Alpha Practitioner National Call Archives
Top 8 Listened to Practitioner Calls
1. After Alpha - What Next? - Kirk Petersen
2. How to Attract More Seekers - Dave Housholder
3. Strengthening your Alpha team - Kirk Petersen
4. Alpha Weekend Prayer Helps and The Marriage Course - Derek and Cathy Rust
5. Worship and Alpha - Andy Piercy
6. Leading the "Does God Heal Today" session - Jeff Kirby
7. Optimizing your Small Group Training - Joe Castronova
8. Connecting with the Heart of a Seeker - Dave Deshazer
Video webinars
1. The Postmodern Path to Faith - Don Everts
2. Mapping the New Cultural Landscape - Todd Hunter
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Date: January 21, 2012
Topic: Enhancing your course with the Alpha website
Margene Vessel from the Alpha Communications department will show us ways we can use the website to help in training our teams and improving our courses.
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Date: November 17, 2011
Topic: Igniting Teens with Youth Alpha
Rebecca Long explains how the tool of Youth Alpha is perfectly poised in our culture to introduce young people to a living relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Date: October 20, 2011
Topic: Ten Tips for a GREAT Alpha Day Away
Debi Tengler has a history of putting together excellent Alpha Day Away and weekend retreats. She will cover the ten things that she is passionate about and that she has seen to be effective over the years.
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Date: September 15, 2011
Topic: Strengthening your Alpha Team
Kirk Petersen spoke from his experience as a Practitioner as well as a Regional Director about what he has seen work well.
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Date: August 18, 2011
Topic: Reaching Beyond Our Four Walls
Dr. Jim Olson, Senior Pastor of Bethel Christian Fellowship MN shared their church’s experience with Alpha ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages),
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Date: June 16, 2011
Topic: Bi-Annual Round Table Discussion
Two times a year we hear from you. This time we talked about how groups handle worship, a few funding strategies and also how to respond to a new pastor who does not want to continue to run Alpha even though it has been successful.
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Date: May 19th, 2011
Topic: The Marriage Course
Derek Rust the National Marriage Course Coordinator shared with us some of the unique features of the Marriage Course. He shared great stories and provided different ways to make the course atmosphere really work.
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Date: April 21, 2011
Topic: Multiplying Your Course
Kim Wickline was involved in a very successful Alpha invitation in Monticello, MN. Kim has not only a passion and heart for the lost, but a background in public relations which helped her to effectively collaborate with area churches to “invite Monticello to dinner”.
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Date: March 17, 2011
Topic : Campus Alpha - Go for it!
Dave Short, Shelby Graper and Janessa Futrell shared encouraging campus testimonies, talked about 'Go For It!' the new 'Anywhere, Anytime Alpha Course', the vintage internships and took questions on how to get a course going on college campuses.
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Date: February 17, 2011
Topic: Connecting with the Heart of a Seeker
Dave is the Alpha Regional Director for the Seattle, WA and Northwest. He was motivated to do more research into the heart of seekers simply due to the fact that many guests were dropping out of courses in their area. Hear his insights and your courses will be stronger, too.
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Date: January 13, 2011
Topic: Unpacking the Alpha USA website as a Practitioner
Margene Vessel, long time Alpha Practitioner and part of the Alpha USA web team, shared how to access the tools and resources in the Run Alpha part of the website in order to help you strengthen and develop your Alpha course.
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Date: October 21, 2010
Topic: After Alpha - What's Next
Kirk Petersen, Regional in the Portland Oregon area, provided a well thought through summary of options for follow up.
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Date: September 16, 2010
Topic: Ministry Time on the Weekend Away and Healing Night
Pastor Derek Rust from Truro Church in Fairfax, VA skillfully led this call.
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Date: August 19, 2010
Topic: Optimizing your Small Group Training
Pastor Joe Castronova from Worship Center in Lancaster, PA has grown the Alpha course to become a strong outreach tool at their church. He led a lively and informative discussion.
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Here are notes they use in their training.
Gathering Small Groups Training part I pdf
Gathering Small Groups Training part II pdf
Alpha Gathering Foundations
Principles of Alpha teaching notes
Principles of Alpha ppt
Video Webinar
Date: June 9, 2010
Topic: The Postmodern Path to Faith
Don Everts is Minister of Outreach at Bonhomme Presbyterian Church in Chesterfield, Missouri, where he spends time cultivating relationships with people who are generally skeptical Christians with a passion for evangelism and global justice. In this seminar he helps us to think about how we connect with people outside of the church.
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Date: May 20, 2010
Topic: The Marriage Course
Derek and Cathy Rust serve as the National Coordinators of the Marriage and Marriage Preparation Courses here in the USA. On this call, Derek shared their vision for seeing strong families and marriages and how this can dovetail beautifully with the Alpha course.
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Date: April 15, 2010
Topic: Worship on Alpha
Andy Piercy skillfully led this call with his vast experience as a worship leader. He spent many years as the main worship leader at Holy Trinity Brompton, the church where Alpha was developed.
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Video Webinar
March 24, 2010
Topic: Mapping the New Cultural Landscape
Bishop Todd Hunter of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, is the founding pastor of Holy Trinity Church, an Anglican church in Costa Mesa, California. He is an author and adjunct professor of evangelism and postmodern ministry as several acclaimed colleges. He served as the Alpha National Director from 2004-2009.
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Date: March 18, 2010
Topic: Leading the ‘Does God Heal Today?’ session
Alpha veteran Jeff Kirby has years of experience on leading the prayer time after the Alpha talk "Does God Heal Today?' Jeff is the teaching pastor at Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, KS.
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Date: February 18, 2010
Topic: Reviving a Struggling Alpha course
Bill Fennen shared what they did to take their course from a dormant program to vibrant front door ministry that has brought new life in Christ to hundreds of seekers.
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Date: January 21, 2010
Topic: Igniting Young Adults with Youth Alpha
Rebecca Long and Wayne Abbott encourage us with both practical insights in setting up Youth Alpha as well as the fruit they have experienced.
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Date: November 19, 2009
Topic: Global Alpha Teams - taking Alpha to the world
Ruthina Northcutt, Global Alpha Intern and Maja Numainville, GAT leader from Hosanna Lutheran church in Minnesota share their experiences and passion to help equip Alpha teams here in the USA to take Alpha to the nations.
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Date: May 27th, 2009
Topic: Making Your Course Attractive to the People You Want to Reach
Kirk Wulff, Alpha Pastor at Christ Church in Overland Park, Kansas shared with us some of their essential training values and the fruit that they are witnessing. They are attracting skeptical, distrustful, and often times antagonistic people to grapple with the claims of the Christian faith through their Alpha course.
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Date: May 21, 2009
Topic: 24/7 Prayer and Alpha
Dave Short is the National Coordinator for Campus Alpha.He is spear-heading the coordination of 24/7 Prayer and Alpha on Campus. Dana and Matt are leading a 24/7 Prayer room in the Chicago area. They shared their unique perspective on setting up a prayer room and how this could relate to Alpha.
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Date: April 16, 2009
Topic: How to Attract More Seekers and Position Your Alpha Course
Dave Housholder is a seasoned Alpha Pastor and Church Planter who brought his unique humor and wisdom to the call as he shared his perspective about ways to attract more seekers and how to best position the course within the context of your church culture.
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Date: February 19, 2009
Topics: Alpha Weekend Prayer Helps and The Marriage Course
Cathy & Derek Rust, newly appointed Alpha USA National Coordinators for the Marriage Course share insights on effective prayer on the Alpha weekend and the Marriage Course.
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Date: August 21, 2008
Topic: Building an Effective Leadership Team
Presenter: Kirk Wulff - Christ Church, Overland Park, KS
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Date: March 13, 2008
Topic: Alpha and Your Evangelistic Strategy
Presenter: Kenny Lynch, Outreach Pastor.
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