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WFX Returns to Southeast with New Conference Strategy
85% new classes, many taught by churches.
On October 27-30, 2009, Charlotte, N.C., will unveil the house-of-worship market's premier conference and tradeshow event-WFX Charlotte. Now in its fifth year, Worship Facilities Conference & Expo is hosted by Church Production and Worship Facilities magazines and EH Events. The event brings together over 3,500 church and industry leaders and over 200 exhibitors from around the world to guide facilities and technology investments and opportunities for houses of worship. Designed for decision-making teams from churches of all sizes, the goal is to deliver exceptional learning opportunities, and showcase state-of-the-art products and services designed to help churches achieve their ministry goals by providing inviting and meaningful spaces and powerful, relevant worship experiences.
This year's event will deliver on its theme, "WFX Gets You There," by offering attendees a newly updated Conference, dynamic keynote presentations, packed expo floor, networking opportunities and tours of some of the most successful and innovative churches in the Charlotte area.
"The WFX Charlotte program is designed so attendees can research opportunities and options in just three days that would otherwise take them months to achieve independently," says Brian Blackmore, founding editor of Church Production and Worship Facilities magazines. "This program offers such a wide-range of tools and information that an entire church staff can benefit from attending. From pastors and church business leaders to technical directors and technical teams to worship space design and operations teams, this conference works for everyone."
The WFX Conference program offers over 60 sessions (85% are new for Charlotte) taught by dozens of new presenters in five distinguished tracks: Designing, Building and Upgrading Facilities; Your Facilities: Optimizing Functionality; Tech Essentials: A/V and Lighting Technologies; Church Websites & Social Media; and Professional Development and Team Building. These sessions, many of which are taught by church leaders and their representatives, will address the needs of small, medium, and large houses of worship. Each track will provide the core education to design, create and manage technology, facilities and growth needs. In addition, attendees will gain firsthand experience through Hands-On Training Sessions.
Attendees will gain even more insight from five uplifting keynotes presented by church visionaries who will share their inspiring experiences, sponsored by Charlotte-based Audio Ethics. This year's keynote presenters include:
• Rick Bezet, senior pastor of New Life Church, Ark.
• Dino Rizzo, pastor of Healing Place Church, La.
• Claude Alexander, bishop of The Park Ministries, N.C.
• Chris Hodges, senior pastor of Church of the Highlands, Ala.
• Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church, Washington, DC.
The WFX experience has been designed to go beyond the trade show booth. In addition to learning about the latest tools and technologies showcased by over 200 exhibitors on the expo floor attendees will interact directly with new products in Exhibitor-Offered Training Sessions, and preview groundbreaking architectural projects in Design Central. The popular Social Media Lounge will also return to WFX Charlotte to showcase how ministries can benefit from the integration of popular social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook.
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