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Conference 2025

13–15 January 2025 (Mon–Wed)
The Hayes Conference Centre

Chrissy Remsberg
Chrissy Remsberg
Ben Jack
Ben Jack
Phil Knox
Phil Knox
Lois Delong
Lois Delong

Everyone; Everywhere

Each January ministers, leaders, elders, deacons, worship leaders, youth leaders – whole church leadership teams – come to The Hayes and are inspired and invigorated.
You are invited to join them!

We are pleased to announce that our annual National Leadership Conference will take place in January 2025 from Monday 13 to Wednesday 15 at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick.

The conference begins with registration on Monday 13 January at 2pm, first session 3.30pm, and ends with lunch on Wednesday 15 January.

Aged 18 – 30? Thinking of joining us, we’d love to have you… so much so we’d love to offer you a DISCOUNTED TICKET. For more info & how to book a discounted ticket email us at conference@freshstreams.net

We shall have BSL interpreters for the main sessions of our event and for some seminars.

We are delighted that this year’s conference is brought to you in partnership with BMS World Mission and sponsored by the Baptist Insurance Company.

Bookings are now open! Book below:

 

Contributors

Chrissy Remsberg

Chrissy Remsberg

Chrissy Remsberg is an American who has lived and worked in the UK since 2018. She began ministry in 2007, working for 6 years as a youth pastor at an international church in Shanghai, China. While attending seminary in Los Angeles, California she was a part of a missional community church planting team. During that time she also supported the work of Fiducia, encouraging and equipping churches to explore scattered models of mission and discipleship. She would co-write a small group resource to support this work called, Moving Toward Mission. Chrissy joined Beacon Church in Stafford in 2018 overseeing discipleship and training and helping Beacon to embed a microchurch model of church. She began leading the church in 2021. Alongside this, she now co-leads the Firestarters Network and has co-authored On This Rock: Simple lessons and achievable habits for church growth. Her second book, Scattered Not Small, is due to be published in 2024.

Ben Jack

Ben Jack

Ben Jack is the global head of Advance, a partnership between the Message Trust and the Luis Palau Association that seeks to equip, encourage and empower the church for evangelism and stir the gift of the evangelist through small group mentoring, currently in 94 nations. Ben has written a number of books on evangelism - including The Simple Gospel and If Jesus Is The Answer…What Is The Question? – and is also known as DJ/Producer Galactus Jack. He lives in Manchester, England with his wife Naomi, daughter Halle and their pug Toshi.

Phil Knox

Phil Knox

Phil Knox is an evangelist and missiologist at the Evangelical Alliance. He is passionate about making Jesus known and the power of friendship. He loves learning and has degrees in law and mission and evangelism. Phil is married to Dani and they have two sons, Caleb and Jos. He is an avid runner, enthusiastic water skier and once broke the world record for the longest five-a-side football match. He is also an award winning performance poet and author of Story Bearer and The Best of Friends.

Lois Delong

Lois Delong

Lois loves God, loves people and is passionate about seeing God's kingdom come to earth in every area of society. Based in Alive Church, Lincoln, Lois leads the Student and Young Adults Ministry for 18-30-year-olds across the church. Alongside this, through partnership with the local church unity movement and the NHS, Lois works across sectors in partnership around mental health to help communities grow stronger in resilience together.

Venue: The Hayes Conference Centre

Hayes Lane, Swanwick, Alfreton DE55 1AU