Houston Need to Know

Schedule

Morning

  • Pick up your badge, explore the space, and get to know someone new.

  • 📍 Main Sanctuary
    🔊 Speaker: Lo Alaman
    Topic: Kingdom Recognition

  • Practical breakout sessions tailored to equip leaders, students, and everyday believers to make disciples in their context.

    Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
    What to Expect:

    • Choose from 3–5 focused workshops

    • Topics like evangelism, urban ministry, youth discipleship, and more

    • Interactive, hands-on learning

    Find all breakout session details at the bottom of this page

  • Back of the church in the parking lot. Food trucks!!

    Not just downtime—this break is part of the rhythm. Use this time to reflect, rest, or debrief with your team. Grab lunch from our food trucks on-site, recharge, and get some fresh air. Great ideas often show up in the margin, and this is that space

Afternoon / Evening

  • 📍 Main Sanctuary
    🔊 Speaker: Jackie Hill Perry
    Topic: Kingdom

  • Practical breakout sessions tailored to equip leaders, students, and everyday believers to make disciples in their context.

    Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
    What to Expect:

    • Choose from 3–5 focused workshops

    • Topics like evangelism, urban ministry, youth discipleship, and more

    • Interactive, hands-on learning

    Find all breakout session details at the bottom of this page

  • 📍 Parking Lot

    Shepherd & WHATUPRG performing live

  • 📍 Parking Lot
    Keep the momentum going with live DJs, late-night eats, and curated spaces to laugh, connect, and celebrate your wins.

7350 TC Jester Blvd, Houston, TX 77088

 

Saturday,
August 9 2025

Featuring

Breakout Sessions

Morning

Soul Care for the
Urban Leader

Soul Care for the Urban Leader is a transformative workshop designed specifically for leaders  navigating the unique challenges and pressures of urban ministry and leadership.

Location
Room 2

Instructor
Lenmarie Pascall

Most teens know tons of facts about Jesus—His name, His stories, even His teachings—but that's just data sitting in their heads. The real game-changer happens when that information becomes part of their spiritual DNA, actually rewiring who they are from the inside out. In this session, you'll discover how to move from surface-level faith to life-changing relationship.

Data to DNA: The Download that Changes Everything

Instructor
Sean Nelson

Location
Legacy Sanctuary

Tethered Surrender:
Trusting God Despite Our Circumstances


We often go through life with expectations, believing we know what we want and how God will provide it, but when things don't go as planned and God seems silent, we're tempted to give up—on our desires, on God, and even take control ourselves. Yet despite the temptation, we know deep down that Jesus alone fulfills our deepest longings and remains worthy of our trust through every high and low.


Location
Youth Room

Instructor
Jem Marshall

The Other Side of Ministry

This session is designed to help young ministers navigate the dark side of ministry that many don’t talk about. Including ministry idolatry, burnout, financial stress, and relationship strain.


Location
Room 4

Instructor
Olayinka Obasanya


Ever wonder how to measure the spiritual growth of those you are discipling? Discover a roadmap and the six stages of spiritual growth needed to ensure their Kingdom work withstands the test of fire.


Refined by Fire:
The Journey of
Kingdom Citizens

Location
Room 7

Instructor
CC Achilefu

Ready to grow without striving, compromising, or comparing? In the Kingdom, true elevation isn’t about doing more—it’s about becoming someone God can trust with more. This session unpacks how faith, obedience, and humility lead to lasting impact and multiplication.

Level Up:
The Kingdom Way

Location
Main Sanctuary

Instructor
Carin Pinto

Forgive. Release. Bless.

You can’t carry power while holding onto pain. Many pray for revival but stay shackled to resentment, expecting breakthrough without release. In this workshop, you’ll confront the people and wounds you’ve buried—yes, even the ones done to yourself. Forgiveness isn’t a feeling; it’s warfare. Releasing offense and blessing your betrayers isn’t weakness—it’s how heaven invades earth. This is a Kingdom reset for those who want clean hands, healed hearts, and true spiritual weight.

Instructor
Christian Bonilla

Location
Room 3

From Awareness to Action: The Church’s Call to Serve Survivors

Human trafficking is closer than we think—impacting our cities, neighborhoods, and even churches. In this session, The Landing Houston will equip you with a biblical foundation, practical tools, and compassionate strategies to recognize red flags, support survivors, and create trauma-informed spaces for healing and discipleship.

Location
Room 6

Instructor
Lisa Longoria Bourgoyne

You and the Power of an Ambitious Mercy

Eric Redmond opens up Jonah to explore the unique place the Lord has for POC in exalting his name around the world. In contrast to accusations that Christianity is a religion of/for whites only, men only, the middle-class only, or Americans only, Jonah shows that the Lord intends POC to see their purpose as part of what the Lord is doing around the world. Participants will walk away with practical, concrete steps for daily joining in what the Lord is doing in his plan of redemption for the world.

Location
Room 5

Instructor
Dr. Eric Redmond

This is a focus on defining the Gospel, how it impacts our lives, and how we can engage culture with it. In Houston, we have churches everywhere and most people consider themselves to be a Christian. We also live in a nation that believes that we are one nation under God. But when the layers are pulled back and questions are asked, many really have a twisted view of the Gospel and of God Himself. This is why we've seen so many have a negative view of Christianity. Most people don't have a problem with God, but instead the people. It is time that we get back to the basics.

Back 2 Da Basics

Instructor
Joe Bolden

Location
Room 1

Built Different: Leading with Integrity in a Culture of Image

There’s a constant pull to perform, impress, and present a perfect version of ourselves—but real Kingdom leadership is built on integrity, not image. In this session, I’ll share how God has challenged me to lead authentically, even when it’s hard. We’ll talk about resisting the temptation to fake it, the importance of private obedience, and the freedom that comes from being the same person on and off the platform. Because what you build on integrity, God can bless. YOUTH TRACK


Location
Children’s Chapel

Instructor
Jarred Jones

Afternoon

Leading As Designed

As part of this class, we will explore how God uniquely created  you and discuss how that unique creation should inform how you lead yourself and how you lead others.

Location
Room 1

Instructor
Leslie Cunningham

The Heart of Evangelism

From the streets, to the prisons, to God’s house—the heart of evangelism must live within each of us and within the local church. In this session, discover how to build a culture that pursues the lost with compassion and purpose.

Location
Youth Room

Instructor
Brandon Barber

From Houston to the
Ends of the Earth


Living sent both locally and globally—urban streets and distant villages united by the call to make disciples everywhere.

Location
Room 4

Instructor
Mateo Cepeda

Leading When the Shackles Are Off

This workshop is for leaders, creatives, and disciple-makers feeling the pressure to constantly perform and prove themselves. Through Scripture, we’ll confront hidden struggles like shame, self-reliance, and platform addiction—and explore how true freedom in Christ is the only path to sustainable leadership. You weren’t called to grind for approval, but to lead from a place of rest, rootedness, and authenticity..

Location
Legacy Sanctuary

Instructor
Kenneth Franklin

Church Planting: Growing Your Ministry & The Importance Of Culture.

In today’s crowded ministry landscape, success means more than gathering people—it’s about creating a distinctive, lasting identity. This session will equip you to build a ministry brand and culture that reflects your values, attracts your community, and fuels long-term growth. Whether launching or revitalizing a church, you’ll gain practical tools to lead with vision, creativity, and clarity.

Location
Room 3

Instructor
Von Won

Called and Capable

With so many voices competing for their attention, young people often struggle to find direction. This session equips leaders, mentors, and everyday believers with a clear, faith-based framework to help others discover their God-given purpose—no degree or title required. Whether you're leading, supporting, or still discerning your own path, you'll be reminded that you are called, capable, and part of something greater.

Born Royal:
Living Like You Actually
Belong to the King

Instructor
Dr. Willie F. Kelley II

Location
Main Sanctuary

You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood. We are not waiting on the Kingdom to come to earth, we are rulers who have dominion to bring it to earth. We walk with authority as Heirs of the King. We have power over the kingdom of Darkness because our King Jesus defeated our enemy.

YOUTH TRACK


Location
Children’s Chapel

Instructor
Joseph Jabbia


How does God truly see and respond to the stranger among us?  Join us on a journey through Scripture to  discover practical ways to embody God’s love for the foreigner in our communities.


God’s Heart for the
Immigrant & Refugee

Instructor
Carlos Rebollar

Location
Room 5

How to Make Disciples

The Disciple-Making Workshop is a practical, Scripture-driven training designed to equip believers to live out Jesus’ Great Commission in everyday life. Participants will learn biblical principles, relational strategies, and reproducible tools for making disciples who make disciples. Through teaching, discussion, and hands-on practice, this workshop will help you move from simply attending church to actively multiplying your faith in your home, workplace, and community.

Location
Room 2

Instructor
Brian Dye