Conferences

Below are just a few of the conferences and training workshops for which Kolby and Mary Beth King are available:

Effective Children’s Ministry

The EQUIP>ENGAGE Children’s Ministry Conference is designed to encourage, equip, and strengthen those who are passionate about reaching and discipling children. Whether you serve in a small church or a large ministry setting, this conference is designed to be practical, encouraging, and immediately useful—helping leaders build a Christ-centered ministry that impacts children and families for eternity.

Each conference is designed to meet your specific needs but can include topics such as:

  • Making the Bible come Alive
  • Creating a Safe and Secure Ministry in Today’s Church
  • Discipline Opportunities
  • Training Kids for Ministry
  • Using Creative Tools to Teach Truth
  • Effective Small and Large Group Teaching
  • Inreach & Outreach
  • Sunday School Boosters
  • Recruiting Volunteers
  • Starting and Leading a Children’s Worship Service
  • Leading Kids in Worship
  • Creating a Puppet Ministry
  • VBS Done Right
  • Salvation Training: How to Lead a Child to Christ
  • Discover more Children’s Ministry topics by browsing the children’s ministry resource library HERE.

Learn Conference Details – Click HERE.

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Effective Student Ministry

TM412 is a Student Ministry Training Conference created to help youth leaders build a strong, Christ-centered ministry that reaches students and develops lifelong disciples. Each conference is tailored to your needs and designed to provide practical ideas, biblical encouragement, and ministry strategies that help leaders connect with students and make a lasting spiritual impact.

Including topics such as:

  • Intentional Evangelism
  • Creative Events that Work
  • Keeping First Things First
  • The Core of an Effective Student Ministry
  • Introducing Students to Ministry
  • The Power of a Trained Youth
  • Teaching Students to Study Their Bibles
  • Creative Teaching for Youth
  • Effective Small Groups
  • Effective Mid-Week Activities
  • Other Youth Ministry topics…All Student Ministry Conferences are designed specifically to meet your needs.

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Outreach Evangelism

This all-church event will not only challenge your church but will also give them hands on training in how to:

  • Effectively share their faith with others
  • Lead a person of any age (including children) to Christ
  • Create evangelism opportunities in every day life
  • Engage in effective door-to-door outreach
  • Organize and execute an effect community outreach or visitation program

Help your congregation overcome the fear and obstacles of reaching your community–To be ready to share the Gospel at any time, with anyone, anywhere. This conference, which is customized to specifically meet your needs, will also teach them how to make home visits and how to have effective door-to-door outreaches in today’s culture. Contrary to the popular church culture of today, people are still getting saved on their front porches. Door-to-door evangelism still works when it’s done the right way. God is moving beyond the walls of the church. The problem is that most Christians aren’t intentional about sharing the Gospel and it won’t do much good if we only come to church and shine the light of the Gospel in each other’s eyes.

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Raising Kids to be Spiritual Champions (Parenting)

In today’s culture, it is easy for families to outsource nearly everything. Education is handed to teachers, athletics to coaches, meals to restaurants, and entertainment to screens. Sadly, many parents have also unintentionally outsourced spiritual training to the church. But throughout Scripture, God’s design has always been for the home to be the primary place where faith is taught, modeled, and lived out.

This conference is designed to encourage and equip parents to embrace their God-given role as the spiritual leaders of their families. Parents will gain practical insight into the challenges children and teenagers face in today’s culture, discover biblical principles for leading their homes spiritually, and learn simple, effective ways to build a Christ-centered family.

The conference also addresses many of the obstacles that hold parents back—including busy schedules, feelings of inadequacy, technology distractions, and uncertainty about where to begin—while offering practical tools to help families grow together in faith. Parents will leave encouraged, challenged, and better prepared to raise children who know God, love His Word, and stand strong in their faith.

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The Skills Conference

The King family uses a variety of unique and creative tools to help share the Gospel in engaging and memorable ways. Many people who may never walk through the doors of a church are willing to attend an event to watch fire eating, ventriloquism, illusions, or other creative presentations. These moments create opportunities to connect with people and clearly communicate biblical truth.

Gospel illusions can be a powerful tool for both street and stage evangelism, helping people visualize spiritual truths in ways they will remember. Balloon animals are one of the most effective conversation starters for door-to-door outreach and are also excellent for family events, fall festivals, community outreaches, and Vacation Bible School.

While these skills are entertaining, the ultimate goal is not simply to perform—it is to point people to Christ. We train individuals and ministry teams not only how to use creative tools effectively, but how to intentionally share the Gospel as people watch and engage. These are simply tools that help capture attention, open doors for conversation, and demonstrate truth in a powerful and meaningful way.

Skills taught can include:

  • Balloon animals (Basic)
  • Balloon animals (Advanced)
  • Fire stunts (i.e., flash paper, fire eating, fire hands, phoenix powder) – includes a strong emphasis on safety. Age restriction for 21 years and older.
  • Gospel Illusions (Advanced)
  • Gospel Illusions (Beginner)
  • Object Lesson – learn how any object can teach truth
  • Puppet Ministry
  • Stunts with a 6-foot Balloon
  • Stunts with a Stock Whip
  • Ventriloquism Made Easy

The Skills Conference is unique from many traditional conferences because these sessions are designed to be highly interactive and hands-on. Many of the workshops are most effective in smaller group settings where participants can receive personal instruction, ask questions, and actively practice the skills being taught.

Some classes require signed release waivers, and certain sessions involve materials, supplies, or specialty equipment that may include an additional cost. Because of the interactive nature of the conference, pre-registration is required for all attendees.

When the conference is hosted over a weekend, multiple skill sessions are typically offered during different time slots, allowing attendees to customize their experience by choosing the classes most relevant to their ministry interests and goals.

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The 5 Missing Pieces of VBS

We often hear comments concerning VBS such as, “Isn’t there something fresh and new?”, “Our kids have been there and done that”, “How come we don’t have very many guests at our VBS?”, “We don’t see kids who come during VBS until the next VBS,” “How do you keep kids after VBS is over?” etc.

We have identified 5 missing pieces from most Vacation Bible Schools. Regardless of the curriculum you use, training in these five ares will put your VBS over the top.

The purpose of this conference is to help your church or the churches in your area to become more effective in reaching and teaching kids with the Gospel during VBS.

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Leading Kids to Christ

This conference is great for children’s leaders, VBS volunteers, youth, decision room counselors, and parents who desire to be ready to know when their child is ready to accept Christ and how to lead their own child to Christ. This conference will teach about:

  • When a child can be saved
  • How to know if a child is ready to accept Christ
  • How to share the Gospel on a child’s level
  • What to do after a child accepts Christ.
  • This conference will also teach important follow-up tools and techniques such as explaining baptism to a child, helping children deal with salvation doubts, and key assurance illustrations to explain concepts such as why we ask for forgiveness after we are saved.

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Twisting Scripture (Bible)

This conference has a double-focus: (1) How to correctly handle Scripture while carefully guarding against the pitfalls into which so many fall and (2) The Power of Scripture Memory which will challenge attenders to move beyond memorizing a verse here and a verse there to memorizing chapters and even books of the Bible.
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In-Depth Bible Conferences

Challenge your church family with on of the following:

  • The Crimson Line—Many believers have a very foggy picture of what happened to Jesus on the cross and in the events leading up to it. This Friday/Saturday conference will walk believers from Gethsemane to the Cross, explaining cultural and medical details that are often overlooked. You will be able to hold a replica of a “crucifixion nail” that was different from other Roman nails and handle a historically accurate Roman flagrum (scourge). This conference will paint an unforgettable picture of how Jesus became “obedient to death– even death on a cross” (Phil. 2:8) and what it now means for the believer to “take up his cross” and follow Him.
  • Overcoming Fear—Discover how to know the power of God in the command to fear not, how to look beyond the situation to who God is, and how to live a life that is characterized by faith, not controlled by fear.
  • Memorizing Scripture – Scripture memorization isn’t just for kids. Challenge the adults of your church to understand the power of hiding God’s Word in their hearts and to memorize large portions of Scripture.

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Leading an Effective Fall Festival

A Fall Festival can be far more than just a fun church event—it can become one of the most effective outreach opportunities of the entire year. Whether you are looking for fresh new ideas or practical ways to strengthen and improve an event you already host, this conference is designed to help you take your Fall Festival to the next level.

Learn how to plan with purpose, design an event that fits the unique needs of your church and community, creates an atmosphere that encourages meaningful connections with families, and keeps the Gospel at the center. This conference focuses on building events that are not only exciting and well organized, but intentionally outreach-driven.

The conference also includes resources featuring more than 150 creative ideas for games, activities, competitions, inflatables, stage events, and interactive challenges to help make your event memorable, engaging, and effective.

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Mission Trip Training

Kolby and Mary Beth King have trained groups for mission trips all over the United States and around the world and they can help train your team with tools to be effective on the mission field.

We are available to train your group…

  • For adult, youth, preteen and family mission trips
  • For both for foreign and domestic missions.
  • We can plan a mission trip for your group and train you for it or we can provide training for a trip that you have planned.
  • We can train your team on-site or remotely through Skype.

Preteen & Student Mission Trips – Kolby and Mary Beth have a passion for training students and have been leading student mission trips for more than 20 years. It’s an amazing thing to watch students teaching and leading people to Christ. Basic training includes how to share your salvation testimony, how to lead someone to Christ, how to share the Gospel through a variety of creative tools such as drama, puppets, balloon animals, and more. The rest of the training is specialized for the trip.

Family Mission Trips – We will train 2 to 4 families and take them on a mission trip that is a couple of hours away from home. Usually we’ll lead a Friday evening family outreach, Saturday morning door-to-door evangelism, a Saturday evening youth outreach and the Sunday morning worship service. Families learn to share their testimonies, how to lead someone to Christ, how to go door-to-door, puppets, songs, balloon animals, drama and more.

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Church Technology Conference

Instead of working for the technology in your church, let it work for you. Discover answers to your church technology questions concerning websites, apps, texting, videos, online sermons, online giving and more…

This conference aims at helping pastors and church leaders understand the value and impact of using technology in their ministries.

Learn more HERE.

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Contact Information

For more information or to schedule a conference, please contact us.

Kolby & Mary Beth King

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