Healthy leadership promotes growth in the body of Christ. Join church builders from around the world as we gather in Boston to explore how to create thriving, healthy churches, built on a foundation of biblical leadership.
We will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
Ephesians 4:15
A Conference for Church Builders.
Healthy Church Growth is the inaugural Church Builder's Conference for leaders in the ICOC. Evangelists, Elders, Teachers, campus ministers, youth and family ministers and all sorts of other leaders from around the world will gather with the intent on developing skills and convictions needed to build healthy, growing churches.
April 23-26, 2026
Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA
70 Third Avenue, Waltham, MA
Included in your registration is hotel parking, a continental breakfast on Friday, a Boston Harbor dinner cruise, and transportation to the cruise.
Schedule
Thursday
12PM
7PM
Check-in
General Session
Friday
8AM
9:30AM
11:30AM
12:30PM
2:30PM
7PM
Continental Breakfast
General Session
Breakout Session I
Lunch Break
Breakout Session II
Boston Harbor Dinner Cruise
Saturday
9:30AM
11:30AM
12:30PM
3:00PM
Men/Women Sessions
Breakout Session III
Lunch Break
General Session
Sunday
10:30AM
Worship service
Breakout Classes
The conference will feature three breakout sessions where attendees will hear from church builders from all over the world addressing helpful, practical church leadership needs.
The classes are sorted into three categories with addressing core traits of healthy churches:
Health
Growth
Youth
Click on a class to learn more about what will be covered.
Session I
This class helps men in leadership cultivate deep personal holiness, emotional health, and Spirit-led conviction. It explores how to lead from integrity, stay connected to God and people under pressure, and guard your walk while shepherding others.
This parallel class for women leaders focuses on strengthening inner character, deepening spirituality, and protecting one’s walk with God amid ministry demands. It highlights the power of Spirit-led leadership and authentic faith.
Sometimes the hardest place to look can be in the mirror but it’s necessary to know where your church is to unlock her next stage of growth. This class helps leaders develop the tools to honestly and accurately evaluate their ministries, discern the balance between God’s providence and human leadership, and act decisively based on what they learn.
Vision isn’t a slogan—it’s a roadmap. This class will help leaders assess where they are, discern where God is leading, and develop clear, actionable strategies that move their church toward Spirit-led goals.
Churches get stuck, but with faith, hard work and healthy leadership, they can get growing again. Learn how to identify growth barriers, ignite fresh faith, and spark forward motion in your congregation.
A healthy church is not a church with small groups but a church of small groups. This class explores how to build dynamic small groups that disciple effectively, raise up leaders, and unleash the gifts of every member for Kingdom impact.
Churches die when they fail to ignite the faith and spiritual ambition of the next generation. This class explores how to create an ecosystem where young people feel inspired to step up and do great things for God. It will expose things that quench young faith and highlight ways to stoke it.
Featuring experienced trainers and real training partnerships, this panel unpacks what effective mentoring looks like. Expect stories, practical advice, and inspiration for how to raise up others through intentional and relational training.
Session II
Healthy leadership requires healthy teams. Strong and unified leadership teams and staff teams are at the core of any healthy church. This class explores how to build an atmosphere of high trust and collaboration where diverse gifts work together for one mission.
Balancing ministry and marriage can be challenging. This class helps couples navigate the unique dynamics of working side by side in the Kingdom so they can thrive together in the call.
Money can make or break ministry momentum. This class helps leaders think biblically and practically about faithful budgeting and responsible spending, while fostering a culture of cheerful giving and financial transparency.
Whether you are training to be or you’ve already been appointed as one, evangelists and women’s ministry leaders are a needed gift in the church. In the midst of overwhelming ministry demands, it’s important to be clear on and faithfully discharge the duties of an evangelist. This class will call you to the kind of leadership that saves souls.
Elders play a crucial role in building churches that are not just large, but strong. This class will explore how elders help foster maturity, stability, and growth through shepherding, example, and discernment. It will emphasize the need for partnership between elders and evangelists in cultivating a unified and Spirit-led direction for the church, and address the balance of overseeing and supporting church leaders.
Teachers are essential for maturing believers and protecting the church from drift. This class focuses on the teacher’s role in shaping a thoughtful, rooted, and spiritually discerning church. It will highlight how sound doctrine fuels faith, unity, and mission—and how teachers can work alongside church leaders to build a church that endures and grows.
Nobody starts a finished product. Young men and women in the Kingdom want to be trained but they need people who can fan their unique gifts into flame, teach them how to balance youthful zeal with spiritual maturity, and set them on the right track to grow in their effectiveness. This class will train the trainers of young staff and other young leaders to do all this effectively.
Leadership transition doesn’t happen by accident. This class equips senior leaders to intentionally train and empower others years in advance—sharing authority, letting go with grace, and ensuring ministry continuity.
Session III
Jesus carries the title of Good Shepherd and sparked the greatest revival in history. This class explores how elders and ministry leaders can partner to nurture faith, care for the flock, and build structures that retain, restore, and reproduce mature disciples.
From gender and sexuality, to race and politics, to various difficult doctrinal issues, leaders navigate complex social storms that can consume our focus. This class equips you to guide your church biblically and compassionately through divisive issues without losing unity or the conviction to keep the Gospel front and center.
Your church’s digital presence can be a powerful evangelistic tool. Learn how to create engaging content, connect meaningfully with seekers online, and help digital visitors transition into real-life discipleship.
Sustained growth requires collaboration. This panel of elders, teachers, evangelists and women’s ministry leaders explores how ministry roles can work in harmony — sharing the pulpit, holding each other accountable, and contributing to building the church.
Campus ministries are the frontlines of the next generation. These ministries can be the heartbeat of a healthy church if churches can learn to capitalize on this unique season of life. This class focuses on empowering students to lead, cultivating a standard of holiness, and fostering evangelistic momentum on the university campus.
Learn how to partner effectively with parents and mentors to help teens love God deeply. This class explores building a fun, vibrant and evangelistic teen ministry where teens are raised up to lead; while shepherding the ministry in a way that all families and all teens, regardless of where they are with God, feel welcomed and taken care of.
Singles and young professionals are vital to the body, but often an overlooked demographic. This session explores how to inspire purpose, build community, and help this group stay spiritually productive as they navigate life, love, career and “adulting” after teen or campus ministry.
Early Bird
Ends Sep 30, 2025
United States
$265*
Non-US
$150
Regular
Oct 2025-Jan 2026
United States
$300*
Non-US
$150
Late
Feb-Apr 9, 2026
United States
$350*
Non-US
$150
Door
Day of Conference
United States
$400*
Non-US
$150
Hotel
$169
/night
*Additional fees for Catalyst Members, Regional Family Chairman, and Service Team Members.
