partner, Design Group International
Living Your Financial Life Like It's Golden
Carefully attending to personal financial matters, such as budgeting and saving, gives credibility to a minister's earnest desire to follow God's instruction. This session will offer practical spending and savings tips that support an enriching relationship with God.
Instructor: Lazetta Rainey Braxton, Certified Financial Planner™ practitioner, founder and CEO of Financial Fountains
Rediscovering Your Call and Discovering Theirs
You’ve listened to what God is saying about your purpose. You’ve discerned how this conversation with God may influence your future prospects of fortune and fame. You’ve responded to God’s calling you into ordained ministry, understanding the chances of ever winning an Oscar or a National League MVP have just decreased slightly. Now what? How do we continue to listen, discern, and respond to what God is continuing to say to us? Can you be called out of ordained ministry? Can you be called sideways into another ministry? How do we help others listen to what God may be saying to them as we struggle to keep our ears open to what God is saying to us?
Instructor: The Reverend Trip Lowery, Director of Young Adult Ministry Discernment and Enlistment, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry
Direct Donor Dollars—“The Big Ask”
The difference between a great idea and a great idea that gets approved is a couple of strong donors. Raising money for special projects gains a lot of momentum after successful one-on-one conversations with possible donors. This workshop will offer practical, successful steps on how to prepare for and then successfully raise support through direct-donor giving. We'll also spend time talking about ways to identify new groups of donors that most pastors overlook.
Instructor: The Reverend Mike Baughman, Community Curator for Union, a new kind of non-profit coffee shop in Dallas, Texas; North Texas Conference
Conflict Transformation: A Skill and an Art
Participants will engage reality-based conflict scenarios and discover multiple ways to address, include, and affirm those involved in disputes and heated conversations. Participants will also develop a clear understanding of the pastor's role as facilitator, mediator, coach, and lightning rod in the midst of conflict.
Instructor: Craig Gilliam
Strengths-Based Leadership for Pastors
This session will explore The Gallup Organization’s research on strengths-based theory and leadership, and the implications for leading your congregation from a strengths-based approach. You will become acquainted with the Clifton StrengthsFinder online assessment tool and how it can inform your leadership as a pastor. Developing our unique God-given strengths and talents is critical to a lifetime of leading well in ordained ministry. At the conclusion of the session, you will receive a copy of the book Strengths-Based Leadership by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie. Your book will contain a one-time use code for access to the online Clifton StrengthsFinder Assessment. You may choose to take the StrengthsFinder on your own time (which takes about 45 minutes) and you will receive a report with your top five unique strengths, or themes of talent, and suggestions for personal development.
Instructor: Mary Bendall Henley
Pastor As Change Agent
Participants will examine proven change management and transformation engagement strategies to help the pastor lead change processes in the local church, without becoming public enemy #1.
Instructor: The Reverend Cedrick Bridgeforth, California-Pacific Conference
Dissolve That Debt
As a clergy person in their first 10-15 years in ministry, salaries may not be very high and yet seminary and personal debt may be even higher. This class will help you evaluate your spending plan, deal with shortfalls and debt, create a spending plan and take practical steps to manage your cash.
Instructor: EY Representative
Investment Funds at Work: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing
This investing class will wow you with a double bottom line—reaping investment returns while making a positive impact with your investment dollars. No terminology or math skills required for this session, just learn how your money makes positive social and environmental impacts while earning risk adjusted returns! In alignment with United Methodist Church vaues, Wespath seeks to positively change the world through engagement in global economic, social and environmental concerns. Come hear the stories. You may be surprised and impressed to learn how Wespath achieves great results.
Instructor: Trent Sparrow, Wespath Investment Management
Flipping Church: How Successful Church Planters are Turning Conventional Wisdom Upside-Down
A spirit of innovation is sweeping across the denomination. Cutting edge church planters are flipping traditional church wisdom by embracing Wesleyan theology and practice in order to best meet the needs of their neighborhood. These pioneers are learning lessons that can benefit us all. This is an opportunity to hear their stories, dream out loud and find a permissionary witness to explore new means of ministry in our own context.
Instructor: Rev. Mike Baughman
Budget All You Can: Finances and the Church
John Wesley was familiar with money, demonstrated by his maxim “make all you can, save all you can, give all you can” to the ordination question on debt. This session will provide a high-level overview of money and the local church using its most effective tool, the budget. Learn how to analyze, to build, and most importantly, to think theologically about church budgets.
Instructor: The Reverend Raymond Bonwell, Education Specialist, The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Two Part Invention: A Model for Successful Ministry as an Associate Pastor
People assume that Senior Pastors call the shots and those in supporting or associate roles are along for the ride. By managing everything from egos to staff and competing interests within the church, an associate pastor has the opportunity to nurture healthy systems and transform church culture. Explore practical tools and strategies for those who manage, mentor, minister and lead as associate pastors.
Instructor: Rev. Rachel Baughman
Chill and Refill: Creating Life Balance and Avoiding Compassion Fatigue
You will learn about the impact of unmanaged stress and boundaries that upset work/life balance and contribute to poor self-care, compassion fatigue and burnout. You will learn how to create healthy boundaries between work and home, as well as tools and strategies to avoid and/or recover from compassion fatigue.
Instructor: Jane Pernotto Ehrman, M. Ed.
Special Opportunities
Financial/Benefits Consulting
Schedule a private session with a benefits consultant to review your retirement account balance and other benefits, discuss your financial dreams, goals and concerns—and see if you are on the right track.
Spiritual Guide/Pastoral Counselor
Schedule a session with a Spiritual Guide/Pastoral Counselor to lend a listening ear and help you work through any personal or church issues/concerns. This private session is your opportunity to gain an outside perspective on situations you may face.
Class Session/Topical Consults
Special opportunities will be available to dig deeper on particular revitup! session subjects in a one-on-one setting.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Earn CEUs for attending revitup! Attend 10 classes and get a certificate for 1.25 CEUs. Attend 8 classes and receive a certificate for 1.0 CEUs. Certificates will be awarded at the conclusion of the event.
Schedule
Schedule subject to change
| Monday, November 7 | |
| 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. | Registration |
| 1:00–2:45 p.m. | Welcome Opening Keynote Address: TBD |
| 2:45–3:05 p.m. | Break |
| 3:05–4:20 p.m. | Core Classes: Track Classes |
| 4:20–4:40 p.m. | Break |
| 4:40–5:55 p.m. | Core Classes Continue |
| 6:00 p.m. | Break for the Day |
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | Opening Reception (Beverages and Light Snacks) Evening Optional Consultation Opportunities |
| Tuesday, November 8 | |
| 7:30–8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:30–9:15 a.m. | Worship |
| 9:15–9:30 a.m. | Break |
| 9:30–10:45 a.m. | Choice Classes (A) |
| 10:45–11:05 a.m. | Break |
| 11:05 a.m.–12:20 p.m. | Choice Classes (A) repeat |
| 12:20–2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00–3:15 p.m. | Choice Classes (B) |
| 3:15–3:35 p.m. | Break |
| 3:35–4:50 p.m. | Choice Classes (B) repeat |
| 5:00 p.m. | Break for the Day - Free Evening - Dinner on your own Evening Optional Consultation Opportunities |
| Wednesday, November 9 | |
| 7:30–8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:30–9:15 a.m. | Worship |
| 9:15-9:30 a.m. | Break |
| 9:30-10:45 a.m. | Core Classes: Track Classes |
| 10:45-11:05 a.m. | Break |
| 11:05 a.m.-12:20 p.m. | Core Classes: Track Classes |
| 12:20-1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:45 p.m. | Core Classes: Track Classes |
| 2:45 p.m. | Event Ends |
Questions
For questions about registration, travel, hotel accommodations or the day care opportunity, contact: Anne Green at 1-800-269-2244, ext. 4560.
For questions about the class schedule, contact: Renee Smith-Edmondson at 1-800-269-2244, ext. 4273 or Dale Jones at 1-800-269-2244, ext 2715.
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