A list of upcoming missional conferences. (Note that online conferences are being listed at the bottom).
- Exponential. Considered the “mother of all missional conferences.” It offers a Global Conference and two regional conferences:
- Exponential 2026 Global Conference. The Theme, Multiplier: It’s In You! Pre-Conference March 16, Main Conference March 17-19, 2026. https://exponential.org/global-2026/
- Digital Passes from past events: https://exponential.org/digital-access-pass/
January 27-29, 2026
- Dynamic Church Planting International. Location and Date: Vista, California, January 27-29, 2026. Grow your effectiveness as a church planter, and join us for your choice of one DCPI Training Track! This week, we will be offering several tracks. Time allows for each person to attend one training track. We encourage you to pray about who needs to come with you. God is always at work in our DCPI trainings, and you will not want your team to miss this opportunity to gain skills, plan strategically, and receive fresh vision from the Lord! Several tracks offered, including:
- Church Planting Essentials
- Churches Planting Churches
- Healthy Church Dynamics
- Mentoring Church Planters
- NexGen Challenge / House Church Planting. (if you only want NGC or HCP still register for the 2 as they are a set
- Link to course description page: https://dcpi.org/training-tracks/.
April 22-24, 2026
- Summit 2026 — True Charity. Beach Church, Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
- https://www.truecharity.us/summit-2026/
- The Summit is best suited for anyone involved in poverty alleviation efforts through a nonprofit or a church. Most of our attendees are staff members from nonprofits or churches with poverty alleviation programs, but we also welcome charity volunteers, donors and philanthropists, policy leaders, think tank leaders, and anyone else with a general interest in the topic of effective charity. If you’re looking for ways to empower those in need to leave behind poverty for good, this conference is for you!
- Organizations with these types of programs are typically represented at the Summit:
- Homeless shelters
- Food pantries and co-ops
- Church benevolence
- Addiction recovery
- Thrift stores and clothing closets
- Adult education
- Transitional housing
- Foster care prevention and support
- Residential life transformation programs
- Transportation access
- Christmas and Thanksgiving drives.
ONLINE CONFERENCES
Evangelical Missiology Society Conferences
2024 EMS: New Frontiers in Missiology.
USERNAME: ems2024
PASSWORD: frontier
NOTE: This password seems to work for all their past conferences. No guarantees, but feel free to choose from any of them.
Past Conferences
- 2024New Frontiers in Missiology
- 2023Educating for Contemporary Mission
- 2022Reconciliation: God’s Mission through Missions for All
- 2021Communication(s) and Mission
- 2020The Past and Future of Evangelical Mission
- 2019Mission Amid Global Crises
- 2018Mission and Evangelism in a Secularizing World
- 2017Engaging theology, theologians, theological education in (or from) majority world contexts.
- 2016Missions and the Local Church
- 2015Controversies in Mission
Concordia Multi-Ethnic Symposium
Concordia Seminary has hosted a Multiethnic Symposium for many years, starting in 2008. Below is the link that will lead to a page with all 12 listed. Feel free to pick and choose 8 hours from any of the symposium recordings.
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