[ San Diego / February 2027 / 30 seats ]
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Apply.CHURCHMARKETINGNot Another Church Marketing Conference
A two-day working intensive for the 30 best church marketers we can find. Torrey Pines Church, San Diego. February 2027.
You know the drill by now.
A motivational keynote from a pastor with a 15-person creative team. A breakout on social media tips you knew in 2019. Then the main stage session that turns out to be a software demo, and by day two you realize the whole conference exists to sell you postcard mailers.
Meanwhile, search got rebuilt from the ground up. People find churches through ChatGPT now. And church marketing conferences are still teaching Canva.
Marketing changed. Church conferences didn't. We did something about it.
What we deleted
- Keynotes
- Breakout sessions
- Vendor booths
- Beginner content
- Swag bags
- An audience
What's left
- One room.
- Thirty practitioners.
- Laptops open.
- Real websites on the big screen.
- AI search, schema, AEO, GEO.
- The work, done before you fly home.
The other 29 people are the conference.
No stage. No audience. Everyone attends everything, because there are no breakouts to choose between and nothing to miss. We take on one problem at a time, together: you learn from an expert for twenty minutes, then every laptop opens and you do the work live on your own church with 29 capable people within arm's reach. Then a real church goes up on the big screen and the whole room helps it succeed.
You've been the best marketer in the room at every church conference you've ever attended.
For two days, you won't be.
That's the gift.
// The format
Twenty minutes. Expert level. No warm-up act.
One practitioner takes the room through exactly one problem: what changed, what works now, how to ship it. No slides that could have been an email.
Laptops open. Everyone implements it live on their own church, at the same time.
You don't take notes. You do the thing. Twenty-nine other capable people are within arm's reach when you get stuck.
A real church on the big screen. Thirty marketers fix it together. Yours can be next.
One church submits a page, a listing, a campaign. The room takes it apart and puts it back together. Then someone else's church. Then yours.
Day One
Fast, expert-led sessions on AI search, schema, AEO, GEO, content strategy, local SEO, analytics, leadership, and more. Every topic has a linked guide you can read now.
Day Two: The Lab
The Shark Tank: pitch your biggest marketing problem, then the whole room builds the fix with you. Closing quick-fire questions. No decks. No prep. Just answers.
Repeat until everything ships. Nobody watches. Everybody works.
See the full format →We read every application. We reject people.
Not to be exclusive for its own sake. The product you're buying is the other 29 people, so every seat filled with a beginner makes your seat worth less. We protect the room.
If you're the person other church staff come to with their marketing questions, this is for you.
Ready to apply?
START YOUR APPLICATION →// FAQ
- Is this a conference?
- No. Maybe. But we don't like being typecast.
- Will there be a keynote speaker?
- No. Not in the traditional sense. We may have a few special guests.
- Can my vendor company sponsor a session?
- Absolutely not.
- I'm new to church marketing. Should I apply?
- Not yet. We mean that kindly. Come back in a couple of years.
- What if I don't get in?
- You get a personal note and first look at the next cohort. The room stays small on purpose.