City Impact Roundtable--April 2-5, 2006

Sam and I will be attending City Impact Roundtable in Cedar Rapids. For all of you stateside folks, this would be a good conference to attend with several bonafied models that we'll be looking at.

Here is the last iteration of the schedule

1) Workshop synopses & presenter bios to be included in registration packet.
2) City Model Presentation guidelines will be sent to presenters. We will carefully facilitate a model of one hour or less of presentation time, followed by at least 15 min. for open Q & A & Interaction.
3) Roundtable Facilitators carefully chosen and briefed on how to maximize “take-aways”

Sunday, April 2

5:30 Dinner for CIR Design Team @ Hawthorne Inn
7:30 “Pre-meeting” for veteran CIR attendees: worship, relationship building & intercession

Monday, April 3

9:00 Continue worship & intercession for the CIR @ Hawthorne (Lynn facilitates)
LC2C Pilot City leaders & coaches meet (Tom, Phil, Jarvis, Charles, Tony, Barney)
11:00 Registration Opens @ Venue (sign-ups for workshops, TableTalks & city consultations)
1:00 Welcome, announcements, display table plugs (Tom, Jarvis, Charles)
1:30 OVERVIEW: “Streams in the City Transformation Paradigm” (Tom, powerpoint)
(option: Phil interviews Tom last 10 minutes re: Non-Western city movements)
2:00 CITY MODEL #1: Coachella Valley CA (Paul, Jim & Larry…also intro LC2C)
(Paul brings greeting, then one hour to present model, with 15 min Q & A)
3:30 Coffee
4:00 Workshop Breakout #1 (wrap no later than 5:15!)

The Why, What, Who & Cost of Being a City-Reacher (Charles Daugherty)
TrenchTalk: Issues Relevant to Veteran City Practitioners (White)
Walking Out Righteousness & Justice in the City Context (Jarvis & Denny)
Loving Our Cities to Christ (Phil)
Accelerating City-Reaching at the Speed of Light (Neil Cox)

5:30 Dinner (5:50 GDP Video; 6:10 Francis; 6:30 special inspirational music…wrap by 6:45)
(move to auditorium for evening session, open to Cedar Rapids folks)
7:00 CITY MODEL #2: Cedar Rapids (105 minutes for worship, presenters & Francis)
(suggest: 20 min worship, 45 for presenters, 40 min Francis)
8:45 Roundtable #1: 2-3 city teams @ each table, with a CIR Team member facilitating
(CIR participants move upstairs to conference room & roundtable)
9:30 Announcements, dismissal & city consultations (hour long, pre-arranged)
(announcements must be submitted to Tom or Jarvis @ close of PM or start of AM sessions)

Tuesday, April 4

8:30 Worship (local artist or team)
8:45 CITY MODEL #3: Houston (Steve Capper, Jim Herrington, Doug Stringer)
10:00 Coffee
10:30 CITY MODEL #4: Tuscaloosa (William Scroggins & Team)

11:45 Open Mikes: Paul, Charles, Steve & William available to field Q’s
12:15 City AIDS Summits (Jarvis)

12:30 TableTalk Box Lunch (participants choose one of the four city models or AIDS Summits)
1:30 “Breather:” rest, connect, or network (room with comfortable chairs available)
2:00 “Utilizing State-of-the-Art Communications” (Neil Cox)
2:15 CITY MODEL #5: El Paso/Juarez/Las Cruces (Barney, Laurie Huffman, Fred Schultz)
3:30 Coffee
4:00 Workshop Breakout #2 (wrap no later than 5:15)

Building & Implementing City-Wide Prayer (Heatley)
Making Disciples: the Heart of the City Movement (Doug Daugherty)
Accelerating City-Reaching at the Speed of Light (Neil Cox)
Comparing & Contrasting City Leadership Team Models (Doug Small)
Dynamics Unique to the Mega-City Movement (Steve Capper & Jim Herrington)

5:30 Tabletalk (open buffet line, five breakout rooms, one for connecting/networking)

Getting Emerging Leaders in the City Mix (Minh Chau)
Funding City Movements (Mike Strickler)
El Paso/Juarez/Las Cruces (Barney, Laurie, Fred)
Serving the Least, Saving the Lost (Eric Swanson & Sam Williams)
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6:30 “Breather:” rest, connect, or network
7:00 Worship (local artist)
7:15 Plenary #2 (Francis, 75 minutes, 25-30 to respond to submitted Q’s)
8:30 Open Mikes: city mini-stories, observations, “What is the Lord saying & doing?”
9:30 Announcements, Dismissal & City Consultations (hour long, pre-arranged)

Wednesday, April 5

7:00 CITY MODEL #6: Little Rock (Ray Williams & Co.)
(local marketplace folks invited: buffet, simple, quick & cheap)

8:30 Praise & Worship (energetic & uplifting)
8:45 Panel: “Preparing City-Reaching Movements to Deal with Societal Crises”
(Atlanta shares briefly, then Glenn moderates the panel; include Doug Stringer?)
10:00 Roundtable #2: Discerning Contextual Action Steps
10:45 Coffee (CIR Design Team huddles to discern & decide closing)
“Pop-Up” Info-mercials, plugs, etc. 11:00 to 11:15, with coffee)
11:15 Discerning the Word of the Lord (Tom, Jarvis & Francis lead)
11:30 Intercession for Strategic Cities & prayers for spiritual awakening (Tom & Lynn facilitate)

12:00 LC2C Pilot City Teams & Coaches have lunch & final session