It's back! Empower is merging with BoldX, Bethany's student conference! Empower and BoldX will take place on the same dates, at the same times. Youth and young adult pastors/leaders will remain with BoldX attendees for the entire event. Empower attendees will separate from BoldX during morning and afternoon sessions.
This experience for senior pastors and key leaders allows participants to engage in ministry-specific lab sessions with Bethany's pastoral staff and leaders, ministry sessions, and more. Registrants will also be able to connect with other senior pastors and leaders from across the country.
Empower will take place June 11-13 at the Bethany South Baton Rouge (night sessions) and Livingston Parish (day sessions) Campuses. For more information or questions, please email us at allaccess@bethany.com.
Those who attend Empower will break out into ministry-specific lab sessions. Everyone who attends this event should be categorized into one of these streams:
This event for junior high and high school students is designed to equip them to live out a bold faith. Through powerful worship, relevant teaching sessions, and team building experiences, teenagers will leave with a life-changing realization of the power of the Gospel.
BoldX will take place during the same dates and times as Empower. Youth pastors and leaders who sign up will remain with BoldX attendees at Bethany South Baton Rouge Campus during the day (consider this an all-day lab session!). Empower will merge with BoldX for night sessions.
Eli Bonilla Jr. is an emerging leader in the NextGen space. He serves several national networks in various roles, including the NextGen regional cochair for North America with Empowered21 and the national millennial director for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC). His full-time responsibilities are with Bethany Church in Baton Rouge, LA, as Global NextGen Pastor. He is also a published author with Thomas Nelson. Eli is the father to two beautiful children, Novalee Grace and Ezekiel Eliezer Rafat, and husband to Alexis Gabriella Bonilla.
Pastor Wayne serves as the Executive Pastor at Bethany Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he oversees all pastoral ministries and operational aspects across multiple campus locations. At the core of his role is a commitment to inspire, strategize, and execute Bethany's mission: "Bringing all people into the Life, Family, and Purpose of God."
In addition to his duties at Bethany Church, Pastor Wayne is the Director of Bethany All Access, a network dedicated to empowering and refreshing pastors and leaders. He also extends his support beyond Bethany, serving as an overseer for three churches across the United States.
For 17 years, Pastor Wayne has been married to his wife, CC Brown, and together they embrace the joys of parenthood with their energetic 4-year-old son, Evan Brown.
Raised in a legacy family, Jonathan Stockstill was born with ministry in his blood. From an early age, it was apparent that Jonathan had a tremendous gift for music. He won several state championships in piano before going on to master several other instruments and become an internationally recognized worship artist. By the age of 30, he had recorded more than 10 albums and personally written over 100 songs.
At the age of 30, Jonathan transitioned from worship pastor to lead pastor of Bethany Church, following in the footsteps of his father, Larry Stockstill, and his grandfather, Roy Stockstill. During the last five years, he has taken the church to new heights in both growth and influence. Jonathan has an exciting vision for the future of Bethany. With statewide campuses and Bethany church plants around the world, the next chapter is going to be very exciting.
Jonathan married the love of his life, Angie, in 2005. Whether swimming with his girls or wrestling with his son, Jonathan enjoys being a dad above all his many other responsibilities. When he and Angie relax, they love to frequent new restaurants and get away to popular travel destinations. A native of the bayous, he enjoys everything outdoors, especially water sports. He especially likes to fish and Yolo, sometimes doing both at the same time.
At heart, Jonathan is a creative leader. His musical innovation and leadership style define the best of the new generation of church leaders.
With an international network of more than 700 churches and an extensive international missions program, Pastor Joakim has grown Word of Life Church into a body of believers that reaches people of all ethnicities and languages. Its Bible school has seen more than 50,000 graduates across its 15 global locations. In 2002, Joakim founded New Generation, a cross-denominational student movement that equips young Christians to share God’s love at schools and universities worldwide.
I was raised in a ministry family and observed the success of my parents’ 63 years of life together. I began preaching at age 16, over 46 years ago. After college, I spent two years in West Africa as a missionary. I returned for five years as an associate pastor at my father’s church before being named as the Lead Pastor in 1983.
My tenure as pastor was marked by an emphasis on missions. In 28 years, we gave over $63 million dollars to missions (local and foreign). We also implemented a small group structure in 1993 that became a national model. My first book, The Cell Church (Regal, 1995), has been translated into many languages and is still in use worldwide as a cell church handbook. In 2000, many of our 28 associate pastors took the skills they learned in small group ministry and began planting their own churches. Three of them now have 85,000 in weekend attendance every weekend and one is the second largest church in America.
In 2001, I began the Surge Project, a church planting model based on mentoring and multiplication. By 2015, over 22,000 small, rural churches have been planted in twelve world zones. My second book, The Remnant (CharismaMedia) was written to help correct leadership implosion and to give the ten most important principles of ministry. Over 120,000 free copies have been distributed to pastors in six languages worldwide.
My latest book, Model Man, expands the mentoring principles I have used for pastors and small group leaders to specifically help men live a life of “integrity to legacy.”
My newest project was launched in January, 2020 after my fiftieth anniversary of ministry in 2019. It is called “Pastors University” and it is my top “50 lessons from 50 years.”
I have been married to my wife, Melanie (follow her on Twitter at @MelStockstill) for forty-one years. We have six children, five sons and a daughter. All six of them are in ministry with us. We have thirteen grandchildren and we live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In my free time, I enjoy golf, Sunday lunches with our entire family, duck hunting (I have killed a grand total of one duck), and an occasional South Louisiana fishing trip with my sons. I travel and speak worldwide and am a teaching pastor under my son at Bethany Church.
Pricing covers registration, and breakfast and lunch on Thursday and Friday.
Dinner add-on option (+$10) available at registration.
Early Bird
Individual Rate
Register By July 31
Regular
Individual Rate
BOLDX
FOR GROUPS 10+
EMPOWER
FOR Groups 10+
Dinner add-On
All breakfasts and lunches are included in your registration
Once you click register, log in with your name, email, and phone number for our group rate or click "register as guest" to sign up just one person.
