New All Star Date Set

We have just schedule a new All Star Sunday School Training event in Palatka, FL. The dates will be March 30 - 31. The speakers will be Dr. Ken Hemphill, Dr. Elmer Towns and Josh Hunt. Here is a little information about each of these speakers:

Ken Hemphill is the past president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary as well as the former pastor of First Baptist Church, Norfolk, VA. While there, the church grew from 800 to 6000. He is the author of numerous books on church growth including Revitalizing the Sunday Morning Dinosaur: A Sunday School Growth Strategy for the 21st Century. He has a new book coming out on new member assimilation called VELCRO Church.  Ken currently serves as founding director the Church Planting and Revitalization Center of North Greenville University

Elmer Towns is co-founder of Liberty University, with Jerry Falwell, in 1971, and was the only full-time teacher in the first year of Liberty's existence.  Today, the University has over 11,400 students on campus with 39,000 in the Distance Learning Program (now Liberty University Online), and he is the Dean of the School of Religion. Dr. Towns is the author of numerous books and resources about Sunday School including:

• What Every Sunday School Teacher Should Know: 24 Secrets That Can Help You Change Lives
• What Every Pastor Should Know About Sunday School: 18 Secrets to Bring New Life and Growth to Your Church
• 154 Steps to Revitalize Your Sunday School and Keep Your Church Growing
• Friend Day

Josh Hunt has authored numerous books related to Sunday School including:

• You Can Double Your Class in Two Years or Less
• Disciplemaking Teachers
• Make Your Group Grow

Josh also writes Sunday School Lessons called Good Questions Have Groups Talking. He travels extensively and has spoken in some of the leading churches in America including First Baptist Atlanta where Dr. Charles Stanley is the pastor.

We have two dates on hold for the spring. These are dates committed to someone else while they assess the possibility of hosting an event. If you are interested in either of these dates, let me know and I will contact you if they were to become available. The dates we have on hold are:

• April 20, 21, 2012 David Francis, Steve Parr, Josh Hunt
• March 9, 10, 2012 Bob Mayfield, Steve Parr, Josh Hunt

We should release some Fall dates soon. For details on hosting a conference, see http://allstarsundayschool.com/