The DISTRICT @ Assembly 2026
The DISTRICT @ Assembly 2026 is a list of links and resources presented at LMC Assembly 2026 (June 18-21). DISTRICT members participated in the Friday 9:30 Plenary “Ultimate Allegiance” (Oxford Circle) and the Parents Who Pray (Fri) and Ain’t No Stoppin’ Now (Sat) workshops.
Oxford Circle Plenary (Friday 9:30)
Pastor Lynn Parks and Pastor Tee (Ron Tinsley) offered the Friday 9:30 Plenary: “Ultimate Allegiance“.
Workshops
Parents Who Pray (Fri)
Parents Who Pray is a prayer-centered online community that is helping churched and un-churched families connect spiritually, discover Jesus and his word, and find faith community.
Discover a model you can use to create open pastoral communities can lead to discipleship and family renewal.
Presenters: Dr. Tiffany Powell, Ben Cheek, and Bishop Hyacinth Stevens
Resources & Links
- Parents Who Pray Mail List
- Join the PWP Prayer Leads CoP on RadicalNow! to learn how to start a Parents Who Pray extension group or your own prayer engagement group. Don’t know what a CoP (Community of Practice) is? Read this article.
- Check out our KnowledgeBase article on The Spiritual Landscape talking about the demographics of opportunity and deployment. It’s in this context that reforming activities of the church — like prayer groups — as an aspect of mission makes so much sense!
- Read Barna Groups report: “Is Openness to Prayer a Door to Digital Church Engagement?” where 57% of all adults, 68% of Christians, 32% of non-Christians, and 21% of non-faith people say they are open to praying with a group online.
- Parents need help praying with and for their children: Less than a third do (29%) on a daily basis according to American Bible Society’s State of the Bible 2026 report.
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Now – Our Ministry Is on the Move! But Wait … We are a Bivocational Ministry (Sat)
Hear practical insights and practices we’ve learned as we’ve been building momentum and mobilizing for mission across our DISTRICT — all while most of us are bi-vocational.
You can build a community of bivocational (or even tri-vocational) leaders who advance the Gospel, care for believers, and still integrate their families.
Presenters: Dr. Tiffany Powell, Ben Cheek, and Bishop Hyacinth Stevens
Resources & Links
- Read Ben Cheek’s Article on A Community of Practice and sign up for the RadicalNow CoP to support the development of your own CoP.
- Join Dr. Tiffany Powell’s Launch Beyond the Walls Marketplace Ministry group: Master Class starting July 20-21. Marketplace Ministry practices can integrate both your vocations and potentially recruit leadership capacity for your church.
- Only 67% of pastors are flourishing in their relationships and 69% in their well-being. Time for a CoP to share the load? Find out more about the state of pastors with this Barna Report.
- 35% of pastors and ministers are bi-vocational and 47% of evangelicals, a trend driven by shrinking congregation size. Read the Clergy in America 2025 (pg 14) report of National Survey of Religious Leaders for more insights.
- The necessity of bi-vocational ministers is multi-faceted: Check out The Spiritual Landscape to see the huge scale of the opportunity but the shortage of resources we’re facing as a Church. You might also be interested in this research on giving and budgeting statistics.