Recently Leadership Network invited several idea people to submit any idea that they think will make a significant impact in the kingdom during the next 10 years. A handful of these people were selected to come to Dallas to share, shape, stretch and combine. Advance Chris Willard and Eric Swanson talk about this exciting gathering in this episode of Audio Advance.

Churches of over 2000 in weekend worship attendance that have experienced rapid growth (at least a 20% increase in the past 3 years) often experience unique challenges in terms of leadership, space and staffing. In this episode of Audio Advance, Chris Willard and Greg Ligon, directors of the newly convened Rapid Growth Churches Leadership Community, talk about some of these growing pains.

To help diffuse innovation rapidly among church leaders, Leadership Network is setting up a series of one-day forums across the country to help spur innovation and collaborative learning. In this episode of Audio Advance, Don Wilcox

shares about Leadership Network's Innovation Exchange and how your church can participate.

Get the scoop on two new offerings from Leadership Network in this episode of Audio Advance.

Leadership Network’s Ideation Experience which takes place on July 20-22 in Dallas is a gathering of innovators, creative thinkers and idea junkies who work collaboratively in an interactive process to develop ideas that have the potential to not only change the Church but the world. http://ideationexperience.leadnet.org

The Show will give you the opportunity to interact with some of the brightest church leaders in the country every Tuesday afternoon at http://theshow.leadnet.org

Women’s ministries are on the cusp of radical future change. Sherry Surratt, director of the Women’s Initiative at Leadership Network shares examples of changes already taking place around the country. Top leaders from some of the most innovative women’s ministries will gather at Leadership Network to discuss what is working and what is not, with the hope of creating easily replicable models that will unleash revolutionary change.

Tim Keller, founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, NY and author of the Reason for God shares some helpful insights regarding media coverage in this episode of Audio Advance.

In this episode of Audio Advance, Warren Bird, director of research at Leadership Network, catches up with Geoff Surratt, pastor of Seacoast Church, Dave Browning, pastor of Christ the King Community Church, and John Bishop, pastor of Living Hope Church during the closing moments of the Innovation3 conference in Dallas, TX. Geoff, Dave and John share perspectives they gained at the conference and what they plan to take back home with them.

Innovation3 (Jan. 27-28, 2009 in Dallas) is the event to attend in 2009! Todd Rhoades and Linda Stanley describe how you can take advantage of the opportunity to bounce ideas off of hundreds of innovative church leaders --all in this 12-minute lively episode of Audio Advance.

In this episode of Audio Advance, Don Wilcox, director of Leadership Network’s Encore Generation Leadership Community, shares with Dave Travis about innovative churches who are finding new ways to engage the older adults in their midst.

Lost and Found, a new book by Ed Stetzer presents comprehensive research about the unchurched in the young adult generation and how open they are to spiritual things. Ed, director of LifeWay Research discusses these findings and what they mean for the church with Dave Travis and Warren Bird in this episode of Audio Advance.