First Five Years is a 9Marks Conference meant to encourage and instruct new pastors. The conference covered topics such as training leaders, ministering through suffering, congregationalism, cultivating a culture of evangelism, avoiding burn out, and more.

Words of counsel to young pastors and planters — Paige Patterson - First Five Years 2016

First Five Years is a 9Marks Conference that seeks to encourage and instruct new pastors. If you are new in your ministry—perhaps in seminary, or in the first years of a church plant, or just beginning your pastorate in a new place—this conference is meant to equip you. With the help of brothers from around the country and beyond, we want to provide practical counsel from God’s Word and to facilitate fellowship between new pastors who are looking to God’s Word for guidance.