October 28th, 2025
1:00 to 4:00pm ET
Keynote
The Futures Lab: Practicing Faithful Imagination for What’s Next
Rev. Cameron Trimble

In a rapidly changing world, transitional leaders are called not only to manage uncertainty but to actively cultivate imagination, courage, and possibility. The Futures Lab is a proven process that equips leaders to step beyond “what is” and experiment with “what could be.” Together, we will explore emerging social and spiritual trends, imagine multiple futures for congregational life, and discern faithful pathways forward. This session will invite us to see beyond the immediate horizon and claim our role in shaping a more just, loving, and hopeful future.

October 30th, 2025
2:25 – 5:25pm ET
Keynote
The Great Unveiling: Congregations Responding with Courage and Creativity in the Age of Collapse
Rev. Cameron Trimble 

Across the country, congregations are discovering new ways of embodying faith in the midst of disruption. Some are cultivating partnerships for justice, others are reimagining worship and community life, and many are finding creative expressions of care that meet the needs of their neighbors. In this session, we will explore the major shifts shaping congregational life today and take a guided tour of inspiring examples of communities responding with vision and imagination. Through presentation, storytelling, and small group conversations, we will reflect on how these lessons might inform our own ministries. Together, we will ask: What is being born among us? How do we nurture it faithfully? And what legacy of hope might we leave for those who come after us?

Rev. Cameron Trimble is the Executive Director and CEO of Convergence (formerly the Center for Progressive Renewal), an organization that supports the reshaping of congregations and leaders engaged in an age of movement from “organized religion” to “organizing religion” driven by the values of an inclusive, progressive theological vision for a more just world for all. She began her ministry as a new church developer and, to pay for her “ministry habit”, also owns a real estate company and a software company.

Rev. Trimble has served an adjunct professor teaching church planting/renewal and leadership with the Pacific School of Religion, Brite Divinity School, Auburn Seminary and Chicago Theological Seminary. She co-authored the book Liberating Hope and most recently published Piloting Church: Helping Your Congregation Take Flight in 2019 and 60 Days of Faith in 2020.

With this wide experience and exposure, Rev. Trimble is convinced that the future of the progressive mainline Church is dependent upon our ability to cultivate the highest quality of leadership in both ordained and lay leadership.

October 29th, 2025
2:45-4:15pm ET
Keynote
Faithful Reimagining: Hope Beyond the End
Rev. Diane Kenaston 

Attendance is down. Money is short. The future is uncertain. In a shifting religious landscape, congregations must ask fundamental questions about their very identity.  These existential questions can be terrifying—or they can become opportunities for envisioning new life beyond our current existence.

Drawing from experience with congregations who concluded existing ministry, Faithful Reimagining: Hope Beyond the End will inspire faith leaders to face unknown futures. Whether you serve thriving congregations or those in numerical decline, interim and transitional leaders must tell the truth about the present and (re)imagine future possibilities.

Even when facing uncertain futures, congregations can cultivate hope beyond their current existence. This is the kind of hope that inspires brave action. Faithful Reimagining provides the spiritual framework for congregations to act on their hope—hope even beyond the end.

Rev. Diane Kenaston is a pastor, writer, coach, and co-founder of the Good Friday Collaborative. She specializes in adaptive change and cultivating communities of justice and peace.

After a decade of pastoring United Methodist churches, Rev. Kenaston led a church merger. Earlier she facilitated the sale of two parsonages and helped two yoked churches discern that it was time to separate. She believes in courageously adapting to changing circumstances.

Rev. Kenaston has previously been published in the books Speaking Truth, We Pray With Her, and Holy Contradictions.

Rev. Kenaston is passionate about ecumenical work. She is the chairperson of Young Clergy Women International. She previously worked as the County Ecumenical Officer for Churches Together in Cambridgeshire in Cambridge, England.

NON MEMBER
$350