Let’s celebrate what God has done in the past year at Council26!
Join us for a time of vision-casting, encountering God’s presence, and fun with the Team Illinois family.
May 17-20 at Lake Williamson.
Featuring the Healthy Pastor 5K Fun Run for the Son & the Called College Graduation ceremony.
And special guest speakers: Dick Brodgen & Jim Bradford
Register today!
HEALTHY PASTOR 5K FUN RUN
Healthy pastors take care of their bodies. Let’s practice this together. You DO NOT have to be able to run an entire 5k to participate. Just come out, walk around the lake, and have a great time!
Tuesday, May 19th at 7:00am at Lake Williamson
Register by May 8th to guarantee a t-shirt.
SCHEDULE
Sunday, May 17
5:00pm | Registration Opens
6:00pm | BBQ & Bonfire
Monday, May 18
6:00am | Lakeside Prayer Walk
7:30am | Breakfast
8:00am | Registration Opens
10:00am | Worship, Prayer & Communion Gathering
11:00am | Business & Vision Session
12:00pm | Lunch
1:30pm | All Women Session w/ Nonda Houston & All Men Session
3:00pm | Workshops
5:00pm | Dinner
6:30pm | Evening Service w/ Dick Brogden
8:30pm | Patio Party
Tuesday, May 19
6:00am | Lakeside Prayer Walk
6:30am | Healthy Minister 5k Walk/Run
7:30am | Breakfast
9:00am | Worship & Prayer Gathering
10:15am | Business Session
12:00pm | Lunch
1:30pm | Workshops
4:30pm | Dinner
6:30pm | Ordination Service
8:30pm | Ordination Reception
Wednesday, May 20
6:00am | Lakeside Prayer Walk
7:30am | Breakfast
9:00am | Worship & Prayer Gathering
10:15am | Breakthrough & Mortgage Burning Celebration w/ Jim Bradford
12:00pm | Lunch
WORKSHOPS
Monday , May 18th
“She Became Equipped” (Women) | Nonda Houston & Angela Labertew
What’s The Deal With Dinner Church? | Hal Kooistra
Every Church Can Go “Missions Trip Opportunities” | Dan Martinson
Under 40 Fellowship | Stephen McGough
AI Capabilities For The Church | Christian Axelson and Andrew Schneider
Tuesday , May 19th
“She Became Light” (Women) | Angela Labertew, Brittanica Womelsdorf, Coleen Griswold, Jenn Bettinger, Natalie Overturf
Every Church Can Multiply | Alex Soler
This Is The Way “A Conversation On Discipling Gen Z” | Chris Stanley, Billy Willis, Debby Inman
Stagnant No More – Ideas To Keep You Growing | Erik Scottberg
Bi-Vocational Fellowship | Roger Findley
How Your Church Can Get Sued | Andrew Schneider & Roy Rhodes
LODGING & MEALS
Prices for all the different meal and lodging packages can be found on the registration page.
All meals are provided through Lake Williamson.
Below are the details regarding each lodging space:
LODGING SPACES:
LAKE WILLIAMSON LODGE: Each room has either two full-size beds and a set of bunks or one queen and two sets of bunks. Restroom and shower are located in the room.
CLARK HALL: Each room has five sets of bunks. Restroom and shower is located in the room.
PARKSIDE LODGE: Each room has one full bed and three sets of bunks. Restroom and shower are located in the room.
LAKESIDE LODGE: Each room has one full size bed and five sets of bunks. Restrooms are located in the room. There are no showers in the individual rooms, but there is a men’s shower room and women’s shower room available.
SPEAKER: DICK BROGDEN
Dr. Dick Brogden was born and raised in Kenya. His perspective on life, death, salvation and service is different because of the things he experienced growing up there, in a missionary family, rather than here, in the comfort, safety and abundance of middle-class America.
As a child, he developed a faith that works and a passion for sharing his faith with people who are without — the poor; the oppressed; the hopeless; the lost. That faith is his life, and it drove him to found the Live Dead movement, reflecting the deepest level of spiritual commitment.
Live Dead is an initiative that focuses on planting churches among unreached people groups through multi-national teams. More than 40 percent of the world doesn’t have access to the gospel, according to the Live Dead research. Of the world’s 16,448 people groups, more than 7,000 are unreached — not a single church, Christian or Christian witness is known to exist.
Brogden currently lives in Cairo, Egypt, with his wife, Jennifer, and their two sons, Luke and Zack. They oversee both the Cairo Training Team and the Live Dead Arab World program, as Assemblies of God World Missionaries.
SPEAKER: NONDA HOUSTON
Nonda Houston is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God and serves as the AG Women National Director. She has been married to her husband Gordon for 43 years. They served as lead pastors in San Jacinto, CA for 22 years, and she served as SoCal Network Women’s Director for nearly 14 years. She loves family time with her four married children and being “Nonnie” to her 10 grandchildren. Nonda is passionate about gathering, equipping, and mobilizing women to know Jesus and make Him known.
SPEAKER: JIM BRADFORD
Jim Bradford serves as the Lead Pastor of Central Assembly in Springfield, Missouri, after having served for over nine years as General Secretary for the U.S. Assemblies of God. In that role he oversaw the credentialing of ministers, church chartering, the collection of official statistics, and the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center.
Bradford holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Minnesota. As a student he led a small Chi Alpha campus Bible study that eventually grew into a university church. Upon graduation in 1979, Bradford stepped into full-time ministry with that campus outreach.
He is married to Sandi and they have two married daughters, Meredith (and Danny) Sebastian, and Angeline (and Michael) Bradford (yes, Bradford). Jim is also the author of three books, “Lead So Others Can Follow,” “Preaching: Maybe It is Rocket Science,” and “Second Chronicles Seven Fourteen: A 28-Day Journey in Prayer.”