ABREA Annual Gathering

Date: Thursday and Friday, January 28-29, 2010

Location: Mount Zion Baptist Church, Huntsville

Mount Zion Baptist Church
228 Mount Zion Road
Huntsville, AL 35806

Leading from the Second Chair!
Serving Your Church, Fulfilling Your Role, and Realizing your Dreams

A Conference for Church Staff Who Oversee the Christian Education Ministries of the Church

Roger Patterson will help us examine the
3 Paradoxes of Ministry from the 2nd Chair:

•    Subordinate-Leader Paradox
•    Deep-Wide Paradox
•    Contentment-Dreaming Paradox

ALSO:
 Round Table Discussions with 1st Chair Leaders
Great Fellowship Time
Thursday Evening Banquet

Roger Patterson has been in vocational ministry for eleven years, serving as a student pastor for six years. Roger graduated from Houston Baptist University in 1995 with a degree in Speech Communication and Christianity and attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he received his Master of Divinity in 1998. He is nearing the completion of a Doctor of Ministry degree, also from Southwestern.

Roger is a Second Chair Leader, having served West University Baptist Church for the past eight years, starting in the role of Minister to Students. He has been the Associate Pastor since January of 1999 with a variety of duties, including staff and facility administration, strategic planning, construction management, and preaching/teaching responsibilities. Since January of 2005, Roger has taken on additional responsibilities of preaching each week at one of the two campuses of West University Baptist Church in Houston, Texas.

For more information about 2nd Chair Leaders:  http://www.secondchairleaders.com/index_2.htm

For more information contact Mike Davis, michael.davis@mzbc.net or Rick Ellison, rellison@alsbom.org. Registration details will be forwarded soon.

For more information on the ministries of Office of Sunday School,  visit www.alsbom.org/ss