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2024 Events and Trainings
DCBC's 149th Annual Gathering of Churches 2025
(details coming soon)
Throughout the year, the D.C. Baptist Convention offers, conducts, sponsors, hosts, and participates in many trainings, activities, and conferences focusing on and supporting our member churches. Information on these events can be found here. Check back often as items are frequently added and updated.
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*All DCBC events and trainings are available to the public as well as our member churches and congregations.*
Flourishing Symposium
Jan 11, 2025, 10 am-3 pm @Baptist Building
Would you like your church to FLOURISH? Over the next two years, thanks to a Palmer Grant awarded to the Convention, five churches along with DCBC will explore what it looks like to flourish in this new era of life.
Our speakers for this next Symposium session are Rev. Dr. Joshua R. Hayden and Rev. Dr. Eun K. Strawser of the IWA Collaborative.
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Josh Hayden (he/him) is passionate about helping organizations live out their mission by aligning their actions with their core purpose. With over 20 years of leadership experience across nonprofits, church planting, and established church settings, Josh brings a wealth of knowledge to his work. He holds a doctorate in leadership and organizational change from Duke Divinity School, where he wrote *Creative Destruction: Towards a Theology of Institutions*. Josh is also the author of *Sacred Hope*, which explores the role of hope in our lives, and his upcoming book on Remissioning Church (IVP) will be released in 2025.
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As a sought-after leader, Josh speaks widely across churches, seminaries, national networks, and local boards. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Shéy, and they have two sons, Rowan and Eli, who are the joy of their lives.
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Rev. Dr. Hayden specializes in helping established churches and organizations navigate change with purpose. Since 2018, he has directed the Remissioning Collective, a 30-week program for pastors and interim leaders focused on the courageous work of remissioning the church. He has also developed numerous tools, policies, and protocols to guide church leaders through change effectively.
Eun K. Strawser (she/her) is the co-vocational lead pastor of Ma Ke Alo o, a non-denominational missional community in Honolulu, HI, a community physician at Ke Ola Pono, and an executive board member of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA). With 20 years of experience in church planting and leadership, she has worked at both local and global levels. Before moving to Hawaii, she taught as an adjunct professor of medicine at the Philadelphia College of Medicine and African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she and her husband served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. She also completed a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Dar es Salaam. Eun is the author of Centering Discipleship: A Pathway for Multiplying Spectators into Mature Disciples (IVP). She and her husband, Steve, have three wonderful children.
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Rev. Dr. Strawser specializes in centering discipleship and developing missional disciples. She has created discipleship pathways for children’s ministries and lay counseling, as well as established churches and church plants. While deeply committed to local ministry, she also consults and coaches pastors, church planters, and community leaders worldwide on developing discipleship structures and pathways.
​*Clergy and Laity alike are encouraged to join us.
Time/Date: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm; Saturday, Jan 11, 2025
Cost: $20 per person
Location: Baptist Building (1628 16th St, NW, Washington, DC)
Light refreshments, snacks and lunch will be provided.
*Childcare services may also be available, Contact us if you need this service. (Limited parking available)