FOR PASTORS OR CHURCH MEMBERS
Your Breakthrough Year
Make 2023 the Year You Get Unstuck
9am-4pm | January 7, 2023
You had an exciting mission for your life. But somewhere along the way you got stuck, and it’s hard to imagine a way out. But with God’s help and a new, creative outlook, 2023 can be your breakthrough year.
Your Breakthrough Year is a one-day online workshop that gives individuals new tools for getting unstuck and breaking through the barriers that are holding you back.
No matter where you feel stuck—life, relationships, or ministry—this one-day workshop will help you prayerfully and creatively take on the challenges that hold you back.
What to Expect
New Tools That Can Change Your Life
Breakthrough Prayer
Learn how to pray breakthrough prayers that open up new opportunities to join God’s work all around yo
Mind-expanding Exercises
Discover mind-expanding exercises that will help you immediately envision new solutions to sticky problems
Straightforward Planning Techniques
Get practical with Straightforward planning techniques that will help you chart a new course in 2023
Unique and challenging, Your Breakthrough Year features Creativity and Innovation expert Mitch Marcello alongside Pastor and Coach Dee Stokes, giving you tools and guidance to make 2023 a year like no other.
Transformational One Day Online Training
Schedule
9:00am ET
The God of Breakthrough
What is your real problem, and how can God help you break through it? In this session Dr. Dee Stokes will help you move beyond a general sense of anxiety, mourn your pain and loss, and identify particular issues you can address with God’s help.
10-10:30am ET
Envisioning a Creative Life
It’s easy to get so stuck in our day-to-day lives that we lose sight of God’s creative power. In this session, Mitch Marcello will help you understand what it means to serve a creative God, and explore what a more creative life might look like.
10:45am-12pm ET
Tools for Everyday Creativity
You aren’t stuck! There are opportunities all around us, but sometimes we can’t see them. Mitch Marcello will introduce you to a number of creativity and innovation tools that will you can use to expand your horizons every day.
12:45-1:30pm ET
The Lotus Blossom
What if you could come up with not just one solution to your problem, but dozens? Mitch Marcello will guide you through a mind-expanding exercise that will help you uncover an abundance of opportunities to change your life.
1:30-2:30pm ET
Creating Your Action Plan
New creative ideas are great. But how do you implement them in real life? Dr. Dee Stokes will help you develop a tangible plan for applying some of the new ideas you have unearthed so you can break through in 2023.
2:45-3:30pm ET
Live Coaching + Q & A
What does it look like to come up with new ideas and make a plan to implement them? In this session, Dee and Mitch will guide one individual in applying the exercises introduced in this workshop. This will be followed by a time of Q & A for all participants.
3:30-4pm ET
Breakthrough Prayer Session
How do we pray for breakthrough? In this closing session, Dr. Stokes will help you better understand breakthrough prayer, and guide participants in a prayer of breakthrough for their own lives.
Meet Your Guides
Dr. Dee Stokes is an entrepreneurial minister, educator, and consultant who is known as a program builder. She serves on the teaching and preaching team at Christ Wesleyan Church, Greensboro, NC, and is the Director of Multicultural Ministry for the NC East District of The Wesleyan Church. Director of the Seeds Project for Luther Seminary’s Faith + Lead innovation team. She uses her considerable experience as a coach, educator and pastor, to help leaders develop emotional intelligence, overcome burnout and more.
Mitch Marcello is founder and Director of Imago Innovation, and is Mission Strategist & Innovation Specialist with Fresh Expressions. Understanding that we are called to create, he is passionate about helping unlock creative potential in individuals, teams, and churches, assisting Christian leaders to apply tools for innovation to mission and ministry. Mitch holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts and Artist Diploma from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Masters Degree in Creativity and Innovation from Drexel University.