MPact Montana
Mobilizing for the Gospel
Marriott Delta Hotel
Helena, Montana
MPACT MONTANA is an annual MTSBC conference held in the spring every year. MPact is high energy with breakout sessions available to help you take your ministry to the next level. MPact begins on Thursday, March 7 and goes through Friday afternoon. Please register if you plan to attend.
This year, we are going to hold MPACT 2024 at Marriott Delta Hotel in Helena. The address is 2301 Colonial Drive, Helena.
Featured Speaker
Mark Clifton
Teaching Pastor, Linwood Baptist Church, Linwood, Kan.; Senior Director of Replanting, North American Mission Board
Mark Clifton is a pastor, church planter, church revitalizer, mission strategist, coach, and mentor to young leaders. He has planted numerous churches and most recently replanted a dying urban core church in Kansas City, MO.
Mark has served as a national and regional leader for church planting and missions. His experience includes serving as the lead mission strategist for the Kansas Nebraska Southern Baptist Convention, leading church planting efforts in the regions of North Metro Atlanta, GA, serving as a church planter in Montreal, Quebec, and as a Southern Baptist National Church Planting Missionary for eastern Canada and leading Southern Baptist church planting projects west of the Mississippi. Mark has been planting, replanting and providing strategic mission leadership since 1978.
Mark is married to Jill and they have two sons, two daughters-in-law and two grandsons.
Guest Speakers
Chris Martin
International Mission Board
Chris Martin serves on the Mobilization Team of the IMB as the Director of Convention, Association, and Network Partnerships. He previously served as Executive Director/Treasurer of the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention for over nine years, seeking to develop and resource ministries and ministry leaders across the Pacific and Asia.
Chris is a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv) Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (PhD), and Gateway Seminary (DMin).
Chris & Sara Armstrong
International Mission Board
Tim & Tina Louderback
International Mission Board
Jeff Christopherson
Exectuive Director, Canada National Baptist Convention
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Schedule
MARCH 7 (Thursday)
11:30-7:00 pm Registration
General Session 1
1:00 Welcome and Worship
1:20 Does My Church Need to Be Revitalized?
(Mark Clifton)
1:55 pm Break
2:15 pm Breakout 1
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Breakout 2
5:00 pm Dinner
General Session 2
7:00 pm Welcome and Worship
7:20 pm Overcoming Obstacles to Revitalization
(Mark Clifton)
8:30 pm Dismiss
MARCH 8 (Friday)
General Session 3
8:30 am Welcome and Worship (Crossway Baptist Church)
8:50 am International Missions and Your Church (IMB)
10:00 am Affinity Group Time
11:45 am Lunch
1:30 pm Breakout 3
2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm Breakout 4
4:15 pm Break
General Session 4
4:30 pm Welcome and Worship (Crossway Baptist Church)
4:50 pm Preparing for Missions in Alberta (CNBC-Alberta)
6:00 pm Dismiss
Breakout Session Details
Battling Depression in Ministry
MARK CLIFTON
Teaching Pastor, Linwood Baptist Church, Linwood, KS
Depression is widespread among those in ministry. It can affect pastors of all ages and all church sizes. Mark Clifton will share three important tools to battle depression in ministry.
Session Times
THU 2:15-3:30 PM
THU 3:45-5:00 PM
Pastors' Wives Together
SARAH ARMSTRONG
International Mission Board
The pastor’s wife is on mission, too. Come hear our own Montana Sent missionary to Mexico, Sara Armstrong, talk about how she manages being a wife, mother, and missionary. Get some tips, some encouragement, some fellowship with other pastors’ wives as we discuss together the unique challenges of being a pastor’s wife. This breakout covers two sessions. It does not repeat in the second session.
Session Times
THU 2:15-3:30 PM (Part 1)
THU 3:45-5:00 PM (Part 2)
Attributes of a Revitalizing Church
DARREN HALES
Strengthening Team Leader, MTSBC
Come discover the nine indicators of a healthy church. The Resound process enables a church to assess their own spiritual health and provides a blueprint for restoring purpose, passion, purity, and proper priorities. Atrophy is real, so a church must be renewed and continually renewing.
Session Times
THU 2:15-3:30 PM
THU 3:45-5:00 PM
Ministering to Public Officials in Your Community
TORREY LEWIS
Capitol Ministries
Public officials need the ministry of the word. Capitol Ministries representative Torrey Lewis will share with you about the mission of Capitol Ministries to bring the ministry of the word of God into every capital, city, and town. Come learn how you can have a ministry to the public officials in your town.
Session Time
THU 2:15-3:30 PM
Your Church and Politics
SHERRI HUSTON AND JACOB ASMUSSEN
Alliance Defending Freedom
It’s an election year. Many people are going to be telling your church what it can and cannot do when it comes to politics. Come hear experts from Alliance Defending Freedom tell you what you can do and still be within the law. Know your rights
Session Time
THU 3:45-5:00 PM
Who is the IMB? A firsthand perspective from Montana’s Missionaries
CHRIS AND SARA ARMSTRONG
Join Chris and Sara Armstrong, Montana saved and Montana sent. Learn about the Missionary Task. Who is the IMB and how you can be a part of reaching the nations? Hear their testimony of being called to the field.
Session Time
FRI 1:30-2:45 PM
Connecting and Partnering with the IMB
IMB PERSONNEL
Explore how to use short-term trips and longer-term partnerships to impact your church and the work on the field. Access resources to connect and partner with Missionaries in the Americas Affinity. Learn how to prepare your team personally, spiritually, and practically for a mission trip. Discuss best practices for working alongside missionaries and local believers.
Session Time
FRI 3:00-4:15 PM
Planning a Mission Trip to Alberta
CNBC ALBERTA PERSONNEL
The MTSBC is in a missions partnership with our sister churches in Alberta. Many of these churches are in similar settings that we live in here. Many of them have fewer resources available to them than we have. Come meet SBC missionaries and pastors in Alberta churches that you can partner with to bring a mission team to their churches and church plants in Alberta.
Session Times
FRI 1:30-2:45 PM
FRI 3:00-4:15 PM
Partnering for Success
Rick Hedger
Multiplying Churches Director for the Missouri Baptist Convention
Steve Fowler
State Director for the Montana/Missouri Partnership
You don’t have to go it alone. The Montana Southern Baptist Convention is in partnership with the Missouri Baptist Convention so our churches can find partner churches to accomplish the mission God has given you. Come share your vision and find a missions partner that can team up with you. Hear about mission needs right here in Montana that you can be a part of. The opportunities are everywhere. Find some partners and get going.
Session Time
FRI 1:30-2:45 PM
Tips for a Successful Student Ministry
NATHAN PAYTON AND OTHERS
Student ministry in Montana is uniquely challenging. Some of our Montana student pastors have figured some of it out. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel to have a dynamic, Spirit-led student ministry. Come hear from Montana student ministers talk about what they are doing and get some ideas you can use.
Session Time
FRI 1:30-2:45 PM
Lifestyle Evangelism
BRAD BENNETT
President and Founder of Real Encounter Outreach
JEFF HESSINGER
Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Thompson Falls
People are becoming increasingly cut off from Christian witness. Many Christians don’t even know how to begin a gospel conversation with a lost person. Come learn how to develop authentic gospel-centered relationships that can lead to non-confrontational witnessing opportunities.
Session Times
FRI 3:00-4:15 PM
Starting an Outdoor Ministry to Boys
TJ GREANEY
Kids Outdoor Zone
Jesus trained his top men around a campfire. Why do we insist on a classroom at church? What is it most men’s ministries miss? What if you had a group of men around a campfire, a few fatherless boys and some father/sons there, talking, listening? What would you hear? Come find out.
Session Time
FRI 3:00-4:15 PM