Speaking

Bring Chap Clark to Your Church, Conference, or Seminary

Dr. Chap Clark speaks to pastors, ministry leaders, and seminary faculty on the questions churches are actually working through today — how kids end up walking away, how an entire congregation can stay in formation together, and how senior leadership teams develop instead of just managing.

Chap is a veteran ministry researcher and practitioner with three decades of work with families, adolescents, and church leaders. He serves as faculty at Fuller Theological Seminary, is the author or editor of a dozen books on youth, family, and the local church (including Disconnected and the forthcoming Family-Equipped Ministry), and is the founding director of the Institute for Ministry Leadership. He speaks at churches, conferences, and seminaries worldwide in a voice that combines theological depth with the kind of pastoral warmth you only get from someone who has done the work.

Topics

What Chap Speaks On

Three core areas Chap speaks to most often — with sample session titles under each so program directors can see whether the content matches an upcoming weekend, conference breakout, or seminary intensive.

Family Ministry

Helping churches walk alongside parents and the home as the primary place kids and teens are formed. Two decades of family-ministry research translated into what the local church can actually do on a Tuesday night.

Sample session titles

  • Why Kids Walk Away From the Church and What Stops It
  • Parenting Teens Without Burning Out the Family
  • The Family as the Primary Discipleship Engine

Intergenerational Formation

Closing the gap between youth ministry and adult ministry so an entire congregation walks the road of discipleship together. Practical theology, not theory — what it looks like when every generation knows the others.

Sample session titles

  • Bridging the Gap Between Youth and Adult Ministries
  • Why Multi-Generational Discipleship Fails (and What Replaces It)
  • Six Steps to a Church Where Every Generation Knows Every Other Generation

Leadership Formation in the Local Church

Forming pastors, staff, and lay leaders for ministry that lasts beyond the next program cycle. Aimed at senior pastors, leadership teams, and church planters who want formation to replace season-by-season strategy.

Sample session titles

  • Forming Pastors, Not Just Hiring Them
  • Shepherding Teams Through Pastoral Burnout
  • When Strategy Replaces Formation in the Local Church
  • Raising Up the Next Generation of Church Leaders

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