XPastor 2026 XP-Seminar

Where strategy meets ministry

If you’ve ever found yourself juggling budgets while caring for people, seeking ways to bake generosity into your church culture, or scratching your head over tech adoption, join us at XPastor’s 2026 XP-Seminar.

It’s packed with pragmatic strategies, professional facilitation, and plenty of peer interaction — all designed to boost your confidence and clarity in the executive pastor role.

Over three days, you’ll experience content-rich sessions on topics like:

• Thriving in an AI-driven church landscape
• Securing financing — Bank perspectives, trending legal landmines, and risk management
• Stewardship strategies — From compensation frameworks to legacy giving
• Operational practices — Strategic budgeting, facility planning, and building projects
• Enhancing culture: Leader care, continuity planning, and mental fitness
• HR growth — Strategic compensation, staffing solutions, and avoiding DIY pitfalls
• Succession planning — Navigate leadership transitions with clarity, confidence, and wisdom.

CLA’s Jeff Roberts and John Hughes will give a keynote speech on church finance, and why real financial digital transformation doesn’t begin with tools — it begins with strategy and demands discipline.

They’ll explain how to build a strategic foundation so the tools and processes you choose bring clarity and confidence to your financial decisions.

Be sure to catch their follow-up workshops on financial transformation:

Financial Transformation Part 1: Strategic Considerations for Change

This workshop focuses on practical strategies to improve church finances for XP’s and finance teams. Topics include

• Addressing cultural challenges
• Promoting positive financial change
• Identifying and resolving stuck processes and bottlenecks
• Simplifying financial reports for varied audiences

Financial Transformation Part 2: Smart Upgrades for Systems, Data, and Processes

This session will examine church financial management software, budgeting, and cloud-based solutions for spend management and bill payment. It will also address data integration projects across multiple church systems and approaches to digital integration and artificial intelligence.