The AI Intensive · 3 hours · Online
Is your church ready for AI?
Three hours with Carey Nieuwhof and Barna Group, built for the leaders who have to make the call. Carey covers the cultural shifts, Barna brings exclusive research, and together they hand you practical next steps. If AI and the Future Church gave you the why, this is the data and the how — live.
One live session — three hours, online.
Monday, November 10 · 9:00 – 12:00 PST
Registration closes Friday, November 6 at 11:59pm.
The shifts
What Carey sees
The cultural and ministry shifts AI is already forcing — and the question underneath the tools. What stays human, what should never be automated, and how a leader decides without waiting five years for consensus.
The data
What Barna knows
Exclusive research on how pastors, staff and congregants are actually using AI — where it is quietly in use, where it is banned, and how trust shifts when a congregation suspects a sermon was machine-written. You will see the numbers first.
The plan
What you leave with
What a prepared church looks like, turned into practical next steps: a one-page plan your team can take into Monday, and language for the policy your staff is already improvising.
The morning
What to Expect at The Summit
- 9:00
Where the church actually is
Barna opens with the study: adoption, silence, suspicion, and the gaps between what leaders say and what staff do.
Barna Group, with Carey Nieuwhof
- 9:40
The leadership question underneath the tools
What stays human. Where automation costs more than it saves. How a leader decides without waiting for consensus.
Carey Nieuwhof and panel
- 10:25
Break
Ten minutes. Discussion prompts on screen for teams watching together.
- 10:35
What we have already tried
Practitioners on sermon prep, care follow-up, giving analysis — what worked, what they rolled back, what they would not do again.
Practitioner panel
- 11:15
Your questions, live
Questions from the morning, answered by Barna and Carey together, ending with a one-page plan your team can take into Monday.
Barna and Carey Nieuwhof
Who the Summit Is For
Church leaders
Senior and executive pastors setting the policy their staff is already improvising.
Ministry leaders
Communications, worship, kids and discipleship leads making tooling calls week to week.
Denominations
Those writing guidance for hundreds of congregations at once.
Networks
Cohorts and associations bringing their churches into one conversation.
Registration
Register early, pay less
One price for your church, plus $10 for each additional seat — so bring the whole team. The price rises at each deadline and registration closes Friday, November 6.
Oct 9 – Wed, Oct 22
Early Bird
$177
+ $10 per additional seat
Oct 23 – Fri, Nov 6
Full Price
$197
+ $10 per additional seat