Church in a Virtual Reality Bar?
September 26, 2022
BUSINESS MADE MISSIONAL SUMMIT
Do you have a recurring funding structure that will sustain the ministry long term?
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do you have a calling? are you confident in your purpose?
So many times all of us can check those boxes and more, but what about this box? Do you have a recurring funding structure that will sustain the ministry long term?
Most of us understand that we must make sacrifices, that we must be good stewards, and that ministry is not a vehicle to land you on any Forbes list! But, financial security is bigger than that. It can impact the health of your family and marriage. It can be a sustainer or detractor of hope, joy and passion in ministry. In fact, it ultimately can be the difference between throwing in the towel or growing what you’ve already begun.
3 AREAS OF FOCUS
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THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE
How conversations can lead to funding your Missional work and new expressions of entrepreneurial church planting.
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Replacing human suffering with human flourishing
Your next level of funding is connected to the conviction that people are called by God to flourish.
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funding inner city work
Urban communities are in dire need of fresh and creative ways to fund the work of God.
Business made missional Summit schedule
- Welcome: Myron Pierce director of Church NEXT
- The Adjacent Possible: With Jay Moon
- Impact Story: With Logan Lee
- Introduction: With Dr. Christopher Brooks
- Impact Story: With Terry Vaughn
- Introduction: Tommy Kyllonnen
- Impact Story: With Moc Rogers
- Interactive Q&A: With Myron Pierce
BUSINESS MADE MISSIONAL SUMMIT SPEAKERS
Experience speaks. Successful experience speaks loudly. Hear from successful speakers with real-world experience.
Myron Pierce
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Myron Pierce
Myron is the most unlikely leader in his region. At the age 18 he stood before a judge while facing 200 years in prison due to his life of gang banging, drugs, and crime. Through a series of miracles the prison doors opened for him after 8 years. Myron received his B.A.. in Biblical Studies and Business Leadership at Grace University. He is currently working towards finishing his M.A.. in global leadership from Crown College.
Myron has authored several books, of which his latest book Digital Ministry has become a number one best seller on Amazon. Myron has launched a host of churches, organizations, and businesses. He is now the Lead Pastor of Mission Church, a grassroots inner city mission with a dream to saturate every inner city with diverse Hope filled churches.
He and his wife, Kristin, live in the heart of North Omaha with their three sons and daughter.
As seasons and times change the church stands at the intersection of innovation and irrelevance.
christopher brooks
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Dr. Christopher Brooks
Dr. Christopher Brooks is the proud son of a Jamaican mother and an American father.
With a strong reputation as a results-oriented leader, Chris enjoyed a diverse 25-year career serving as an executive, educator, and change agent. He held leadership roles in several nonprofit organizations and served as a Professor at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
As a Professor he built 10 brand new courses and led academic learning trips to urban neighborhoods - both within the United States and in developing nations.
His chief passion is the intersection of faith, race, and economics, and he has focused his research and work on advocating for individuals, families, and communities caught in the vicious cycle of generational poverty.
He is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Brown Venture Group, a Venture Studio focused on BIPOC Technology entrepreneurs and the companies they start: investing in Brown Success.
jay moon
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Jay Moon
Jay Moon served 13 years as a missionary with SIM, largely in Ghana, West Africa among the Builsa people focusing on church planting and water development, along with his wife and four children. He is presently a Professor of Evangelism & Church Planting and Director of the Office of Faith, Work, and Economics at Asbury Theological Seminary. He authored three books, including Intercultural Discipleship: Learning from Global Approaches to Spiritual Formation in the Encountering Mission Series by Baker Academic. He also edited four books, including Entrepreneurial Church Planting: Innovative Approaches to Engage the Marketplace. In addition to his role as a teaching pastor in a local church plant, Jay holds a Professional Engineer’s license and his MBA focused on social entrepreneurship.
Tommy Kyllonen
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Tommy Kyllonen
Tommy “Urban D.” Kyllonen has been in ministry for over 20 years at Crossover Church in Tampa, Florida. He holds a BA in pastoral theology from Southeastern University and attended their masters level church leadership cohort. He has been the lead pastor at Crossover for over 15 years. Under his leadership the church has grown from 40 to over 1,000. This multi-ethnic, multi-generational, multi-class church has become a model. As they grew they relocated into a 43,000 square foot retail building that was a former Toys R’ Us in the heart of Tampa’s urban community. Outreach Magazine recognized Crossover as one of America’s Most Innovative Churches. Crossover has also been featured in USA Today, Newsweek, CBS News, BET News, and several regional media outlets. Tommy has also been featured on TBN, 700 Club, JUCE TV Networks. Urban D. is an internationally known hip-hop artist that has released 9 full length albums and several remix projects. He has performed and spoken at concerts and conferences across the U.S. as well as overseas in Japan, Australia, The UK, Germany, and Nigeria.
Tommy has authored four books; “Un.orthodox”(Zondervan), “ReBuild” (interVarsity Press), “Love Our City” and “Next Steps On Your Spiritual Journey. The Love Our City book is a 30 Day Devotional book that also has a Leader’s Box Kit that helps churches do a Love Our City campaign in their church. Hundreds of churches are now part of the Love Our City Movement. He is also the publisher of S.O.U.L. MAG Magazine which has produced twenty eight issues. The magazine has become the voice of the Christian Hip-Hop Community with a readership in the tens of thousands. The magazine also has a TV Show “S.O.U.L. MAG TV” which Tommy hosts on JUCE TV Network. Tommy is also the founder of the Flavor Fest Urban Leadership Conference which has trained close to 5,000 leaders at Crossover since it’s inception. He also has a passion to pour into pastors and church planters as he has coached over 100 pastors. He lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife Lucy and his two daughters Deyana and Sophia.
Enrico Pellini
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Enrico Pellini
Enrico, commonly known as Rico in the 'verse, is actively involved in Virtual Reality and Video Game communities. He is an MMO Pastor for VR MMO Church.
Jason Poling
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Jason Poling
Jason loves being a pastor. He loves to encourage people and help them become over-comers through preaching, teaching and counseling the Word of God. He is super excited about reaching others with the Good News of Jesus Christ and helping Christians get on this same mission. Jason served as an Adult Ministries Pastor for 10 years at an EFCA church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa before becoming the lead pastor at Cornerstone. Before serving in Iowa, he went to seminary at Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. Jason is from southwest Ohio, and thus a (not) proud Cincinnati sports fan. He is married to his best friend, Gwen, and they have 3 kids, 3 dogs (small, medium and Newfie-size), 7 cats (one being a 3-legged, black cat named Darth Kittious), and 3 rabbits. He likes music, songwriting, reading, movies, outdoor sports, beatboxing, coffee, chocolate, adventure cycling, Sci-Fi, hobby farming, and cottage
cheese on pizza (and you really should too).
L Michelle
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LMichelle
L.Michelle Salvant is an Emerging Media & Content Development Coach in Tallahassee, FL. Her company, LMichelleMedia, helps clients connect and engage with their communities by using Emerging Media Platforms / Technology. The company also helps develop creative learning experiences for students, and aids Ministry and Church leaders in training their teams in Media Ministry. A fan of Wearable Tech, L. has been using Smartglasses to journal Life and make "Life Films" since 2013. L.Michelle is married to Army Reserve Chaplain, Christopher Salvant, Sr. and they have one son, Christopher, Jr.
Aleatha Singleton
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Aleatha Singleton
Koko (aka Aleatha Singleton) is an elder pastor at VR MMO Church, and pastor of MMO Church in Final Fantasy 14 hailing from Southeast Texas.
She’s also an author, teacher and consultant for VR shops and teams, and mentors UX professionals, in order to enable them to create more compelling and user-friendly immersive experiences for their clients.
In her free time, she likes to play video games, design and build furniture, and study the Japanese language.
DJ Soto
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DJ Soto
Believing that faith is renewed as people engage with the good news of God’s love on new technology platforms, D.J. Soto began preaching in the metaverse in 2016. Originally thinking they would plant physical churches, they soon realized a new vision to plant churches in the metaverse. He is now the Bishop of Virtual Reality Church and MMO Church, which are futuristic church expressions that is intended to be radically inclusive and consistent with Christianity’s long history of adapting to new forms of media.
Noel Thomas
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Noel Thomas
Noel Thomas is co-founder and CEO of Zero Trafficking, a data company bringing innovative data, analysis, and training solutions to the frontlines of anti-trafficking. Under Noel’s leadership, Zero Trafficking fights human trafficking networks with digital intelligence, proactively detecting and tracking sophisticated criminal organizations who exploit victims for profit through force, fraud, and coercion.
Micheal Uzdavines
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Michael Uzdavines
Pastor Michael Uzdavines was born in New Jersey and moved to Florida with his family at the age of 13. As a young boy, Michael enjoyed computer programming, playing video games, playing baseball and hockey, and eventually played college baseball. Michael went to law school at the University of Florida and met his wife, Marilyn, there. They have been married for 17 years and have four children, Franco (14), Angelina (13), Valentina (11), and Liliana (5). After ten years of practicing law, Michael felt a calling on his life to be in full-time ministry. Michael earned his Masters in Divinity from Liberty University and later his M.B.A. from University of Florida. For the last ten years, in his free time, Michael has been developing games and programs to help spread the gospel of Jesus. His passion is reaching out to the lost and unchurched through video games and in the digital space. Michael and his family have lived in South Florida for the last nine years where they enjoy going on family bike rides, day trips to the beach, playing tennis, and playing games together.
Bill Willenbrock
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Bill Willenbrock
Bill Willenbrock, aka “PastorBrock”, is the founder of 4X Christian Fellowship, a parchurch fellowship which meets primarily in “VRChat”, a VR social platform. Over the last three years Bill has spoken to thousands from as far as China, Romania, India, and undisclosed locations in the middle-east. Bill holds a MDiv. from Concordia Theological Seminary and has over a decade of parish ministry experience, He resides with his wife and four children in suburban Detroit.
Metaverse Church Summit Registration
Do you have a calling?
Most of us understand that we must make sacrifices, that we must be good stewards, and that ministry is not a vehicle to land you on any Forbes list! But, financial security is bigger than that. It can impact the health of your family and marriage. It can be a sustainer or detractor of hope, joy and passion in ministry. In fact, it ultimately can be the difference between throwing in the towel or growing what you’ve already begun.
Leadership Network is committed to investing in healthy and growing leaders and organizations!
That’s why we’re hosting the Business Made Missional Summit! This summit is designed to equip leaders and ministries to create innovative streams of revenue to not only stay on mission, but to thrive.
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MYRON PIERCE
Director of Church NEXT
Myron is the most unlikely leader in his region. At the age 18 he stood before a judge while facing 200 years in prison due to his life of gang banging, drugs, and crime. Through a series of miracles the prison doors opened for him after 8 years. Myron received his B.A.. in Biblical Studies and Business Leadership at Grace University. He is currently working towards finishing his M.A.. in global leadership from Crown College.
Myron has authored several books, of which his latest book Digital Ministry has become a number one best seller on Amazon. Myron has launched a host of churches, organizations, and businesses. He is now the Lead Pastor of Mission Church, a grassroots inner city mission with a dream to saturate every inner city with diverse Hope filled churches.
He and his wife, Kristin, live in the heart of North Omaha with their three sons and daughter.
As seasons and times change the church stands at the intersection of innovation and irrelevance.
