9:00am–10:30am

General Session 1: Faith, Humility & the Way of a Child (Ed Welch)

11:00am–12:15pm

General Session 2: Resting Is Harder than It Looks (Alasdair Groves)

12:15pm–2:30pm

Lunch break

2:30pm–3:30pm

Breakout Session 1 options:

1. Practices for Cultivating a Healthy View of Our Limits: Rhythm, Gratitude & Rest  (Kelly Kapic)
2. Rest versus Escapism  (Jeremy Pierre)
3. When Parents Feel Like Failures (Lauren Whitman)
4. Vacations & Sabbaticals: Getting Out of the Sprint-and-Crash Cycle (Brad Hambrick)
5. The Paradox of Pain & Rest  (Sarah Walton)
6. Acedia & the Affliction of Restlessness (Eamon Wilson)

3:30pm–4:00pm

Break

4:00pm–5:00pm

Breakout Session 2 options:

1. How Expectations Ruin Rest (Mark Vroegop)
2. Fostering Embodied Routines in Youth (John Perritt)
3. Neurodiversity & Rest (Michael Gembola)
4. Creating a Culture of Rest in Your Ministry (Jonathan Holmes)
5. Resting in Your Role: Principles & Practices for New Counselors (Todd Stryd)
6. Soul Rest for Today (Cecelia Bernhardt)

5:00pm–7:15 pm

Dinner break

7:15pm–8:30pm

General Session 3: Have I Done Enough? Learning to Navigate Limits as a Good of God’s Creation (Kelly Kapic)

8:00am–9:30pm

CCEF booth, ministry expo & bookstore open

8:00am–9:00am

Fellowship coffee

9:00am–10:15am

General Session 4: How Lament Leads to Rest (Mark Vroegop)

10:15am–10:45am

Break

10:45am–11:45am

Breakout Session 3 options:

1. A Biblical Theology of Rest (Jeremy Pierre)
2. Rest, Sleep & the God Who Never Slumbers (Jonathan Holmes)
3. The Restless Nature of Technology (John Perritt)
4. Finding Rest in the Hard Cases (Eamon Wilson)
5. Mercy in Darkness: Gospel Rest for Downcast Moms (Christine Chappell)

11:45am–1:45pm

Lunch break

1:45pm–2:45pm

Breakout Session 4 options:

1. Finding Rest in OCD (Steve Midgley)
2. Resting in Chaos: Bringing Order to Emotion Dysregulation (Todd Stryd)
3. Friendship: The Rest of Being Genuinely Known (Brad Hambrick)
4. Rest for the Caregiver: Creating Space for What Your Heart Needs (Heather Nelson)
5. Transforming Weariness into Wisdom (Robyn Huck)

2:45pm–3:15pm

Break

3:15pm–4:30pm

General Session 5: Cultivating Rest amid Ruptured Relationships (Darby Strickland)

4:30pm–7:00pm

Dinner break

7:00pm–9:00pm

Special Event & Reception

8:00am–12:00pm

CCEF booth, ministry expo & bookstore open

8:00am–9:00am

Fellowship coffee

9:00am–9:45am

General Session 6: Created to Do Good Work (Aaron Sironi)

9:45am–10:15am

Break

10:15am–11:30am

General Session 7: Eternal Rest Today: Practicing Sabbath as a Foretaste of Our Future (Mike Emlet)

11:30am

Dismissal