Meeting locations rotate among churches to provide better commuting times to a widespread community and allow us a peek into many types of facilities. Please contact the host church with questions about parking, building access, etc.
Location: Plymouth Covenant
4300 Vicksburg Ln N, Plymouth
Host: Beth Steinkopf
Topic: Legal Updates
Speaker: Ginny Cronin
Virginia (Ginny) Cronin will address recent legal changes in federal and state law that affect churches, including the upcoming MN Paid Family and Medical Leave Act, Employee Sick and Safe Leave, Mandatory Break Time, and more.
Ginny is Senior Legal Counsel at Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, specializing in providing comprehensive legal representation to churches, ministries, faith-based organizations, and other nonprofit entities. As a former nonprofit executive director, she understands the daily demands and real-world issues facing nonprofits and churches.
Location: Nativity Lutheran
3312 Silver Lake Rd NE, St Anthony
Host: Beth Schuman
Topic: Stewardship
Speaker: Erica Allen, Horizons Stewardship
Erica, Senior Ministry Strategist, is passionate about helping churches thrive. She brings energy and insight to her work, helping leaders clarify vision, cultivate generosity, and connect people more deeply to God’s mission. Her practical experience and deep commitment to the local church shape her work as a strategist at Horizons, where she walks alongside leaders to take meaningful steps toward growing giving and expanding ministry impact. Horizons Stewardship https://www.horizons.net/ is a ministry partner organization that works with churches and faith-based nonprofits to help them develop effective stewardship and fundraising strategies.
Location: Easter Lutheran
4545 Pilot Knob Rd, Eagan
Host: Russ Zellmer
Topic: Construction Tour and Presentation
Speaker: Russ Zellmer
Russ Zellmer will do a short presentation, take questions about building remodel and construction, and lead a tour of the newly constructed section of the church building. Easter Lutheran has been operating in two sites since 2000, with a master plan to consolidate to one campus as resources allowed. After 25 years, the vision is becoming reality. Read more here:
https://www.easter.org/onesite#gsc.tab=
Russ, President of Langer Construction Company, is a long time vendor member and supporter of our local chapter.
Location: Christus Victor
7510 Palomino Dr, Apple Valley
Host: Kristin Haines
Topic: Tech Stacks
Speaker:
A church's tech stack is the combination of software and hardware used to manage operations, connect with the congregation, and facilitate ministry. Key components include Church Management Software (ChMS) for member data and workflows, online giving platforms for donations, communication tools like websites and apps for outreach, live-streaming software for virtual services, and financial management systems for budgeting and accounting.
Location: Shepherd of the Valley
12650 Johnny Cake Ridge Rd, Apple Valley
Host: Dawn Della Paolera
Topic: Church Financials
Speaker: Bill Dodson
Bill Dodson is a Managing Director in the Religion Finance Practice at the brokerage firm Stifel. He has 25 years of church and non-profit financing experience and currently serves as the lead banker for most of Stifel's religion finance practice transactions in the western United States.
Location: Hope Church
7910 15th St N, Oakdale
Host: Raeann Linn
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Location: Meetinghouse Church
6200 Colonial Way, Edina
Host: Maggie Roth
Topic: Security/Emergency Preparedness
Speaker: Dave Skinner
Dave Skinner will speak about physical and operational security risk assessments, developing plans to mitigate identified vulnerabilities, and facilitating trainings to prepare your team for effective response to any emergency situation.
Dave Skinner is the President and Founder, of ACG Security Consultants. He brings a full range of operational policing and security experience from military, local, state, federal, foreign and private sector operations. Dave is a military veteran, retired law enforcement officer and former private sector security director.
Location: House of Hope Presbyterian
797 Summit Ave, St Paul
Host: Michelle Freyholtz
Topic: Energy Audit
Location:
Host:
Topic: Spiritual Leadership Retreat
The Church Network - Twin Cities Metro Chapter
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.