Workshops and seminars were held almost around the clock on such topics as setting up a preschool, effective teaching, adult education, summer camp activities, and teaching the laws of family purity. Professional development workshops covered topics like public speaking, community development, and fundraising.

But the Shluchot had also come from near and far to enhance their personal effectiveness in their jobs, and sessions were scheduled to address their own needs on issues such as personal organization and time management, marital relations and child rearing. Acknowledged in these workshops, and by practically every speaker throughout the five days of meetings, was the very challenging role of Shluchim families.

Whether newly married and working as a team with her spouse for the first time in a new community, or a seasoned community leader who tends to the needs of the entire Jewish community, the Shluchah is usually at once a teacher, public speaker, outreach worker, hostess to endless guests, wife to an equally busy Shliach, and, most importantly, a parent to as many as 15 children, who are themselves dealing with the unusual issues that stem from being a part of the only Jewishly observant family in the area.

Indeed, several speakers cradled babies as they addressed their audience, or carried beepers connected to the child care room equipped with cribs, toys and playpens, where dozens of babysitters attended to the infants and toddlers who had traveled to the conference with their mothers. Parallel workshops were held for children and teenage girls who had also come along. The children's needs were never secondary in their mothers' work, even throughout the most intense and exciting sessions. One speaker interrupted her banquet address to announce that "Baby 68 needs his Mommy."