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Seminars and Conferences

Bring a parenting, grandparenting, or biblical worldview seminar to your church or school.

Josh Mulvihill provides single seminars, half day, or full day conferences to equip parents, grandparents, educators, and pastors to make disciples of the next generation on a wide range of topics.

Renewanation partners with you to align our seminars to your specific needs. Explore some of the most requested seminars and conferences below, and connect with our team to begin planning your event.

Seminars

Learn what worldview is, why it matters and how to help your child or grandchild develop a biblical worldview by teaching four foundational biblical truths. Participants will learn to identify strong cultural messages that threaten to distort and destroy faith in Christ. This seminar will help you gain confidence and equip you to have intentional conversations so that your children develop deep, lasting, and culture transforming faith. This seminar is based on Josh’s book Biblical Worldview.

The world is trying to win the battle for the hearts and minds of children, but there are many things we can do to help a child develop a deeply rooted, unshakable faith in Christ. This seminar is meant to awaken individuals to action. Build confidence and get equipped with this timely and impactful seminar.

In a secularized culture, it is more critical than ever for young people to know what they believe, why they believe it, and are prepared to defend themselves from attacks to their faith. Throughout church history this has been known as apologetics. This seminar will equip you to help children recognize cultural lies, provide practical ways that you can integrate apologetics into your home or ministry, and introduce you to key resources to help you disciple children with a lifelong faith in Christ.

Lots of parents outsource the discipleship of their children to other people, but what if there was a better way to disciple a child that leads to a strengthened relationship, deep conversations, and maturity in Christ! Join Dr. Josh Mulvihill to capture a family discipleship vision from Psalm 78 along with the practical how-to’s that will help you build confidence and be intentional with your opportunities to encourage your child to place their hope in Christ.

What is the biblical role of a grandparent? Can you summarize this in a sentence or even a word? Every grandparent is given a God-ordained role that is not interchangeable with any other member of the family. Come to this seminar to gain a laser-like focus on what a grandparent’s role is as well as learn the responsibilities grandparents are given by God from the Bible. If you are not a grandparent, this seminar will prove valuable as it will help you understand your parents role with your children. If you are a pastor, this seminar will equip you to provide a clear and compelling vision to share with grandparents in your context.

Do you want to help your children or grandchildren grow in their walk with the Lord? The eight practices presented in this seminar are a synthesis of Josh’s Ph.D research regarding the biblical practices to help children grow in godly maturity. You will walk away with practical tools and specific ways that you can invest in the spiritual growth of children.

What distinguishes good teachers from great teachers? What can teachers do to help children think biblically? What are key biblical principles on teaching that we need to get right in the classroom or living room? Join Dr. Josh Mulvihill to explore five highly effective practices that set great apart from good teachers and motivate children to learn God’s truth.

Do you want to partner with parents, but struggle to do that sustainably? Do you have ambivalent parents and want to encourage them to take responsibility for the discipleship of their children? Join Dr. Josh Mulvihill for a transformational seminar that will help you develop a strong theological foundation for family ministry, will expand your family ministry vision beyond resourcing parents, and will provide you with nine biblical practices that every church can implement. If you want to establish a vibrant family ministry at your church, then this seminar is for you!

Half and Full day Conferences

Biblical Parenting

What is the goal of parenting? The world encourages parents to raise happy, healthy kids, but the Bible encourages us to nurture the faith of children so they treasure Christ. Dr. Josh Mulvihill will teach you how to develop a biblical foundation to reach and disciple your children to maturity in Christ.

The Biblical Parenting conference is designed to equip this generation of parents in the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of the next generation—their children. This event will help parents understand the cultural realities of today and how to prepare our children to walk in the truth in a world that rejects Christ. The conference is helpful for parents with children of any age and stage.

What is the goal of parenting? The world encourages parents to raise happy, healthy kids, but the Bible encourages us to nurture the faith of children so they treasure Christ. Dr. Josh Mulvihill will teach you how to develop a biblical foundation to reach and disciple your children to maturity in Christ. In addition, you will be given practical methods to help children grow in their faith in Christ. Parents will have time during the conference to create their own discipleship plan for their children and leave with a vision to be an intentional Christian parent.

Available as a single seminar, full day conference, multi-day conference, or preaching in Sunday services.

9:00 Welcome
9:15 Assessing Parenting Priorities
10:15 Parent Planning Workshop 1
10:45 Break
11:00 How to Help Children Understand and Defend Faith
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Discipling Children: 8 Biblical Methods Every Family Can Do
1:30 Break
1:45 Begin With the End in Mind
2:45 Parent Planning Workshop 2
3:15 Q&A Panel

We ask that host churches or groups provide an honorarium plus travel (airfare and rental car), lodging and meals costs related to the event you will be hosting. For specific information about honorarium fees, please contact us by email at jmulvihill@renewanation.org. We will be happy to discuss these costs with you prior to sending out a contract.

Here are a few additional expenses you will need to consider when planning your event:

  • Lunch: If you are a church, you decide whether to cater or provide a meal prepared and served by volunteers.
  • Promotion/Publicity: You will want to print fliers, perhaps submit a press release to your local paper or radio stations, and put up posters.
  • Facility: Will you have facility expenses to host the seminar? Will you need to provide overnight housing for participants?
  • Handouts for the seminar: We will provide a printable handout for each of the sessions that you can copy for participants to take notes.

Biblical Grandparenting

The Biblical Grandparenting Seminar or Conference is a partnership with a local church or organization to equip grandparents in their God-designed role to be intentional, godly grandparents so that future generations may grow up with a biblical foundation that will enable them to follow Christ wholeheartedly in today’s world.

The Grandparenting conference is designed to equip this generation of grandparents in the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of the next generation—their grandchildren. This event will help grandparents understand the cultural realities of today and how to prepare our grandchildren to walk in the truth in a world that rejects Christ.

In the Biblical Grandparenting Conference, Dr. Josh Mulvihill unpacks culture’s misleading messages about grandparenting, provides a biblical overview of the role of grandparents, and shares groundbreaking research that will give you a vision to impact the next generation for Christ. In addition, you will be given practical methods to disciple your grandchildren and navigate your place in the family.

Available as a single seminar, full day conference, multi-day conference, or preaching in Sunday services.

9:00 Welcome
9:15 What’s the Big Deal About Grandparenting?
10:15 Break
10:30 Rejecting the Cultural Messages About Grandparenting
11:30 Lunch
12:15 Understanding the Biblical Role of Grandparents
1:15 Break
1:30 Discipling Grandchildren: 8 Biblical Methods Every Family Can Do
2:45 Q&A Panel
3:45 Becoming an Intentional Christian Grandparent

We ask that host churches or groups provide an honorarium plus travel (airfare and rental car), lodging and meals costs related to the event you will be hosting. For specific information about honorarium fees, please contact us by email at jmulvihill@renewanation.org. We will be happy to discuss these costs with you prior to sending out a contract.

Here are a few additional expenses you will need to consider when planning your event:

  • Lunch: If you are a church, you decide whether to cater or provide a meal prepared and served by volunteers.
  • Promotion/Publicity: You will want to print fliers, perhaps submit a press release to your local paper or radio stations, and put up posters.
  • Facility: Will you have facility expenses to host the seminar? Will you need to provide overnight housing for participants?
  • Handouts for the seminar: We will provide a printable handout for each of the sessions that you can copy for participants to take notes.
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What Others Are Saying

Practical and biblical advice. A wonderful resource.

Josh Mulvihill’s approach is straight from the Bible, full of great insight and advice, and incredibly helpful.

Josh Mulvihill provides truth packed, Gospel rich, invaluable resources we all can use to disciple our children.

Nothing is closer to the heart of God or more central to the priorities of His Kingdom than the calling of bringing the little ones to Him. And nobody can do it quite like you, through your unique relationship—Josh Mulvihill’s book shows you how!

Josh Mulvihill has created biblical tools that parents can use to help their kids challenge the worldly norms that they are exposed to regularly.

Josh Mulvihill will equip you to sharpen your thinking, increase your impact, and influence young people to apply the truth of God’s word to their lives.

A prophetic voice, strong biblical foundation, and groundbreaking research makes him the thought leader in Christian grandparenting today. Every one of the 30 million Christian grandparents in America should have a copy of his inspiring books in their homes. Every church should have it available in their library, preached from our pulpits, read in our small groups, gratefully taken to heart and then acted upon. I highly recommend his awesome books.

When we first met, Josh was the Pastor to Families and Children at a mega church in Minnesota. I wondered if he would be someone who was chasing all the latest church fads or if he was serious about the biblical worldview development of the children and parents in his care. I soon discovered that he was not only serious about it, but had put the programming in place to make it a reality, and he practices biblical worldview development in the lives of his five children every day.

I often receive emails from grandparents who are seeking advice on how to be a stronger spiritual influence in the lives of their grandkids. I always point them to Josh Mulvihill’s excellent resources! Discipling Your Grandchildren in particular is a virtual treasure trove of godly and practical ideas for creating a deeper spiritual connection with grandchildren. If you sometimes find yourself wondering what more you can do to help your grandkids know and love the Lord, this is the book you need!

God requires all parents to instill a biblical worldview in their children’s hearts and minds. Parents are in desperate need of resources to assist them in this monumental task. Dr. Josh Mulvihill provides parents, church leaders and educators with such resources.

Dr. Josh Mulvihill has written a clear, powerful, truthful Biblical Worldview book that is critically important to internalize as you answer God’s call to “bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4b).

Dr. Josh Mulvihill is an outstanding advocate and supporter of grandparents. His research delivers new insights for grandparents. Dr. Mulvihill’s writing is tempered in biblical truth, which will inspire you in your grandparenting journey.

The church revitalization process has been really helpful. I felt connected immediately to the desire for a strong Biblical worldview. Our time for evaluation and planning was exceedingly helpful. I am walking away very thankful for a clear action plan… and look forward to working with you again.

Wow, Josh’s teaching was very life-changing and challenging. As a father, it is upon me to lead my family and Josh’s conference gave me solid biblical examples and resources to do this. Lots to discuss with my wife and pray about implementing.

Gospel Shaped Family was such a great conference. I have been praying that my husband and I would be able to attend a marriage conference and a parenting conference but we have three very young children and the thought of two weekends with travel seemed impossible. This was the perfect combination. Just what we needed. Doable and a gift from the Lord. It was also truly gospel focused which is such a breath of fresh air, freeing, hope giving! Thank you!

Our eyes were opened to the truth of what God tells us a grandparent’s role is! We attended Josh Mulvihill’s conference and are now involved in starting a ministry at our church! Can’t wait to get the word out and equip and encourage other grandparents with the wonderful resources that were provided for us!

After reading your book, I am much more passionate about ministering to my own grandchildren and encouraging others to do the same. I’m offering a one-day grandparenting workshop, starting a grandparenting small group, and plan to reference your content.

WOW! Words can’t capture the impact you had in our Gospel Shaped Family conference. I heard from so many today who were challenged, encouraged and inspired to embrace the role that they play in their family. Thanks for saying yes and for going the extra mile to help people know and follow Jesus.

Articulate, knowledgeable, spiritually grounded in the word, engaging and totally able to connect with his audience, both grandchildren and grandparents. Dr. Mulvihill was the guest speaker for our GrandCamp (a five-day camp for grandchildren and grandparents) providing a program that touched the lives of each attendee. As an author and speaker, Josh Mulvihill consistently provides a thought-provoking message, in both large and small group settings. The grandchildren’s Bible story time was excellent, captivating the children’s hearts and minds, while his daily presentations for our grandparent sessions were outstanding in content and delivery. We are looking forward to working with Dr. Mulvihill in the future and would highly recommend him for similar speaking engagements, especially for programs related to his work in the area of Christian Grandparenting.

Dr. Josh Mulvihill has a wealth of resources for parents, Christian schools, and churches, all aimed toward discipling the next generation of believers with a biblical worldview. Our school recently partnered with Dr. Mulvihill to evaluate how we support and equip parents as they disciple their children. With his help, we were able to pinpoint several areas of improvement, along with numerous strategies for implementing those improvements. I would encourage every church and Christian school to tap into the superb resources and Godly wisdom available from Dr. Mulvihill.

As grandparents, we sometimes need new ideas of fun and meaningful ways to disciple our grandkids! We want to leave a lasting legacy of faith. We just read the new book “Discipling Your Grandchildren.” It contains lots of suggestions and ideas to help us do just that! This book might be helpful for you, too! We pray we can point our grandchildren to Christ.

PreviousNext

What Others Are Saying

Practical and biblical advice. A wonderful resource.

Josh Mulvihill’s approach is straight from the Bible, full of great insight and advice, and incredibly helpful.

Josh Mulvihill provides truth packed, Gospel rich, invaluable resources we all can use to disciple our children.

Nothing is closer to the heart of God or more central to the priorities of His Kingdom than the calling of bringing the little ones to Him. And nobody can do it quite like you, through your unique relationship—Josh Mulvihill’s book shows you how!

Josh Mulvihill has created biblical tools that parents can use to help their kids challenge the worldly norms that they are exposed to regularly.

Josh Mulvihill will equip you to sharpen your thinking, increase your impact, and influence young people to apply the truth of God’s word to their lives.

A prophetic voice, strong biblical foundation, and groundbreaking research makes him the thought leader in Christian grandparenting today. Every one of the 30 million Christian grandparents in America should have a copy of his inspiring books in their homes. Every church should have it available in their library, preached from our pulpits, read in our small groups, gratefully taken to heart and then acted upon. I highly recommend his awesome books.

When we first met, Josh was the Pastor to Families and Children at a mega church in Minnesota. I wondered if he would be someone who was chasing all the latest church fads or if he was serious about the biblical worldview development of the children and parents in his care. I soon discovered that he was not only serious about it, but had put the programming in place to make it a reality, and he practices biblical worldview development in the lives of his five children every day.

I often receive emails from grandparents who are seeking advice on how to be a stronger spiritual influence in the lives of their grandkids. I always point them to Josh Mulvihill’s excellent resources! Discipling Your Grandchildren in particular is a virtual treasure trove of godly and practical ideas for creating a deeper spiritual connection with grandchildren. If you sometimes find yourself wondering what more you can do to help your grandkids know and love the Lord, this is the book you need!

God requires all parents to instill a biblical worldview in their children’s hearts and minds. Parents are in desperate need of resources to assist them in this monumental task. Dr. Josh Mulvihill provides parents, church leaders and educators with such resources.

Dr. Josh Mulvihill has written a clear, powerful, truthful Biblical Worldview book that is critically important to internalize as you answer God’s call to “bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4b).

Dr. Josh Mulvihill is an outstanding advocate and supporter of grandparents. His research delivers new insights for grandparents. Dr. Mulvihill’s writing is tempered in biblical truth, which will inspire you in your grandparenting journey.

The church revitalization process has been really helpful. I felt connected immediately to the desire for a strong Biblical worldview. Our time for evaluation and planning was exceedingly helpful. I am walking away very thankful for a clear action plan… and look forward to working with you again.

Wow, Josh’s teaching was very life-changing and challenging. As a father, it is upon me to lead my family and Josh’s conference gave me solid biblical examples and resources to do this. Lots to discuss with my wife and pray about implementing.

Gospel Shaped Family was such a great conference. I have been praying that my husband and I would be able to attend a marriage conference and a parenting conference but we have three very young children and the thought of two weekends with travel seemed impossible. This was the perfect combination. Just what we needed. Doable and a gift from the Lord. It was also truly gospel focused which is such a breath of fresh air, freeing, hope giving! Thank you!

Our eyes were opened to the truth of what God tells us a grandparent’s role is! We attended Josh Mulvihill’s conference and are now involved in starting a ministry at our church! Can’t wait to get the word out and equip and encourage other grandparents with the wonderful resources that were provided for us!

After reading your book, I am much more passionate about ministering to my own grandchildren and encouraging others to do the same. I’m offering a one-day grandparenting workshop, starting a grandparenting small group, and plan to reference your content.

WOW! Words can’t capture the impact you had in our Gospel Shaped Family conference. I heard from so many today who were challenged, encouraged and inspired to embrace the role that they play in their family. Thanks for saying yes and for going the extra mile to help people know and follow Jesus.

Articulate, knowledgeable, spiritually grounded in the word, engaging and totally able to connect with his audience, both grandchildren and grandparents. Dr. Mulvihill was the guest speaker for our GrandCamp (a five-day camp for grandchildren and grandparents) providing a program that touched the lives of each attendee. As an author and speaker, Josh Mulvihill consistently provides a thought-provoking message, in both large and small group settings. The grandchildren’s Bible story time was excellent, captivating the children’s hearts and minds, while his daily presentations for our grandparent sessions were outstanding in content and delivery. We are looking forward to working with Dr. Mulvihill in the future and would highly recommend him for similar speaking engagements, especially for programs related to his work in the area of Christian Grandparenting.

Dr. Josh Mulvihill has a wealth of resources for parents, Christian schools, and churches, all aimed toward discipling the next generation of believers with a biblical worldview. Our school recently partnered with Dr. Mulvihill to evaluate how we support and equip parents as they disciple their children. With his help, we were able to pinpoint several areas of improvement, along with numerous strategies for implementing those improvements. I would encourage every church and Christian school to tap into the superb resources and Godly wisdom available from Dr. Mulvihill.

As grandparents, we sometimes need new ideas of fun and meaningful ways to disciple our grandkids! We want to leave a lasting legacy of faith. We just read the new book “Discipling Your Grandchildren.” It contains lots of suggestions and ideas to help us do just that! This book might be helpful for you, too! We pray we can point our grandchildren to Christ.

Where Josh Can Be Found

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Podcasts with Josh Mulvihill

Podcasts with Jen and Josh Mulvihill

Teaching our kids about marriage

A map of parenting

Episode 061 | Setting Boundaries with Grandparents with Dr. Josh Mulvihill

Episode 082 | The Biblical Role of Grandparents with Dr. Josh Mulvihill

Josh Mulvihill

Josh Mulvihill is the Executive Director of Church and Family Ministry at Renewanation, which exists to help children develop a biblical worldview. He served as a pastor for nearly 20 years, has a PhD in Family Ministry from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, serves as the incoming Chairman on the board of Awana, and is the author or of ten books on parenting and grandparenting including Biblical Grandparenting, 50 Things Every Child Needs to Know Before Leaving Home, Biblical Worldview, and Family Ministry. He is married to Jen, they homeschool their five children, and live at Prairie Hill Farm in Lester Prairie, MN. Together, they host the Gospel Shaped Family Podcast and you can find them online at GospelShapedFamily.com

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