GOING DEEPER & WIDER
The how & the why of creating a great church in your community.
This isn’t your average one-day church conference. Its packed full of so many fresh ideas to help your church to reach new people that it may have to live with its auntie in Bel Air!
Church ministry is a typically unpredictable endeavour. Throw in a dose of economic instability and general societal upheaval and ministry can often feel downright confusing.
We feel it too. And we know you want to get it right.
The Further Faster Conference for partner churches is back and ready to help you and your teams go deeper and wider than ever before in creating an irresistible church in your community.
Joel Thomas & Lane Jones from North Point Community Church along with the Further Faster UK & Ireland team have a sack full of practical tools to help you navigate this often confusing ministry season.
Main sessions, worship, panel discussions and Q&A opportunities will ensure each member of your team are inspired to become healthier and more effective. Its time to fuel up, have some fun and let us serve you at this years Further Faster Conference.
So let’s go deep… but let’s keep it wide!
“We can’t wait to welcome you and your hard working team to a day of refueling for the road ahead.”
Duncan Banks
Director, Further Faster Network
EVENT DETAIL
Dates:
Tuesday & Wednesday June 24-25, 2025
Location:
Lifecentral Church
2, Little Cornrow,
Halesowen, UK, B63 3AJ
Cost:
The cost for both day’s to partner churches is just £45 per person including lunch, snacks, drinks and materials for both days. (€45 for Irish attendees).
Day two only (which is open to the general public) is just £35 (€35) per person.
(Travel, Hotels & parking information will be sent to you after booking)
Ready to take your church deeper and wider?
SCHEDULE
Tuesday June 24 (Partner Churches Only)
- 9:30am: Registration Opens
- 10:15am: Session 1: Communication for a new generation – Joel Thomas
- 11:45am: Session 2: Overcoming the Fogs, Fires & Fears of Leadership – Joel Thomas
- 1:30pm: BREAKOUTS
- 2:45pm: Going ‘Further & Faster’ than ever before (Q&A panel)
- 4:15pm: Session 3: Intentionality – the missing ingredient? – Lane Jones
- 6:45pm: Session 4:
- 8:00pm: The Big After Party
Wednesday June 25 (General Admission)
- 8:30am: Registration Opens
- 9:45am: Session 1: Going Deeper & Wider – Joel Thomas
- 11:30am: Session 2: Hallmarks of a Deeper & Wider Church – Lane Jones
- 1:30pm: Four short TED-Style talks
- 2:45pm: Session 3: Changing your church without killing it – Joel Thomas
- 4:30pm: End of day
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Joel Thomas
North Point Ministries
Joel Thomas is the Director of NPM, providing point leadership for the NPM Directional Team. Joel is also Lead Pastor of Buckhead Church, where he provides visionary and directional leadership for the staff and congregation. Joel began his ministry career as the first intern of North Point Ministries in 1998, then served in college, singles, and married adult ministries before becoming the Lead Pastor of North Point Community Church in 2011. In 2015, Joel and his family moved to Arizona where Joel served as Senior Pastor of Mission Community Church for almost seven years before returning to the Atlanta area to rejoin the North Point Ministries team. Joel and his wife, Jenn, aspire to finish life together having experienced an abundance of faith, love, and fun along the way with their four amazing children: Talan, Gentry, Kason, and Nixon.
Lane Jones
A founding Pastor of North Point Community Church
Lane Jones is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives with his wife, Traci. He has coauthored books like 7 Practices of Effective Ministry with Andy Stanley and Reggie Joiner, and ‘Community for A Change’ with Andy Stanley. He is an executive director at North Point Community Church, a church he helped to start with Andy Stanley 30 years ago. Lane is on teh Further Faster board and loves to write and participate in the creative process. He holds degrees from Georgia State University and Dallas Theological Seminary.
Ready to take your church further faster?
STORIES
Sam Corcoran
Location Pastor – Navan
Lighthouse Church
“Last year’s conference equipped me with practical tools and renewed vision to lead my church with greater confidence and purpose.”
Rich Vernon
Lead Pastor
Lakeside Church
‘What an incredible day. Full of insight, wisdom, practical and helpful content to equip me and my team in reaching people who are far from God. Roll on June 2025!’
Chris Porter
Senior Minister
Andover Community Church
“Inspiring, challenging, stretching and equipping an amazing day full of vision ideas for the future and practical wisdom for helping us get there. Can’t wait for this years event!”
Steve Fenning
Senior leader
Forge Community Church
“Loved attending the conference with my wider leadership team. We all found it so helpful, inspirational and created great discussions and actions off the back of it.
Leon Evans
Lead Pastor
Lifecentral church
“The conference inspired our team and helped them align even more around the vision of creating an outward facing church. It was so impactful and last year was our record year for baptisms!
