TREASURING CHRIST TOGETHER
What is it?
Why attend?
Sit alongside aspiring church planters while learning from other church planters against the backdrop of a church plant. The Church Planting Weekender allows you to see, touch, and learn about planting churches as though the church mattered. As though pastoral ministry and the aim of knowing and enjoying Christ as a family mattered. Come, see and savor the glory of Christ as we consider the establishment of His blood-bought people.
It’s our prayer that our time together will inflame your heart, inform your mind, and provide practical resources for your ministry.
LIMITED ATTENDANCE: We’re limiting this event to 60 people to facilitate a more intimate, conversational environment.
CPW 2025
DATES
TBD
Tampa, FL – Spring 2025
Washington, DC – Fall 2025
PRICE
$250 main registrant // $125 spouse
$125 students
LOCATION
Washington, DC
(See Logistics Below)
"What if church planting success wasn’t defined by size, speed, self-sustainability, and spread?”
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY
8:15 am
Registration & Refreshments
9:00 am
Welcome, Orientation & Introductions
10 am
Treasuring Christ in Church Planting
11 am
RC Story
12 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Defining: What Is a Church?
Developing: Church Documents
2:30 pm
Developing: Budget
3:45 pm
Break
4:30 pm
Elders’ Meetings
(Separate Women’s Session)
6:00 pm
Dinner
7:15 pm
Defining: The Planter as Pastor
(Women’s Break)
SATURDAY
8:15 am
Coffee, Tea, Light Breakfast
9:00 am
Church planting: Marriage & Family
10:15 am
Treasuring Christ in Preaching
(Separate Women’s Session)
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Treasuring Christ in Evangelism
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Helping Visitors & Guests Treasure Christ
2:45 pm
Treasuring Christ in Children’s Ministry
3:45 pm
Break
4:15 pm
Treasuring Christ in Suffering
5:15 pm
Dinner on your own in the city
SUNDAY
8:15 am
Coffee, Tea, Light Breakfast
9:00 am
Member’s Meetings and
Membership Introduction Class Overview
10:30 am
Service
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Service planning /review/preaching calendar
2:00 pm
Exhortation: Treasuring Christ Together in Church Planting
2:30 pm
Conference Ends
PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
Kenny Stokes
Pastor, Bethlehem Baptist Chruch
Sean Cordell
Pastor, Treasuring Christ Church
Lead Team Member, TCT Network
Mike McKinley
Pastor, Sterling Park Baptist
Kathryn Feliciano
Women’s Ministry Leader, Restoration Church
Joel Kurz
Pastor, The Garden Church
Joey Craft
Pastor, Restoration Church
Nathan Knight
Pastor, Restoration Church
Lead Team Member, TCT Network
Lauren Thomas
RKids Director, Restoration Church
LOGISTICS
Lodging
CPW Attenders can seek accommodations at any nearby hotels. Here is a map with a few suggestions. Additionally, lodging can be found at the many Airbnb or VRBO options in the area.
Meals
We provide light breakfast, full lunch, and dinners (with the exception of dinner on Saturday evening). Throughout the course of the conference, we’ll have snacks and drinks for you to enjoy.
Travel
Travel plans are left to you. Please plan to arrive at the church building no later than 8:30 a.m. Friday morning.
If you are flying to DC, it is advisable to arrive the evening before. You can utilize one of three Washington, DC area airports: Reagan National (DCA), Dulles International (IAD) or Baltimore/Washington International (BWI).
Please do not book your return flight for any earlier than 5 pm Sunday afternoon.
"Planting churches by pastoring names, not numbers, for the aim of treasuring Christ together."
SPONSORS
TCT is a network of churches joyfully serving pastors and their wives, and supporting churches to start new Christ-treasuring churches.
9Marks helps pastors, future pastors, and church members see what a biblical church looks like, and provides practical resources for becoming one. The goal is to see churches characterized by nine biblical marks of a healthy church.
BOOKS & MORE!
Every church planter benefits from good books. So, leave a little extra room in your luggage to take home a stack of free books. These will include titles such as:
Minister as Shepherd by Charles Jefferson
The Glory of Christ by John Owen
Conversion by Michael Lawrence
Seeing & Savoring Christ by John Piper
Each attendee also receives a jump drive with a decade’s worth of on-the-ground church planting resources. Editable versions of resources like budgets, connection cards, position papers, and more are yours to use as you like!