Cross-Cultural Ministry Conference

'Moving into the neighbourhood'

DATE
5–6 May 2023

WHERE
Quality Hotel Melbourne Airport
265 Mickleham Road,
Tullamarine, Victoria

If you have a heart for better connection with neighbours from other cultural backgrounds, the LCANZ’s Cross-Cultural Ministry Conference for 2023 is sure to inspire you.

This conference is a call to take a journey with Jesus out into the multicultural neighbourhood. Are you willing to leave ‘home base’ and engage with those who need to hear about him? For many of us, this is a psychological journey as we align our priorities with our Lord (who leaves the ninety-nine and seeks the one).

The conference will also address the practical challenge of how to walk in a way that blesses our unsaved neighbours. How do we learn to listen, and talk to them in a new way? We have two days to explore these things – to hear from each other and some great external keynote speakers.

Let’s be people who engage these neighbours (who have come from ‘the nations’) and welcome them into our fellowship so that our gatherings start to reflect the diversity around us!

Registration

There are two registration options for the conference. Both include the guest speaker sessions and catering during the day across both days (morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea on the Friday; morning tea and lunch on the Saturday).

Program

5 May 2023

Registration, with morning tea on arrival	9.30am – 10.00am
Opening worship	10.00 am – 10.45am
Session 1: A cross-cultural vision for the LCANZ	10.45am – 11.15am
Session 2: A truly welcoming congregation	11.15am – 11.45am
Session 3: Welcoming congregations – workshop	11.45am – 12.30pm
Lunch	12.30pm – 1.30pm
Session 4: Walk a mile in my shoes	1.30pm – 3.00pm
Afternoon tea	3.00pm – 3.30pm
Session 5: Building rapport with people from a Muslim background	3.30pm – 5.00pm
Pre-dinner drinks in the lounge bar (at own expense)*	5.30pm – 6.30pm
Conference dinner with guest speaker, Major Karen Elkington, Salvation Army*	Seated at 6.30pm

*Please note, the conference dinner is only included in the 'Full Registration with dinner' ($180) option, and seating is limited. Please contact us if you have any questions.

6 May 2023

Tea and coffee on arrival	8.30am – 9.00am
Opening worship and dwelling in the word	9.00am – 9.45am
Session 6: How are LCANZ congregations responding to multicultural society?	9.45am – 10.15am
Morning tea	10.15am – 10.45am
Session 7: The goal of an 'intercultural' congregation!	10.45am – 12.30pm
Lunch	12.30pm – 1.30pm
Session 8: Crossing over	1.30pm – 2.00pm
Session 9: Practical outreach methods	2.00pm – 3.30pm
Conference summary and closing worship	3.30pm – 4.00pm