The Call to share input for the 2024 conference is out! National staff, Scott Overpeck, shared with us a link survey, that has specific areas and needs for conference planning, during our network monthly Zoom.

“Share your input today to participate in co-creating next year’s conference!”

Your input goes directly to the CCDA National Conference Planning team.
We want to encourage leaders to share and shape this conference.
Share this page with anyone in your network whose input should be considered to help inform the 2024 conference.

CCDA's National conference will be held in Portland, OR Oct. 2-5, 2024

Click here to share your input for the 2024 conference today

Help us get the word out! In Cincinnati last month, it was announced that the national conference will be in Portland, yes, in the PNW for the first time next year.

Your participation in the input survey is needed to help shape this conference. CCDA members, check your email for the survey in your inbox. You may already have received an input survey from Scott Overpeck or Christina Foor. They are reaching out to PNW CCDA members – practitioner leaders, pastors, and organizational staff to gather valuable insights for a conference theme, the values and characteristics that describe the work in our region, speaker ideas, as well as Go and SEE site locations and more!

This is our time to highlight PNW CCD work that inspires our region, connects people, and trains people to live out the Gospel in our communities in deeper ways.

You can click on the direct link above to share your input and how you can participate in co-creating the Portland conference together for next year, October 2-5, 2024!

Did you attend the 2023 conference in Cincinnati?

We want to share more pictures and reflections from the CCDA #Cincinnati2023 Conference from PNW regional network folks. Email pictures and/or reflections from workshops or speakers that moved you at ccdapnw@gmail.com

If you missed the Conference in person, recordings are available for purchase individually or as a bundle at the CCDA website.

Don’t miss out on the incredible sermons and trainings that were offered at #ccdaCincinnati. Purchase the recordings today!

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The Perkins Center welcomes Rev. Sandra Maria Van Opstal for the 2024 Perkins Lecture Series.

Perkins Lecture Series schedule here: Chapel with Elizabeth Perkins, CCDA PNW Lunch, SPU JPC 20th Anniversary Reception, and the 18th Perkins Lecture with Rev. Sandra Van Opstal.

Chapel with Elizabeth Perkins
11:10 a.m. | First Free Methodist Church Sanctuary, across from SPU Campus
CCDA Pacific Northwest Regional Network
12:30–3 p.m. |Library Seminar Room, SPU Campus | $10 registration here
SPU JPC 20^th Anniversary Reception
6:00 p.m. | Upper Gwinn, SPU Campus
Join us for a meet and greet with the Perkins family and celebrate our 20 years of ministry before this year’s Perkins Lecture. Light appetizers served.
18th Perkins Lecture with Rev. Sandra Van Opstal
7:00 p.m. | Upper Gwinn, SPU Campus

CCDA Pacific Northwest Network Lunch

12:30- 3 p.m. | Library Seminar Room, SPU Campus | $10 Registration Here!

2024 SPEAKERS

Elizabeth Perkins

Co-President of the John and Vera Mae Perkins Foundation, Elizabeth Perkins will bring her passion into sharing as this year’s Perkins Lecture Series Chapel speaker. As program and mission director, she leads the Perkins Justice Pilgrimage and coordinates the foundation’s efforts on mission teams, internships, and children/adult programs.

Michelle Lang-Raymond will lead us in worship for this All-University Chapel.

Rev. Sandra Maria Van Opstal

Sandra Maria Van Opstal is a second-generation Latina pastor, activist, author, and a powerful leading voice on the intersection of faith and justice. She is executive director of Chasing Justice, a BIPOC-led movement that mobilizes the next generation of Christians to live justly. Sandra’s distinctiveness comes from working in both local and global contexts as a practitioner and academic, which has solidified her calling to disrupt oppressive systems within the church and center marginalized voices. She served as executive pastor at Grace and Peace Church on Chicago’s west side and as an activist in her community. She holds a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is currently pursuing doctoral work in Urban Leadership and Transformation. Sandra is the author of The Next Worship, Forty Days on Being An Eight, as well as contributor to the New York Times bestselling book A Rhythm of Prayer.