Audio from our 2024 Shepherds Conference: Unity—Fighting Schism for the Good of the Church. October 4, 2024

WOMEN'S BREAKOUT | FULL OF MERCY AND GOOD FRUITS: HOW WOMEN CAN SOW SEEDS OF PEACE IN THE CHURCH
Mrs. Annie Curell
Women are uniquely equipped to either foster or destroy unity in a church. They should use their relational superpowers for good, but the temptations to be divisive are many. This session will encourage women to be on guard against divisiveness and use their relationships to strengthen the peace of the church.

Annie is married to Max, who has been an associate pastor at Trinity Reformed Church in Bloomington since 2002. When she's not hosting or helping Max counsel members of the church, she enjoys listening to history or news podcasts and tending the goats, chickens, flowers, and vegetables on their small family farm. Max and Annie have three children and thirteen grandchildren.

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Audio from our 2024 Shepherds Conference: Unity—Fighting Schism for the Good of the Church. October 4, 2024

PLENARY SESSION 2 | JUDE: BUILDING UNITY
Rev. Jeremy Vander Galien
Jude teaches us practical ways to build unity while fighting divisiveness. How are pastors called to strengthen their congregations in faith and love? What encouragement does God give us in this difficult work?

Jeremy has been the senior pastor at Pine Grove Community Church in Rhinelander, WI, since 2015. He co-founded Armis Dei Academy, a Christian classical school, in 2021. He’s been married to Mandi since 2000, and they have eight children and four grandchildren.

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Audio from our 2024 Shepherds Conference: Unity—Fighting Schism for the Good of the Church. October 4, 2024

BREAKOUT | UNITY AMONG CHURCHES: HOW TO KILL IT AND HOW TO BUILD IT
Rev. Alex McNeilly
It’s a lot of work maintaining and building unity within our own church. Is it really worth the extra effort to strive for unity with other churches too? Yes! Find out how unity can be fostered among churches, and why it’s so important.

​​Alex is an assistant pastor at Christ Church Cincinnati. Before that he was the pastor of Clearnote Campus Fellowship at Indiana University–Bloomington. He is married to Dani, with whom he is working to sustain a healthy population of redheads in southwestern Ohio.

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Audio from our 2024 Shepherds Conference: Unity—Fighting Schism for the Good of the Church. October 4, 2024

BREAKOUT | THE UNITY OF HUMILITY
Rev. Tim Bayly
We pastors are proud. After all, we preach God’s Word and care for immortal souls. No one can say we aren’t very important men. But pride destroys. It sets men against each other. Instead of loving one another, we compete, and this obstructs the pastoral fellowship and co-laboring necessary for fulfilling our calling. Humility is the antidote, but do we want it? And if so, how do we get it? Do we really have to listen to our wives?

​Tim is a member of ​Evangel Presbytery and formerly served as the senior pastor of Trinity Reformed Church in Bloomington, IN. He is the vice president of New Geneva Academy and the author of Daddy Tried, The Grace of Shame, Church Reformed, Elders Reformed, and The Helpful Marriage Book. Tim is married to his childhood sweetheart, Mary Lee; they have five children, many grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

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Audio from our 2024 Shepherds Conference: Unity—Fighting Schism for the Good of the Church. October 4, 2024

BREAKOUT | NON-ESSENTIALS THAT DIVIDE
Rev. Stephen Baker
From the beginning, the Church has been prone to factions that have often formed around secondary doctrinal questions. Issues like baptism, eschatology, church government, worship, and church-state relations have caused unneeded division. How can we hold our personal doctrinal opinions on secondary questions while still seeking to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace?

Stephen Baker has served as the dean and lead instructor of New Geneva Academy since 2005. He has been an associate pastor of Trinity Reformed Church ​since 2003. Stephen is married to Sebra, and they have six sons and nine grandchildren.

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Audio from our 2024 Shepherds Conference: Unity—Fighting Schism for the Good of the Church. October 3, 2024

PLENARY SESSION 1 | JUDE: DEALING WITH THOSE WHO DIVIDE
Rev. Jeremy Vander Galien
Jude spends more than half his short book warning against those who follow "the way of Cain," sowing discord among brothers. How do pastors guard their congregations against these men? And given our own divisive hearts, how do we keep ourselves from the sin of schism?

Jeremy has been the senior pastor at Pine Grove Community Church in Rhinelander, WI, since 2015. He co-founded Armis Dei Academy, a Christian classical school, in 2021. He’s been married to Mandi since 2000, and they have eight children and four grandchildren.

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Audio from our 2023 Shepherds Conference: Hope in God: Bearing the Burden of Ministry. Women's Breakout Session: "Helpmate to a Dispirited Husband" by Mary Lee Bayly & Sarah Dionne. October 5, 2023.

Women's Breakout | Helpmate to a Dispirited Husband
​Mary Lee Bayly & Sarah Dionne
The pastor has barely enough to give the church and comes home depressed most days. His children and wife only receive the leftover fumes, if any. Sometimes the deteriorating state of her husband’s heart, mind, and faith concerns her. What is the wife to do when the burden of ministry is crushing her husband?

Mrs. Mary Lee Bayly
Mary Lee is the wife of Tim Bayly and has been serving alongside him in ministry for 40 years. She is mother to five and grandmother to 28. She has cared for the women and children of their congregations, including spending many midnight hours as a doula to church mothers. Back in 1992 when the Baylys moved to Bloomington, there was no Christian school for her kids to attend, so she worked to found and served as a board member and principal for a decade of Bloomington’s Lighthouse Christian Academy.

Mrs. Sarah Dionne
Sarah Dionne used to wear high heels and rhinestones, but 24 years ago she traded those in for more sensible attire, so she could marry Andrew Dionne and tackle the raising of their 6 children. This year 2 of her children are off to college, 3 will attend a local Christian school, and 1 will be homeschooled. When she is not doing laundry or packing lunches, she enjoys serving the women at Trinity Presbyterian Church in SC, teaching voice lessons, and reading books way too quickly so she can get to the plot.

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Audio from our 2023 Shepherds Conference: Hope in God: Bearing the Burden of Ministry. Session 5, "I will give you rest" (Matt. 11:28-30) by Pastor Max Curell. October 5, 2023.

SESSION 5 | "I will give you rest" (Matt. 11:28-30)
Pastor Max Curell
Jesus gives rest to the weary soul and the guilty conscience. The pastor's work is to lead others to this rest, but he must remember Christ died for his sins, too.

Pastor David (Max) Curell has served as an Associate Pastor at Trinity Reformed Church in Bloomington, IN since 2002. Max oversees Trinity’s Home Groups and just about every other aspect of church life. Max is married to Annie, and they have three children and thirteen grandchildren.

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Audio from our 2023 Shepherds Conference: Hope in God: Bearing the Burden of Ministry. Session 4, "I will boast about my weaknesses" (2 Cor. 12:7-10) by Pastor Tim Bayly. October 5, 2023.

SESSION 4 | "I will boast about my weaknesses" (2 Cor. 12:7-10)
Pastor Tim Bayly
The Apostle Paul felt his weaknesses keenly. But he boasted in them, understanding they would only serve to display God's power all the more. This paradoxical truth is good news for the pastor who knows his sins and frailties.

Pastor Tim Bayly is a member of Evangel Presbytery and formerly served as the senior pastor of Trinity Reformed Church in Bloomington, IN. He is the vice president of New Geneva Academy and the author of Daddy Tried, The Grace of Shame, Church Reformed, Elders Reformed, and The Helpful Marriage Book. He has the MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and in 1983 was ordained by John Knox Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to serve First and Rosedale Presbyterian Churches in Wisconsin. In 1991, along with his congregation, Tim transferred into the Presbyterian Church in America, where he served on his presbytery’s Shepherding Committee and the General Assembly’s Ad Interim Study Committee on Women in the Military. Tim is married to his childhood sweetheart, Mary Lee; they have five children and twenty-nine grandchildren.

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Audio from our 2023 Shepherds Conference: Hope in God: Bearing the Burden of Ministry. Session 3, "Conflicts without, fears within" (2 Cor. 7:5-6) by Pastor David Abu-Sara. October 5, 2023.

SESSION 3 | "Conflict without, fears within" (2 Cor. 7:5-6)
Pastor David Abu-Sara
In ministry, a pastor is afflicted within and without for the sake of the Gospel. What are the causes of that affliction? How does a pastor persevere? He looks to God, Who comforts the depressed.

Pastor Dave helped plant Clearnote Church, Indianapolis in 2010 and serves as its pastor. He attended New Geneva Academy in Bloomington, Indiana, and graduated in the spring of 2010. He is married to his lovely wife Vanessa, and they have ten children.

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