Join us for one of six virtual workshops designed to equip you to serve in your local church. Whether you are starting a new leadership role, or have been serving in church leadership for years, we hope this model of leadership training will prepare you for your much-needed ministry. Laity and clergy in partnership with one another is the key to a church’s success in making disciples.
Center for Leadership Excellence
Embracing the Unexpected: Facing the Unknown with Grace and Humor
Join pastor and author MaryAnn McKibben Dana for a spirited exploration of “yes, and…” and other tools for faithful improvisation. We are all improvisers, often without realizing it. The focus of our time together will not be on acting and comedy skills, but on practices for thriving in the midst of chaotic, often unpredictable lives. Come for a tasty blend of scripture, theology, psychology, literature, pop culture, music, and more, as we dream, discuss, and play together.
Safer Sanctuaries: Train the Trainer
The purpose of this in-person training is to equip leaders with new and updated Safer Sanctuaries material from the recently published resource. This workshop is relevant for leaders responsible for Safe Sanctuaries in district, conference, and local church contexts. Attendees will leave prepared to train others and will have the ability to implement holistic Safe Sanctuaries ministry in their churches.
An Encouragement For October
Everyone I encounter these days is overwhelmed – by schedules and events and commitments. By expectations and responsibilities and the demands of ministry. By relationships and parenting and caregiving for aging parents. Overwhelm is the thread running through the lives of family and friends, church members, colleagues, and even strangers I run into out and about in the city.
The Good News of Shipwreck
Research on congregations after Covid is mixed: attendance, giving, volunteers are on the rise–while American church life overall continues to shrink in influence and size. Many congregations still feel shipwrecked – an experience that we will reframe using the story of Paul’s shipwreck on Malta.
The Good News of Shipwreck: What Does Church Look Like Now?
Research on congregations after Covid is mixed: attendance, giving, volunteers are on the rise–while American church life overall continues to shrink in influence and size. Many congregations still feel shipwrecked – an experience that we will reframe using the story of Paul’s shipwreck on Malta.