We want to help you be the parent you want to be!

Join us for Parent Con 2025!

Join us for Parent Con 2025!


🎉 Celebrating – We know parenting feels thankless at times.

Come out so we can appreciate and celebrate you with lunch and fun prizes!

🤝 Equipping - Every parent feels like a failure at times.

Let us tell you – you’re not- there are no perfect parents. Come out so we can help equip you to be the parent you want to be. We have guest speakers who are ready to speak on topics you care about most.  Including- Finances, Nutrition, Social/Emotional Development and more!

🤗 Connecting - Parenting can feel really lonely.

Come out and connect with parents whose kids are in the same phase as yours, or better yet those who have gone through it. Don’t miss our closing session with a panel of parents of kids who have just left the nest, who will share what they wished they had known while their kids were younger. You will also have a chance to find out about other resources for families and kids we offer here at Oak Ridge.

Date + Time: September 27th from 9AM-3PM.
Location: Oak Ridge Church
Cost: Registration is $10 which includes a light breakfast and lunch.

See you there!
 
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Event Schedule
🎉 Celebrating – We know parenting feels thankless at times.

Come out so we can appreciate and celebrate you with lunch and fun prizes!

🤝 Equipping - Every parent feels like a failure at times.

Let us tell you – you’re not- there are no perfect parents. Come out so we can help equip you to be the parent you want to be. Based on surveys and interviews of parents just like you- we have lined up a series of guests speakers who are ready to speak on topics you care about most.  Including- Finances, Nutrition, Social/Emotional Development and more!

🤗 Connecting - Parenting can feel really lonely.

Come out and connect with parents whose kids are in the same phase as yours, or better yet those who have gone through it. Don’t miss our closing session with a panel of parents of kids who have just left the nest, who will share what they wished they had known while their kids were younger. You will also have a chance to find out about other resources for families and kids we offer here at Oak Ridge.

Date + Time: September 27th from 9AM-3PM.

Location: Oak Ridge Church

Cost: Registration is $10 which includes a light breakfast and lunch.

See you there!
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Event Schedule

What is Parent Con Like?

Hear what these families have to say.

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Meet the Speakers

Gary McCabe

Marcy Disbennett

Pastor of Families & Mobilization
Director of Mental Wellness at the Epoch Dream Center
Gary and his family came to Oak Ridge Baptist Church in 2009. An Eastern Shore native, Gary graduated from Stephen Decatur High School, earned his Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Carson Newman, spent a summer studying Ethnomusicology under SIL/Wycliffe missionaries and is currently pursuing his Masters of Divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

He lived for two years as a Journeyman Church Planter/Catalyst of Indigenous Music through the International Mission Board in Benin, West Africa. 

Kris Buckman

Youth and Kids Missionary | BCMD
Kris has been raising boys since 2002 and serving in children’s ministry for over 20 years. With a master’s in Children’s and Family Ministry and experience on a national child safety task force, she’s worked with lawyers, counselors, and survivors to develop prevention strategies and a curriculum now used by churches nationwide. Combining professional expertise and real-life parenting, Kris will share practical, research-based tips to help parents protect their children and respond confidently to potential threats. 
Marcy Disbennett is the Director of Mental Wellness at the Epoch Dream Center in Hebron, Maryland. She also meets one-on-one with program participants who require additional care and attention. Marcy’s passion is to teach kids the importance of social-emotional learning and help give language to the range of emotions they experience. Following the birth of her second child, Marcy decided to retire from respiratory therapy and become a stay-at-home mom. She believes that the culmination of these things have equipped her for the work that she is currently doing.

Event Schedule

9:00am Registration with light breakfast
9:30 AM - Session 1
10:00 AM - Session 2
10:30 AM - Break
10:45 AM - Session 3
11:15 AM - Lunch (Grab and go to the first workshop)
11:30 AM - Workshop 1
12:30 PM - Workshop 2
1:30 PM - Panel Discussion / Q&A
3:00 PM - Dismissal

SESSIONS
Your Kids' Social Emotional Development
Getting Ahead of the Culture
Safeguarding Your Kids in an Ugly World

WORKSHOPS
Social Emotional Development cont.
Getting Ahead of the Culture cont.
Safeguarding Your Kids cont.
Insights into the World of IEP’s and Inclusion
 Helping My Child Grow Spiritually Across Every Phase

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