This popular monthly audio podcast series is for leaders who want to build prevailing churches. For 60 minutes every month, listen as Defining Moments hosts ask Bill Hybels, as well as other Christian leaders, strategic and probing questions in order to help leaders discover transferable principles and practical strategies to maximize their church's impact. Only Member Churches may download an accompanying Process Tool as part of their Benefits package. The Tool takes the learnings of Defining Moments even further and allows you to process them deeper with your team.

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The WCA hosts a wide variety of world-class, training events each year. WCA Member Churches receive substantial discounts on all WCA conference and workshop registration fees. Discounts apply to every person attending from a WCA Member Church and additional discounts are extended to teams of five or more.

Discounts apply to these events and more: Leadership Summit, Student Ministries Conference, Children's Ministry Conference, Arts Conference, Group Life Conference.

WCA Members receive special discounted prices on all Willow Creek Resources®. These include: books by award winning authors like Lee Strobel, Bill Hybels, and John Ortberg; small-group studies based on relevant life issues designed for seeker and believer groups; Willow Creek Community Church message tapes and CDs / transcripts (hundreds of previous message titles available in audio and printed format); WCA conference tapes and CDs featuring the best of previous WCA conference speakers; music (CDs, music charts, MP3, and MIDI files); drama scripts available for preview and immediate download from the WCA Web site; Network, Good Sense, Promiseland, and Contagious Evangelism training course kits.

The award-winning quarterly Willow magazine provides relevant articles on key topics applicable to church leaders, the latest information on WCA events around the world, ministry trends, WCA Member Church success stories, and information on new ministry resources. Member Churches receive one free subscription of WILLOW per year with their Membership and free access to printable back issues through our Members Only access PDF archives.

The electronic WILLOW News keeps WCA Church Members posted on a regular basis of up-to-the-minute WCA information, new Member benefits, product releases, and late-breaking news. To receive WILLOW News, click here.

In cooperation with Apple Inc, this new Web store offers WCA Members significant discounts rarely found elsewhere on computers, software, monitors, printers, scanners, etc.

Get your church fully compliant with special WCA Member copyright partnerships. These exclusive copyright privledges are not found anywhere else.

Select Service Providers (SSP’s) are ministries and organizations that provide products and services to Member Churches at significant savings. In many cases, only WCA Member Churches qualify for these discounts.

Select Service Providers have been screened and approved by the WCA for their shared vision and values and their maintenance of a high standard of excellence. Each SSP will have a link from the WCA Members Only Web pages that will take you to special Web pages that will be specifically set up to accommodate WCA Members. On these pages they may run periodic specials that are for WCA Members only.

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The Connection Point electronic discussion boards are a place where church leaders and ministry workers are able to network and exchange best practices and proven ideas with each other. As the community grows, it will become a clearinghouse of ideas, instruction, inspiration, and networking opportunities. Regardless of the ministry-related issue you might be dealing with, the chances are someone has already been there. At Connection Point, you will learn from the collective body of knowledge that exists within WCA church leaders.

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The WCA has been hard at work creating Web-based, ministry tools to help your church accomplish its mission of becoming a prevailing church. As a WCA Member you would receive substantial discounts on using these tools. Here is a list of what's available:

Service Builder – A special tool for pastors, service programming staff, and other leaders who need to create dynamic, effective services for their churches or ministries. You choose: the topics your service will address; the types of media you'll need for your service; and your target audience; Service Builder will search from an extensive selection of music, message transcripts, dramas, and multi-media to create your own unique, life-changing service. Or search through Willow Creek Community Church's archives of the past ten years worth of services to see examples of how WCCC has put together their services over the years. Browse all day for free and pay only for the specific materials you chose to download. WCA Members receive substantial discounts on all items downloaded.

The Exchange – The Exchange, is the WCA’s classified ad Web posting service, designed to connect churches and prospective staff members together. WCA Member’s receive a 20 percent discount on ads placed in The Exchange as well as designation next to their ad showing prospective staff members that they are WCA Members.

Promiseland Online – The Promiseland curriculum is based on Willow Creek Community Church’s vibrant children’s ministry. Online support for users of the Promiseland curriculum is available through this interactive Web site. The site features easy-to-use navigation to access answers to your ministry questions, detailed curriculum information including lesson-by-lesson support, and a broad selection of children’s resources. The online community and news features keep you informed and connected with hundreds of other children’s ministries.

Good $ense – Designed to help churches raise the value of biblical stewardship in their churches. The Good $ense team has put together tools and insight to help churches reach their goal of empowering local church leaders to build year-round, biblically based stewardship ministries that help facilitate spiritual and financial freedom.

For only $249, your church can take advantage of all the Member benefits listed above and more! Join with us today ... and find out why the most innovative and influential churches in America today are Members of the Willow Creek Association.