Church Revitalization
UPCOMING CONFERENCE
The Lampstand | Birmingham Conference 2025
January 23–26, 2025
Briarwood Presbyterian Church
2200 Briarwood Way, Birmingham, AL 35243
Conference Information & Registration
OUR MINISTRY
Lampstand is a teaching and resource ministry of Briarwood Presbyterian Church that equips churches and their leaders to implement biblical strategies for church vitality. Our experienced faculty of pastor-teachers who provide insight for developing spiritually healthy churches through Church Planting, Church Revitalization, and Church Acceleration.
Church Planting – Igniting the Flame
Our experienced church planting faculty and coaches provide instruction and insight that is both Biblical and practical for starting spiritually healthy churches that are committed to worship, evangelism, discipleship and leadership development.
Church Revitalization – Embers to a Flame
Lampstand uses the Biblical paradigm found in Jesus’ words in Revelation 2:5 to the church at Ephesus—“Remember, Repent, and Recover the First Things”—Lampstand’s revitalization track equips churches that have fallen into spiritual decline and functional malaise.
Church Acceleration – Fanning the Flame
As a church grows spiritually and expands its impact functionally, it is crucial to stay on Message, in Mission, and in Ministry. Our church acceleration track focuses on next-level leadership development, decision-making, and faithful shepherding for the next season in the life of Biblically healthy churches.
TEACHING
In our national and international conferences Lampstand teaches the Biblical principles upon which church vitality is founded and sustained. Our teaching team of church planters and pastor-theologians also draw from multiple resources—theological, historical, and practical, as well as their own personal ministry experience.
All three Lampstand tracks are rooted in transcultural and transgenerational Biblical truths.
Church Planting (Igniting the Flame)
• Characteristics of a healthy church plant
• Centrality of ordinary means of grace methodology
• Vital Signs of a Biblical church planter
• Planting an intentional Great Commission Church with a Great Commandment Culture
Church Revitalization Track (Embers to a Flame)
• Prioritizing the corporate ministry of prayer
• The centrality of the preaching of the Word
• Leadership Maturation, Mobilization, and Multiplication
• Discovering, Developing, and Deploying Spiritual Gifts
• The Great Commitment to the Great Commission
Church Acceleration Track (Fanning the Flame)
• Creating a healthy culture of change
• Avoiding the ego-driven church
• Redemptively managing dissension, division, & disagreement
• Can a Lead Pastor of a large church really effectively pastor?
MENTORING
Healthy churches develop leaders—yet far too often the church calls men to be leaders who have only a worldly view of leadership. Lampstand is committed to on-going leadership mentoring, and developing relationships that extend beyond our conference and coaching settings.
Our mentors equip and encourage pastors to grow as leaders who understand the priority of defining, developing, and deploying other leaders—men who do not merely lead in the church but also in their communities and in the world.
CONTACT
Contact us to learn more!
205.776.5243 • lampstand@briarwood.org