MPact Montana

Equipped for God's Will

February 20-21, 2025

Copper King Hotel & Convention Center

Butte, 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, February 20 and goes through Friday afternoon. Please register if you plan to attend.

This year, we are going to hold MPACT 2025 at the Copper King Hotel & Convention Center in Butte. The address is 4655 Harrison Avenue, Butte.

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.

Hosted at

Copper King Hotel & Convention Center

Start the day right with a free hot breakfast, and end it right with a soak in our hot tub. We also have an indoor pool and a fitness center, and free WiFi is available throughout the hotel. Plus, we offer local shuttle service within 2 miles of the hotel from 7 a.m. to 12 a.m. Our restaurant and spa make treating yourself easy and convenient. And guests love the hotel’s bonfire pit.

For your convenience, each room features a microwave, refrigerator and coffee maker. Desks and ergonomic chairs make you comfortable when there’s work to do.

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Schedule

FEBRUARY 20 (Thursday)

11:30-7:00 pm Registration

1:00 pm General Session 1
2:00 pm Break
2:15 pm Breakout Session A
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Breakout Session B

5:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm General Session 2
8:30 pm Dismiss

FEBRUARY 21 (Friday)

8:30-11:45 am Breakouts

9:00 am Breakout Session C
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Breakout Session D

11:45 am Lunch

1:30 pm Affinity Group Time
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm General Session 3
5:00 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

Breakout Descriptions (PDF)

Breakout Schedule (PDF)